Linda Pastan Through her poetry‚ Linda Pastan expresses clear and meaningful lessons‚ thoughts‚ and ideas. Pastan makes a point to try to make her poems extremely clear and not cleverly obscure. Her poetry takes on many different themes depending on the situation she has been placed in. Much of Pastan’s poetry coresponds to her life. Linda Olenik Pastan was born on the 27th of May in 1932 in New York City (Gaiownik‚ 355). Linda grew up in a Jewish family and attended attended Fieldston School
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People should recognize how grateful they are to have a family in the first place‚ and they should appreciate what’s done for them‚ not how it’s done. Linda Pastan’s poem Marks contains irony‚ metaphors‚ and appropriate diction throughout the text to
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of Anger by Linda Pastan Many poets compare animals to feelings or objects (whether tangible or intangible)‚ because it is easy for a person to comprehend what an author is actually feeling through everyday comparisons to animals (i.e a lion symbolizes pride or courage). For example: In the poem “A Noiseless Patient Spider” by author Walt Whitman‚ he compares his soul to the spider‚ “ceaselessly musing‚ venturing‚ throwing‚ seeking the / spheres that connect them...”. Linda Pastan uses this animal-to-feeling
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Pass/Fail is a poem written by Linda Pastan that is about the nightmare of test taking. There is always anxiety that accompanies a big exam‚ and sometimes it will affect our sleeping habits‚ self-confidence‚ plague our thoughts and haunt our dreams. Pastan explores this unpleasant experience in her short poem and uses several techniques to convey her speakers thought process. The role of the speaker verses the author is necessary to understand in any poem‚ along with the way it sounds and reads
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The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word anger‚ a noun physical affliction or pain; inflammatory state of any part of the body. Then defines anger‚ a verb to distress‚ trouble‚ vex‚ hurt‚ wound. In Linda Pastan’s poem "Anger" the word anger takes the action of a noun. The word anger stands out for two reasons‚ the author chooses it for the title‚ and the only sentence with anger gives the poem meaning. In the beginning of the poem the word "it" gets used many times and we don’t know what
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The poem “Pass/Fail” by Linda Pastan addresses exam anxiety. In the poem the author talks about examination dreams. These dreams are a reflection on the individual’s lack of confidence and incapability to advance to the next stage in life. In the dreams no matter what a person do‚ the answer is always wrong and he or she is guaranteed to fail in the dream. In real life‚ one either pass an exam or fail it. If one fails‚ they can often retake the exam and pass it. However‚ no matter what a person do
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In the poem “Leaving the Island” by Pastan Linda‚ the narrator seems to like the summer time a lot more than winter. She feels that winter brings a lot of losses. Summer is like building memories instead of losing some. “… Becomes the muse of memory once more … I will trade my swimsuit for a woolen coat” (lines 8‚ 10). She doesn’t might switching between the swimsuits to woolen coats‚ but I still believe summer is the favorite time. Summer is not quite my favorite time of the year‚ even though I
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Linda Pastan’s poem “To a Daughter Leaving Home” tells the story of when a little girl first learned how to ride her bike while her parent watched over her. The poem is written from the parent’s perspective so it can‚ therefore‚ show the parent’s thoughts and inner conflict with the daughter learning how to ride her bike. The parent describes himself nervously watching the daughter confidently round a windy path. The farther away the daughter got‚ the more fragile she became in the parent’s eyes
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Poetry Assignment 4 To a Daughter Leaving Home Linda Pastan If a less advanced reader‚ such as a young child‚ were to read this poem‚ they would probably assume that the author was simply describing a child learning how to ride a bike. However‚ this work goes much deeper than that. Receiving a hint from the title of the poem‚ one can come to the conclusion that the author is not only talking about a little girl physically leaving her house on a bike‚ but also leaving her home because she has become full grown
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seems to be the right thing to do. When reading the poem by Langston Hughes‚ Theme for English B‚ at first it appears to have a pessimistic approach but as it continues it really turns out to have a more optimistic approach. As for the poem by Linda Pastan‚ Ethics‚ and her words started off as being optimistic but had a closer connection‚ however to thinking more positively to the question posed to her. While as the poem m goes on it seems to be more of a pessimistic approach. Hughes words were
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