Well, my thesis here, if you look back to my introduction, is that this essay's directions should help you to put together a decent essay. ... Do the same in the case of poetry, but denote line breaks with spaced slashes. ... ("The Birth of Tragedy" 1-5, 9-11) The sets of bracketed spaced periods in these examples represent ellipses--portions of the text that I did not include in my quotation. The first two ellipses in the Milton example (three spaced periods) let my reader know that I have omitted a word or words from that sentence. The next ellipsis (three spaced periods and then a fou...

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These two events were crucial for the history of America, and we can assume there were many groups fascinated about the space, and technology. ... In the next three paragraphs I will present some of the elements found in the poem, a description of each verse and finally my analysis. ... " ­­­­ The first verse is tricky and it is hard to notice a sarcastic tone, yet my arguments consists in opening peoples eyes to understand the message and in order to do this, we need to think again about the context. ... A meadow should be a space for nature to grow, and our society takes advantag...

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My Captain!" ... I SAW IN LOUISIANA A LIVE-OAK GROWING (1867) I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing, All alone stood it and the moss hung down from the branches, Without any companion it grew there uttering joyous leaves of dark green, And its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself, But I wonder"d how it could utter joyous leaves standing alone there without its friend near, for I knew I could not, And I broke off a twig with a certain number of leaves upon it, and twined around it a little moss, And brought it away, and I have placed it in sight in my room, It i...

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" The persona uses this stanza to compliment himself for not killing the snake and respecting its space. ... His sentiment towards "my snake" is possessive in his immediate change in heart. ...

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