Purity and Hope in Nature The summer solstice marks a shift in the year: everyday gradually becomes shorter‚ and closer to winter. In some religions‚ the summer solstice represents enlightenment‚ and new beginnings. The image of nature as pure is repeated throughout “Summer Solstice‚ New York City” by Sharon Olds. “Summer Solstice‚ New York City” relates the story of a man trying to commit suicide‚ but choosing life and finding comfort in the police sent to rescue him. Initially‚ the title seems
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Rites of Passage A poem by Sharon Olds Minor Generals - By Henning Thiel Sharon Olds’ "Rites of Passage" is about the hidden adults in the children that come to her son’s birthday party. All the children are boys and display male adult personality traits that remind the speaker of small mighty Generals of war. The tone comes across sad‚ ironic and disillusioned about the future of the children‚ like they are doomed to follow in the war mongering footsteps of their forefathers. The imagery used
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In the unique poem “on the subway”‚ Sharon Olds develops in both portraits in her pottery. The result of this is reader receive an insight of the narrator mind‚ when it came to that experience. Olds used imagery‚ tone and to do this. In poem the imagery job was to put reader in the shoe of the young white narrator. Imagery allowed reader to come to a conclusion of why would narrator think like she did. An example of this were in line nine through ten‚ where narrator claimed that IQ the African
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In On The Subway by Sharon Olds the narrator contrasts two worlds to develop both portraits by comparing a white wealthy woman to a African American young man. By doing that she uses imagery by describing the appearance of both characters. Also she uses tone to explain the fear the white woman had because she felt threatened by the black man. He also uses organization to reveal how the white woman changed her mind from the beginning of the poem to the end. Olds uses imagery for the readers to imagine
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Idealization and Dissappointed The speaker in "The Blue Dress"‚ by Sharon Olds‚ idealizies her father but is soon disappointed when she realizes her father is much different from what she picture. The girl is led to believe that a blue dress given to on her birthday was from her father. Later on she realizes that she was mistaken and that her father in all actually did not give her the blue dress. Instead of letting go of the facade her father had created she embraced it as an actual reality:
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Alex Upton “1954” by Sharon Olds is a poem displaying the horrors of an instance of rape and murder of a young girl by a man named Burton Abbott in 1954. Olds uses a frantic and horrified tone highlighted by a careful choice of diction to express her messages that any ordinary-looking person can disguise evil and the current justice system has a hypocritical eye-for-an-eye mindset that only ends up destroying human life. The structure of “1954” is built on enjambment and broken sentences. This
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Modifying the Story Summer Solstice through the Screenplay Entitled “Tatarin” A Partial Thesis Presented To Mrs. Evelyn S. Agato In Partial Fulfillment of the Subject RD 100 - Research Design Leader Divine Angeline Leaño Members Erinn Chua Jan Erik Miras Jamie Robertson San Juan Clarissa Tan Cherryl Tolentino October 2011 Department of Media Studies College of Arts and Sciences Trinity University of Asia Abstract The purpose of this thesis is to come up with a clear
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In the poem “On The Subway”‚ written by Sharon Olds‚ two sides of two person that encounter with each other in a subway. It is almost clear as water that the poem talks about two different worlds‚ white and African American. To start off the poem‚ Sharon describes how both worlds clash each other in a subway‚ one who is dark skin‚ and the other a white skin women. The women has a fur coat and a briefcase‚ meaning she has money‚ while the other person has red apparel‚ “as his body”‚ meaning that the
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The poem “Sex without Love‚” by Sharon Olds is intriguing such that it gives the reader the chance interpret it at many levels. It harbors a range of possible experiences‚ depending on the depth and perception of the reading. At face value‚ this poem seems to be one that talks about sex and the narrator’s disapproval of casual sex. Yet‚ if the reader further analyzes it‚ they find waiting for them an actual experience through the words‚ a feeling of awe‚ and a message of body and soul. One of the
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Last Night The next day‚ I am almost afraid. Love? It was more like dragonflies in the sun‚ 100 degrees at noon‚ the ends of their abdomens stuck together‚ I close my eyes when I remember. I hardly knew myself‚ like something twisting and twisting out of a chrysalis‚ enormous‚ without language‚ all head‚ all shut eyes‚ and the humming like madness‚ the way they writhe away‚ and do not leave‚ back‚ back‚ away‚ back. Did I know you? No kiss‚ no tenderness–more like killing‚ death-grip
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