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Blackberry picking This report examines the connections of growing up is painful but inevitable. The texts I have used are Blackberry-Picking and Death of a Naturalist both poems by Seamus Heaney, the Way Way Back, directed by Nat Faxton and Jim Rash, and The Boy in Striped Pyjamas directed by Mark Herman. I believe that all the texts I’ve studied comment on the idea of growing up being a struggle. The struggle is mad worse because the children haven’t been exposed to disappointment whilst…

Ron Koertge’s 2006 poem “Do You Have Any Advice For Those of Us Just Starting Out?” demonstrates how the poet uses the conventional poetic form of a free verse to treat the unusual subject of guidance to up and coming poets with sense of humor and wisdom. The poem is separated into 6 stanzas. The poem does not have a specific form, but the stanzas seem to increase in lines as the poem is read. As the poem The poem is constructed like a guideline which makes it seem that the guidance starts out…

In “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou, the speaker’s identity is slowly developed throughout the poem so that we are not completely sure of the speaker’s identity. The speaker is a black female that while she is speaking for herself, she is also speaking for an entire population of people just like her. People like her who are determined to rise above the historical oppression saying, “Leaving behind nights of terror and fear/ I rise/ Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear/ I rise…” (lines 35-38).…

Among the Red Guns is a poem written by Carl Sandburg that portrays a speaker describing details of war. However, who the speaker is and what gender they are is made unclear throughout the poem. Notable in this poem is that the speaker continues to use the phrase, “dreams go on.” Sandburg uses literary devices such as imagery, tone, and repetition to help illustrate and provide information about war and its difficult aspects. Most importantly, Sandburg utilizes these literary devices in order…

When I first saw the title of this poem, I automatically knew it was going to be about someone that use to play basketball, but I never knew the guy in the poem would end up the way he did. This poem is about an ex-basketball player, named Flick Webb, who use to be the best in his town. The third stanza talks about how he was an outstanding player and some of his accomplishments. However, the two stanzas at the beginning and the two stanzas at the end tells the life of the basketball player…

The Circle of Life in the Ecchoing Green, by William Blake Blake uses the symbolic nature of the world in the Ecchoing Green to describe the stages of life, and how life is an echo that repeats itself over and over until the final stage of life: Death. He does this by using the fresh beginning of spring in the first stanza, the reminiscence of old people in the second stanza, and the darkening events that evening holds in the third stanza. The Ecchoing Green is a Ballade, which is a sonnet that…

In some of her early poetry, Gwendolyn Brooks wrote about the south side of Chicago-- the very place where she called her childhood home. Her first publication, A Street in Bronzeville was deeply committed to capturing the life of African Americans in their homes and communities. The famous poem “Kitchenette Building” in the book A Street in Bronzeville gained heavy recognition because of the use of powerful imagery and description of what it was like to be an African American living in the…

In the poem, “Theme for English B”, by Langston Hughes, Hughes speaks about how Harlem has brought all cultures together and how the city gives people a voice when they feel like they don’t have one. Hughes does this by using visual imagery and painting a picture of the unity that Harlem makes when bringing cultures together. He also uses structure to emphasize how stepping into Harlem allows for people to have voice and, finally Hughes uses metaphors to compare Harlem to the famous melting pot…

LT391: Essay (2) “To write is to love and honour and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice.” Sometime it is devastating that broken relationship can never be fixed and this is presented in this short story, “Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice”, in which the protagonist learns the genuine significance of writing by the loss of his story which is destroyed by how it is made. Nam Lee is portrayed as a writing student who takes writing too casually and engaging the…

Depicted above are lines 11, 12, and 13 from the poem “Ozymandias” by Percy Shelley. In this sonnet, a broken statue of an arrogant king is described in a desolate place that was once his empire. Line 11 is part of the inscription on the statue itself. I was drawn to this passage by the blatant irony it presents, as I am often frustrated by man who he thinks he owns nature. Humans take extreme action to work against the natural world, such instances include the deforestation of land for…