English 12 5 January 2013 Sharon Olds: From Psalms to Satan Says Movement: Sharon Olds is a confessional poet. The criteria of the confessional genre are subject matter that is deeply personal to the speaker or author. The work of Sharon Olds is almost exclusively her own personal experiences with her sisters and parents as well as her experiences with being a mother. The subject matter is also typically on taboo subjects such as sex which is also a common topic of Sharon Olds’ work. Another common
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Sharon Olds’ poem “I Go Back to May 1937” is written as if the speaker; which appears to be female is looking back in time to when he or she’s parents first met and married. The speaker throughout the poem does not seem pleased with the events that unfolded thereafter‚ but nonetheless understands that there is nothing that she could have done to stop it from happening. The poem gives a short glimpse into the life the couple had and the effect it had on the child/narrator. The poem is almost a flashback
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Focus Journal # 20‚ Sharon Olds‚ The promise‚ 591 May 2‚ 2012 I. Understanding: In this poem Sharon Olds wishes the reader to believe that when terminally ill a man should have say in whether he continues to suffer in pain while useless‚ or to keep living. II. Analyzing: In this poem Olds does a great job painting a visual picture in the readers mind. “We are also in our/bed‚ fitted naked closely/ along each other¸half passed out/ after love‚ drifting back and/ forth across the border of
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Sharon Olds‚ the author of “on the Subway” shows us two different worlds coming together. Both poems have been explicitly implied‚ to demonstrate the differences and similarities. This is why theme and imagery help the reader better understand this poem. Sharon shows how both worlds are in reference to one another‚ but at final time they come together. At the beginning of the poem there is two boys that are both from different races. They both sit right across each other and observe each other
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Landscapes can be not only physical but inner. These inner landscapes allow an inhabitant to escape from reality in order to reflect on life and allow them to consider a true reason for their existence. These landscapes which enable one to escape and rethink on life are evident in Robert Frost’s poem‚ “Stopping by woods on a snowy evening” and Tim Burton’s film “Big Fish”. This film also relates to the idea of a landscape allowing one to consider the reasoning for their existence as well as “Late
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The IT Landscape Agenda What is IT? How does IT work? The IT environment Sales & IT Q&A What is IT? IT – Information Technology Information is data that has been given a meaning. IT is All forms of technologies used to create‚ store‚ exchange‚ process & use information Data Vs. Information 02134 is data without any meaning When plugged into Map quest‚ 02134 becomes a zip code designating a specific location. At that point‚ the data has
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Today was about drawing still life in this case objects such as pots and Lego blocks in a composition that was challenging‚ today was about getting proportion correct and knowing how to draw objects in front or behind one another as well as separately‚ I used charcoal because it is a medium that can easily be erased or drawn over so I didn’t have to be precious about the lines I was drawing in. today’s lesson could help me for the future because I am teaching myself to be less of a perfectionist
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Sharon Salzberg Sharon Salzberg is a remarkable lady who has spent her life devoted to insight meditation in order to find peace for the tragic loses of both her mother and father when she was young. She first encountered Buddhism in an Asian Philosophy class while she was at the State University in Buffalo‚ New York. This was in 1969 and it seemed to inspire her so much that the next year she decided to take an independent study trip to India. During her trip to India‚ she wanted to find‚ “
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Rites of passage” - Sharon Olds and “Real boys” - William Pollack Although the main theme of the two texts is anger and how boys express this strong feeling as a way of solution to conflicts‚ the texts‚ in term of form they are fundamentally different. On the one hand‚ text 1(a) is a poem called “Rites of passage” written by Sharon Olds‚ which ironically shows how this violence has been present in the life of the poet’s son. On the other hand‚ text1 (b) is an extract from scholarly study
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briefness of life and the futility of life in general are put on full display‚ which give viewers a sense of hopelessness. Conversely‚ a sense of life and hopefulness is given by Peter Roesen’s Still Life with Fruit. Existentialist concepts are individualistic‚ and can be seen as a tad farfetched. If there is one takeaway‚ however it’s the concept that life is what one can make of it. It is important to do the most someone can with the cards one has been dealt. So‚ when life may pull a full on Still Life
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