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- 15931: Their Eyes Were Watching God 5
- ... a good time. Trouble arrives when one of Janie's questionable friends wants to hook her up with her brother. Though Janie has no intention of doing so, Tea Cake beats her to show the world who is boss. Janie is hurt, but remains silent about the beating. When a hurricane threatens "the muck", Tea Cake refuses to leave. Then the dam of a nearby lake collapses, and the couple has ...
- 15932: "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
- ... or identity such a work can possess for a later age or state of human development. It tries to display the power and limits of imagination. The urn plays a role both in the eternal world of myth and human history, in time and beyond it. The poem provides no final answer to the mystery of the urn, or the scenes it depicts but rather complicates our response to them, by ...
- 15933: The Use Of The Color White In Frost's Poem "Design"
- ... to him. The spider used his innocent mask to deceive the moth and then the moth being gullible, was pounced on by the spider. The deceiving spider then held up the moth for the entire world to see. The moth is also commonly thought of a gross bug, but they are not harmful. The innocent little moth was tricked and it cost its life. I feel that there is a deeper ...
- 15934: The Poetical Work and Polynesian Cultural Inheritances
- ... the way he uses their mythologies in his poetry. In his poem No Return there is an obvious use of cultures mythology: her journey to Pulotu has no dawn. (p109) Pulotu is the spirit world in Polynesian mythology. In The Mountains of Tau he draws on the famous legend of Maui: like spinning tops or Mauis endlessly / inventing mind. (p110) Maui is an important part of Polynesian mythology ...
- 15935: Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock"
- ... of these are characteristics of an epic poem. Pope may have written his epic poem in somewhat of a different manner, but this is what makes the poem so much more interesting. He mocks our world and the battle between the sexes.
- 15936: My Interpretation of Frost's "Birches"
- ... it has to offer. "Earth's the right place for love:/ I don't know where it's likely to go better." Although he has grown up, he is still a part of this fantasy world that he would be content "climbing" birches his entire life. He uses the image that the top of the trees represent heaven, and the more he climbs the closer he is to reaching his dream ...
- 15937: Harwood's "Impromptu for Ann Jennings" and "Home of Mercy"
- ... missed out on doing. The last line tells us that these women are completely content because their children are living on. Their children are a legacy of them, and they feel they have given the world something important, the most important parts of their lives. This poem is sombre yet very powerful in all the images that it gives us. We're able to see Harwood's views on women all ...
- 15938: Analysis of Blake's "London"
- ... dirtying itself by using these young boys to clean their chimneys. Blake then moves on to talk about soldiers and how their blood is running down the palace walls. This is a reference to the war with France, Blake is saying that the soldiers are forced to give their lives for the royal family, who stays safely behind their palace walls. In the fourth stanza, the speaker offers the most startling ...
- 15939: To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... by what others said about them. The mockingbird symbolizes Boo Radley, since he is innocent, and would never harm anyone. He just stays inside because he does not want to face the corrupt and prejudice world outside. One of the more prevalent symbols has to do with Jem who decides to make a snowman. There wasn t enough snow to build a whole snowman so he made a foundation out of ...
- 15940: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat"
- ... reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not--and very surely do I not dream. But tomorrow I die, and today I would unburden my soul. My immediate purpose is to place before the world...a series of mere household events....[T]hese events have terrified--have tortured-- have destroyed me....[P]erhaps...some intellect more calm, more logical, and far less excitable than my own... will perceive, in the ...
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