James Nguyen Professor Tarango English 100 30 June 2014 The Past is the Present In August 1955‚ Emmett Till‚ a fourteen-year-old African-American boy left Chicago to visit his relatives in Mississippi. A couple days after he arrived‚ he and his cousin Curtis Jones went to the Bryant ’s grocery store to buy some candy. A white man named Roy Bryant who was out of town owned the store and his wife‚ Carolyn‚ was managing the shop in his absence. The exact details of the incident have long been disputed
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Keats was inspired to write “Ode to Autumn” after walking through the water meadows of Winchester‚ England‚ in an early autumn evening of 1819. The poem has three stanzas of eleven lines describing the taste‚ sights and sounds of autumn. Much of the third stanza‚ however‚ is dedicated to diction‚ symbolism‚ and literary devices with decisively negative connotations‚ as it describes the end of the day and the end of autumn. The author makes an intense description of autumn at least at first sight
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ODE TO THE WEST WIND Summary The autumnal west wind sweeps along the leaves and "winged seeds." The seeds will remain dormant until spring. The wind is thus a destroyer and a preserver. The west wind also sweeps along storm clouds. It is the death song of the year. With the night that closes the year will come rain‚ lightning‚ and hail; there will be storms in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. The poet pleads with the west wind to endow him with some of its power‚ for he feels depressed and helpless
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The Romantic Poet William Wordsworth wrote "Ode on Intimations of Immortality" in the midst of the Romantic Period during the early 19th century. This was a time of new scientific thought‚ observing nature‚ and social reform. Critical Appreciation This great poem gives expression to the human instinct for a belief in immortality. The poem is built around what may be called the doctrine of reminiscence. The child remembers the life he led in heaven before his birth in this world. The child is‚ therefore
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Wind An ode is a poem with extraordinary lyrics‚ aiming at loftier thought‚ and more complex formal structure than most lyrics. Another characteristic of an ode is that they are often addressed at something or someone. An ode is a long lyric poem‚ highly interested in a specific subject‚ tone‚ and style‚ often written to celebrate an event‚ person‚ being or power. In which in "Ode to the West wind"‚ Shelley describes the winds mighty power and fierce strength‚ for example in "Ode to the West
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There are so many different types‚ from horror to nature. With poems authors come along‚ and they all have different styles. Although poems can be of same topic and still be different as well ‚like the poems “Ode to enchanted light” by Pablo Neruda and “Sleeping in the Forest" by Mary Oliver. “Ode to enchanted light” by Pablo Neruda is a great poem‚ but is most definitely different than “Sleeping in the Forest" by Mary Oliver. This really is about the out doors‚ or Mother Nature. “Under the trees light
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Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” The eighteenth century was a time of revolution in Europe; the French Revolution. It introduced a new era of enlightenment and individual freedom. This revolution led the poets to explore freedom‚ independent ideas and limitless imaginations on poems. This movement was called Romanticism and it was characterized by stressing new ideas of nature and change. Percy Bysshe Shelley took up these revolutionary ideas in his poems. In “Ode to the West Wind”‚ Shelley
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Keats: Ode to Autumn Analysis Ode to Autumn has a very different theme and style in comparison to many of Keat’s other poems. While most of Keats poems contain sharp cadences and emotionally charged themes‚ Ode to Autumn is a calm‚ descriptive poem about Keat’s perspective of the season Autumn and its relation to other season. In the Poem Ode to Autumn‚ Keats mainly utilizes rustic‚ vivid‚ visual and tactile imagery to describe the scenes of Autumn. The varying and slower cadences along with personification
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Day 1: “Beep beep”- Onomatopoeia “The air is still freezing cold. The sky is a perfect‚ pale blue. The sun has just risen‚ weak and watery-looking‚ like it has just spilled itself over the horizon and its too lazy to clean itself up. It’s supposed to storm later‚ but you’d never know”- Simile‚ foreshadowing “It’s Connecticut: being like the people around you is the whole point.”- Cliques “Are you excited? The big day. Opening night.”- Ironic “What’s the point of looking cute if you can’t
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“Ode to the West Wind” Theme: - Man and the Natural World Nature itself is more powerful than man but we are part of the natural world therefore man and the natural world is connected. We need to take care of nature as we take care of ourselves for nature is more powerful so then it can strike back to us like the west wind. The west wind represents the period of winter but we know that winter is always followed by spring. Spring symbolizes rebirth‚ life and growth. So we humans
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