In her nostalgic poem “Centaur”‚ May Swenson defines an optimal childhood through the speaker’s reminiscence about the summer play of a ten year old tom boy‚ grasping every carefree moment of youth. The speaker captures this girl’s imagination through her depiction of a metaphorical centaur‚ who is a girl who becomes part horse in her mind. The speaker’s reflection of this specific summer reveals a lack of responsibility and an abundance of opportunities comprise a lighthearted adolescence. The
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Andreea Varna English Writing 300 Professor McFadden February 8‚ 2012 The Centaur The poem “The Centaur”‚ written by May Swenson allows readers the opportunity to see through the eyes of a young girl as her imagination brings a hand crafted piece of wood to life; transforming it into a majestic stallion. As she lets her imagination flourish throughout her experience the reader sees how the girl and stallion become one. Swenson’s careful choice of words contain abundant elements of language
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“The Centaur”‚ by May Swenson is a narrative poem that is told by a woman looking back on her childhood. Through the various uses of imagery throughout the poem‚ Swenson portrays a child who is having a joyous time in a field. The imagery that Swenson uses throughout the entirety of the poem helps convey the message about women and their expectations in society to the reader. Firstly‚ at the beginning of the poem‚ the reader is relatively clueless of the fact that the child is a girl. In
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Instructor Smith English 10-4 8 February 2013 The Centaur “The Centaur” by May Swenson portrays an imaginative‚ care free young girl as she becomes one with what she thinks is the centaur‚ she is “the horse and the rider” (38) ‚ but eventually her mother brings to an end her wild ride. Through structure‚ diction‚ figurative language‚ and imagery‚ Swenson describes a special time for the ten year old girl. The structure in the poem illustrates the freedom of youth and playfulness. The poem
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time‚ one’s life will be accomplished. And in time‚ in time‚ the doll–– like new‚ though ancient––will be found. - May Swenson Who is the speaker? What is the point of view? What is the mood? What is the tone? What is the imagery? What is the form? What is the theme? What is the figurative language? The speaker in the poem “ How to Be Old” by May Swenson is an elder teaching children about growing old. The poem is in third person point of view. The mood is kind of sad
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David F. Swenson and Philip L. Quinn are two brilliant authors that share some of the same views on the meaning of life as one another. They both believe religion is the way for one to best live a moral life. Even though the share the same main ideas‚ they little differences that make them stand out. Swenson makes statement that man typically lives on ward but tends to reminisce back in time. By this he means that if there was no past‚ there could be a future looking at it through retrospect. As
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Theme: The Big Bang theory (The theory of everything) Subject of studying: The beginning of all the surroundings And the mysteries of our inexplicable and amazing Universe | | |[pic]
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For almost one hundred years‚ we have known that the universe is expanding. We have traced this expansion back in time‚ through to the very beginning when the universe occupied an infinitesimal point in space. This was the state of the universe at time t=0‚ over 13 billion years ago. It is from this starting point that everything we are familiar with came into existence: protons‚ neutrons‚ stars‚ galaxies - even space and time itself are here. At time t=0‚ this point began an unprecedented inflation
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Humans live on a small planet in a tiny part of a vast universe. "This part of the universe is called the solar system‚ and is dominated by a single brilliant star-the sun." (Skywatching 230) The solar system is the earth ’s neighbourhood and the planets Mercury‚ Venus‚ Mars‚ Jupiter‚ Saturn‚ Uranus‚ Neptune and Pluto are the Earth ’s neighbours. They all have the same stars in the sky and orbit the same sun. Scientists believe the solar system began about 5 billion years ago‚ perhaps when
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