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1. Your presence is a present to the world. 2. You're unique and one of a kind.
3. Your life can be what you want it to be. 4. Take the days just one at a time.
5. Count your blessings, not your troubles. 6. You'll make it through whatever
comes along. 7. Within you are so many answers. 8. Understand, have courage, be
strong. 9. Don't put limits on yourself. 10. So many dreams are waiting to be
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"What I know, I know through making poems" Passion, Politics and the
Body in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich Liz Yorke, Nottingham Trent University,
England This paper is largely extracted from my book Adrienne Rich, which is to
be published by Sage in October this year...What I have tried to do for the
paper is to track one thread explored by the book, which I feel runs through the
whole s... Full-text essay
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Have you ever been in a situation where you had something horrible happen in
your life that you needed to do something about, but in order to do something
about it, you had to confront the problem and that caused you pain and more
troubles? I believe that to be the underlying conflict in Adrienne Rich’s
“Rape”. The main character who the speaker is talking to first is a woman
who has been sexuall... Full-text essay
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In the poem Against Still Life, poet Margaret Atwood fascinates us by weaving
her words into descriptive feelings we can all relate too, especially women.
Atwood is a well known poet and novelist who has a certain way of grabbing the
attention of the reader and throwing the reader’s thoughts around without her
even realizing it. In Against Still Life for example, Atwood opens her poem with
an ora... Full-text essay
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Air and Angels John Donne’s poem “Air and Angels” focuses on the medieval
beliefs respecting angels. Angels are commonly seen as messengers of God or
appear as a conventional representation of a human form with wings. A popular
theory in medieval times assumed angels under certain circumstances did assume
bodies of air. The underlying theme of this poem is on love. John Donne’s
theory is that lov... Full-text essay
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"Let America be the dream dreamers dreamed- Let it be that great strong
land of love where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme that any man be
crushed by one above." Let yourself wonder and think back to your first
ancestor to cross the gigantic, chilling seas risking all, to start over in
America. This is what they would be desperately wanting and repeatedly saying to
themselves. Th... Full-text essay
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I hear this America screaming, "Our time so greatness is at hand!"
Relieving us of knowledge, repressing the boldest new ideas Belligerance the
song of their band I hear this America screaming, "Close the door to the
mind!" mocking new ideas opppressing alternate religion dogmatizing those
of its kind I hear this america screaming, "We'll fight for our
country!" buil... Full-text essay
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I hear America’s plead for a place of tranquility, far and bright as the sun.
A mom crying for a black son, gone to the cruel actions of racism. A child
screaming as a bullet let loose, another innocent classmate lost. A boy watching
his friend’s life slip away to heroin, cocaine, and A daughter hiding in the
dark closet, avoiding the hard blows of her alcoholic father. A dad waiting in
the ER ro... Full-text essay
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This is a poem that is filled with imagery that the author uses to
identify the reader with what I feel were personal stresses in her own life. In
class we talked about Anne as an emotionally challenged women who couldn’t
cope with every day life. The Title of the poem suggests by saying “Her”
that she is talking about someone else that she could relate to. However I think
that instead she might ... Full-text essay
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Yearning for his gentle touch and strong embrace, I see my freedom as a whole
new face. Wanting to be with him before he’s gone, is lingering in all my
thoughts and dreams. Wanting to be with him before he’s gone, is lingering in
all my thoughts and dreams. I’d only loose the freedom of seeing whom I
please, as well as the special moments of intimacy. He is older and yet is
saved, but as for me I... Full-text essay
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The Critical Analysis & Summarization of "To An Athlete Dying
Young", by A.E Housman This poem is telling the reader that you can not
wait to win to enjoy your sports life. Life is not based on how much you win,
but how hard you play. One must appreciate their time here on earth and the
things they do because you never know your circumstances. It also makes
references to trophies an... Full-text essay
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I woke up early today, excited over all I get to do before the clock strikes
midnight. I have responsibilities to fulfill today. I am important. My job is to
choose what kind of day I am going to have. Today I can complain because the
weather is rainy or I can be thankful that the grass is getting watered for
free. Today I can feel sad that I don't have more money or I can be glad that my
finance... Full-text essay
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When a country is at war it is the common people who suffer. In Walt Whitman’s
poem, “Beat! Beat! Drums,” the speaker signifies the sounds of war. The
speaker, listening to the banging of war drums and shrill sounds of bugles,
relates the interruption these war sounds have on the harmony of people’s
lives. Whitman uses the sounds of drums as an audible image to show its effects
on the common peop... Full-text essay
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The "Beat Movement" in modern literature has become an important
period in the history of literature and society in America. Incorporating
influences such as jazz, art, literature, philosophy and religion, the beat
writers created a new and prophetic vision of modern life and changed the way a
generation of people sees the world. That generation is mow aging and its
representative voice... Full-text essay
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Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death” is a remarkable
masterpiece that exercises thought between the known and the unknown. Critics
call Emily Dickinson’s poem a masterpiece with strange “haunting power.”
