It’s Me, Margaret would feel pretty life-changing to young girl growing up, unable to talk about the challenges of puberty and worries of getting your first period. (It’s odd to think how disputed this was in the 1980s, when it became a ‘banned book’). It’s incredible to discover a book where the main character is going through something you’re going through, something that you couldn’t talk to other people about. I only had teen magazines! It reminded me of all the things I used to worry about as a 11 to 14-year-old and how the worrying doesn’t stop, but the things you’re worrying about just change.
Poe Girl As a kid growing up and moving through elementary school, I never thought of poetry as anything more than writing something to make a girl like you. A poem would start out with the dry, decrepit, and overly used line, “Roses are red, violets are blue” and then would end with some witty rhyme to show the girl how “creative” you were. Poetry involves more than rhymes, I have learned. When used correctly, an author can pull on your heart strings, build your excitement, or even bring you down into the pits of despair. It is a great power to be able to mold words that will affect one’s emotions and conscience.
A short look into the importance of the descriptive setting as well as tone and also, irony can be found when both of these stories are compared and contrasted. His overall view of the transcendental period author can be found within these publications. The short story publication by Hawthorne, titled The Ambitious Guest, is told through the third person narrative. This point of view allows more leeway for the author to use the “pseudo third person, focusing not on several characters, but one…”(Muller & Williams 41). Hawthorne will use this technique in Rappaccini’s Daughter.
Past Songs of Ourselves Exam Questions 1. Explore the ways in which the Wordsworth presents Lucy in She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways. 2. Norman Nicholson uses childhood as a means of exploring other ideas in Rising Five. Identify the ideas of the poem and comment on the ways in which they are presented.
In Mrs Tilscher’s class” by Carol Ann Duffy is about rites of passage, the transition from childhood to adolescence and the things we learn at school, from our teachers and from our peers. Duffy writes this accessible poem using a variety of techniques that make it a memorable read. The opening stanza has no real hint of what is to come: Duffy shows us a typical day in Mrs. Tilscher's class:You could travel up the Blue Nilewith your finger, tracing the routewhile Mrs Tilscher chanted the scenery. Throughout the poem Duffy refers to "you”- while really she is referring to her own memories- but by writing in the second person she invites us to share her experience. The image itself tells of the wrapped concentration of the children, although I think that primary seven is a little old to be so advently following the river “with your finger”, it does convey the level of eagerness of the children.
This could be interpreted as Yeats’ journey from innocence to cynicism. Structurally speaking, ‘The Stolen child’ is quite regular, being written in iambic tetrameter and with the inclusion of rhyme in every line. Both these choices further define this poem as a reminiscence of the tales which remind Yeats of childhood and the naivety which comes with it. This could be construed as the poet longing to return to the past where everything was more
Dale Disney Professor Pucciarelli English Composition: Section 64 21 September 2011 FICTION OR DESCRIPTION There are various techniques to write and share stories. Which technique is best to use seems to be subjective. In both Joan Didion’s essay “On Keeping a Notebook” and Patricia Hampl’s essay “The Dark Art of Description” illustrates this fact clearly. While Joan Didion uses rhetorical questions, personal anecdotes, and imaginary facts to record her life experiences, Patricia Hampl uses imagery and vignettes in her writings, but based on the fact that Patricia Hampl uses less falsehoods in her stories, her style of writing is more appealing to the reader. Joan Didion uses rhetorical questions in her notebook to engage readers into the story of her notebook writings.
As life goes on you will travel down rock roads and find that life can be a struggle many time a person life will be sorrow or unhappiness and good will end. Her early leaf a flowers (2) will start glooming for a while until the unexpected happiness. I look at my life as a challenge I have faced a lot of challenge that I thought was the right one but after going through them something either happen or I find out it wasn’t right. Gwendolyn Brooks “We Real Cool” the poem are telling us that we will continue to be cool and want stop till some happenings. We left school We lurk late We strike straight The poem says to me that we will live your lives to the fullest and whatever happens that what we live for.
(i) I find the way the poet describe how her daughter has owned her instead of her owning her daughter powerful. Normally, we have the idea that when a mother gives birth to a child, the child belongs to the mother and of course, the father. However, in this poem the poet feels the exact opposite. The sentence ‘I think I’m going to have it’ tells me that the poet thought she was going to finally have this baby of hers, this baby that truly belongs to her because she is going to deliver to it. Another sentence ‘certainly I never had you as you still have me, Caroline.’ proved that the poet was conveying the message that her daughter never belonged to her instead, she belonged to her daughter.
-Exclamations and questions are not propositions because they do not reflect anything logical at all. -The answer to propositions can be true or false. -Propositions CANNOT have indexical expressions such as “I, she, he, there, now, since” because they are referent depending on the context in which they are used. -In an argument, we accept one proposition (conclusion) on the basis of other propositions (premises) Premises-contain evidence from the conclusion Conclusion- said to follow the premises. What is an argument?