Birthday by Christina Rossetti Everything in the first stanza speaks of the happiness Rossetti sees around her‚ and the repeated expression ‘My heart is like . . .’ stresses this joy‚ but she says at the end of the first stanza that her “heart is gladder than all these” which implies that what the poet is feeling is more than she can put in words. The persona compares her heart to the “singing bird” to bring out how overjoyed she felt. This may imply that the author’s heart had the same energetic
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	Christina Rossetti’s poem "A Birthday" and Kate Chopin’s short story "The Story of an Hour" present conflicting attitudes toward love. In particular the speaker in Rossetti’s poem is anticipating and overjoyed by the arrival of her new found love‚ whereas the character in Chopin’s story‚ after the initial shock of her new found freedom ‚ was overjoyed by the loss of her love. In the poem and short story several literary elements and techniques were used to convey these different attitudes
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"The Birthday Party" by Katharine Brush is a story in which shows how there is more to everything than what it looks like‚ Brush uses literary devices such as imagery to express how some people in a relationship can be really happy but aren’t‚ atmosphere to assert how the characters evening went from being delightful and intimate to catastrophic and bitter‚ and metaphor to indicate how Katharine Brush uses imagery to create a vivid picture of how happy it all starts to be. It says‚ "... in the
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Apparently with no surprise A happy-go-lucky flower gets its head chopped off by the frost. The sun sees the whole thing from up above‚ but doesn’t give a flip. Somewhere above‚ God watches it all thinking what a swell job he’s done. Oh Dickinson. You’re really quite something. Get out the microscope‚ because we’re going through this poem line-by-line. Lines 1-2 Apparently with no surprise To any happy Flower The first thing we notice is that we’ve got a little personification going on‚ meaning that
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6 Year Old Girl’s Birthday Party Observation I was invited to Madi’s birthday party.It was 3PM at her home.I arrived 5 minites earlier‚Madi greeted me at door.She was wearing a snow white dress with a red bow tie on her head.When I praised her pretty dress she thanked me and told me it was handmade by Farna‚her neighbor‚as her birthday gift.I handed her my gift‚she cheerfully put them together with the other gifts and went to her friends and classmates. 6 year old Madi has two elder sisters Katelyn
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The big surprise. Two years ago I was with my family visiting Chiapas‚ we were in Palenque and we rented a car so that it was easy for us to move around the entire city and visiting all the nearest towns around‚ the plan was to go in the car around the country. One of the first days we went to visit the entire archeologist zone and the pyramids. My brother and I went to the car like at 10 am to leave some souvenirs and a big statue of a cougar that my mother bought so we can walk more easily and
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Surprise of a lifetime The sun was shining in brightly and violently onto our pale skin through the small crack of the curtain that was left partially open from the night before. As I slowly began to wake I realized a shadow standing off to the side of my bed‚ quickly I opened my eyes straining to see this figure through the incoming sun beams. The figure moved and I soon realized it was just my husband Cody as he came closer I let out a long sigh in relief‚ and giggled a little out loud
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The short story "The Birthday Party" by Katherine Brush is a representation of life in the 1940’s‚ and so through this short story she uses a series of literary devices such as caricature‚ antecedents‚ and change in the atmosphere to convey her objective. The beginning of the story has humorous caricature describing the couple‚ the author keeps her characters ambiguous and vague so to represent a typical married couple in this era‚ and drama that comes with the atmosphere shift with the rejection
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Surprise Award Provokes Mixed Feelings President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on October 9th. The award has brought immense attention to the modest President. This is an immense accomplishment for Barack Obama as well as for anyone who is privilege enough to win such an award. The argument throughout this article is if Obama is truly justified in winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Scott Wilson does an impressive job of creating an argument within his writing. Both sides are expressed
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Assignment #1 Essay A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift The Humanities Volume II: Culture‚ Continuity‚ and Change April 28‚ 2013 Justino L. Berrios In Jonathan Swift’s essay A Modest Proposal‚ the author uses satire in the essay and the title itself‚ to make a point about the English government allowing the citizens of Ireland to starve to death. The proposal that he makes is by no means “modest‚” hence the sarcastic edge surrounding the title. The essay was written in 1729 and during that
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