Analysis of Denise Levertov's A Time Past Essay

In History Lesson, Natasha Trethewey uses a photograph to relive her past. She uses imagery to give a visual description of the photograph. Trethewey also uses simile to compare minnows to switchblades, “Minnows dart at my feet / glinting like switchblades” (7-8). Furthermore, Trethewey isolates her grandmother and herself from the others, “It is 1970, two years after they opened/ the rest of this beach to us”(11-12). Perhaps, because Trethewey is a mixed-race she and her grandmother and were not allowed on the beach.

“The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant,” by W. D. Wetherell, is an initiation story in which the symbols of fishing and Sheila Mant illustrate how the character of the narrator transforms from youth and innocence to sophistication and maturity. At age fourteen, it is typical for a boy such as the narrator to be beginning this transformation. Being innocent and naïve in a sense, the fourteen year old narrator gets an enormous crush on a seventeen year old girl named Sheila Mant and comes to believe she is what he loves most in life. For him, Sheila is a symbol of the maturity and sophistication he will eventually become a

Although these are “homely” things someone may face on a staircase, they actually mean things that she has encountered in her life (Emanuel 148). She says that she reaches landings, which means that she has come up on place where she could rest. When she says she turns corners, it is when her life changes and she has to turn away from her original path. Her final comparison is when she goes in the dark, which are times in her life when she does not know what she can do to help herself. The metaphors in this poem show a conflict in the mother’s life and makes the poem seem complete.

Unteaching The Five- Paragraph essay by Marie Foley is a light hearted but argumentive piece focusing on the way most school aged children are taught to write. Foley's main point comes down to the very first words in the essay; “The five-paragraph formula confuses and alienates students and undermines our most basic goals as writing instructors." Foley believes that by teaching children to write in a formulated manner we are not letting them explore and learn through their own writing. We are instead giving them the freedom to discontinue the thought process once they feel that the essay they have produced meets the formula standards they have been kept to, and refuse to part with.

The poem starts with a description of the setting of a summer day, Levertov writes: “The fire in leaf and grass/ so green it seems/ each summer the last summer”. The green leaf and grass refers to a fresh new day, which emphasizes a good day to start in the summer. The author goes on with her describing the beautiful sunshine of the summer by giving the images of the wind, the leaf and the sun. She writes: “The wind blowing, the leaves/ shivering in the sun, / each day the last day”. The poet uses the words “fire, blowing, and shivering” to gives us how urgent and immediate we feel in our lives. It is also a reminder the poet wants to send us that these beautiful natural things won’t last forever, as well as we

Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time is a historical novel that looks at the belief that

The difference of bullying and being a bully, isn 't as simple as it appears to be. S.E. Hinton’s second novel titled, That was Then this is Now is a mature disciplined novel sharing the “Voice of the Youth” according to the New York Times and other raving reviews. The story follows Bryon and his friend Mark whom are “as close as brothers.” Things change in the two characters lives, Bryon is growing up and spending a lot of time with girls, thinking about seriously, who he want to be. Mark, on the other hand, has always lived for the thrill of life’s moments. The two start to divert from each other, while still holding onto the brotherly like love they still have—until Bryon finds

able to get rid of. At the end of the poem Sexton admits the thoughts of suicide are something you can never get rid of, “and yet she waits for me, year after year” (line 25). Sexton justifies the reasons for her suicide by saying that her thoughts and bad memories will never stop coming back because this has been happening for years and years now there is no going back for Sexton. She leaves us with the last stanza filled with unfinished things. This could be a metaphor for her life that is unfinished because of her death occurrence.

There are a lot of barriers that existence within human nature. The most profound barrier that exists is the language barrier. As human, we are met to communicate with one another. Without communication, there is simply no connection. A language barrier draws imagery line between people to make them feel distant on a deeper level. The frustration rushes through one’s brain when he or she realizes that they have a mouth but cannot utilize it to get their point across. There is a great deal of frustration to be misunderstood due to the restraint and limitation the knowing words and of trying to piece these words together to properly express oneself. In this paper, I will explain the effect and frustration of boundaries between people and how there are ways to try to get rid of that profound barrier.

Clemson University is a well-known university, located in South Carolina. It is ranked in the top twenty five public universities. There are many famous alumni including United States Senator, John Edwards. Clemson University is the school for you if you strive for academic excellence, great opportunities, and a happy college life.

The story of an hour by Kate Chopin introduces us to Mrs. Mallard as she reacts to her husband’s death. In this short story, Chopin portrays the complexity of Mrs. Mallard’s emotions as she is saddened yet joyful of her loss. Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” argues that an individual discover their self-identity only after being freed from confinement. The story also argues that freedom is a very powerful force that affects mental or emotional state of a person. The story finally argues that only through death can one be finally freed.

Given these points, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich has addressed that women who misbehave do make history. From the illustrations to the title, the tone in the passage, and also the effectiveness in pathos. The author indeed succeeded in proving that women that challenge the expectations of society do make history. The analytic form in her essay is clean, very well written, and argumentative that women should be just as important as men are. Even though the stereotypes of the 3 women had judgments and consequences, the faces of those women will run the course throughout history as women who indeed occasionally misbehaved but yet remained in the historical books and will always be remembered. Even though there may be possible bias in some aspects, the

The metaphor in this poem conjoins life, and a staircase, "Well, son, I'll tell you:/ life for me ain't been no crystal stair." The mother says to her son, that

The book Celia A Slave Melton McLaurin is telling us what happened to a slave owner and a slave that he brought. This story goes into details on the day of June 23,1855 about how a female slave that murdered her master and how she tried to cover it up. This story took place not far from Jefferson City in Calloway Country here in Missouri when around this time there were still debates over what state is going to be free and what states is going to be a slave one. As you’re reading the book you will see how race relations of that period was very … McLaurin talks in great details about the trail, the political climate of the time of the trail, and the experiences of a slave told in Celia view, and the antebellum time period.

Lynn Nottage’s play, “Ruined”, is an eye-opening story that takes place in the Democratic Republic of Congo during the Civil War. The play is centered around women who have been sexually abused, and are living and working in a brothel owned by the protagonist Mama Nadi. The play gives deep insight to the hardships women had to go through during that time. The play is a melodrama and a great example of a contemporary version of realism. This play also illustrates three important characteristics of storytelling we discussed in class: stories teach, stories allow us to personalize issues, and stories build compassion.