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    for decades. These political issues are the symbols that transformed her into someone who is not just a woman, but a person whom clarifies these issues using poetry as a voice to define herself as a Black lesbian woman and an individual. The poem “Coal” is a poem that represents her ideals and her feelings towards being a voice among other feminists. It also shows her struggle as an individual that is caught between the issues of feminism coinciding with race, class, and sexism, which is also known

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    Kabul Poem Analysis

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    Kabul Kabul is a beautiful poem, written by Saib-e-Tabrizi, that is an ode addressing the city of Kabul. Throughout the poem Tabrizi describes the beauty of Kabul. The theme is Kabul is beautiful. The literary devices in this poem are similes, personification,and allusion. These three literary devices portray theme and describe how beautiful Kabul really is. The first literary device that expresses the theme that Kabul is beautiful is personification. Throughout the poem Kabul is addressed as a female

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    and express any suppressed feelings with a literary approach. Similarly, the confessional poem “The Colossus” by Sylvia Plath and the imagist poem “The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson both depict the emotional trauma caused due to the loss of lives. Plath’s poem “The Colossus” expresses the absence of her father and its impact on her life personally. Whereas, Tennyson’s narrative poem “The Charge of the Light Brigade” explores the grief of violence and sufferings of war due

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    life—loss. “Kaleidoscope” is best summarized in the word ‘adjusting’ as the poem perfectly depicts the abrupt changes that can and sometimes do occur in life. Reibetanz captures the unpredictability of life through his use of imagery and figurative language as he reflects on loss. “Kaleidoscope” is filled with sentiment. It reminds readers of their youth as John loses his. Its innocence is present throughout the poem, as Reibetanz conjures up the image of playing pretend and cardboard boxes became

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    Alaska. The word conjures images of majestic mountains, deep-blue glaciers, adventure, and quite possibly the most extreme and rugged place on Earth. My family spent one of the greatest weeks of our lives there this past summer. Homer is the last stop along the Alaskan highway system, five hours southwest of Anchorage. It isn’t much, just a couple hundred houses nestled high up on the hillside, and a sandy spit, jutting five miles into the sea. Across the bay from Homer lies Kachemak Bay State Park

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    Hailey growing up with Zuko Hailey walked over to sierra who was being held by their mother, she kissed her little sister’s forehead and said. “Its ok sissy is here.” she handed the Stuffed Puppy bear she was holding to sierra and JJ, they clung to it and stopped their crying. Hailey looked at their parents tears threatening to fall down her face. “bye mommy, bye daddy I’ll miss you….” she said with tear filled eyes as the Fire nation Soldiers dragged them away. “What is your name girl.” the

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    Dominique Woodrup Composition 2 Luarie Johnson November 11,2016 The Poem "I, Too" is otherwise called "I, Too, Sing America," and was at first titled "Epilog" when it showed up in The Weary Blues, the 1926 volume of Langston Hughes ' verse. It has been anthologized more than once and researchers have expounded on it ordinarily. It is composed in free verse and elements short lines and basic dialect. Hughes kept in touch with "I, Too" from the point of view of an African American man - either a

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    Pentagram The simple definition of the term pentagram is a five-pointed star whose arms are equal length that is drawn with a continuous line. Throughout history, this symbol has been used by religions and has many different meanings. The Pentagram can be traced back to carvings on stone walls in ancient Mesopotamia, dating these carvings leads us back to 3500 BC. Many cultures use the symbol for various things. It is a sign of royalty, representing power sent to the four corners of the earth;

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    Author’s Background-Flannery O 'Connor was an only child and was born on March 25, 1925, in Savannah, Georgia. She lost her father when she was a teenager. She studied Writing in the University of Iowa for a masters and published her first short story called “The Geranium” in 1946. She wrote novels but is mostly well known for her short stories. She received various award throughout her carries, one of those being O. Henry Award in 1957. After fighting lupus for more than a decade, she died in August

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    Tommy in the Fountain is a character faced with the dilemma of mortality in the physical realm and can not accept the grim, inevitable death that faces all of humankind. In the world of The fountain, there are three planes of existence which correlate to the past, present, and future/consciousness. Darren Aronofsky intertwines these three times periods creating a nonlinear perspective of time, but it is in line with the general plot of the movie. Aronofsky wants the viewer to link the time periods

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