Assignment details Essay 3 calls for students to discuss personification techniques used in Emily Dickinson’s poem “Because I Could Not Stop for Death.” How does Dickinson employ personification in this poem? How, by making objects act as humans, does she change the reader’s experience reading her work? Writing requirements Students will use a minimum of 2 quotes from the text to back […]
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What is Toomer’s purpose in ending “Blood-Burning Moon” with such a graphic and shocking depiction of a lynching? And why does the song close the story after the disturbing imagery? What is the song’s effect? Support your answer by referring to details from the story. Don’t use quotes, however; simply refer briefly to key moments from the story that support your answer. Start your post with a thesis that answers these questions. Then explain your answer more fully in the rest of your post.
Discussion Post 5 passage of time have any significance to the rest of the story? How so? Support your answer by referring to details from the story. Don’t use quotes, however; simply refer briefly to key moments from the story that support your answer. Start your post with a thesis that answers these questions. Then […]
Compare the ways in which the poem and story may be considered representative of American culture during the time period in which it was written.
3 paragraphs to compare the ways in which the poem and story may be considered representative of American culture during the time period in which it was written. Additional info in document
What effect does this have for the reader? What does it tell you about Dickinson that she so easily identifies with something other than her own experience or identity?
In Emily Dickinson’s poems “My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun” and “I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died,” she speaks in the voice of someone (or something) different from herself. In one poem she is a speaking gun; in the other she is dead. What effect does this have for the reader? What […]
From the Readings 36.6 The Poems of Langston Hughes – To what extent, do these circumstances remain?Explain.
1. What sentiments dominate Neruda’s poem United Fruit Company? 2. What is the function of Neruda’s mock Last Judgement? 3. From the Readings 36.6 The Poems of Langston Hughes – To what extent, do these circumstances remain? 4. In the poem The Mother by Gwendolyn Brooks, what is the poem describing? 5. Are Gwendolyn Brooks […]
In “Home Burial,” Robert Frost depicts the marital breakdown of a couple who have lost a child. Choose symbol, imagery, or metaphor and explain both how it is used and why it is essential to the poem.
Topic: In “Home Burial,” Robert Frost depicts the marital breakdown of a couple who have lost a child. Choose symbol, imagery, or metaphor and explain both how it is used and why it is essential to the poem. Paper details: Please allow the document to be unlocked so that I can add some things myself, […]
Describe the theme of optimism or hope derived from the poem. What gives you this impression? What impact does the theme have on the poem?
After reading the poem “I, Too” by Langston Hughes, write a 5 paragraph essay of two and half to three pages long describing the theme of optimism or hope derived from the poem. What gives you this impression? What impact does the theme have on the poem? Remember to use specific examples from the poem […]
Choose one of the poems we have read by Emily Dickinson and discuss what you think it means.
1. Consider the possibility that Emily Dickinson was not heterosexual, based on the Dickinson PowerPoint and the poems. Choose at least one text that you think either supports the idea that she was or was not straight. 2. Choose one of the poems we have read by Emily Dickinson and discuss what you think it […]
Whose theories were the most outrageous, influential and mind blowing: Mies van der Rohe, R. Buckminster Fuller or John Cage?Discuss.
Chapter 4 (Chapter 35), The Quest for Meaning (please answer questions in complete sentences) 1)Regarding Sartre’s “Existentialism”, in your own words, explain “existence precedes essence” and “existential anguish.” 2)In Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, what aspect of “the absurd” are communicated in this reading? 3) In Thomas’ Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, how […]
Identify a poem that is an expression of unhappiness toward the ruler? What is the complaint? What image did the poet used to represent the ruler? Why?
1. Look at “Plums are falling” specifically. What do you think this poem is about? Who is speaking? What does “plums” stand for? (It is a metaphor. It is helpful to think about when plums fall and what do ripe fruits usually stand for.) 2. Tradition has it, at least the legend goes, that in […]
