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A Bird Came Down The Walk
Number of Words: 474 / Number of Pages: 2
... habitat is in the sky.
And the he drank a Dew
From a convenient Grass–
And then hopped sidewise to the Wall
To let a Beetle pass–
When the bird finally flies away the poem's flow mimics that of a flying bird, very calm and free "And he unrolled his feathers / And rowed him softer home–". She describes a birds flight like rowing in an ocean, but without all the splashing of the oars.
In the first two stanza of the poem she rhymes the second and fourth lines of the quatrain.
A Bird came down the Walk–
He did not know I saw–
He bit an Angleworm in halve ...
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The Awakening
Number of Words: 717 / Number of Pages: 3
... feels about her children and how she feels about herself, which greatly differs from the mother-woman image. She says, "I would give up the unessential; I would give my money; I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself. I can't make it more clear; it's only something I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me" (720).
Similarly to Edna's relationship with her children is that with her husband, Leonce. The Grand Isle society defines the role of wife as full devotion and self-sacrifice for your husband. Edna never adhered to societies definitions. For ex ...
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A Comparison Of Two Poems About Soldiers Leaving Britain To
Number of Words: 1693 / Number of Pages: 7
... poem varies in different ways. "Joining The Colours" is more positive. The structure of this poem is simple. Even though there are some words which convey an image that war is bad, most of the style of writing is positive and even happy. "The Send Off" is a more serious and frightening poem. The style of writing throughout the poem is sad and conveys an image that war is completely bad. The structure of this poem is more complicated than "Joining The Colours". This is because the poet is trying to convince the reader that war is the most terrible thing that ever happened.
In "Joining The Colours" th ...
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Of Mice And Men 2
Number of Words: 1933 / Number of Pages: 8
... the
bunkhouse being, " a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were
whitewashed and the floor unpainted." Later he says, " Against the walls
were eight bunks, five of them made up with blankets and the other three
showing their burlap ticking." So far we get the idea that the bunkhouse was
not the most beautiful place to live in, one of the only forms of entertainment
in the bunkhouse was playing cards. Steinbeck described this setting with
images of light and darkness next to each other. As Steinbeck said outside
there is "evening brightness" and inside there is "dusk". When Steinb ...
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Comparision Of Jack London
Number of Words: 793 / Number of Pages: 3
... knew one thing. He knew he would do no more casting alone at night"... "No, not he."(13) Moreover, In Jack London's story, the plot mostly took place on land and in the day time. On the contrary, in Arthur Gordon's story, the plot mostly took place in water and at night. Also, in "To Build a Fire," the main character had a knife for a weapon; "With his helpless hands he could neither draw nor hold his sheath knife."(363) In contrast to this, in "The Sea Devil," the main character did not have a weapon of any sort. All these differences show that although there may be more similarities, there are st ...
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Summary Of Slaughterhouse-five
Number of Words: 530 / Number of Pages: 2
... he marries a rich woman. Billy was in the infantry in Europe in World War II as a chaplain's assistant. He was taken
prisoner by the Germans, and kept in the slaughterhouse along with Vonnegut in
Dresden. He survived the Allied bombing along with Vonnegut only because the
meat locker where he was kept was underground.
Billy's time-tripping, which refers to his visits to the planet Tralfamadore, starts shortly before his capture by the Germans in 1944. Billy begins to move back and forth through his life in a random sequence of events. During his lifetime, he is in both Illium, New Yor ...
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Macbeth-blood
Number of Words: 798 / Number of Pages: 3
... smok'd with bloody execution"(Act 1 Sc 2 line 18), he is referring to Macbeth's braveness in which his sword is covered in the hot blood of the enemy. Blood is used in these passages to identify honor and courage, it separates the good from the bad, and it also gives the reader a view of how the shedding of blood will be used often to identify certain characteristics.
After these few references to honor, the symbol of blood changes to show a theme of treachery and treason. Lady Macbeth starts this off when she asks the spirits to "make thick my blood,"(Act 1 Sc 5 line 43) What she is saying by ...
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Ethan Frome
Number of Words: 1514 / Number of Pages: 6
... does nothing but complain about everything. Ethan married his wife of seven years, Zeena, who is a bit older than he, following the death of his mother, in an unsuccessful attempt to escape the silence, isolation, and the loneliness of the life of Starkfield. The setting for is winter. Edith Wharton , the author, chose winter because it symbolizes the emotional, physical isolation, cold, darkness and death that surround Ethan. Similarly, the name of the town Starkfield is symbolic of Ethan’s life. Stark depicts the many harsh winters causing unproductive, spiritless, and devastation to the people of S ...
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Freud Foucault And Society
Number of Words: 1791 / Number of Pages: 7
... his depiction of torture and death at the outset. This has a compelling effect, and different uses of power. The first one being evident, that is the physical power. The other form of power is not so evident. It is the effect of this power on the mind of the individual. The punishment and extraction of information has gone from being a very physical and public ritual and evolving later to a private ceremony hidden behind walls, and consisting of mental torture. The individual wants to feel that punishment is carried out in some moral way. However, this way is not moral but simply a veil from ...
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Shirley Valentine
Number of Words: 507 / Number of Pages: 2
... The holiday at the Mediterranean coast means to her the fulfillment of the long cherished dream to drink a glass of wine in the land where the grape grows.
As she knows that her family would try to talk her out of her plan, she does her shopping and packing secretly, looking forward to a few days away from home but also fearing that she can not hold her own in the world on the other side of the kitchen wall.
However, her weak self confidence is quickly strengthened when her friend leaves her on the first day of their vacation because of a Greek beau. Alone in a foreign country she notices that s ...
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