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Poetry Commentary In the poem “Where the Sidewalk Ends”‚ which poetic techniques does the poet Shel Silverstein use to make the work so moving? The poem “Where the Sidewalk Ends” by Shel Silverstein signifies the passage of life. The poet uses a sidewalk as an extended metaphor to describe the dark and dreary ways of life. The end of the sidewalk is supposed to represent heaven or the end of the passage. His purpose is to teach the reader about the steady pace in which one walks towards his or
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popular culture‚ they are looked up to as idols and representations of human perfection. While athletes entertain us as spectators‚ they have become too large for their own good. William Moller‚ the author‚ has shown solid facts and engaging social commentary that brings the public to support his claim of how athletes are held too high in today’s society. Moller argues that athletes may be held too high as a community‚ but he is not bashing them in a negative way. He understands that most if not athletes
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October 3rd‚ 2014 Commentary: The Send Off This poem‚ written by Wilfred Owens‚ describes a group of men going off to war‚ hence the title‚ “The Send Off.” Throughout the poem there is a gloomy and rundown attitude‚ coupled with matching descriptions‚ which is a drastic change to the earlier patriotic jingoistic poems about the war. In this poem‚ a more realistic‚ dismal attitude towards going off to war is taken. With elevated language and the haphazard rhyme scheme within the short stanzas‚ the
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Parker Pen – Commentary The text given is an advertisement for a ‘girl- size’ pens made by the company Parker in the 1970’s. The aim of the advertisement is to sell jotter ball pen that are modified for women‚ to the target audience of women. These pens are created for because apparently women cannot use an ordinary ballpoint pen‚ as it is too large for their “dainty” hands. Ethos‚ pathos and logos are used as an appeal to the target audience. This advertisement also has many comical elements in
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hear humanity in silence. While exploring the central African country of Rwanda‚ Phillip Gourevitch writes about his personal observations of the silences created by the genocide in his essay called “We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.” He pays attention to the lack of bodies as a silence comparable to the literal silence in John Cage’s piece. After researching the facts of the tragedy‚ Gourevitch addresses how the genocide lead to the murder of “some 800‚000
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A Commentary on “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost As the poem opens‚ we see a very formal phrase “something there is”‚ and rather formal diction. However‚ the language is natural in the sense that it does not rhyme. Also‚ we have a sense that there is a tumbling forth of ideas about the things that want to destroy a wall. We see this from the phrases‚ “that sends…and spills…and makes gaps.” Some invisible force exists that doesn’t love a wall. So the speaker is setting the tone and implying
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of comparison is used a lot in this poem. Owen explores the monstrosity of war in various examples of comparison. The boys "die as cattle‚" this conveys the idea that the young men going to war is the same as cattle going to a slaughter house to be killed. With no real purpose but to be mindlessly massacred. Through personification‚ the guns responsible for taking so much human life are made out to be monstrous‚ even evil. The poem also likens their deaths to a funeral‚ but one where the bells are
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Commentary on Cronbach’s ‘The Two Disciplines of Scientific Psychology’ In this paper Lee Cronbach delivers his visionary presidential address to the American Psychological Association (APA)‚ calling for the unification of experimental and correlational psychology in which he argued that psychology continues to this day to be limited by the dedication of its investigators to one or the other method of inquiry rather than to scientific psychology as a whole. He discusses the two streams on branches
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Commentary on “Night of the Scorpion” by Nissim Ezequiel The poem “Night of the Scorpion” by Nissim Ezekiel is an account of how the poet remembers his mother being stung by a scorpion when he was young. However‚ he does not write about his own feelings or reactions; we realize he is merely the narrator. Most of the poem is in the third person‚ as Ezekiel reports on what other people do and say and he uses various images and senses to make us visualise the scenes. The poem is written
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