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Explain (tell me what image the poem brings to mind)She begins by describing the "death of winter's leaves".

Lovely short story “The Osage Orange Tree” had been written by the addressed author William Stafford. Throughout this short story, two main protagonist include of a young female high school student named Evangeline, and a young male high school student which who narrates this beloved story. In this short story, there are many major key events that happen, even some that lead to the conclusions of different themes. Evangeline shows affection by buying newspapers just to see the narrator, she acts clingy around the narrator, and lastly the tree which symbolizes protection, is the protection for her and the boy from everyone else. Which with these examples the theme can be seen as, eagerness for friendship can lead to many crazy but

Literally, the persona of the poem is outside when some aspects of the nature around her, like violets and a blackbird, trigger a memory from her childhood. The poem then flashbacks to a childhood memory of the persona as a young girl, which is shown through the indentation of the stanzas, where the girl wakes up in the afternoon thinking it is morning and becomes upset when she

Angela McEwan-Alvarado was born in Los Angeles and has lived in many locations in the United States, as well as Mexico and Central America. She obtained her master’s degree at UC Irvine and since then has worked as an editor of educative materials and a translator. The story “Oranges” was the result of an exercise for a writer’s workshop in which the author managed to mix images and experiences accumulated throughout her life.

In the poem “Oranges” by Gary soto, it follows the sacrifices that a young boy makes to ensure that his lover is happy. Gary soto uses a nostalgic tone to emphasize that sacrifice is necessary in love. The larger issues throughout this whole poem is that gratitude from strangers can make someone else’s day amazing. Additionally, this is the speaker’s first date ever in his life, so he is extremely nervous and wants everything to go fine.

The seasons in the poem also can be seen as symbols of time passing in her life. Saying that in the height of her life she was much in love and knew what love was she says this all with four words “summer sang in me.” And as her life is in decline her lovers left her, this can be told by using “winter” as a symbol because it is the season of death and decline from life and the birds left the tree in winter. The “birds” can be seen as a literal symbol of the lovers that have left her or flown away or it can have the deeper meaning that in the last stages of our life all of our memories leave us tittering to our selves.

The appreciation of nature is illustrated through imagery ‘and now the country bursts open on the sea-across a calico beach unfurling’. The use of personification in the phrase ‘and the water sways’ is symbolic for life and nature, giving that water has human qualities. In contrast, ‘silver basin’ is a representation of a material creation and blends in with natural world. The poem is dominated by light and pure images of ‘sunlight rotating’ which emphasizes the emotional concept of this journey. The use of first person ‘I see from where I’m bent one of those bright crockery days that belong to so much I remember’ shapes the diverse range of imagery and mood within the poem. The poet appears to be emotional about his past considering his thoughts are stimulated by different landscapes through physical journey.

Orange can represent an energy or enthusiasm, which can bring about the willingness to embrace new ideas with enjoyment and a sense of exploration, as Sumita now attempts to “Americanize” herself with her jeans and orange tee shirt and later with her “cream-and-brown skirt set (color of earth, color of seeds)” (269). The new thoughts about being a working woman in America in her husband’s store are reflected in the earthy colors, which symbolize something new planted, as she is newly planted in America, trying to grow.

Williams’s use of imagery is quite evident throughout “Love Poem With Toast”. He uses imagery to emphasize an intricate relationship between two characters in the poem. “Some of what we do, we do to make things happen, the alarm to wake us up, the coffee to perc, the car to start.” In the first line of the first stanza Williams uses vague diction and ambiguous language to convey a sense of drab and somewhat dreary tone. However, once you reach the second line of the poem it is full of imagery to contrast the dreary ambiguous tone of the first line. Contrasting the two lines accentuates the complexity of the relationship soon to be seen further along in the poem. Williams uses this same method of contrast through the second stanza but once we

The poem describes the weather and its effect on cotton flower by pointing out the dying branches and vanishing cotton. The image of insufficiency, struggle and death parallel the oppression of African American race. The beginning of the poem illustrates the struggle and suffering of the cotton flower; which represent the misery of African Americans and also gives an idea that there is no hope for them. But at the end the speaker says “brown eyes that loves without a trace of fear/ Beauty so sudden for that time of year” (lines 13-14). This shows the rise of the African American race, and their fight against racism. The author used mood, tone and

When one first watches the movie, one may quickly judge that the characters are in direct contrast to the colors they represent. In the movie, Tangie (orange) which means vitality with endurance plays the part of a promiscuous girl whose hatred for her mother drives her to do what she does. On further look at her character, I realize she is a true reflection of the color orange. She endures sexual abuse from her grandfather and faces abortion at a tender age but is still strong enough to overcome it and bring out her true beauty. The text also employ poems and songs to show the intensity of pain and emphasize the strength of each character and women in general.

The title of the poem Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost, sums up the idea that nothing good lasts forever, and that everything happy in a person’s life fades away as they grow up. The speaker of the poem is assumed to be the narrator speaking in third person omniscient. He is impersonally describing the process of life that every reader can relate to in his or her own way. The intended audience of this poem is essentially everyone, considering every human experiences the loss of innocence as they grow up. The poem relates to the common idea of coming of age and losing a perfect childhood.

Stowe includes examples in almost every paragraph to justify her beliefs in the stability of the orange-crops. Immediately following the topic of the excerpt Stowe demonstrates that the orange-crop is the steadies of any fruit that is not only her belief but they are the same beliefs of numbers others in the industry. Furthermore, she goes on to prove that although frost is a danger, it is not all that common. With the most compelling evidence, she gives her crop as proof and how many times they lost the it through frost.

The speaker then states, “We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain.” This paints a bright, glistening image of work and a great harvest, which symbolizes a thriving adulthood. By using these images, the speaker illustrates how we should live life and how, she, herself should have lived her life. The poem then makes a transition to the speaker’s experience of nearing death. The speaker states, “We passed the Setting Sun/

20). In the fifth stanza, she fulfills every child’s dream of the parent’s constant attention by sleeping “in the cornucopia / of your left ear, out of the wind” (C. 21), safely surrounded by and encompassing his interest. This is, of course, undercut by the fact that it is not her father’s ear or attention at all, but an inanimate statue symbolizing frightening impermanence. The poem begins and ends with the recognition that what is lost is truly lost. She begins prophetically, “I shall never get you put together entirely”. Ending nestled in his ear, she seeks solace in the pattern of colored stars, knowing that she must find fulfillment in the world immediately around her, by “no longer….listen[ing] for the scrape of a keel on the blank stones of landing”(C. 21).