In Dickinson’s poem, “Because I could not stop for Death,” there is much
impression in the tone, in symbols, and in the use of imagery that exudes
creativity. One might undoubte... Full-text essay
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The epic poem Beowulf describes the most heroic man of the Anglo-Saxon times.
The hero, Beowulf, is a seemingly invincible person with all the extraordinary
traits required of a hero. He is able to use his super-human physical strength
and courage to put his people before himself. He encounters hideous monsters and
the most ferocious of beasts but he never fears the threat of death. His
leadershi... Full-text essay
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You used to be my best friend, Homie to the end. To think we were like sisters
at times. You knew me better than I knew myself, *censored*!! that's funny . One
day I woke up to find our friendship was at an end. Was it by choice or was it a
voice. Voice of outside people? Or that of a inner you. Whatever it was it done,
and our friendshhip is at an end. But I can tell you one thing Ms."H&quo... Full-text essay
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Lying here alone, thinking of you. Dreaming of the love we shared. You told me
you'd be forever true, broken promises unable to be repaired. Thinking back to
the night we met, my heart still skips a beat. We'd be together forever, I bet.
So many things I'd like to repeat. Your love encaptured me night after night.
You mended my heart, gave back my sight. You brought me out of the darkness,
into t... Full-text essay
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Verily I say unto you, Whoseover shall not receive the kingdom of God as a
little child shall in no wise enter therein. [S Luke, 18 (17)] The words are
those of Jesus, who was neither unaware of reality, nor indifferent to
suffering. The childlike innocence referred to above is a state of purity and
not of ignorance. Such is the vision of Blake in his childlike Songs of
Innocence. It would be foo... Full-text essay
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The Tyger and The Lamb reveals Blake's interest in the opposites. Each symbolize
things that are the opposites The Lamb represents good and peace, while The
Tyger represents evil. Many people will find The Tyger the more interesting
poem. The Tyger is repeatedly asking one question, "What would dare to make
such a creature?" Blake is expressing what type of being would make such an
evil... Full-text essay
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In William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience, the gentle lamb and the
dire tiger define childhood by setting a contrast between the innocence of youth
and the experience of age. The Lamb is written with childish repetitions and a
selection of words which could satisfy any audience under the age of five. Blake
applies the lamb in representation of youthful immaculateness. The Tyger is
hard... Full-text essay
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Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672), although born in England, is considered to be the
first American poet. She is also revered as the first woman to be published.
Married to Simon Bradstreet at age sixteen, she ventured with her family to the
Massachusetts colony. Simon, the governor of Massachusetts colony, served a
major role in her life and her literary career. He was the subject in many of
the poems... Full-text essay
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Homo Suburbiensis, Drifter’s and Life-Cycle, Bruce Dawe, a well renowned
Australian poet was born in 1930 in Geelong. Who was once portrayed as “an
ordinary bloke with a difference”. Bruce Dawe writes about ordinary Australian
people in the suburbs confronting their everyday problems. He observes and
records the sorrow and hardships of average people struggling to survive back in
the 1940’s. Mr D... Full-text essay
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Bruce Dawe, a well renowned Australian poet was born in 1930 in Geelong. Who was
once portrayed as “an ordinary bloke with a difference”. Bruce Dawe writes
about ordinary Australian people in the suburbs confronting their everyday
problems. He observes and records the sorrow and hardships of average people
struggling to survive back in the 1940’s. Mr Dawe emphasises his views by
composing three o... Full-text essay
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Louise Erdrich, the author of the famous poem titled Captivity, tells a story
about a married mother who has been held captive by a tribe of Indians. The poem
uses a wide variety of literary elements such as sympathy, guilt,
submissiveness, and tentativeness. The two main themes of this first person,
six-stanza poem, are love and fear. Erdrich also uses tricksters, which are
supernatural characte... Full-text essay
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Carl Sandburg was unique compare to many other poets. All of the poems that he
wrote were short and straight to the point. You would not find any poems that he
had written that are over a page, yet still; his poems are very easy to
understand. Sandburg lived through a lot of historic events, so all of his poems
were about those historic events. As you know, history isn’t always exciting
or easy t... Full-text essay
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Carol Anne Duffy’s poem “Adultery” is structured in a traditional and
