February 11‚ 2010 Sharon Olds’ “Leningrad Cemetery‚ Winter of 1941” is a very sad and dreary poem. This is because Olds writes about the Battle of Leningrad‚ a 900-day siege of Leningrad during World War II‚ and the lifelessness that is going on afterwards. Olds’ word choice throughout the poem is very important to the meaning of this poem. The way that she writes about this battle paints a very clear picture in my mind of what she is describing. Many times thorough the poem‚ Olds compares life and
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Explication of ’Leningrad Cemetery‚ Winter of 1941’ This poem is about the World War Ⅱ especially in Leningard(1941.09.08~1944.01.18) in winter of 1941. Leningrad which is now St. Petersburg is once former capital of Russia and Russian Revolution so it was strategically important place for Hitler to have war with. German army siege this city almost 900 days and over 650‚000 people are dead from this war because of starvation‚ exposure‚ disease and so on. However‚ Leningrad did not surrender against
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of the Dead shown in “Leningrad Cemetery‚ Winter of 1941” When we think of war graves‚ the image that comes into mind is the spatial area full of white tombstones interred with the remains of deceased people. Because we did not experience war‚ it is hard to imagine how disastrous the war is. In that sense‚ Sharon Olds’ poem‚ “Leningrad Cemetery‚ Winter of 1941” vividly portrays the harsh reality of the war on the historical background of the Siege of Leningrad. Old delivers the dehumanization
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Enc1102 Daughters‚ A Mother’s Replacement Sharon Olds explains “the oldest story we have on our planet (line 17)” in her poem 35/10‚ the story of replacement. Mother daughter replacement‚ when the daughter enters the stage of full bodily maturity as the mother’s days fade and she no longer has sharpened looks nor the ability to produce young. At this time‚ the mother is forced to hand over the women duties and believe in her heart that she has lead her daughter down the right path that
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goosebumps painted on the skin are worthless without it. “Last Night”‚ written by Sharon Olds‚ is a perfect reflection of how being in love has a profound effect when in relation to intimacy. Olds compares her experience while being in love‚ to her experience when her feelings for her partner are neutral. Throughout this piece Olds conveys her message with the use of similes‚ repetition‚ imagery‚ and hyperbole. Olds included a variety of devices to convey her message‚ one way was through the use
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In the poem "On the Subway" by Sharon Olds‚ she contrasts the worlds of an affluent white person and a poor black person. The two people have many opposing characteristics‚ and the author uses literary techniques such as tone‚ poetic devices‚ and imagery to portray these differences. The narrator is the white woman‚ and she realizes how people get "stuck" in places of society based on their skin color. The word "stuck" is repeated twice to stress this idea. The major difference between the two people
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choose the reading prompts‚ A Jewish Cemetery Near Leningrad written by Josef Brodsky‚ and Bitburg written by Elie Wiesel. Both writings are similar in many ways despite being written by different authors. One is a poem‚ the other a speech‚ but they both express the emotional rollercoasters the Jews went through during the Holocaust. Not only are they both similar‚ but they’re also similar to the book‚ Night‚ written by Elie Wiesel. A Jewish Cemetery Near Leningrad focuses on the broken hope of holocaust
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Whitman and Olds – Controversial Poets of Their Centuries Both Walt Whitman and Sharon Olds are great and controversial poets of their time. Walt Whitman’s poetry mainly takes place in the 1800’s during the American Civil War Era and Sharon Olds’ poems take place in the mid 1900’s. Walt Whitman and Sharon Olds are both known to be free verse writers since their poems don’t rhyme and don’t follow a real traditional stanza. They are also known to be very controversial during their time periods because
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tram" by Sharon Olds portrays her encounters of her own life as an African American whatever other typical individual. Sharon utilizes many words that allude to her skin shading which is dark so she can be more particular and clear with her illustrations. In the start of the of the lyric‚ we have Sharon experiencing a kid which is the inverse skin shading. " His feet are gigantic‚ in dark shoes bound with white in a mind boggling design like an arrangement of deliberate scars"‚ Sharon is contrasting
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Feminist criticism “On the Subway” by Sharon Olds : “On the Subway” is a poem about the inferiority and weakness of women which results them to be ambitious and belief in their ability to overcome patriarchy. The poem effectively describes the bitterness and anger of females .In particular ‚it displays the idea that a weak man in the society is superior than a powerful woman in the society. Thus ‚ the poem effectively depicts the way less powerful females are in the society . There are several
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