The poem "What You Are Doing Now" by Gary Hyland, is a very peculiar poem. The character is "you" and the poem is about what "you" are doing now, which is reading the poem. At first, "you" dislike the idea of reading a poem, and then "you" begin to really like it. But then, "your" teacher tells "you" to write an analysis of the poem, and suddenly, the poem is not so nice anymore. "Then your teacher announces that you have thirty minutes to write an analysis of this poem and when you look the poem spits in your face and stops." ...

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William Blake attempts to discover the very moment when evil was created in his poem "The Tyger-. ... Even at this early stage of the poem, Blake is making it abundantly clear that he wishes the Tyger to take on a menacing and, fundamentally, evil fazade. ... To try and make the poem more historically significant or more universal to a larger group of people, Blake uses two popular images to signify God. ... Thus, Blake makes the poem more universal as well as to appear timeless. ... Here, the reader is lead to incorporate more Greek mythology into the analysis of the poem. ...

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Drawn by his own cords of fear and longing, man will imagine that he is tired of the light and his small, familiar world.3 "No amount of rationalization... or Freudian analysis" can overcome "the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood."4 Why? ... This is most likely due to the fact that American society is "[inching] ever closer to embracing phenomena that science [cannot] answer."12 Even highly esteemed academic publications such as the Journal of Scientific Exploration "now treat the paranormal with as much respect and analysis as physics or the chaos theory."13 T...

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Obi misses home and writes romantic, lyrical poems about Nigeria during the winters in England. ... When he returns to Lagos he sees the slums he has not been to and the nostalgic poem he wrote about nature and how "sweet" it is to lie under trees under the "tender glow of the fading sun," is juxtaposed against the dead carcass of a dog "the dogs that taxi drivers hit for good luck. ...

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For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocriti...

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