The flow of the poem itself gives the reader a feeling of swinging on branches. ... Robert Frost's use of diction in this poem is very specific and creative in order for the speaker to give the audience a vivid description of the trees and the cause for the birches present appearance. ... As the speaker is looking at the drooping trees, he imagines what could have caused the trees to droop. ... The speaker discusses going to heaven by climbing a birch tree to the very top until he could go no further, and then gently being placed back down on earth by the tree. Although the reality of t...

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A couple of lines later Frost gives us an insight into how reality is: They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed So low for long, they never right themselves. ... Frost gives a clear explanation of how the boy swings the trees in these lines. Frost states a couple of lines later that the boy knows how far to bend the tree before he can break it. ... In lines thirty-one and thirty-two the boy is victorious of putting the trees down, " not one was left / For him to conquer." ... Reality is portrayed as bent birches, and i...

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Life seemed so unbearable at times that I wanted to fall, to crack and just to give in to all around me. ... I would remember then the leaf that swayed in the wind; not falling, not giving up. ... I ran outside to the tree I admired so much with all it's beautiful leaves. ... I sat by that old tree for hours and just thought about everything going on in my life. ...

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A realist would say that if a tree fell in the forest, even if no one heard it or ever knew that the tree fell, it still made a sound. When a tree falls there is going to be sound regardless of whether someone hears it or not. ... Touch, taste and smell will give them a better understanding of what the world is about. ... Their role is to give the students the correct information in the most efficient manner possible. ...

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(line 5) as a one-word sentence to give it emphasis. ... As the two walk the author uses very descriptive words to give detail to the landscape, "Her down the street, across/A used car lot and a line/Of newly planted trees,/Until we were breathing/Before a drugstore. ... Instead of just saying we walked past a car lot and trees, the author gives us a more descriptive picture and uses "used" car lot and "newly" planted trees as images against the cold December walk. ... He trades one of his oranges, one of his symbols of joy, to buy his girlfriend a piece of chocolate, giving of his own joy i...

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Then one sees the piercing vertical line of the dark cypress tree creates directional force pushing the eyes up to the sky and emphasizing how dramatic nature can be and making it very dynamic. ... The green spreading hills create a two-point perspective giving a very meaningful point to the wonders of the universe. ... The dark browns and blacks of the town give warmth and comfort to the contrasting blazing starts that glare down. ... This painting is so emotional that it could evoke the movements of thought in a willow tree. ... It almost gives the illusion that Van Gough made the pain...

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Whenever Martin Luther King used to give speeches he would do it in such a powerful way. ... When reading his "Letter to Luis de Santangel Regarding the First Voyage" he describes "trees of a thousand kind [that seemed to] touch the sky." ...

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She was left behind, to cry, to whine, under a tree for days until the chief of the village found her. ... They believed that their princess was a child giving by the gods to watch over them. With this thought on their mind they respected and bowed down to her, giving her all she wanted, everything. ... The smell wafted through the village, into the huts, around the trees. ...

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It did not matter how big or small, simple or ornate, old or new something was "Japhy freely gave or shared, but did not give for mindless reasons. "Smith, you don't realize that it's a privilege to practice giving gifts to others. The way he did it was charming; there was nothing glittery or Christmasy about it, but almost sad, and sometimes his gifts were beat up old things but they had the charm of usefulness and the sadness of his giving-(76). 3 " not allowing the mind to depend upon notions evoked by the sensible world "by not allowing the mind to depend ...

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Vaughan gives a definition of Theosophy to be " a theosophist is one who gives you a theory of God, or the works of God, which has not revelation, but an inspiration of his own for its basis." ... Theosophy gives guiding principles that can be achieved through continuing development of the mind. ... A human consciousness will take the form of a human and the consciousness of a bird or a tree can only become a bird or a tree. ... Our genes are passes down from generation to generation and say a human couldn't give birth to a plant or any other animal. ...

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Upon entering the forest he is suspicious of every rock and tree, thinking something evil will jump out at him. ... When he sees this it destroys any faith he might have had in the community or himself and he appears to give-up. ...

