The Black Bird

Harper Lee’s 1960 novel “To Kill a Mocking-bird” and the poem “The Child” by Valerie Church. “To Kill a Mocking-bird” explores the prejudices associated with the coloured and underprivileged community group in a small town of the central Alabama which contrasts to the simplistic nature of a mentally-disabled boy in “The Child”. Through the juxtaposition of ideas conveyed in both texts, audiences are confronted with a greater

eight different species in the wooded area are brown spider, black bird, pillbug, big red ant with black head, sparrow, earthworm, red-headed woodpecker, and bigger brown spider. The brown spider had a total of one species with a relative abundance of 0.0526. The black bird had a total of one species with a relative abundance of 0.0526. The pillbug had a total of three species with a relative abundance of 0.1579. The big red ant with black head had a total of five species with a relative

Poetic Device Analysis In the poem “Hope” by Emily Dickinson, persona described hope as a confident and audacious bird that go against chillest land and strangest sea, with the bird that is in your inside. Different from that poem called “Hope” by Sri Chinmoy, persona associated hope with sun and happiness and created a different interpretation on hope by using different metaphors. With use of different metaphors, hope portrayed as a different kind of thing and this made poems interpretation

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou Dear Listener, In I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou describes her life growing up as an insecure black girl in the South during the 1930s and 1940s. Maya’s parents divorced when she was only three years old. Maya and her older brother, Bailey, went to live with their grandmother, Annie Henderson, in Arkansas. Annie runs the only store in the black section of Stamps and soon becomes an important figure in Maya’s life. As young children,

Angelou, Maya once said, "The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart." Angelou is a fantastic poet who grew up on church. Five days a week her grandma, who she called Momma, took her there. After many life struggles Angelou gave birth to her first son, Guy, at the age of 16. Maya Angelou, inspired by Shakespeare and female artists, wrote her heart into her poetry(brainy). Maya Angelou was an amazing an American poet. Angelou was

gothic time period of the nineteenth was the use of a bird as a type of omen. The Albatross in Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, is shot from the sky and many terrible things ensue after it’s death and it is seen as an omen to the

Animals symbolized the good and the evil in the celtic culture, and much hasn't change till this day. Celtics viewed animals as symbols of herosim, strength, beauty, evil, death , omens, and almost everything else in their daily lives. For example the dog was viewed as a spiritual guardian to its owner, a friend, and a tool that was depended on at times. Today their role hasn't changed much and still symbolizes everything they did to the celtics. We have a great friendship bond with our dogs, and

The Runaway Bird I stood there, looking in through the bars of the cage, watching the birds fly around their enclosure. I rested my hands on one of the metal bars on the cage as I watched my favorite bird, Sky, she was the bird I got for my 12th birthday that year. Sky was a bird with blue feathers and white areas on its stomach that looked like clouds. I loved to watch the birds play with each other. I was allowed to hold them, but I was not aloud to take them out of the cage without an adult

In his poem “The Great Scarf of Birds”, John Updike uses a flock of birds to show that man can be uplifted by observing nature. Updike’s conclusion is lead up to with the beauty of autumn and what a binding spell it has on the two men playing golf. In Updike’s conclusion and throughout the poem, he uses metaphors, similes, and diction to show how nature mesmerizes humans. In John Updike’s poem “The Great Scarf of Birds”, he uses diction and figurative speech to depict the beautiful autumn season

Othello by William Shakespeare and “Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou have similar themes such as anger and racism. Both of them discuss how anger can be a cage from which the prisoner cannot escape. However, in “Caged Bird” racism reduces opportunities of the minority whereas in Othello, Othello was able to gain a high position despite the prejudice against him. Othello’s anger prevents him from having a healthy marriage, i.e. one with open communication. When Iago implies that Desdemona had sex with