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    Robert Kellerman March 26, 2013 Their World in Ruins: “Abandoned Farmhouse” by Ted Kooser The objects people keep in their homes can tell a story about who they are or were. Each item possessed by the residents of a house is evidence of how these people may have lived. Ted Kooser’s poem “Abandoned Farmhouse” takes the reader on a walkthrough of the remains of a farmhouse where a poor family once lived. In “Abandoned Farmhouse,” Kooser selects seemingly insignificant relics left behind by each

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    The Bennett Place Farmhouse and discovered the history that hides behind this simple farmhouse. Fascinated by my trip, my perspective opened up to a variety of views and ideas about the battles and surrenders that resulted from the Civil War. The history of the site, the valuables and sighting, and my reflection towards the Bennett Place Historic Site all contributed to my understanding of the many surrenders that occurred during the great Civil War . The Bennett Place farmhouse, at the time of 1846

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    How could we obtain weighted measurements about the foundational and no-foundational materials at the DePauw Farmhouse? Rational: As a member of the quantification group, the analysis of the Kellogg and Seeley deconstruction projects represents my group’s end goal. Thus, I wish to know how the calculated such beautiful numbers to introduce within their analysis of the deconstruction impact. What future developments for the deconstructing community could be made in order to allow all materials

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    In the world of poetry, meaningful stories are not always outright spoken to you. They are hidden in the visual clues, and choice of words that poets so elaborately craft. In the poem, “Abandoned Farmhouse”, Ted Kooser, uses different types of figurative language to create a poem that illustrates humanity itself. Kooser uses vast amounts of imagery, and sullen diction to show the devastated state humans fall into when faced with problems they cannot solve. Through the use of diction, Kooser shows

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    “Something went wrong” (Kooser). This quotation well represents both the poems “A Room in the Past” and “Abandoned Farmhouse” by Ted Kooser. In the former, a person goes through the kitchen of their grandmother’s house, who is presumably dead. In the latter, a man is unable to provide for his family, and then something goes wrong. Both of these poems share similar yet slightly differing themes and tones. First off, the poem “A Room in the Past” is about a man returning to the home of his deceased

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    The poems Nothing Gold Can Stay and Abandoned Farmhouse. Both of these poems have differences and similarities. Some similarities are change, mood, and. Some differences are rhyming patterns and personification. Some similarities are change in Abandoned Farmhouse at first they lived in a but at the end they didn't. Some text evidence is '' Somthing went wrong, says the empty house. Also because at the beginning of Nothing Gold Can Stays everything was perfect but at the end it wasn't. Another

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    The two poems Nothing Gold Can Stay and Abandoned Farmhouse both had many similarities and many differences. Some similarities are that they both represent change,they both have imagery, and they both include alliteration. Some differences are that on Nothing Gold Can Stay the author uses a rhyme scheme and this poem is more about life. In the poem Abandoned Farmhouse the author uses personification,character development,and the poem is more about hardship. In the poem Nothing Gold Can Stay

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    There are six things that Nothing Gold Can Stay and Abandoned farmhouse have in common. The things that the two poems have in common are: they both involve life, change, alliteration and sadness/ loss. In Nothing Gold Can Stay it involves life because the poem is about nature. I know this because it says in the poem " Her early leaf's a flower." Which means a flower's first sprout. This means life to me because a flower is nature. I love that they both involve change because change is a big part

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    shading of the farmhouse in the painting, etc. With that being said; one should have a pretty good idea on what this farmhouse, and its surroundings look like by now. The next question we usually ask ourselves is “why?” why the color, why the worn out look of the farmhouse, why the surroundings, in general why is the painting depicted like this? That brings up the need to analyze the work of art at hand. When focusing on this painting, you can see a few birds soaring over the farmhouse. They’re quite

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    Abandoned Farmhouse and Nothing Gold Can Stay are very different poems, but the have some similarities between them. One similarity between Abandoned Farmhouse and Nothing gold can stay is they have a similar overall theme. That theme is change. A couple lines from Abandoned Farmhouse that helps me prove this theme is change is“He was a big man, says the size of hi shoes. A women lived with him, says the bedroom wall papered in with lilacs. They had a child, says the sandbox made from a tractor tire

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