Sun soaked beaches c. Outdoor life II) Main Idea: Low precipitation d. Statistics how little it rains 2. Spring 1.07 in./month 3. Summer 0.07 in./month 4. Fall 0.57in/month 5. Winter 1.88 in./month 2. http://collegeprowler.com/san-diego-state-university/weather/ e. Still lush and green III) Main Idea: Temperate climate f. Statistics summer and winter temperatures 6.
Nostalgically wonderful author and narration of this poem and poet. Gary Soto’s Bio, is very interesting and written in a decade of with I can understand. Gary Soto is also the protagonist as well as the narrator in this simple poem of Oranges and a girl. The cool days of winter, and a road, the chocolate, the coin and oranges of California in his pocket. This poem is one of his many poems in his first collection of poems, would include, “The Elements of San Joaquin”, (MrAfrica@Akoot.com), just to mention one for example, in which he went on to win the United States Award for international poetry in 1976.
3. Shakespeare effectively uses a powerful literary device, Pathetic Fallacy, in the play, Macbeth. Discuss how this device is used in Act II. 4. Choose ONE of the following quotations and identify the speaker, audience, context, and significance: Act Three In Shakespearean tragedies, Act III is extremely significant as the plot builds up to its climax, and the fall of the tragic hero begins.
Have you ever had a dreadful time at Panama City Beach? I highly doubt it. Panama City Beach can be a very relaxing place to visit. Too bad there are so many things about the beach that make it a calming place to go. I went there for spring break in the year 2011.
In 1921, he wrote the poem The Waste Land while recovering from exhaustion. The dense, allusion-heavy poem went on to redefine the genre and become one of the most talked about poems in literary history. For his lifetime of poetic innovation, Eliot won the Order of Merit and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot began courses at Harvard University in 1906, graduating three years later with a Bachelor of Arts degree. At Harvard, he was greatly influenced by professors renowned in poetry, philosophy and literary criticism, and the rest of his literary career would
Use the poems we read in class as your models to follow when you write your own. Remember, this is a "write-like" poem, so you should try to write like the authors of the poems below. Your poem should pose a question/situation/problem, a turning point, and a resolution - just like the sonnets did that we read in class. Sonnet 18 Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime
Nothing gold can stay. Nothing gold can stay by Robert Frost The poem “Nothing gold can stay” by Robert Frost published in 1923 encompasses the melancholic paradox existence of certain elements in nature that are impermanent but too desirable to have to leave. It was first published in The Yale Review and was the catalyst for Frost’s positive reception among critics which got him the Pulitzer prize. The poem is divided up into 8 lines, and consists of 6 syllables in every verse with the exception of verses 3 and 8. The poem starts with a description of the blooming nature of spring and its golden colour.
d’E 1 Kylene J. d'E Mr. Voisey ENG 4U October 28, 2012 Where Art Thou Horatio? A best friend or a “wingman” is very important character to every story. This is like Horatio and Hamlet. One could definitely say that Horatio’s role is a crucial one in the play Hamlet written by Shakespeare. Moreover, it is shown many times throughout the play how critical Horatio is for the play’s plot as a character with great importance to Hamlet, the truth, and the ending outcome of the whole play.
Connor Hanley Mr. Magdalenski English II Honors 9 February 2012 Response to Shakespeare’s Sonnet 57 Shakespeare’s Sonnet 57 is a poem that portrays the speaker as very devoted toward the listener. It can be deduced that the person to whom the speaker is speaking is probably someone that the speaker is infatuated with. The poem follows the rhyme scheme ABABCDCDEFEFGG, the sonnet consists of three four-line stanzas followed by a couplet, and punctuation used at the end of each line is intended make the poem flow nicely when spoken aloud. Each of the stanzas has a different purpose. The first stanza concerns the speaker’s devotion to the listener, and it is here where the speaker provides an image of his servitude, using key words such as “slave” and “services.” The second stanza mainly conveys that the speaker claims that he is not affected by the absence of the person to whom he is devoted.
Mahatma Gandhi International School Mahatma Gandhi International School Response to literature The Tyger: Poem Commentary Insight into the poetic splendor by William Blake Rahul Dedhia MYP- 5 Response to literature The Tyger: Poem Commentary Insight into the poetic splendor by William Blake Rahul Dedhia MYP- 5 08 Fall 08 Fall Rahul Dedhia MYP Year 5 Language A: English Task: Response to Literature Criteria A: Content Criteria B: Organization POEM COMMENTARY The Tyger By William Blake From ‘Songs of Innocence’, 1796 ‘The Tyger’ by William Blake is amongst one of the illustrious metaphorical pieces, which meticulously expresses the pretentious beliefs Blake had for religion and creed. In order to comprehend the poem to its deepest one must first take a glimpse at the poem to get an insinuation of the theme of the poem. Moreover, the use of the substitute use of the word ‘tiger’ certainly attracts the audience’s attention. Furthermore, the Songs of Innocence includes another illustrious piece called ‘The Lamb’, which discusses about the virtue and the goodwill of mankind. However, ‘The Tyger’ gives you a jest of the darker and the intense theme the poet has wanted to portray scrupulously throughout the poem.