straightforward way. It is comprised of eleven verses - each with the common
four lines, which consist of between four and nine words. This makes the poem
not particularly striking at the first look, before it is read. The typography
does not attract the readers attention, this is probably because Duffy wants the
reader to conc... Full-text essay
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"Celebration of the lizard" by James Douglas Morrison is a helpless
labyrinth of insanity. The poem is a murder that results in insanity. The
speaker is the murderously insane madman. In this outrageous maze, the poet is
running from his chaotic problems. In the first three stanzas, it starts out as
a bad dream that eventually causes the speaker to drive himself to a temporary
insanity.... Full-text essay
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We were then Children with nothing but Childhood. We played kiss Tag and suicide
which Was merely a game with Throwing, and running, and Touching the side of the
School house before the thud Of the ball. You became The rumor of a girl Who
missed high school English And dated the boys who Would have, should have, will
have Been in jail. They said You fought with your parents And even ran away At
C... Full-text essay
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"The Clarities" I choose the word clarity for this OED Essay. It
seemed to fit rather well and piqued my interest as well. After reading the
poem, I began to wonder what different meanings there were for this word. The
author could have intended a less obvious meaning for the word clarities. So I
decided to look it up. There were several definitions listed. One of which was
brightness, ... Full-text essay
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In William Blake’s “The Clod and the Pebble,” the Clod of Clay and the
Pebble have opposing views of love. The Clod sees love from an optimist’s view
while the Pebble sees love from a pessimist’s point of view. The Clod of Clay
sings his verse about love; “So sung the Clod of Clay” (347). This gives a
sense of jubilation. The idea of song is associated with happiness and glee.
This gives the impr... Full-text essay
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I`ve opened the curtain of my east window here above the computer, and I sit now
in a holy theater before a sky-blue stage. A little cloud above the neighbor's
trees resembles Jimmy Durante's nose for a while, then becomes amorphous as it
slips on north. Other clouds follow, big and little and tiny on their march
toward whereness. Wisps of them lead or droop because there must always be
leading a... Full-text essay
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Colors Charlotte mixing in with the sailors, is like a drop of gold paint in a
bucket of gray paint. Under all the pressure she must feel faint. No other drops
of gold paint to accompany her. Only a fraud. Gold on the outside, but hateful
clear on the inside. A fraud, trying to be a good captain, but less than the
sailors. Since the golden drop of paint is all alone, it blends in with the
gray. T... Full-text essay
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Charlotte mixing in with the sailors, is like a drop of gold paint in a bucket
of gray paint. Under all the pressure she must feel faint. No other drops of
gold paint to accompany her. Only a fraud. Gold on the outside, but hateful
clear on the inside. A fraud, trying to be a good captain, but less than the
sailors. Since the golden drop of paint is all alone, it blends in with the
gray. This rel... Full-text essay
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Thomas Hardy experienced great difficulty believing in a forgiving, Christian
God because of the pain and suffering he witnessed around him. He also endured
some pain, with the loss of his wife and suffering during the five years he
spent in London that made him ill. As a young man, Hardy wanted to become a
clergyman. This vocation was quite a turn around of what he pursued--a career as
a famous ... Full-text essay
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John Proctor was the main character in the play The Crucible, written by Arthur
Miller. Will the truth set you free? In Proctor’s case of choosing truth over
deceit he was redeemed and set free spiritually. The setting of the play was in
the 1690’s during The Salem Witch Trials. During the beginning of the play
Proctor was a man filled with hypocrisy but, he changed by the completion of the
play ... Full-text essay
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Cyrano, like the skipper, was brave and sure. But this story, was not about a 3
hour tour. It is about a fearless man, with friends and foe galore. Who
couldn’t get Roxanne, the girl he’d fallen for. He could speak to women like
a Casanova but still the girls would just pass him over it was his nose that
made him busted and left the females quite disgusted he was a kind man, caring
and giving but... Full-text essay
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Sylvia Plath reveals herself in her confessional poem Daddy. She uses strong
imagery and powerful speech to show her attitudes towards her late father, Otto
Plath and her husband, Ted Hughes, who also hurt her in the end. Her tone
implies a strong hatred and disgust for the relationships with both men. The
poem was written in 1963 which happened to be the same year that she committed
suicide. Pla... Full-text essay
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The Inferno, Dante Alighieri gives his audience a clear vivid presentation of
