Dear Dear

In Bernice Friesen’s “Brother Dear” the narrator is a grade 11 student named Sharlene, who plans to escape to the University of Alberta like her brothers had done (Friesen 26). Throughout the narrative it becomes very clear that Sharlene does not have a reliable point of view. In the beginning of the story, Sharlene describes her older brother Greg as someone who is strange and bizarre compared to others, “I won’t come home some weekend with a screwed up head like Greg” (26). This quote…

Anne Bradstreet’s To My Dear and Loving Husband is a love poem that was published in 1678. Bradstreet explores the themes of time, faith, value, and identity through the speaker’s love for her husband. Through this poem, Bradstreet expresses Puritan values towards love and discusses the potential immortality of love. To My Dear and Loving Husband shares similarities to a sonnet, but alters with the rhyme scheme and use of twelve lines in comparison to the usual fourteen lines. Bradstreet crafts…

I will be identifying Anne Bradstreet’s usage of imagery in her poem “To My Dear and Loving Husband.” The key imageries will be analyzed in the way she uses it, how it functions, work together, the ideas/feelings delivered, and how it contributes to the meaning of the poem. Her consistency of her tone through out the poem displays her emotions of happiness she feels towards her husband. The image Bradstreets utilizes works well in forming coherent patterns. We can see this through the imagery…

society. Men were the social authority and women were essentially invisible in Puritan Society. She wrote in the Prologue, “Cause nature made it so irreparable”, a reference to the handicap she faced as a female poet (Bradstreet A: 208). In “To My Dear and Loving Husband”, she stated, “then while we live, in love let’s so persevere” and continued “That when we live no more, we may live ever” (Bradstreet A: 226). This was her way of glorifying her husband’s love and illustrated how important…

about this. 9th grade at the end of the year I got tired of the kids that sat around me, I stared to go the high school. I had some friends there. The first day during 2nd period I had to do a speech over a poem of my choosing. I did a slam poem called Dear Straight People it is my favorite. I tried to look really nice because of this speech. Autumn Looper was the first person I saw so I walked up to her. Her first words to were something like you look really hot. I kind of had a crush on her…

were considered naive with the belief that “kids will be kids” and we will easily grow out of it, yet many African Americans continue to face the stereotypical belief that they are just illiterate. The book Pinned by Sharon G. Flake and the movie “Dear White People” directed by Justin Simien, exploit the stereotypes associated with people of color such as the belief that most are: uneducated, underdressed, lazy, ill mannered, and have poor speech; and causes the needed breakdown of social…

Dear Prince Escalus; thy highness, I want to prove my innocence and explain my perspective to the jury. I had a plan that was meant to unite the two feuding families, however, fortuitously it had failed and led to the death of Romeo and Juliet. This is due to being inadequate and inexperienced with these circumstances, which resulted in giving poor guidance and decisions to Romeo and Juliet. Thy highness, I Friar Laurence, beg of thee to consider thee as innocent, not guilty, with by explaining…

ADVICE TO A FUTURE TEACHER ON BULLYING By Kristi Bruen Dear Future Teacher, One of the most challenging things you will have to do in your career is to inform parents of an incident of bullying. Your role as a professional educator informing parents of bullying is not always black and white. However it is your job as a professional to attempt to apply the highest level of professional judgment. You must form clear boundaries and strong relationships with parents. You must first decide when to…

imperative in each general public since it is simply the fundamental establishment and structure of society itself. It helps the individual in enhancing their identity. The melodies "Recollect When" and "Residential area Southern Man" by Alan Jackson and " Dear Mama " by Rascal Flatts demonstrate how family enables the individual to shape his/her life. How it instructs the individual the estimation of adoration, friendship, care, honesty, and self-assurance and gives him/her with devices and…

ever” as if she is explaining those lines within the couple as a whole. The title of the poem is exactly what the poem addresses “her dear and loving husband.” She really likes her husband and loves him because she uses “dear and loving” in the title. Love is unexplainable. The poem is opened up by the speaker stating the desire of her love that she have for her dear husband. The reader can tell that she loves her husband very much because she says, “If ever man were loved by wife, then thee…