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    How is gender represented in ‘Last Friday Night’ by Katy Perry. The genre of Katy Perry’s ‘Last Friday Night’ is pop. The video includes lots of dancing‚ singing‚ partying and a general up beat vibe‚ especially the girls with shots of them dancing. This shows how younger people‚ especially girls who like to go out partying‚ showing off their looks etc.. I think the target audience for this video is teenagers + young adults as they typically go out partying + drinking. It also could be targeted

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    Far‚ far below the weary camels lie-- The camels and the captives of thy raid. Come back to me‚ Beloved‚ or I die! My father’s wife is old and harsh with years‚ And drudge of all my father’s house am I-- My bread is sorrow and my drink is tears. Come back to me‚ Beloved‚ or I die!  Stylistic Analysis of the Poem "Meeting at night" “Meeting at Night” Robert Browning The gray sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and row; And the startled little waves that leap

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    every poem has an attitude that explains us the poem to give us a better understanding. The use of language and the style of the poem also lead us to being comfortable with the text. In this poem‚ the title "The Last Night that She Lived" already hints us about the somber attitude ahead. As we start off with the poem‚ the first stanza gives it to us‚ that a death has occurred in a normally Common Night. The meaning of the two capitalized letters C in common and N in night tells us that a night which

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    is a very subjective topic and in the poem “The Last Night She Lived”‚ by Emily Dickinson the speaker reveals attitudes of realization and melancholy towards the woman’s death. These attitudes are revealed through the author’s use of figurative language‚ tone and diction. Throughout the woman’s death process the speaker comes to a great realization‚ becoming more aware of herself and her surroundings. According to the speaker the night was a “common night‚” but the woman’s death “Made Nature different”

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    This poem is written in first person perspective‚ expressing my love for my lover in a long-distance relationship. Being written in the form of Shakespearian sonnet‚ it strictly conforms to the end-rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg. Composed by three quatrains and one couplet‚ it is basically an iambic pentameter‚ with variations in some lines. The poem depicts the pain of being separated both in time and space respectively in the first two stanzas. The third stanza is where the “turn” appears.

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    Gasping‚ he clutched onto the edge of the pool as he completed his timed freestyle lap. Obscuring his gaze were the black dots of fatigue‚ only allowing him a clouded view of his coach’s face; enough to reveal his displeasure. “17 seconds. Slower than last week and definitely not good enough.” The coach marched out of the pool complex‚ abandoning him to contemplate those words that echoed off the walls of the deserted building. His hands trembled and his eyes glistened as he hauled his gaunt body from

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    Like many of her poems‚ "The Last Night that She Lived" contains poet Emily Dickinson’s exploration of dying and human emotion. Rather than romanticizing death‚ however‚ Dickinson utilizes death as a simple process in human life. She achieves this by creating a tone progression in the speaker‚ beginning with excited hope in disappointed realization‚ through the use of exchange active and passive figurative language and structure patterns. Dickinson basically marks the shift of the speaker’s

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    lineage of the Mammalian family‚ the hedgehog and the armadillo are also separated by millions of years of evolution. The choice in animals for the poems did not fall under the laws of natural selection‚ they were hand selected to represent the separate‚ yet connected underlying messages. Paul Muldoon‚ author of “Hedgehog”‚ and Yusef Komunyakaa‚ author of “Night of the Armadillo”‚ both declare society as a negative parasitic being. Both mammalian protagonists bear suits of armor that barely suppress the

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    In a poem of reminiscent adolescence‚ Sharon Olds defines a young girl who has the capacity to judge adolescent emotion with the benefit of time‚ for she is now a mother herself. This definitive view of adolescent values and thought is mingled with the mystery of symbolic mathematics‚ which represents a maturity of this thought and a colorful insight into the development of a young girl as she becomes a woman. This poem also accentuates the mystery associated with the minds of the female gender‚

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    woman’s death can be divided into two sections in “The Last Night that She Lived” by Emily Dickinson. In the beginning (lines 1-20)‚ the reader sees the speaker feeling pain and being aware of the woman’s death. In lines 21- 28 the speaker shows feelings of guilt but also respect. The use of metaphors‚ similes‚ caesuras‚ oxymoron‚ repetition‚ and syntax all lead to the overall tone for this poem: despair. A prominent topic throughout the poem is the inevitability of the woman’s death. Lines 2-4

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