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literary terms like repetition to get his message of the poem out. For example, he uses “Maybe”, “darkness”, “scared”, and “cry for help” many times in his poem. When he uses these words and phrases he uses them to express doubt and fear about his life and what he’s supposed to be doing with it. The use of repetition effectively gets his message across because he’s repeatedly telling the readers about the dark frightful unsureness he’s going through. However, in the poem“Making a Fist”, the…

them. The fact that Kawabata is able to capture so much reality in the one and only scene which is depicted in the story supports Joseph M. Flora’s claim “that short stories take a slight situation and read into them the profundities of life.” As the narrator observes a group of children as they interact with one another, it is as though he is vicariously reliving his own life through them. He is riveted by the fascination of the…

Childhood is something we all experience as well as, it is the most essential part in our lives. We can see this in the poems: “Half-past Two” by U.A. Fanthorpe, “Hide and Seek” by Vernon Scannell, and “Prayer Before Birth” by Louis MacNeice. Each one of these poems present childhood from a different perspective; the first two poems portray childhood as an exciting experience, taking it stereotypically. However, “Prayer Before Birth” conveys childhood as an imagination of the unborn child and…

Life is not simple. Throughout life, one will suffer, struggle, get hurt and have dreams taken away. Reality is tough, and life is cruel. Yet people always strive to fulfil their dreams and achieve the goals, which they have set upon themselves. There are times, where dreams come true, and then there are times, where they do not. This is all part of life. To fall and stumble, only so that one can arise and be stronger than before and fight harder for what they believe in. However, at times that…

Death is all around us in todays world. Young people or older people can experience this at any point in his or her life. Some are expected some are unexpected. Whether it was expected or not it is not an easy pill to swallow. Many things can cause death. Things such as sickness, shootings, home invasions and even suicide. Suicide is one of the number one causes of death in the U.S today. Many things like sadness, family issues, school or bullying can make a person commit suicide. It can be…

of life. More importantly, they both question the significance of life itself. While The Death of the Moth is showing, at first, the playful and less significant side of life, being swept away by forces much greater than the moth which comes off almost as pathetic. The Story of an Hour starts off by showing the impact that death has on those still living their lives. I would like to compare and contrast between these two stories the significance of life, how perspective plays a part in life,…

S. Eliot is a modernist poet with numerous works to his credit and the masterpiece is The Waste Land crowning him as the greatest poet in the twentieth century. Eliot fulfilled his self-imposed duties by using the materials of the city life to build up his poetry. The ecological theme of Eliot’s The Waste Land is very rarely discovered which tries to probe this espousing theme of literary criticism. Eliot has splattered an ecological inequilibrium and a world which has not regenerated…

Victor Frankenstein and his over desire to create life from death. After having a normal upbringing, Victor’s life turns upside down when his creature creates more problems than expected. It’s a story of caution, as that begins in the present and flashes back to see where Victor went wrong. The book has many themes, one of the biggest being ambition. It asks, when is too much ambition become a bad thing? Is it too much when a person devotes their life to science? Is it too much when a person…

How is the theme of tragedy presented in Lament and MId- Term Break? The poem lament is a famous poem written by Gillian Clarke. She was born in Wales and she was a poet but also a playwright, editor, and a translator. The poem lament is about the gulf war, which happened in August 1990 to February 1991. This is when Iraq invaded Kuwait; soon the USA and UK interfered by bombing Iraq. The word lament is an elegy this word is an expression that is used to show sorrow or grief. The title of the…

are used to symbolise hope, caution, innocence, and anger through what people see, the cars they drive, what they wear, and how they live in the Great Gatsby. The color green is very important to the novel, representing hope, the future, and new life. The first and most common use of green in this story is the green light at the end of Daisy’s…