Analysis Of The Poem ' Three Of Us '

“You’ll make some friends soon, son,” his father said to him as if he had read his mind. “You’ll start school in a few weeks.” Jason had no response. His father had decided to move because of a job offer in Flora, involving lumber. Jason surveyed the house. It was a standard house with three floors, one of them the attic. “Grab some boxes Jason!” his father called, interrupting Jason’s train of thought.

They will need some saws to cut the trees, but you need steel to make them, but you also need a steel mill to make the steel, and before that you need the iron to make the steel mill. You would also need the graphite which they get from South America. What Milton is trying to explain to the audience is that there are many processes included in the process of making a pencil, but no one actually know how to make a

Melinda takes art class and they are doing a project throughout the year. She was assigned trees and had no idea what to do with that. Since she didn’t know what to do so she just drew and drew trees because she

Embers flew from the campfire, and into the starry night sky; meanwhile, the campers, Jackie, Carl, and Jim, sat close to it for warmth. “Now who's ready for a campfire story?” said Jackie. “You can sometimes go a little overboard, so Carl is taking the wheel.” Carl continued, “Once upon a time” Jim screams, and Carl rolls his eyes at Jim, “May I proceed,” He responds rhetorically. By the time Carl finishes the scary story, Jim has already dashed into the tent, startling his dog, a basset hound named Roxy. Carl along with Jackie look at each other in regretful worry, as they walk towards Jim's tent.

Melinda is very attached to her trees, she is very much alike them in the way that she grows with confidence and blooms into a wonderful student. At the beginning of the year when Melinda is first assigned to draw trees, she has some difficulty, " I take out a page of notebook paper and a pen and doodle a tree, my second grade version, crumple it into a ball and take out another sheet. How hard can it be to put a tree on a piece of paper?"(32) because this is Melinda's first tree she has trouble she does not quite understand the meaning and the be behind

In the story, Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, Anderson uses images and descriptions in the chapter PRUNING, to portray Melinda’s life. First, as Melinda watches the tree in her yard cut down, she says that, “He’ll only leave a stump (Anderson 30).” Melinda represents the tree as herself. If part of the tree is cut down, it cannot grow back. Melinda is afraid that she may never recover from what happened to her at the party. She may be a stump with nothing left. Next, Melinda’s dad assures her that, “By cutting off the damage, you make it possible for the tree to grow again (5).” Cutting off the “dead” branches symbolizes that Melinda wants to have people with and around her to help her to “cut off” her bad memories and experiences. She does

In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda, a high school freshman, is given the assignment of working with a tree as her object for the year in Mr. Freemans’s art class. She thinks,

"So what do we have to again Kenny"? Asked Adam with a carefree attitiude. "We

The sounds of the birds was unpleasant, it was endless cries and screeches. As I looked around, I realized that I was just in a plane crash in the middle of the Amazon jungle. Immediately a panicking thought was in my head, Dakota, Mark, Leo, where are you!. A small voice came from the other side of the plane wreck, it was Leo and Mark, “ where’s Dakota, Mark had a horrid look on his face, “I- I don’t know I thought he was with you or something” “ look!” said Leo he’s over there, “ what where” said Mark and Trent under the that sheet of metal, they swiftly went over and pulled him out under the metal. “Hi guys you found me”, “of course we did said Leo, can you stand up through”, “yes just grab my arm”. They slowly lifted him up. “ now what? Said Mark”, Grape all the supplies we you can said Trent”. As they moved around picking anything they could use, they all dropped the items into a pile. Duct Tape, a hunting knife kit, a fire starter, little food, and a flare gun. “Come on we need to get moving, if you want to get help” said

Melinda’s effort’s to create the right tree represents her hardships because it symbolizes her relationships with her parents, and all the mistakes that she makes in her life. First, Melinda’s tree represents the relationship that she has with her parents. Melinda is trying so hard to create the right tree, when she says, “It looks so flat, a cheap, cruddy drawing. I have no idea how to make it come alive.” (Anderson 55) Melinda can’t get her tree to be like a tree, almost like how Melinda’s can’t get her family to be like a family. Melinda wants so badly for her tree to be perfect, just as me as she does her family. Next, Melinda’s tree represents all of the mistakes that she makes in her life. Melinda is trying to carve her tree when she

Papa held Cassie closer to him and pointed where the trees were, saying, “You see that fig tree over yonder, Cassie?” Them other trees all around… that oak and walnut, they’re a lot bigger and they take up more room and give so much shade they almost overshadow that little ole fig. But that fig tree’s got roots that run deep, and it belongs in that yard as much as that oak and walnut. It keeps on blooming, bearing good fruit year after year, knowing all the time it’ll never get as big as them other trees. Just keeps on growing and doing what it gotta do.

This enjambment is stating that if they decide to keep the tree it will probably destroy the house over time so it would be foolish to keep it in the yard. Next, she says “We talk slowly, two women

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”

The Falling Out of Us Have you ever noticed? The way the sky bends, Before it all comes crashing down?

Letitia Elizabeth Landon is recognized as the most read British poet of the early nineteenth century. Landon is regarded as a renaissance woman—among the first wave of women to gain individual recognition, financial independence, prestigious literary acclaim, and supporters of her unique style of poetry. Landon published an enormous amount of literature from 1820-1838; generating seven book of poetry, creating literary annuals, authoring three novels, several children’s stories, publishing translations, a number of short stories, and providing literary reviews/criticism. The quality of Landon’s work speaks for itself and is consistently reviewed in the literary society. For this paper I intended to compare and contrast the textual similarities and differences of Letitia Elizabeth Landon and George Gordon, Lord Byron—using literary devices and subject matter.