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THE RAINES LAW ROOM, 1:30 AM. There is a light rain settling upon the city, Sebastien is absent. “Love’s an idea, not a feeling. Don’t be so foolish, Ralph.” A drunk and miserable Corinthian spouts, a glass sitting loosely in her right and a cigarette clutched tight between her left hand fingers. “We feel some sort of fictitious… admiration, whereas our mind translates this into some over idealized bullshit…” She pauses. “I-I don’t know where I was going with this.” Ralph sighs, shaking his…

The first speech a person delivers can make or break other people’s initial impressions of him or her, giving them a reputation that may overshadow other qualities, good or bad. The crowd could love every word of the speech, and the speaker would revel in their everlasting applause. On the other hand, it could leave a stinging impression on the audience that would inhibit them from looking past this one particular speech if it did not suit their opinions. This type of situation can be every…

“Never Shall I Forget,” by Elie Wiesel is a poem of a passage in Night, that deals with the Holocaust which had occurred during the time of World War 2. The Holocaust is a very delicate matter and Elie Wiesel handles it in a way where he describes and shows the horrors committed by the Nazi’s of Germany. This poem, “Never Shall I Forget,” is written in the first person in which it illustrates the horrible events and tragic effects of the concentration camps where Elie Wiesel and his family were…

The leaves are falling while the wind rustles through them. The sounds of cars passing by and people rushing into buildings due to the cold-chilled air. In the poem To Autumn by John Keats, John Keats uses imagery to describe how the season autumn represents the early stages of life. Then towards the end, John Keats also uses imagery to represent the ending or death. Although John Keats uses imagery to describe autumn, John Keats uses the imagery elements to show the progression of autumn and…

A study of Rama Rao’s thirty-seven short poems evinces his fine creativity and one is enamoured of the values, which presently seem to have been lost in the mire of materialism. The poet sings about the loss of human ethics. The very first poem, ‘A Sigh and Relief’, is a satire on the political power. The politicians, these days, are mad with power and seem to have lost their ability to judge gold from dross. He, very aptly, argues that “Vice has limits / Death is not the only end”: human vices…

Righteousness and Responsibility What does being a father really mean? The complex role of fatherhood is explored in “Those Winter Sundays” and “My Papa's Waltz.” The two fathers in the poems have extremely different ideas about what being a father truly entails. The distinct differences in the father’s level of responsibility is evident in the time of day in which the poem occurs, the atmosphere they create within their home, their morals, and the appearance of their hands and tasks they…

“I like you like boys and testicles love to hang”, dont you just wish someone liked you the way that testicles hang. In the poem “like”, the author Mike McGee,conveys unconditional love through the use of simile, Aphorisms and repetition. aphorisms demonstrates how he feels for this girl. Wearese , The similes captures how he really feels for the girl. And repetition illustrates the real love for her. Although repetition is a comedic,the universal truth is most humorously expressed with…

The imagery in this poem is used to demonstrate what was occurring throughout the funeral of the narrator's mind. The author only used the sense on hearing to describe what was occurring, since she was in the process of losing her mind and wasn’t capable to see what was really going on and even happening to her. The descriptive sounds she uses like “treading of the mourners”, “beating drums” and “bells ringing” makes the readers feel like they were in the funeral, which in reality it was “her…

The voices of male characters in songs, stories and other pieces of literature, can express love towards female characters. “Michelle”is a song that was performed by Sir Paul McCarthy. The singer wants to express his love towards a girl. However, neither of them can understand the the other’s language very well. Romeo and Juliet lines 44-53, is an excerpt of a play by William Shakespeare. The poem excerpt is about a character seeing a woman who he thinks is extremely beautiful. He explains how…

Moment (Page #) 2 Quotations (Pages #s) Literary Device Connection/Significance Chapter 6 – Pages 85-97 – (34-38%) This chapter basically goes into detail about the forbidden daughter of Hester whose name is Pearl. The first quotation is not from a scene, but rather just the author introducing you a bit more to Pearl. The author uses a metaphor in this first quotation on page 87 by comparing Pearl to a flower. The second quote is from an actual scene. During this time from on…