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The bare trees seemed as if their vitality had been sapped, drained from their limbs. ... Of all my recollections the most treasured was and is when with a beautiful smile adorning her face and a glittering glow in her eyes she would look at me and tell me not to give up in the struggle of life. ...

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If we don't die prematurely of mortal wounds or disease we are destined to wither away like a leaf on a tree in autumn. ... The only thing that I can say to e give even the slightest glimmer of hope to humanity is that this is for certain: we are living now, and it is far better to be alive than dead. ...

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Carrying her baby in hand, she walked through the muddy streets to a field an then there; placed her baby on cornhusks then went to a nearby tree to read the letter. ... Her next realization came during her daydream by the kalamansi tree and with her baby almost hurt. ... Sometimes, when I'm having too much fun from all the freedom college life is giving me, I tend to forget my responsibilities and my duties. ...

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"As for the reflection of men...if I am going to be drowned -- if I am going to be drowned -- why in the name of the seven mad Gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come this far and contemplate sand and trees? ... I am proud of their realization to never give up in this life. ... They are polite to each other and their arms are around each other's shoulders, which gives the sign of brotherhood. ...

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What makes these times easier is having others to either bear the load with you or give you advice to lead you through your struggles. ... That is the case in Barbara Kingsolver's novel, The Bean Trees, where all of the characters do their best to help each other get through hard times. ... Taylor needed them to pretend that Turtle was their daughter and that she was giving her up to Taylor in which Taylor would have sole custody. ...

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I could see flashbacks of my past, the time I first rode on a bicycle, when I got my licence and slammed into the tree the very next day, the day I won a thousand dollars in the lottery. ... He told me it should give me an idea of what happened. ...

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That was a horrible day; a giant shudder convulsed my body as the wind made contact, chilling me to the bone. My eyes scanned the surroundings looking for a shape or shadow in the blinding whiteness. The trees were all white too, like monster blobs with only a touch of green color coming through the...

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Nature treats us with the effect that the sky, mountain, tree and animal give us a delight in and for themselves. ... The use of the outer creation was to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation. ... Emerson believed space, time, society, labor, climate, food, locomotion, the animals, the mechanical forces give us sincerest lessons, day by day, whose meaning is unlimited. ... Emerson points out to us, through discipline, of the effects that nature gives us, and how we deal with it. ...

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Most fathers would for on not talk about money right after his wives death, and he would give the money to his daughter instead of being greedy. ... If my father ever refused to save my mother from dieing, I would give him a piece of my mind. ... I actually know someone that came home one day from work and saw his own brother hanging from a tree in their front yard. ...

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Most fathers would for on not talk about money right after his wives death, and he would give the money to his daughter instead of being greedy. ... If my father ever refused to save my mother from dieing, I would give him a piece of my mind. ... I actually know someone that came home one day from work and saw his own brother hanging from a tree in their front yard. ...

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It can't give concrete answers to some questions, the questions of existence. ... This presumption that all things can be explained here on earth and can be understood and interpreted by us gives way to pride. ... Appreciation of nature requires much more than a mere knowledge of its parts and the transcendence it gives rise to can not be contained in the mind, it must spill over into the soul. ... As I stepped closer still I became almost bothered by all the individual strokes of the brush, I began to wonder if there was any set relation that they bore to one another, if I could perhaps ...

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Visual Impairment "The world is dark, and bland. There is nothing and no one that can help me now. I am all alone." As he walked down the street, George Gray thought to himself for a few moments. "Why is the world shaped the way it is? Why does everything have to constantly be the same...

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I'm pretty sure I love her in my mind as to love someone to me is to care about them, think about them when you go to sleep and when you wake, treasure the time your with them and give them everything they wont, most of all your heart! For our future only time will tell but I see us lasting for a while but we have to watch ourselves we do not treed to deeply into each others lives as we both have other commitments that we have to consider: Exams, Hobbies and most of all Family and Friends. ...

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It felt as if my boots were giving my feet Chinese water torture, but instead of water drip, drip dripping, it was my hiking boots rubbing incessantly against my feet chafe, chafe, chafing with every step. ... Just the smell of the thick pine trees and the rugged terrain were enough to make a person quit. ...

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