In "Poem by Poem" by Juan Herrera‚ he reflects on the shooting that happened in a church in Charleston‚ SC on 6/18/2015. As he reflects in this poem‚ he uses poetic elements such as caesuras and repetition to convey the complex feelings of pain and grief he feels‚ as well as trying to bring attention to how lost America’s gun laws are. Herrera often uses caesuras‚ which is when you break the flow in the middle of the sentence. He does this very often‚ such as‚ "we can end the violence every day
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This poem was published in 1978 by Joyce Carol Oates. I chose this poem because it very much speaks about the traditional roles of men and women‚ specifically towards married men and women. We can use Gender lens to further analyze the poem. In the 70’s‚ that was the time where women are fighting for their equal rights similar to men. Now if we compare women today from the 70’s‚ we can really see a very big difference of our roles nowadays. Before‚ women who are married are expected to just stay
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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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Explicating Beowulf ENG/306 Explicating Beowulf Beowulf is an epic poem that has been relayed through the many years of storytelling. Beowulf is epic because of the love and heroism in the poem. Beowulf is a true hero and the poem expresses that. The focus of this paper is to explain and support the interpretation of the poem along with the relationship between the form and content of the poem and the expectations of Beowulf and how it should be in the medieval century and the context of society
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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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Universal Health Care The issue of health care is a widely debated issue in the United States today. The United States spends more on health care than any other country in the world‚ but there are 48.6 million people that do not have health insurance. The United States also has one of the lowest life expectancies in the industrialized world‚ and 45‚000 people die every year due to a lack of health care. The United States Congress passed the Affordable Care Act in 2010 to try to correct some
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Metaphysics The Problem of Universals The Ontological problem has occupied many philosophers and intellectuals since the very beginning of human thought. What seems to be a simple and rather ridiculous question to the average person‚ ‘what exists?’ or ‘what is there?’ serves as the general question for the ontological problem. Almost everyone accepts the existence of physical objects‚ to which I will now refer as ‘particulars’. Actual pencils‚ buildings‚ cats‚ humans and planets are all examples
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The comparison in this poem is a game of hopscotch being compared to life. In life people are battling themselves to make it from the bottom to the top with other people watching‚ sometimes judging. In hopscotch you battle yourself to make it from the bottom of the triangle to the top‚ with people watching you play the game. Due to Maya Angelou using this metaphor rather than just talking about life’s ups and downs‚ gives the poem a unique style of writing. It gives the poem a rhythm versus just reading
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Furthermore‚ to enhance this effect‚ alliteration is used within the poem: “For I fear those guns will fire” (14). In this line‚ the three F sounds‚ “for‚” “fear‚” and “fire‚” are strung together and nearly imitate the forceful sound of a gun firing. The use of alliteration is also seen in line 26 when the reader discovers
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