The rhyming also allows readers to understand and presume the strong sense of determination being inferred. ... The comparisons she is making endows readers to imagine how she is feeling and also feel the determination she has to keep on rising. "Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise" Angelou is constantly comparing herself to inanimate objects that rise, just as she does in the lines above. She describes, just like the sun and the moon she is going to continue to rise. This lets readers imagine the sun and ...

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She also seems to be seduced by his good manners. 2 Lines 9-12- This stanza is filled with massive imagery. ... She begins to see many things that she has rarely noticed before: children playing, wheat growing, and "the setting sun." ... The "setting sun" is the universal clock, which measure peoples" lives on earth. ... The sun "passed Us," which is a portrayal of the passage of time by its daily course in the sky. ... The "setting sun" indicates a temporary ending, but the sun again rises on the next day...

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She is also fluent in English, French, Spanish, Italian, and West African Fanti. ... The phrase "Still I Rise", and "I rise are used repeatedly through out the poem. ... In stanza three she compares her strength and determination (which was derived from her ancestry) to the sun, the moon and the tides. These powerful phenomenon rise and fall but they always rise again. ... I rise, I rise, I rise." ...

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These sonnets are also in iambic pentameter. ... There is also a sense of "Carpe Diem- here. ... This reference to alchemy gives rise to the idea of illusion, as alchemy was a deceptive art. ... By giving rise to the idea that the narrator is talking about a young man - a lover, it appears the narrator has been scorned by the actions of the said young man. ... The third quatrain indicates the narrator, though hurt by the disgrace of the "sun-, is still in awe by the "splendour- of the "sun-. ...

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In Momaday's essay he uses personification to describe the knoll that is rising out of the plain when he says "a single knoll rises out of the plain in Oklahoma"(Momaday ). ... Brown also uses alliteration in his writing; "Arapahos roamed restlessly,"(Brown68) and "that summer it seemed"(Brown68). ... You also get an image of the land turning to a desert type land when he poses that the sun is baking the "dry earth drier"(Brown68). ...

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Thomas says in the poem, "Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; / Though lovers be lost love shall not" (7-8). ... In lines such as, "No more may gulls cry" (20) and a "break in the sun till the sun breaks down / And death shall have no dominion," (26-27) Thomas shows the reader that even if the sun never shines again death will not rule. ... The child knows time allows such mornings but he also understands that he will not always be there to enjoy them. ... "Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, / And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way" means that these m...

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There is also the thought that the dream may explode breaking up into millions of ideas for others to ponder upon. ... The poem suggests the inevitability of violence if racial cruelty is allowed to continue and A Raisin in the Sun first appears at the dawn of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960's. ... Something that makes Hughes" poem so poetic is his reference to the play A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry. ... Walter wants to have a successful business so that he can rise above the poverty he has always known. ... Hughes also asks the question: "Does it dry up Like a ra...

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Judith also illustrates the child as its own personal unique creation of a mother and a father. ... "The sun must rise-, perhaps indicates there is an end to everything, and also a beginning. ... She also describes the negative and side of a child exiting her womb, and now she cannot control it with the same amount of power as she did when the baby was still in her. ...

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He took care of his brother, Tom, who also died. ... How can one know joy without pain, does not the sun shine brighter after a storm or something gaily poetic like that? ... How the morning sun rises and shines beautifully even if over a war torn world. ...

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The trees also hide the road as it passes from sight around the bend. ... They are shown as an opponent for a boy that, once beaten, though very resilient, will never rise again. ... Also, "I" has miles to go and "promises to keep". ... The sun is glaring off of the snow, and I can hear the ice falling now and again, and the cracking of the birches as they blow one against another. ... This also symbolizes the choices that we have to make in our lives. ...

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This image which appeals to the sense of sound and also to basic human compassion is very striking as it is clear that there continue to be more victims of the "broadening darkness", which represents in this poem something which has destroyed a genuine and lively love. ... Another aspect of this absence will be the lack of any passing of time: "the twilight that doth not rise nor set". The speaker's reference to something which is assumed to be completely intransient and permanent is cleverly used by Rosetti, as the setting of the sun is something which no man can control. ... She clearly...

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It means to cry, so it also tells us of their misery and unhappiness. ... This stanza also gives a hint of something else; Tom Dacre's hair is white and curls like the back of a lamb. ... They also symbolize death; this profession was a sure death for them because of the hazardous conditions of both the work in general and their poor quality of life. ... From poem 1, the fourth stanza and the first two lines of the fifth stanza display how white works as a positive element in contrast to black: And by came an Angel who had a bright key, And he open'd the coffins & set them all fr...

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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree {Davidoff, 199}. American literature has been apart of our history since our settlement. Throughout our history, America has generated many great authors. These authors write works of literature that educate ...

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The British Empire, which had expanded under Queen Victoria and in 1900 had reached 13 million square miles, also began to disintegrate. ... This led to the rapid expansion of a largely unsophisticated literary public, the rise of the popular press, and the mass production of 'popular' literature for a semi-literate 'lowbrow' readership. ... There is also the fact that there is much more literature, more cultural production in general, in the twentieth century than in any previous period. ...

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