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    writers would like to talk about adultery that is in their work‚ and the public’s view of peoples who commit adultery. Thus‚ in this discussion for the writers interested in discussed about the woman taken in adultery‚ as seen in No Name Woman by Maxine Hong Kingston. In one of them and the society has viewed toward women in adultery. A highly acclaimed memoirist‚ Kingston integrates autobiographical elements with Asian legend and fictionalized history to delineate cultural conflicts confronting

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    the society paved from matriarchal to patriarchal‚ the status of women decreased as time goes. In the Woman Warrior and Waylaid‚ Maxine Hong Kingston and Ed Lin both agree that women in China have been treated badly‚ because they are an inferior gender and have to be obedient‚ but authors have drastically different views on the status of women in the American society. Maxine Hong Kingston argues that after coming to the United States‚ Chinese women have lowered their statuses‚ because the isolations

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    With Maxine Tynes’ poem Reach out and Touch‚ the title suggests that the poem literally is about a person reaching out and touching objects or people. Tynes suggests that the more mature generation should reach out and help others more often‚ and maybe touching someone’s heart should be all worth it. The first 6 lines of Tynes’ poem‚ describes how the curiosity of a child. Line number 6 "to see if it comes off" proves that the child’s intentions were purely curiosity. The use of "electric" in line

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    seeming contradiction in two words put together personification attribution of human motives or behaviors to impersonal agencies rhyme repetition of same sounds tone‚ mood feelings or meanings conveyed in the poem WOODCHUCKS Gassing the woodchucks didn’t turn out right. The knockout bomb from the Feed and Grain Exchange was featured as merciful‚ quick at the bone and the case we had against them was airtight‚ both exits shoehorned shut with puddingstone‚ but they had a sub-sub-basement

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    annoying‚ especially if a driver is in a rush. “Woodchucks‚” a poem by Maxine Kumin‚ is directly about a person killing off the woodchucks in his/her yard. William Stafford’s poem‚ “Traveling through the dark” is about a driver who came upon a dead pregnant doe in the road‚ who’s fawn is still alive‚ and whether or not to make the decision about whether to push the doe off the cliff with the fawn inside or to save the unborn fawn’s life. Both poets‚ Kumin and Stafford‚ contrast the theme of inhumane

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    Poetry is a very powerful mechanism through which writers can tell their readers something about themselves or the world around them. The language within “Traveling Through the Dark” by William Stafford and “Woodchucks” by Maxine Kumin display the speakers’ psychology and what sort of relationships they have with the animals and their deaths in their respective works. Despite being similar in a few aspects‚ these two works are very different. The most obvious similarity between the two works is

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    animals. In both “Traveling through the Dark‚” written by William Stafford‚ and “Woodchucks”‚ written by Maxin Kumin‚ the authors discuss about interventions of human beings to animals. Even though the two poems are different in the use of irony‚ the tone and the sentence structure‚ they illustrate similar relationships between humans and animals that humans are superior to animals. “Traveling through the Dark” and “Woodchucks” use different irony to represent their relationships

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    two separate occasions she met Dr. Martin Orne‚ who encouraged her to take up poetry. Within twelve years of writing her first sonnet‚ she was one of the most honored poets in America. On October 4th‚1974‚ Anne Sexton had lunch with good friend Maxine Kumin to revise galleys for Sexton’s manuscript of “The Awful Rowing Toward God”‚ scheduled for publication in March 1975. On returning home‚ she put on her mother’s fur coat‚ removed all of her rings‚ poured herself a glass of vodka‚ locked herself

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    1. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers‚ Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked? 2. How many boards Could the Mongols hoard If the Mongol hordes got bored? 3. I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop. Where she sits she shines‚ and where she shines she sits. 4. How can a clam cram in a clean cream can? 5. Send toast to ten

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