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Morse Code There are many different ways to communicate. Hundreds of years ago, if you wanted to communicate long distance, a message would be written and delivered by a carrier. It wasn’t until a tragedy entered a great painters life that he turned from painting to becoming a great inventor. Samuel L. Morse was a painter and inventor who is is best remembered today for his invention of a single wire telegraph system and co-inventor of the Morse Code. He entered a formal school at the age of…

Robert Frost’s “Design” Robert Frost has always been one of my favorite poets. The excellent poem “Design” written by this great scientist poet has many examples of figurative language, like similes and imagery. Also, the theme of this poem is very inspiring and meaningful. First, Robert Frost uses numerous similes in his sonnet “Design”. For example, in the third line of the first stanza it says, “like a white piece of rigid satin cloth” describing the moth as white is telling that its pure.…

Allen Ginsberg’s poetry not only allows us insight into his personal unrest, but also the unrest of the American political system. By looking at both America and Howl, Ginsberg’s disgust of the political system and the socio-cultural pull it has on Americans becomes ostentatiously clear. The tension that is sensed in Ginsberg’s poetry is often a personal struggle in dealing with the unruly American way and attempts at forcing people to conform, especially during life after WWII. These poems are…

Poems can be read with vast meanings and Yeats experimented with various meanings in his writings. He incorporated many religious references within this poem, thus it can be read in a religious apocalyptic expression. This enables readers of all different cultures and religious backgrounds to make connections with the poem. At the end of Stanza 1, Yeats adeptly describes the story of Noah’s ark, but the animals are not in an orderly manner, they are chaotic and distressed. The dramatized words…

Katasha Pollard Intro to Lit. Kelly Gamble 10/12/15 Robert Frost Robert Frost’s poems and stories bring him alive as a person and poet, showing him in the process of thinking through, reevaluating, and stating many of his most important beliefs, ideas, interpretations, and rhymes. The poems and stories are interesting in themselves. They show a noteworthy intelligence at work and provide access to the (typically hidden) processes underlying Frost’s pieces, as well as a set of his most…

“A Supermarket in California” is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg. Taking into account of the speaker’s past magnificent works, it made me think the author is trying to analyze his self-identity. Conceivably, this is Allen Ginsberg himself looking for a deeper connection with feelings of emptiness in his sub-consciousness. Is the author creating more space in his own sovereign reality? In other words, is this creating less dense by clearing out the disconnected emotions and readjusting with…

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…