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    because it was all stuff we needed to know, from Mary Rowlandson to Johnathan Edwards. In a Tempest: An Ode to the Hurricane by Jose Maria Heredia is one text I think Mr. Higginbotham should include in his class because it speaks of a different country, shows how they wanted to control America and covers things that are common to today in America all through the symbol of a Hurricane. In a Tempest: An Ode to the

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    Creativity can sometimes be the result of torment. Ludwig van Beethoven was a famous classical composer with a hard life. Throughout his entire life, he suffered from various diseases, hearing difficulties, mental disorders and social problems, (Russell and Nibley 25 ). Yet despite all of these terrible ailments, he was able to compose music that is considered some of the best ever composed, and that is still appreciated today. Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany on December 17, 1770 (F.C.C). His

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    stimulus The gum is touched It isn’t pleasant It’s different An act of rebellion The power is the teacher The teacher is regulated The regulators are regulated Dwindling in numbers Climbing higher and higher Power is everything And I have none. An Ode to Music Music is not an escape It enhances the senses Places emotions in an emotionless place It blurs what need not to be heard It gives time, rest Comforts Inheritance My loving mother Gave me something personal: Her mental illness The Narration

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    “Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret.” (Keats) In “Ode to A Nightingale,” John Keats is the narrator who is in a state of drowsiness and numbness when he sees a nightingale and then goes on to explain his encounter with the bird. Although the surface level meaning of the poem is a man expressing his thought to and about a bird, there is a deeper meaning that can be seen when you investigate the literary devices

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    In "'To Autumn' and the Curing Space" by Alan Bewell, delivers some arguments regarding New Historical views of Keat’s poem “To Autumn.” This poem is written as a life and rebirth of what is in front of the person and what is present in the reality of the real world to his readers. I think this New Historical reading of the poem is reinforced through this traditional reading of Keats's poetry. The poem has five different points (themes) which are presented with Bewell. The first point of "To Autumn"

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    This manga study will analyze animality through the human-centric world that is presented in Ode to Kirihito by Osamu Tezuka. Tezuka’s graphic novel defines the story of a doctor named Kirihito Osanai that is on a quest to cure a disease that turns human beings into dog-people. Initially, the dog-people provide insight into an animal world perspective of human beings, which forces the victims of the disease to have compassion and understanding for canines. However, the quest to return to human form

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    Here he accepts life with Joy and Sorrow. Before Ode to Auttumn, Keats is a poet with an insatiable desire for the joy of life but in the ode Keats reaches a stage of impersonality where the process of death and decay are acceptable to him. It is the most perfect of the odes of Keats. Keats with all his poetic qualities is here in the poem which has a unique and perfect expression even the severest critic finds

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    longing for the world to be a better place and fixing the world is continued in the undertone of “Ode to a Tomato” where Neruda focuses mainly on politics. Neruda in “Ode to a Tomato” uses a lot of figurative language, possibly to symbolize a hidden meaning because once more he is hiding. This figurative language could be Neruda's way of secretly sending a message while still in hiding. Pablo Neruda wrote “Ode to a Tomato” when he was in hiding in Chile for protesting against the president. One can see

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    Old school conquers new school: A personal response to “An Ode to the User-Friendly Pencil” Technology is upgrading itself and is, perhaps, taking over the world. From virtual reality to supercomputers, people are depending more on technology in their everyday lives, but is it necessary? Technology has reached the point where Samsung phones are becoming C4 explosives and 4K televisions do not display 4K quality. In “An Ode to the User-Friendly Pencil” by Bonnie Laing, she explains how a simple

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    we see the two poems “that time of year” by shakespeare and “To Autumn” by Keats has inseparable role of youth and death as a analogy for life flow of season,.although both poem depict death and dying as tribble tragedy. poem To autumn presents death as season while That time of year present death as . First , we see In theses poems, the act of creation is pictured as a kind of self-harvesting; the pen harvests the fields of the brain, and books are filled with the resulting "grain" . In "To Autumn"

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