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    War Poems

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    because poetry is one of the most common ways for people to put across their feelings about situations. War is one of these situations for which many people have very strong feelings. A common theme in war poetry is the transformation that war brings about in a person. Many poems reveal boys going into war and becoming young men after the experience. Another dominant theme in war poems is about the forgotten soldiers who lost their lives and weren’t remembered. Many poems have been written

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    Blake Poems

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    but hostile to the Church of England. The fact that ................... are evident in his poetry‚ especially these two poems. Nature The Echoing Green (innocence) This poem depicts a conventional village in which a whole day’s cycle is portrayed. Within it youth and age all have their parts to play alongside the birds and other creatures of spring. Blake begins the poem with personification of the “skies”‚ and imagery of the birds which creates a natural idyllic setting. The welcoming of

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    take in being right is one of the most fundamental we have. The opportunity to say‚ or at least think‚ ’’I told you so’’‚ exists in just about everyone. And apart from being right about specific events - an outcome in foreign policy‚ say‚ or the winner of the first race at Randwick - we have an even more fundamental feeling that we are right about pretty well everything. This point is well made in an unusual book called Being Wrong by American journalist Kathryn Schulz. It’s one of those books that

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    touching -Put one clip on the positive side of the battery and the second to the negative side. Observe -Switch clips to the opposite charged sides of the battery. Observe again -Reverse wiring to original spots Observations Q-what did you observe when you hooked up the nickel strips to the battery? A-the copper from the solution coated one of the nickel strips Q-what happened when you reversed the flow of electricity? A-the

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    Poem Comparison

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    Waking” by Theodore Roethke are two poems that relate directly to the speaker. Although both poems share this similarity‚ the way in which both works or literature are constructed are vastly different. Plath uses visual imagery and poetical tercets to show the pain and suffering of the speaker in her poem‚ while Roethke uses the musical Villanelle and synesthesia to create his picture of the speaker’s inner thoughts and a sense of awakening. When reading the poem “Lady Lazarus” for the first time

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    Anthology Poems

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    The Great Big Book of Poems Table Of Contents So Excited………………………………..........1 Reason………………………………................2 The Room………………………………...........3 My Cat………………………………................4 I Love You………………………………..........5 Just A Kiss………………………………..........6 I Wish……………………………….................7 Moment Of Freedom…………………………..8 Nothing But The Best………………………….9 The Monster………………………………......10 The End………………………………

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    Death Poems

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    Throughout most of Japan’s history poetry played a large part in the process of death. A jisei is a death poem‚ a poem that any person on their deathbed was encouraged to write. While if you were a samurai‚ according to the bushido code of honor‚ if you wanted to die with honor and not at the hands of your enemy‚ if you had dishonored yourself or fellow samurai‚ or if your master had died you would commit the ritual of seppuku. Seppuku is a ceremony (if not committed on the battle field) in which

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    1. Describe a time when you tried to bring about a change in your self-concept and were not successful in doing so: I have always viewed myself as an outgoing person‚ getting along with everyone but I often speak before I think. Too many times to count…I fear I wasn’t born with a mouth “filter”. I find myself genuinely trying to express myself and taking it to the point of a coming off rude. It seems so clear to me and frustrates me when others don’t see it that way. An example of

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    How does Armitage make the poem ‘About his Person’ particularly moving to you”. The poem ‘About his Person’ is a poem about a man who commits suicide. We are not given exactly how or why straightforwardly but we are given the items he had on him when he did it. It’s through the items we get to understand why he did it. Armitage makes this poem moving through doing that and also using other techniques. One way in which Armitage makes the poem moving is by letting the reader piece together the story

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    Properties of a Poem

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    ------------------------------------------------- Short Stories: How are different cultures‚ attitudes and characters are expressed within the limits of a short story? ------------------------------------------------- Othello: How might interpersonal relationships be detrimental to one’s status? ------------------------------------------------- Nineteen Eighty-Four:  How does an individual respond to societal manipulation and control? ------------------------------------------------- Poetry: How do poets use various literary

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