The first two lines of the poem sets up cummings sarcastic style well, first telling the reader to "pity this busy monster, manunkind," and then modifying the clause at the beginning of the following line (which has an additional space between the two lines) with "not." ... cummings thereupon begins to examine progress's victim, for whom (death and life [are] safely beyond) Typically, the two ideas are reversed in the form of life and death, but cummings chose to place the more concrete concept in front and then move on to the more abstract. ... Ignoring the parenthetical aside, cummi...

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" (lines 10-12). ... What a trash To annihilate each decade" (lines 16-24). ... In the next few lines, Lady Lazarus describes her own body as a million little strands in front of a "peanut-crunching crowd" (line 26), like a circus or a carnival, and she seems to be the main event. ... I do it so it feels real" (lines 46-47). ... (lines 51-55). ...

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We may need to read "against the grain-; we many have to listen between the lines. ... (Lines 5-6) His horse thinks that is (gay or odd) that they are not stopping near a farmhouse. ... (Lines 9-10) He r! ings the front door to see if he is at the right houses. ... (Lines 15-16) The speaker has mile to go before he can get some sleep. ...

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When you first think of a mask you think of something along the lines of an object concealing the face, serving for protection, disguise, or you may even envision a miraculous performance or a religious ceremony. ... The transformation seemed astonishing, as if to disappear right in front of me as swiftly as it had appeared. While standing in front of this painting, the first thing that came to my mind was Rey Mysterio. ... On the front of the mask was a large cross. ... He then creates an exploration of reconstructing identity, which worked both cooperatively and antagonistically with...

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Yet at the beginning, I was afraid of making a fool of my self in front of the whole school. ... However, there were also three roles that had the most lines and were created to make people see reason. ...

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From those lines (7 through 8), I believe that Henry was trying tell us that in order to have creativity you have to be shown how; at the "most elevated and critical hour " you are experiencing something that is inexplicable through constant thinking. ... "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. " From this quote, it tells me that the person Henry is talking about was willing to learn to find his true self. ...

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-Walker Percy, The Loss of the Creature With this opening paragraph, Walker Percy concentrates the essence of an entire essay into two neat lines. ...

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