Olds Poem

Marie voices her speech while the memory of the bus explosion is still fresh in the community's mind. She makes it clear that she and her family are very concerned and extremely serious about finding her son. Marie speaks of when she and her family traveled from Nigeria, Africa in hopes of a better life, just to lose her only son to a terrorist attack.

“’ But this is merely a negative definition of the value of education’” (23-24). Mark Halliday wrote “The Value of Education” from a first person standpoint. The introduction and the use of “I” demonstrates the poem is about the speaker. Likewise, the speaker uses imagery, self-recognition, and his own personal thoughts throughout the poem. He goes on throughout the poem stating external confrontations he is not doing because he is in the library receiving an education and reading books. With this in mind, the speaker goes on to convey images in your head to show a realization of things he could be doing if he were not in the library getting an education.

Reflection on pg. 34 Night poem by Elie Wiesel In my eyes, this poem is a very powerful work, full of poetic devices that help drive home the point of the poem. This poem is written by Elie after he and his father realize that they have survived selection at Birkenau.

The boy realizes that maturity comes with responsibilities, and in order to be considered an adult, one has to face the consequences of one 's actions. Before facing his father he says "should he so much as threaten the razor strap I would ride away on Isabel and be lost to them forever", this shows that he wants to run away from his problems. However, after his father does not get angry at him, he realizes that his father has gained confidence in him and is proud

To begin, the poem Callum written by Milton Acorn has a variety amount of poetic devices, which helps the poetry have more meaning and depth. Throughout the poem, the author was able to use similes, alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, imagery, and hyperbole. Furthermore, the author uses similes and imagery to illustrate Callum’s handsome appearance, since he had hair like mustard-weed;.../that tangles inside his head.” (Acorn 1-6). This demonstrates that Callum’s hair stood up in tufts of yellow like a mustard-weed plant and his shoulders were probably brawny and boxy like a scoop, thus using imagery as well. Also, it is clear that Callum had clear, bright eyes, since he is referring to a lake which is transparent, in which one can see the

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This text response will be looking the comparison of the two poems, ‘Drifters’ by Bruce Dawe, And ‘In the park’ by Gwen Harwood under the name of Walter Lehmann. Drifters is about a seemingly constantly moving family, it describes the process the family will go through leaving their newest home. In the park is about a seemingly single mother raising her children, it describes the mother sitting in the park with her children when a previous lover comes by and talks about the children. With in each poem, the form and structure, language techniques and the tone and message will be analysed and compared with the other to gather a grater understanding of the Australian voice.

The dripping droplets of sangria left scars of acne blood pockets on the vast hirsute landscape of his right hand’s skin. The fresh plasma fluid oozed out of his pores as if long, gnarly fingernails squeezed the layer of skin coating the yellow pulp from a new ripe pimple. His heart precipitously pumped into a state of distress as if he was a teenager, with a red-spotted face, being confronted by bullies. He was a hostage to the sharp, rounded metallic end pointed in the direction of his head. He stood at the edge of death’s abyss…

She invokes a sense of patriotism and responsibility to call her son to action and uses the background of how America came to be an independent country from Great Britain and thus provides evidence that from hardships and pain, The results are an unending sense of accomplishments and

The narrative allows for the idea of segregation to act as an aspect of the hardship faced by the characters. It distinguishes the differences between those who are separated, identifying their different lifestyles and values as factors, which has caused this disconnection. The segregation and major personality differences between the two families are highlighted in the quote, “Sometimes they squared off at one another like opposing platoons.” The metaphor of comparing the two sets of children to “platoon”, a word commonly used in war, parallels the separation caused by the war. This emphasizes a key aspect of the contextual features of the storyline, as the war has a major impact on the lives of the characters. This also exaggerates the level of separation between the two families, suggesting they have a war-like standing against each other, caused by different views and opinions. The notion of segregation between the families is an obvious cause of hardship, as the two families share so much, whilst being completely different.

In the poem to This Day by Shane Koyczan It symbolizes bullying and that words can actually hurt someone and so can sticks and stones can also hurt people but that it is not right to call people names because it can hurt them but they don’t show it and it is wrong to bully people with words and other

I wonder how people became more far apart from the real world as time passed, and forgot the valuable asspects of life? Yet wouldn’t it be better if people were not being pushed and directed by the society and media and stop making poor desiciosns? The poem “Wasted on the Old” written by Mary di Michele is trying to give the message that the society is becoming more and more boring and uncomfortable; also most people in the society are becoming less unique and different by following the media and society. She has represented her message through the perspective of two girl best friends that communicate with each other and talk about the world they are in.

She looks forward to moving away like others in her town. She admits she will not be missed at her job and at nineteen, without the former protection of her older brothers, she is beginning to feel "herself in danger of her father's violence.” This danger she sees is taken away when she meets her suitor, the sailor, Frank who promises her a better life away from these hardships she has faced.

“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed” declared by an influential leader Martin Luther King Jr. As a soldier againsts unfairness, King strongly states that people should fight for freedom. Driven by human nature, humans are always chasing freedom. In “A Century Later,” the Pakistan-born British poet Imtiaz Dharker uses the poetic devices of symbolism, diction, and allusion to explore how perseverance drives freedom.

In the book New Moon, the author Stephenie Meyer tells the story about the main character Bella who is yet aged another year and is worried that she is physically getting older than her boyfriend, Edward Cullen. Edward is a vampire. After days of strange, distant behavior, Edward takes Bella for a walk and informs her that he is leaving Forks. Bella is now devastated and doesn't know what to do with her life, until she starts hanging out with Jacob. This book compares to the poem Not. by Erin Hanson. The poem not is about accepting who you are. Not comparing yourself to others by what you wear or what your weight is. You are where you have been, how many people love you, the things you dream about, and the photos hung up in your room with memories. With the similarities and differences I have connected these two pieces of writing and compared them through author’s and goals, and the theme behind each piece.