English holiday assignment Summary of the poem “Early Spring” by William Wordsworth. PRASENJIT DASCLASS: 8AMANAS7/8/2011 | Introduction His aim with these poems was to talk about situations in common life‚ that is why he chose to communicate with an easy language as well as he preferred rural life as‚ this‚ was part of his idea that nature surroundings are the ideal place where man could find himself and his essence‚ and because in this rural environment these passions could be framed in
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thinking. I write to find out who I am. I write to understand things.” Julia Alvarez‚ a world-renowned poet‚ has written many powerful poems through her life. She writes what she feels‚ what is on her mind‚ and what message she wants to get across. However‚ while writing her feelings down‚ she has connected and touched many people around the world. In Julia Alvarez’s poem‚ “Dusting‚” she tells of a mother trying to shape her daughter‚ and a daughter trying to create herself. She writes of the external
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AN ODE To Autumn Summary Keats’s speaker opens his first stanza by addressing Autumn‚ describing its abundance and its intimacy with the sun‚ with whom Autumn ripens fruits and causes the late flowers to bloom. In the second stanza‚ the speaker describes the figure of Autumn as a female goddess‚ often seen sitting on the granary floor‚ her hair “soft-lifted” by the wind‚ and often seen sleeping in the fields or watching a cider-press squeezing the juice from apples. In the third stanza‚ the speaker
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Poem Summary Lines 1-3 The opening lines of the poem establish an ironic tone as the speaker of the poem begins to construct a satiric portrait of the average citizen. In the first line of the poem the speaker turns to the “Bureau of Statistics‚” and in line 3 to “reports‚” as a source for information regarding the “unknown” citizen. This is intensely ironic‚ for while the Bureau does not identify the citizen by name‚ such a Bureau does contain detailed data regarding every citizen. The data the
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Surrounded by darkness‚ ice in the air‚ nothing but deafening silence. Suddenly you hear something echoing in the distance throughout the forest and over the hills. You listen closely‚look at your hunting partner and smile still not sure. You continue to listen trying to answer the questions is he trailing or has he treed the first coon of the night. You begin walking toward the muffled bawl of your Bluetick. The wind chilling to the bone making it more and more difficult to hear him‚ yet you can
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In the poem “The Benefits of Ignorance” questions “if ignorance is bliss”‚ the father says that the child should look blissful if that is true. He then goes on to warn the child to “check to see if he has the right the kind of ignorance”. He feels the child should do what is best for not what everybody else might be doing. The father offers the suggestion that the child “should go back to what you always were- being too smart for your own good.” The chapter progresses to the poem “Afraid So”
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Impacts of Hunting In today’s society there are many different opinions about many different topics. There always seems to be the person or group of people who find one person’s great idea terrible for all man-kind. It is one person’s word against another and it almost never ceases to end. One debate that has been brought up in recent history is the laws and boundaries of hunting. Many nature enthusiasts love nothing more than to contribute in a positive manner to the environment by harvesting
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day." In this poetic work‚ he describes his lover in glowing terms. However‚ in “Sonnet 130‚” Shakespeare illustrates a more realistic view of love. Although this poem may not seem as romantic as his other works‚ it illustrates how love blossoms even if the significant other is not physically attractive. The first three lines of the poem do not paint an attractive picture of the woman in question. They read‚ "My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips’ red; if
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Do you want to live? If you do you will think or know that Hunting is a cruel‚ it is wrong to kill animals as a means of entertainment. Less than 5 percent of the U.S. population hunts. Twenty percent of foxes who have been wounded by hunters are shot again. did you know that if hunting goes out of control people on the earth might die because we need meat for us to live in the world and if we do not have meat we can die. we all live on a cycle if that cycle has someone missing the others will dies
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Who Goes With Fergus This poem is about the dichotomy of the thinker and the actor. Yeats‚ in love with Maud Gonne‚ was the thinker‚ the courtly lover -- the one who would "brood upon love’s bitter mystery." Yeats was Mr. Nice Guy. Yet Yeats wanted to be the actor - the alpha male - the Fergus. Note the sexualized subtext that permeates the poem‚ who will "pierce the deep wood’s woven shade"? Who will "drive" with Fergus. Finally‚ we get the reasons to be the alpha male - the man of action‚ in the
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