“The Mother: Remember the children you got that you did not get” Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem “The Mother” is ambiguous and totally unexpected. The narrator starts by speaking about abortion in a very accusatory tone. In the first part of the poem the narrator uses second person language and accuses mothers of getting abortions and talks about how all the mothers will be missing out on seeing their children grow. She is talking to readers about abortions in general. She talks to mothers and patronizes
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Jack Brooks once stated that “Every disaster is an opportunity‚” and he was absolutely correct. Brooks’ statement especially holds true to politicians. Politicians are in a constant struggle to gain the support of the citizens‚ and to be successful they need take advantage of every presented opportunity to get seen and heard by the public. Disasters stimulate fear and excitement in the public‚ therefore the public pays a lot of attention to them (Popkin‚ 25). In turn politicians are attentive
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The best way to sum up Club Denali is in the first paragraph when the author says‚ “The ten-minute Denali show runs heavily to images of thundering avalanches‚ storm-flattened tents‚ hands deformed by horrible frostbite blisters‚ and grotesquely twisted bodies being pulled from the depths of enormous crevasses. Like the military’s VD movies‚ the Denali show is graphic enough to make even the thickest skin crawl. As a tool for promoting sensible behavior‚ it would appear that it’s also just as ineffective”
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I chose to use the poem “Hamlen Brook” by Richard Wilbur. The first thing I noticed about the poem was the stanzas. Each stanza had the same amount of lines‚ four. Next was the fact that the first and fourth lines rhymed in every stanza. For example‚ brink; drink and trout; out. Also the second and third line rhymed in every single stanza‚ jet; sweat‚ weaves; leaves. The rhythmic pattern was very evident and very hard to ignore. I also noted that the third line in each stanza was the longest
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2012 Professor Sprinkle Garth Brooks Garth Brooks is a known legend in country music. For years people have been listening to his music and loving his personality. Garth was born in Tulsa‚ Oklahoma on February 7th‚ 1962 and now resides in a town outside of Tulsa called Owasso. Garth’s success led him to own homes in Malibu‚ California Port St. Lucia‚ Florida and Goodlettsville‚ Tennessee. Garth Brooks is the son of Troyal Brooks and Colleen Carroll. This each
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of the Brook My book report is about a very good book. It is called Song of the Brook. Song of the Brook is a Christian fiction book. Matilda Nordtvedt writes it. The book has 124 pages‚ and I have read this entire book. The main characters are Hilda‚ Lois‚ Baby Sigurd‚ John‚ and Hilda ’s Mama; Magda‚ her Papa; Robert‚ Ole‚ Bertha‚ Thora‚ and Bestefar. The story begins with Hilda ’s family on a train on their way to Washington State. They were leaving their home in Minnesota to move to Washington
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Samantha Ward Professor Amy Clukey English 300-03 Due Date: September 22‚ 2011 Most Painful Memories: An Explication of Edward Mayes’ “University of Iowa‚ 1976” Take a minute to imagine “Men looking like they had been/attacked repeatedly by a succession /of wild animals‚” “never/ ending blasted field of corpses‚” and “throats half gone‚ /eyes bleeding‚ raw meat heaped/ in piles.” These are the vividly‚ grotesque images Edward Mayes describes to readers in his poem‚ “University of Iowa Hospital
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Kendra Hamilton Block 5 Mrs. Hodges 15 December 2015 Langston Hughes “Harlem” Poetry Explication The most obvious quality of Langston Hughes’ "Harlem" is the poem’s use of imagery. The imagery in this poem contributes to the image of the frustrating times of how dreams end up for African Americans during this time period. The speaker in the poem describes the fate of a dream being “deferred.” Langston Hughes uses several analogies to describe the image of a dream that might have happened but didn’t
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Explication Of Ulysses In this poem‚ Tennyson reworks the figure of Ulysses by drawing on the ancient hero of Homer ’s Odyssey. Homer ’s Ulysses learns from a prophecy that he will take a final sea voyage after killing the suitors of his wife Penelope. Ulysses finds himself restless in Ithaca and driven by "the longing I had to gain experience of the world". Ulysses says that there is little point in his staying home "by this still hearth" with his old wife‚ handing out rewards and punishments
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Explication #2 “The Gift” By Li-Young Lee This poem is written in free verse‚ separated into four stanzas each with a varying number of lines and syllables. There is no precise rhyming pattern‚ but there is a pattern within the usage of words. The speaker uses bodily words such as palm‚ hands‚ face‚ and head at the ends of lines in the second stanza when describing‚ in the literal form‚ when the speaker is talking about the experience he went through getting the metal sliver pulled from his palm
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