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i push myself forward
trying to escape
but my both feet are immobile
both strapped in rusty chains
i struggle
trying to free myself
from the monster that held me captive
i cannot feel the pain
although i see myself
all wounded,looking helpless<...
they start as a baby, they start as baby leaves. the baby grows into adolescence, the baby leaves grow into adolescence too. the child turns into a mature and stronger adult, the leaves mature into greener and stronger leaves. the adult turns old and grey, the leaves turn old and brown. both the leaves and the adults die as the slowly fall to t...
A. E. Housman's "To an Athlete Dying Young," also known as Lyric XIX in A Shropshire Lad, holds as its main theme the premature death of a young athlete as told from the point of view of a friend serving as pall bearer. The poem reveals the concept that those dying at the peak of their glory or youth are really quite lucky. The first few readings...
Question: "On the surface, Heaney's poems are very simple. This simplicity however is deceptive, for the poems are usually most subtle and complex." What do you think of this response to Heaney's poems? Heaney's poetry may at first, initially seem simple, yet his poems do contain more complex underlying themes and ideas. Heaney has refined his poet...
Embracing the past to see the future of American Education. . Mike Rose's 'I Just Wanna Be Average' essay sheds light on troubled youth within the public school system. It makes you long for the days of American pride and service. Students placed in 'tracks' to utilize overcrowded and faulty test systems. Identity lost due to poor instruction an...
In Halliday poem, he often mentions the imagery of a library. This imagery is tell me how library can aid in our education, keeping us distracted from being a hapless ass. Generally when we?re in a library we are usually more focus on our works, able to learn a lot more. Education maybe different to everyone else, but to me, being able to learn new...
Asunci?n Richardson Prof. Beckham ENG102-C06 February 11,2020 My Father As a Guitar : by Martin Espada Martin Espada is a famous poet who has written My Father as a Guitar. Looking at this poem we see this father who want to get better but he still has life going on and it want just stop because he gets sick. This poem is about life hitting you a...
The two chosen pieces both have a dominant theme of nature. Shelley, in his poem 'Ode to the West Wind,' uses poignant tone, while using personification and imagery to unravel his theme of nature. While Wordsworth's '...Tintern Abbey' contains a governing theme of nature, Wordsworth uses first person narration, illusive imagery, as well as an ami...
John Keats's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' depicts a timeless theme relevant in any society throughout the history of our civilization. Through his use of movement and of language, Keats has created a work of art in its own right whose overall idea and inspiration will remain unchanged generation after generation. The necessity for infusion into all cre...
In Blake's "London" the speaker connects various characters and socio/political institutions in order to critique the injustices perpetrated in England. The busy, commercial city of London functions as a space in which the speaker can imagine the inescapable interconnections of English institution and citizens. Although separated by differences o...
Easter 1916' is a poem by William Yeats that pertains to Irish nationalists revolting against the British Empire. Yeats uses a stream in the poem to represent Britain and its constant rush on the Irish rebels. He uses a stone embedded in the stream that causes steady disruption and chaos of the flowing water. Hearts with one purpose alone Through...
In Mark O'Connor describes the early moments of newly hatched turtles; the turtles begin the race of life, with their sights set on the sea, overcoming the many difficulties and obstacles they face. O'Connor portrays that for every moment spent on the beach, the chance of surviving becomes more, and more slim. He describes merciless predators, w...
Our love is not just strong feelings we share: It is also happiness and sadness, Which is brought by the loneliness I can't bear. It sometimes brings anger ( I must confess). I just feel there is nothing to do to help. When I am so far away, who will be There to ease your pain? I will be your help Whenever I can. You are there for me To sho...
Emily Dickinson- born 12/10/1830 Amherst Massachusetts -Left school as teen to live reclusive life on family homestead where she wrote notebooks of poetry. -Work was published after death may 15, 1886. Now considered 1 of towering figues of American lit -Her paternal grandfather, Samuel Dickinson- founder of Amherst College. -Her father worked...
In "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop, the speaker's attitude in the last stanza relates to the other stanzas in verse form and language. The speaker uses these devices to convey her attitude about losing objects. The verse form in "One Art" is villanelle. The poem has tercet stanzas until the last, which is four lines. In the first three stanzas, the p...
