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Retaining Innocence In Tony Hoagland’s poem “Please Don’t,” he personifies nature to fully understand the naïve lives of them and the emotions that go along with them being sheltering. The poem takes place in the springtime when the flowers have all merely bloomed. A narrator, from afar, recounts the descriptive poem to the audience. In the second and third stanza, he talks about the relations between different aspects nature, in this case “about the rain, the fog, the dew” and how, in return,…

Mailer’s word choice steers the reader to visualize Paret as a capable competitor whose fighting style is reflective of his admirable characteristics. The diction’s effect sometimes deviates, but it always moves the reader toward similar conclusions about Paret that Mailer made. Throughout the events of the fight, Mailer never uses negative diction…

more about other people and tell their life style and story and not his life style and story, so he makes Hamlet up and basically tells everything through Hamlet, so he wouldn’t have to tell all of his business. In Hamlet he tells a lot about his feelings and his feelings towards this girl and his father’s marriage because he probably wants everyone to know how love is and how parents shouldn’t…

Ex-Basketball Player, is a poem that tells the activities and life of former high school star basketball player, Flick Webb. Updike shows the rise of Webb’s high school career to the fall of his daily job, selling gas. The message behind the poem is to not only be a star athlete, but to also be a star student. He portrays this message by showing how Webb’s basketball skills became unprofitable after graduation. The lack of education that Webb received only allows him to be able to sell gas.…

wanted to express a wide range of knowledge, an easier way to have done so would have been to say something like “It used to be more frequently the case that…”, or “Although not as common as it once was, in the time before steam…”. This authoritative style is not the case. In its published form the line lends itself to a reading in which the narrator establishes his authority but also limits it. Melville has immediately brought first and third person narration into…

Throughout literature, authors have used multiple literary devices to convey messages about their writings to the audience. From speeches and essays to poems and stories, literary devices have been used throughout multiple works of literature to emphasize the author’s points and provoke thought and feedback from the audience concerning the piece; by helping the readers appreciate, learn, analyze and understand pieces of literature more in depth. One literary device that attributes to this is…

This paper will be analyzing and interpreting three poems about fathers such as mood, imagery and metaphor. The first poem that is going to be discussed is “Those Winter Sundays” By Robert Hayden, This poem discusses his childhood and he thinks back to the sacrifices his father made for his family. He discussed how his father was a hard worker would get up early in the cold weather to make sure the house was warm when his family awoke. One of the examples of moods in this poem would be guilt…

In the short story, It Would be Different If by Maggie Mitchell, the story takes place in Canada in the 80’s. The story is told in a first person narrative, but in an unreliable narration. “I’m trying to figure out what boat you are in,” (Mitchell, 169) as the narrator dwells on a past relationship, readers can get the sense of attachment and obsession for a man that is no longer hers. The main character Nikki, draws out an image of the fantasized life she is living, waiting on Jeff to be…

Whether it’s about a man out for revenge due to an insult from a friend or a mysterious castle on a hill, setting often play an important role in establishing meaning in stories. Setting is the when, where, an action in fiction takes place. While the setting in a story may seem like a simple part of the story, it can in fact have a huge impact on what is going on in the narrative. In “A Pair of Ticket” the setting plays an effective role because it shows the progression of June May learning…

“The Sisters” and “Araby” strongly differentiate their narrators when it comes to the inner stream of consciousness and psyche. Joyce’s approach to giving color to the inner sides of his characters is remarkable, with the modernistic style embracing elements of older, more classical spots in his writings. When it comes to these two works in particular, the way the reader is absorbed by the world the author intended to create differs from one text to the other. The shallow psychoanalytical…