Book of Ezra

Have you ever wondered what the life of a dumpsite boy would be? Selling scraps and pieces found in a large area of trash for money.Imagine that! The novel, “Trash” by Andy Mulligan should be awarded as the Man Booker Prize of the year as it reveals to us the other side of the world, the poverty and suffering. A novel where a theme of bonds and powerful relationships of boys who are determined to find their fates and future. I assure that you will experience exciting journeys the characters in…

The author of this passage uses tone to try to convey the idea that the narrator’s perspective towards the tree has changed over time. In the first paragraph, the author uses strong diction that represents power to create the intimidating and dark tone. Phrases such as “artillery piece,” “huge lone spike,” “forbidding,” and “dominating” are all used in the very short, one sentence-long first paragraph. These set the dark and intimidating tone of the paragraph, which allows the narrator to…

The Representation of Everyday Life in T. S. Eliot’s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ Modernism is a philosophical movement that arose from wide-scale changes in Western society, such as industrialism, rapid growth of cities, and the horrors of WWI, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Modernism rejects earlier ideas, such as enlightenment thinking, in part due to the religious undertones it entails. In 1915, Modernist poet T. S. Eliot’s famous poem, ‘The Love Song of J.…

Justine Reynolds Miss Kiss English 10 Honors-2 3 May 2015 Maybe Different is Okay EE Cummings was born and raised in the town of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cummings knew he wanted to pursue a life of poetry at the young age of eight years old, however; he did not seem to know what tragedies awaited him. Not long after attending Harvard University did he become a volunteer ambulance driver in France during the time of World War I. Due to suspicion of espionage he was soon imprisoned in a French…

T.S Eliot wrote a poem, “Preludes,” which could be a critic of modernity as well as industrialism. Furthermore, the suffering it brings. This is included by first describing the setting in which the poem takes place on line 6 Eliot writes, “The grimy scraps,” and line 7, “Of withered leaves about your feet,” show it. Eliot uses words like grimy and withered to show a setting that is bleak. Then, in the third stanza of the poem Eliot switches to a second person point of view. That means the…

“The world is mud- luscious and puddle - wonderful” (E.E. Cummings). Edward Estlin Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894. He was a painter and a poet and he studied in the University of Harvard, where he was fascinated by two schools of art Impression and Cubism. How does E.E. Cummings use vision and auditory to create meaning?. E.E. Cummings creates meaning in his poetry by using visual techniques and auditory techniques. To begin with, E.E. Cummings creates meaning in his…

The poem Foreign Lands by Robert Louis Stevenson is the best poem in the world. The poem is not only delightful and cheery, it includes many literary devices to further the effect of the poem. To begin, the poem is a couplet and follows the rhyming pattern of AABB. The meter of the poem is typically eight syllables, however, there are some lines that extend longer than eight syllables and some that are shorter than eight syllables. Though not evident the first time one reads this poem, the word…

Robert Frost is a famous American poet of the 19th century who was admired for his work. Frost left an imprint in the world by developing poems that let readers experience feelings through words. He usually focus his poems on experiences that a person would face regularly. Though, Frost includes numerous metaphors that outlined his experiences and environments he lived in. He expressed his feelings through the the use of figurative language. The poet compared himself to a person, place, or thing…

“O the sun comes up-up-up in the opening”. E.E Cummings was born October 14 1894 in Cambridge, MA. E.E Cummings started to write poetry at a young age after that he went to Harvard, he was encouraged to do poetry by a cubist painter known as Pablo Picasso. E.E Cummings was also a painter he was also encouraged by Pablo Picasso. First of all, he used auditory and visual techniques to create meaning. The question is how does he use those techniques to create meaning. When he…

Document “Waste Land” define the problem of environment and mostly people that weren’t “Lucky” enough and social class differences. There are lots of people work as “pickers” which they pick up the recyclable materials from the Landfill trash and make money based on these “trash” and directly help the environment. One of the artist growing up in a very poor family and now have become success, which he wants to help others and give it back to the society in a form of art. He went to the landfill…