Allusions a. ... God the Father knocks on the door to our hearts and breaks our spirit; He punishes and corrects the walk of Christians' paths just as parents do on earth. ... God the Holy Spirit shines and burns; like fire, the Holy Spirit burns in us and shines in our appearance. ... This part of the poem is obvious and probably the easiest allusion provided. ... But it seems the speaker is using this allusion to express individuality of each person of the trinity. ...

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Upon arriving at Thebes, Oedipus solves a riddle from the Sphinx who had been tormenting the town and causing chaos. ... Oedipus is really deceived by his own doing to do good but it's simply an allusion. ... Never did the ancient Greek philosophers believe that in our decade of the 21st century we would still be implementing some of their principles in our form of the "Oedipus Complex". ...

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The Utopian city of Omelas comes off as the ideal world to live in, even with the child who is constantly abused for the sake of the town's happiness. ... The allusion to sex might be something that helps people relate to the people of Omelas since it is a natural urge that all humans feel. ... This is some sort of a necessity for this town and its people. ... The boy or girl constantly endures pain and being humiliated so that others of the town can be live life happily. ... (p.1) They make do without the technological advancement and special equipment that people can use to make our liv...

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The side of town I lived on was very refined and exclusive. Many parents like mine, moved to the northeast side of the capital city to mask their children away from the apparent use of drugs and alcohol as well as the violent lifestyles of those who lived in the rural cities and ghettos that surround our downtown area. ... The group of teenagers known as the Waldo's, because their "chill spot" was on a wall outside of their school, used the term 420 as an allusion to the time when they would smoke during the school day which was 4:20 PM. ...

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The audience is left wondering if such powers truly do exist, and if such disaster could occur in their town. ... The only comfort we are given is a hint of what may possibly defeat it, the allusive "heartspels" the author spoke of. ... And the girls laughed and threw things and-Momma had been walking toward her, and now her hand flashed with sudden limber speed, a hard hand it struck her backhand across the jaw and Carrie fell down in the doorway between the hall and living room weeping loudly let us pray to Jesus for our woman-weak wicked sinning souls (King, pg.53)." ... In Carrie...

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Eliot wrote to Conrad Aiken on New Year's Eve 1914: "I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls...Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead." ... He also became the most influential critical voice of the movement, arguing for example that, in modern civilization, "the poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language to his meaning." ...

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John Kotre's How Memory Speaks describes memory as: "A scene we experience for a moment-and only once-remains clear in our minds for a lifetime, yet we forget the looks of things we see and touch almost every day." ... Through the allusion of the line: "Shoulder-high we bring you home... "The time you won your town the race/ we chaired you through the market- place/ Man and boy stood cheering by/ and home we brought you shoulder high/." ... Does memory provide a means to integrate ourselves into a future of our own devising or does it chain us to an unchangeable past? ...

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He lives in a much more urban town than Luke. ... Not even his father could help him; "I made vague allusions to personal problems and went away from them in cold despair. ... In this group of workers there happened to be a young man by the name of Hank Spruill who would change the way life was in the small town of Black Oak while he was there. ... On one Saturday, the day the whole family goes into town, the Spruills came too. ... It is a shame that in our society, people must suffer through hard times in order to grow and become more mature. ...

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12 Let us go and make our visit. 13 In the room the women come and go 14 Talking of Michelangelo. 15 The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes, 16 The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes, 17 Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening, 18 Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains, 19 Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys, 20 Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap, 21 And seeing that it was a soft October night, 22 Curled once about the house, and fell asleep. 23 And indeed there will be time 2...

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Smoking pot, and cruising up and down the strip are fun times for the narrator just like our kids will do. ... In a way he refers to it as an allusion or a dream he wanted to be but really knowing he wasn't there. ... I am sure he did not commit the murder but due to his appearance and reputation the whole town probably believes that he did. ...

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Well's father was also a race man in Mississippi who refused to be intimidated by the politics of his town. ... (1-21, w&w) CHAPTER 2 The first line in the poem ("you may write me down in history / with your bitter, twisted lies") refers to the way that attitudes towards African-Americans have been embedded within our nation's history. ... "Out of the huts of history's shame I rise" The "huts of history's shame" in stanza eight also makes an allusion to the oppression that African-American women faced. ...

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The play not only suggests this holiday, but also refers to "the rite of May,"" or "maying- - a similar English tradition that took place on the first night of May, when young men and women would engage in singing, dancing (and possibly more amorous pursuits) in the woods outside their towns. ... Shakespeare's clearest allusion to the royal member of his first audience, however, comes in Act II, Scene 1, when Oberon describes to Puck the fateful flower, "love-in-idleness,"" that will produce the magic juice. ...

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