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- 2341: The Saginaw Song
- ... Roethke, whose father ran a nursery and greenhouse business in Saginaw. This poem avoids all psycho-babble about love-hate relationships, childhood idealization of the father, family tensions and conflicts, the borderline between play and violence, whatever. It avoids those cliches and trite formulations by instead seeing specific things and moments of experience -- by imagery, in a word. As you read it, avoid cliché reactions having to do with dysfunctional families ...
- 2342: You Should Really Read This Poem
- ... there is a monster, which they call the fire-drake. The fire-drake had a jeweled, golden cup that they stole. This upset the dragon very much and so it went and burned a town. Violence is usually intriguing to a reader and that situation helps to entertain you when you read this piece. Another example of a captivating character is the ketta. She was a hag who lived in a ...
- 2343: The Tyger By William Blake
- ... to ask whether the same God who created such a wonderful, innocent creature could have possibly created such a beast. In contrast to the Lamb, the creation of the Tyger is more an act of violence: “And what shoulder, & what art,/ Could twist the sinews of thy heart?/ And when thy heart began to beat./ What dread hand? & what dread feet?/ What the hammer? what the chain,/ In what furnace was ...
- 2344: "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud"
- ... meaning valley, but also "the mortal world". I think the poet uses this to describe how wonderful it would be, as a human, to look over this world and not have to be in the violence and unhappiness of it. The speaker came upon a cure for his loneliness, solitude, and isolation when a host of golden daffodils came into sight. They were a strong contrast to the speaker. These golden ...
- 2345: Nature Imagery in Adrienne Rich's "Twenty-One Love Poems"
- ... compels her to take into account that "screens flicker / with pornography, with science-fiction vampires, / victimized hirelings bending to the lash." These fierce images foresee later remarks in the "Twenty-One Love Poems" on the violence intrinsic in a culture built by men, and including "pornography" and "vampires" on one line is done to correlate the "unnatural" image of Dracula with the portrayal of what Rich has called "compulsory heterosexuality," as ...
- 2346: A Review of Dudley Randall’s “Ballad of Birmingham”
- ... is interesting for the readers to tackle an important question: Has the United States made any progress in racial relations since the 1960’s? Immediately, examples such as the beating of Rodney King and gang violence come to mind. We may not be segregated any longer by having to use separate rest rooms and water fountains, but we are separated as far as neighborhoods and more importantly, culture.
- 2347: The Point of View in "Porphyria's Lover"
- ... Shortly afterwards, he starts explaining the problem, and states his side of the story. The speaker begins to feel sorry for himself, and his frustration and fears begin to mount into an expected act of violence towards Porphyria. The only thing that Porphyria's lover can think of is to strangle her with her own hair. By doing this, he believes that she will be his forever. The speaker also sees ...
- 2348: Dante's Inferno
- ... who led decent lives. The second through the fifth circles are for the lustful, gluttonous, prodigal, and wrathful. The sixth circle is where heretics are punished. The seventh circle is devoted to the punishment of violence. The eighth is devoted to those guilty of fraud and the ninth for those who betrayed others. In the last section, Satan remains imprisoned in a frozen lake. The journey is difficult and full of ...
- 2349: The Lost Trees
- ... How can all men be educated to act against his primeval instincts to pursue and conquer? Would we be too optimistic to believe man can be trained to understand and curb these prehistoric tendencies towards violence? Perhaps the answer lies in womankind.
- 2350: Jim Morrison: The Lizard King
- ... though he really did not want to be. He pulled pranks and his intricate routines and also began to gather more friends. In many of Morrison’s notebooks from this period were thoughts of magic, violence, sex and death. These sorts of things never seemed to leave his head, he always remembered the Indians who were on the side of the road when he was younger. The end of the semester ...
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