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- 1631: Emily Dickenson
- ... critic, Dorothy Oberhaus, likes Dickinson’s comic techniques. The poem is "Reinforced by uneven metrics, its frequent pyrrhics, and Dickinson’s typical condensation and brevity" (118-19). In this poem, Dickinson’s style appears almost "child-like in its off descriptions including frogs and bogs" (Lakoff and Turner 209), as well as the lively energy expressed by the poem through its use of dashes and brief wording. Dickinson seems to be ... line "I'm Nobody") and her preference to it. The poet seems to relate that her situation has not left her without a sense of humor, but in fact has allowed her to maintain a child-like outlook on life rather than adapting to the boring norms of her society ("How dreary - to be - Somebody!"). She mocks the conventional need for self-importance through publicity ("How public - like a Frog", "To ... Thus she does not accentuate the humor in the combination of the objects in order not to trivialize her own beliefs, but allows enough humor to enter the description to stamp the poem with the child-like free spiritedness found in "I’m Nobody...". Again in this poem, the poet’s desire for seclusion and unconventionality is expressed eloquently through a light-handed treatment of the subject matter. In conclusion, ...
- 1632: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... launches. In 1847 Poes’ life becomes a disaster due to the death of his beloved wife, Virginia. Poe become absent minded and began drinking heavily. Edgar Allen Poe’s life experiences, particularly his repeated substance abuse and the loss of the women he loved, are evident in the stories that he wrote. Edgar Allan Poe Pg.1 On January 29, 1845, Poe’s most mystifying poem appeared, The Raven. This was ... pendulum and that he was to die soon to escape from all the evil that was brought amongst him in various forms. Poe felt as if all the events that he went through as a child to his present time were pure torture and this is where he found his scapegoat, through his writings. In The Pit and the Pendulum Poe spoke through the actions of the character and put all ...
- 1633: Effects Of Secondhand Smoke
- Imagine your child wheezing, working hard for every breath he takes. You rush him to the Emergency Room. He is suffering from another severe asthma attack, which he developed when he was a baby. Why? Your child has been expose to secondhand smoke. This scenario may not be your community’s worst problem, but I just want to address some concerns on the affects of secondhand smoke to children’s health and ... smoker, quit! If you can’t, don’t smoke in your house, in the car or near your children. Have a permanent place outside the house just for smoking purposes only. Make sure that your child's day-care, school or playgrounds are smoke free. Educate everybody you know about the hazard of secondhand smoke to children’s heath. Secondhand smoke is very dangerous to children’s health because it ...
- 1634: Pro-Wrestling In The Nineties
- ... the shows are rated “PG14” on television parents still allow their young children to watch. Is this the WWF’s fault or parents not supervising? One lawsuit occurred last year, where a 10 year-old child killed his younger brother after he gave him a clothesline. His younger brother fractured his neck and died that night. The parents of the children had left them with a babysitter, who put in a wrestling tape for the kids to watch and left the room. When she came back the child was on the ground unconscious. These lawsuits usually are settled outside of court, but recently another case came up. A young child was injured while imitating moves he saw on TV. He too fractured his neck and died, this case went to court, and some wrestlers even were handed court summons. They did not have to ...
- 1635: Don Juan As Byron Introspective
- ... Lord Byron have long been controversial, nearly as controversial as his lifestyle. Gordon Byron was born with a clubfoot and his sensitivity to it haunted his life and his works. Despite being a very handsome child, a fragile self-esteem made Byron extremely sensitive to criticism, of himself or of his poetry and he tended to make enemies rather quickly. The young Byron was often unhappy and lonely any many of ... for his clubfoot (Bloom 45). During this time, young Byron was left in the care of his nurse May Grey. He was subjected to her drunken tantrums, beatings, neglect, and sexual liberties (Grosskurth 28). This abuse was not stopped early enough to protect the boy from psychological injury. Byron confesses to his sister that "My passions were developed very early- so early that few would believe me (Grosskurth 40)." Byron also ...
- 1636: Death In Venice: A Tragic Vision Of A Flawed Artist?
- ... being trapped. Then he goes to Venice, where all will change. In his hotel, he sees a young boy by whom he is fascinated. The young boy is the perfect image of a happy, idle child that has all it desires, all Aschenbach never had; his childhood was rather gloom since it was spent mostly at home and indoors, he didn’t meet many people and he certainly never had that laisser aller attitude that the young boy so obviously possessed. Aschenbach studied the child and found out that his name was Tadzio. The sound of his name was almost musical. Aschenbach would sit on the beach and watch him play, the young child that, in his point of view, looked like the god Apollo. Slowly but surely, he became obsessed with Tadzio, with his youth, beauty, effortlessness and his idleness. Whilst being obsessed with this young boy ...
- 1637: How Richard Selzer Is A Philos
- ... able to have children at all in the future or she will have complications becoming pregnant because of her weak uterus not being able to hold the baby. This may cause the death of the child as well as her life while having the baby. Maybe it was the way my family raised me when I was a child that causes this to be such a sensitive subject to me. My mother always told, “ If you play with fire, you are going to get burned,” whenever the subject of sex came up in our ... the abortion. Would she not rather have the baby and know that it was living a great life with a family that would take care of it, other than taking the life of her unborn child? Sometimes I wonder if people have a conscience or not.
- 1638: Daddy, Vampires, And Dark Hearts
- ... was you". The powerful imagery of these lines overpowers any of the rhyme scheme. The tone of this poem is an adult engulfed in outrage. This outrage,at times, slips into the sobs of a child. This is evident by Plath's continued use of the word daddy and the childlike repitition "You do not do, you do not do" and "Daddy, daddy, you bastard". Fear from her childhood moves her in directions that will take her far from herself. In one line in the poem she brings us starkly into the world of a child's fear. She uses words that sound like the words of a child staring out at us from behind "a bardwire snare" "I have always been scared of you." This poem portrays a bleak picture of life for some women. However, we know that Plath was able ...
- 1639: Cry, The Beloved Country
- Cry. the Beloved Country "Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of it all. Let him not love the earth to deeply. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give to much of his ... Msimangu that he is able to begin his search, a search that will change his life forever. He finds his sister, who is not expecting his arrivial, so, he tells her that she and her child will go back with him. Next he wanted to find his son, but he had no idea where to start, so Kumalo had told Msimangu that his brother lives in Johannesburg. Msimangu immediately knows who ... better life. Kumalo was a very emotional man, who dealt with his problem to the best of his knowledge. At the beginning you can tell he is a very caring individual for he allowed a child to eat at his home when she had nothing to eat at hers. Kumalo was a main element in the plot. The reason he was so important, through out all the trials that he ...
- 1640: Cry The Beloved Country - Corruption
- ... good black people. She went off in search of her husband and ended up by herself with "many husband’s" as Msimangu said. Gertrude must also sell illegal liquor and has gone to prison. Her child runs around ragged and dirty in the streets, with no education and no supervision or name. Gertrude is like Abasalom in that she is not corrupt at heart, but it was Johannesburg that turned her. At the end of the book she chooses to remain in Johannesburg instead of going to her home, with her child. She did this because she wanted her child to have a good life, but knew that she couldn’t go back when she was that corrupted. This book very graphically describes all the filth of corruption; it is everywhere, from the small ...
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