what he as a follower of the Christian religion perceives to be hell. Dante
shows that human sin is punishable in various degrees of severity and that this
is dependent on the nature of one’s sinful actions. He sets forth what could
very well be the most fully developed Christian understanding of justice on
earth, and t... Full-text essay
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“Daughters of the Dust,” by Julie Dash is a film rich with symbolism and
meaning. The film is set in Ibo Landing where the ancestors of enslaved Africans
were said to have walked across the water in an attempt to return to their
homeland. The Peazant family gathered on a day in 1920 in order to prepare for a
journey across the water from their secluded home to the mainland, and to
mainstream Amer... Full-text essay
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It examines the work with regard to its diction, syntax, denotation and
connotation, imagery, metaphor and simile, tone, rhyme and meter, allusion, and
theme. (8.5 pages; 5 May 2000). Day-Long Day” I Introduction Tino
Villanueva’s “Day-Long Day” is a remarkable work, for it captures in 34
short lines the anger, frustration, and cruelty of the life of Mexican migrant
workers in Texas. The searing ... Full-text essay
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The storm of the battle swept. Stars of heaven Kept. Upturned faces through the
night. Mangled corpses in the light. Pale stars faded, morning broke. Then death
awoke. Golden hours, bright summer day. The dead unburied bodies lay. Stark and
cold unceased prayer. Hide them from the Staring sun and air. Possesion of that
won plain. Denying burial of our slain. Night round them so holy, so calm.
Moo... Full-text essay
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Upon first reading Amy Lowell’s poem “A Decade” appears to be a poem about
a couple who has met each other and saying how sweet they are like honey and red
wine Then it says you are fresh like morning bread. Then ending with how they
become completely nourished. After reading this poem several times it becomes
clear that a message exists in this poem. The message says that passion may
decrease in... Full-text essay
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After reading both “Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant” by Emily Dickinson
and “Harlem” by Langston Hughes, I determined that the main difference
between the two poems is both poets’ use of diction. Dickinson makes use of
abstract diction in her poem, using words like bright, delight, superb, and
dazzle. Using the word “truth” in itself is an enormous abstraction. Hughes,
however, uses more con... Full-text essay
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While much of Emily Dickinson's poetry has been described as sad or morose, the
poetess did use humor and irony in many of her poems. This essay will address
the humor and/ or irony found in five of Dickinson's poems: "Faith" is
a Fine Invention, I'm Nobody! Who are you?, Some keep the Sabbath Going to
Church and Success Is Counted Sweetest. The attempt will be made to show how
Dickinso... Full-text essay
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A significant idea contained within Dante's The Divine Comedy is the Augustinian
concept of ordered and disordered love. Each realm of the afterlife symbolizes
the type of love the inhabitants exercised while they were living on earth. For
example, the Inferno represents disordered love, since the souls in Hell
exhibited little love for mankind and little acknowledgement of God. Because the
kind ... Full-text essay
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Do you know mom...? Every night before I go to sleep, I think about you, As I
lay in bed, alone in my own little world of thoughts, You are there with me
"my mother." Do you know that in those thoughts, I worry and wonder,
dream and scheme, pray and swear, That as I do all those things, I wonder what
my mother is My mother is the best human being She was always there are for me,
In happ... Full-text essay
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Do you love me? Or do you not You told me once But I forgot So tell me now And
tell me true So I can say "I Love You Too!" If I die before you do
I'll go to heaven And wait for you If you are not there by Judgement Day I'll
know you went the other way I'll give the angels back there wings And risk the
lost of everything Just to prove my love is true I'll go to Hell to be with you!... Full-text essay
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Do You Want My Love? Do you want my love Can you make me sweat Do you want it
bad enough to make it soaking wet Do you want my love Show me just how much tell
me baby Baby if you look my love would you make the best of every moment if it
takes all right Baby would you like to speed the hours freakin' to the mornin'
light... Love just comes if you let it I'll be here to satisfy you , you look so
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Faustus died a death that few could bear to imagine, much less experience. After
knowing for many years when exactly he would die, he reached the stroke of the
hour of his destiny in a cowardly, horrid demeanor. Finally, when the devils
appeared at the stroke of midnight, tearing at his flesh as they draw him into
his eternal torment, he screams for mercy without a soul, not even God Himself,
to ... Full-text essay
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