Where I Come From In “Where I Come From”‚ poet Elizabeth Brewster portrays the differences lifestyles between city-dwellers and country-dwellers‚ with a clear bias towards the latter. Brewster also expresses her belief that people are defined by the place they live in. Vivid imagery‚ structure‚ and poetic devices‚ are used by Brewster to convey the contrasts between city and country life. Vivid imagery‚ created by Brewster‚ conveys the contrasting elements of city and country life. In the first stanza
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I come from a no stop light‚ everyone knows everyone kind of town. Beverly‚ West Virginia hides snug in the hills of Randolph County‚ population‚ 697 (2012). Yep‚ that’s right‚ 697 friends and family. Beverly is a very rural town‚ deep with the roots of the Civil War. Many strong figures of the Civil War era are rooted strong in my hometown. TRIP TO THE MALL We girls would make our plans on Friday during our lunch period. Whose mom was going to take us‚ what were we going to wear and what
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up again into the dizzy blue. I lie‚ not thinking‚ in the cool‚ soft grass‚ Afraid of where a thought might take me - This grasshopper with plated face Unfolds his legs and finds himself in space. Self under self‚ a pile of selves I stand Threaded on time‚ and with metaphysic hand Lift the farm like a lid and see Farm within farm‚ and in the centre‚ me. What objects can you find? Highlight them. Where I Come From Elizabeth Brewster Summary: This poem is about the poet meeting all sorts
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The poem is set out into three stanzas‚ the last stanza ( A door- fields of snow) being a rhyming couplet‚ with the words ‘blow’ and ‘snows’. If you look at the poem at the end of the first stanza‚ the final line ends as a half line and at the same time the first line at the beginning of the second stanza starts exactly after the half line. The purpose Elizabeth did that because she would like to continue the second stanza exactly where the first stanza ended; so she has the same line of thought
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Brewster’s “Where I Come From” and Sandburg’s “Chicago” portrays urban environments‚ exploring how the poets feel towards their respective cities. In “Where I come from” the poet was being critical towards the city life and show the contrast between urban and rural‚ whereas “Chicago” expresses his fondness towards the city even if there was many problems to it. In “Where I come from” Elizabeth Brewster makes a comparison between modern city and rural area. She did this by using tones and vocabulary
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If you ask me where I’m from‚ postal speaking I am from a small town named Sandpoint - right in the tippy top of Idaho‚ just below the Canadian border. But‚ when you ask me where I am from regardless of boundaries‚ I am from Sunnyside. In the mid 1800’s a couple stumbled across a field overlooking the lake and decided to make camp on such beautiful grounds. After many days past they began to realize that this land was unoccupied‚ went up the hill just enough to see the lake but to be able to access
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“Where I come From Is Like This” by Gunn Allen In her essay Gunn Allen utilizes effective ethos‚ logos‚ and pathos to convince ethnic studies woman‚ and feminist scholars‚ of her claim that European woman are in a bicultural bind between strong mighty Indian woman and Europeans who think of woman as weaker and lesser. Allen states that Indian woman were always thought as savage by the different views she had been taught‚ an example was when she talks about her Christian education they would tell
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Where I come from fear isn’t a word you hear very often. When used to describe one’s self it is rarely used in conversation. Fear of you‚ fear of me‚ fear to be and fear to dream. These are the true feelings of my people or shall I say people dealing with reality. One may say “I ain’t never scared “‚ whatever those are the ones with the most freights. Franklin D. Roosevelt once said “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless unreasoning‚ unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts
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having memory. We should always remember where we come from as a part of our history. Remembering where you come from identifies the meaning of who you really are. “Remember the sky you were born under‚ know each of the star’s stories” (Harjo 802 L1). The first line is this poem symbolizes the whole poem’s meaning to remember where you were born and the stars are each problem that may have occurred in your life. It is important to know where we come from because the world was living before we was
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Where I Come From Is Like This The story‚ “Where I Come From Is Like This” is about the lives of American Indian women and how they were capable of anything‚ and Native Americans were always strong and had all the qualities in them. Also it is about what others cultures thought about Indian women. They were never dependent on anyone‚ This is what the author wants us to know that the native Americans were never weak and helpless. In this story‚ the Native American women were
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