“Cathedral.” Literature: An Introduction to Fiction‚ Poetry‚ Drama‚ and Writing. 12th ed. Ed. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. New York: Pearson / Longman‚ 2013. 105-116.
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Cited: Housman‚ A.E. “To an Athlete Dying Young.” Literature: An Introduction to Fiction‚ Poetry‚ Drama and Writing. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia 10th ed. New York: Pearson‚ 2007. Print. 1124-1125. Owen‚ Wilfred. “Anthem for Doomed Youth.” Literature: An Introduction to Fiction‚ Poetry‚ Drama and Writing. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia 10th ed. New York: Pearson‚ 2007. Print. 1148
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Cited: Paul. “1 Corinthians 13.” Literature for Life. Ed. X.J. Kennedy‚ Dana Gioia‚ and Nina Revoyr‚ New York Pearson‚ 2013. 531-32. Print Shakespeare. “Othello.” Literature for Life. Ed. X.J. Kennedy‚ Dana Gioia‚ and Nina Revoyr‚ New York Pearson‚ 2013. 560-660. Print
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The Victory After reading several poems in my Backpack Literature textbook (Kennedy‚ X. J.‚ and Dana Gioia‚ 2008.)‚ I came across Anne Stevenson’s The Victory. Stevenson’s words hit me in the gut and made me feel her tension and conflict of becoming a new mother. Anne Stevenson portrays a mother’s feelings of pain during childbirth and mixed emotions of becoming a new mother. The poem contains a tone of conflict and anger. “I thought you were my victory/ though you cut me like a knife’ (Lines
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Tone can be defined as the attitude that a poem’s speaker takes toward the poem’s subject (Marchbank). Interpreting the tone of a poem can be very difficult‚ because one must weigh all the elements of poetry to read its tone. The tone of a poem shapes the ideas the poem is communicating‚ so misreading the tone is misreading the entire poem. In the poem‚ "Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night‚" by Dylan Thomas‚ diction and form serve to create the tone of the poem. In William Wordsworth’s poem‚ "I
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Where have you been?” was a young 15yr old girl in a small town. She was beautiful and knew that she was beautiful. A flat character is a character that stays the same throughout a story (Gioia & Kennedy‚ 2010) and a round character is the opposite of flat in which the character changes significantly (Gioia & Kennedy‚ 2010). So in this story‚ Connie could be consider a round character because before Arnold Friend came around she was like any other teenager and when he came and put a little
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Samantha McCoy English 1102 Ms. Bell 6/17/2015 Maggie Character Analysis Today I will be writing a character analysis on Maggie from the short story Everyday Use by Alice Walker. Maggie is a quiet and shy individual that is always being looked down upon by other people. Throughout the story she is shown to have “no confidence or self-esteem. One occurrence that motivates her is the burn scars she got from the house fire several years ago. “Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes:
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Poetry‚ Drama‚ and Writing. Ed. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 10th ed. New York: Pearson Longman‚ 2007. 16-20. Grimm‚ Jakob and Wilhelm. “Godfather Death.” Literature: An Introduction to Fiction‚ Poetry‚ Drama‚ and Writing. Ed. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 10th ed. New York: Pearson Longman‚ 2007. 12-13. Hawthorne‚ Nathaniel. "Young Goodman Brown." Literature: An Introduction to Fiction‚ Poetry‚ Drama‚ and Writing. Ed. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 10th ed. New York: Pearson Longman‚ 2007. 420-428
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plays). The findings were announced by NEA Chairman Dana Gioia during a news conference at the New York Public Library. "America can no longer take active and engaged literacy for granted‚" according to Gioia. As more Americans lose this capability‚ our nation becomes less informed‚ active‚ and independent minded. These are not qualities that a free‚ innovative‚ or productive society can afford to lose. This report documents a national crisis‚ Gioia said. "Reading develops a capacity for focused attention
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Discovering New Perspectives and Heritage: “A Pair of Tickets” Amy Tan’s “A Pair of Tickets‚” is a story about a young woman who was born in California‚ named Jing-Mei‚ who travels to China three months after her mother’s death‚ in hopes of finding her long-lost twin sisters. Along her voyage‚ she finds her Chinese heritage and overcomes the sorrow she felt for her late mother. In her story “A Pair of Tickets‚” Amy Tan uses setting‚ point of view‚ and symbol to illustrate the narrator’s journey to
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