coastal suburbia does Robert Gray offer the reader in “North Coast Town”? Through his depiction of the inhabitants, mood and landscape/environment of “North Coast Town”, Robert Gray presents coastal suburbia in a negative manner. From the title of the poem (North Coast Town) a sense of anonymity is established, allowing the reader to form a genuine response to the text. The poem follows the journey of a hitch hiker, who creates a description of the coastal Australian town which he is attempting to get…
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In many of his numerous and celebrated works, Romantic poet William Wordsworth reveals his veneration of nature and his appreciation of imagination. One such poem is "Lucy Gray," the tale of a sweet and solitary child who never returns after venturing off into a storm. In this inventive poem, Wordsworth uses imagery, symbolism and figures of speech to present a hopeful conceptualization of her death; Lucy's timely escape from the corruptive human world to the revered natural world. One device that…
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Night and Between Shades of Gray, will show you how it was for a boy named Eliezer to leave everything, and try to get through the rest of his life not knowing what it could bring him. And, a girl is left with only her mother and brother while their father is still possibly somewhere trying to survive life without them. The book Night really shows how Human Spirit can be involved in this book. It shows many obstacles that the character faces, inner faith and spirit in humans, tough situations that…
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“The Spoon River Anthology.” Each of his poems is about an individual member of a quaint country town called Spoon River. Don’t be fooled by the Spoon River’s quaint, Christian reputation. The inhabitants of its graveyard reveal the prejudice and sin that permeates the small town. The dead speak about their faults and many tell of their own follies leading to their eventual demise. Louise Smith, George Gray, and Hon Henry are…
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“moral life,” before committing sin, is “white” and “clear,” but later develops “deep stains” and “black shadow[s]” (84). Pearl, on the other hand, still retains the “radiance of a young child’s disposition” (84). Because Hester has committed sin, her spirit is darkened, but Pearl, who is a child, still has purity. This suggests that a person is unsaveable once they commit a sin. However, Hawthorne further develops the symbolism of dark and…
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Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell, takes place in the rural Ozarks where a teenage girl, Ree, takes care of her two young brothers and their mentally ill mother. She lives in a very small town where most of the people who live there she is related to. Ree needs to find her father because he has not shown up in court and if he does not show up again, Ree and her mother and brothers will lose their house. Ree searches for her father which ultimately leads her to get beaten by her family because they…
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McCullers’s “The Ballad of the Sad Café” (1951), and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (1960). Amalgamating the gothic, the grotesque and naturalism, these unique writers create in their fiction recognizable warped rural communities while questioning small town fears and mentality and of the modern South. A grotesque character in each of these works reveals the failure of the southern honor code, the distorted family relations against the obligations of community expectations and pressures of conformity.…
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Why Retweeting Can Replace The Greensboro Activism In Malcolm Gladwell’s article, “The Revolution Will Not Be Retweeted” he started off by citing a protest in Greensboro, North Carolina when four black students went to a coffee shop and one of them sat on the table reserved for whites. It then received a lot of attention motivating other students nearby to join. It further led to a big national protest. According to Gladwell, he describes this kind of protest as high-risk activism and…
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the unspecified narrator approaches the home. We can assume that the home is eerie and spooky because the narrator himself found the grounds unsettling by stating: "with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit" (21). Poe illustrates this enormous mystical and gothic home which houses a diseased man named Roderick Usher and his sister Madeline. The home's detailed imagery, and its enigmatic presence, greatly contributes to the abnormality of Roderick Usher…
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David Gray MA 2011-2013. Student Statement buddhashine I grew up in a 1950s Scottish new town which was entirely imposed upon the landscape with little or no involvement of the people inhabiting it. the staid monotonous urban scene I saw around me had plenty of open spaces however every bit of it was planned. To me it lacks any kind of natural growth the souless grassy knolls and flower displays did little to refute the dullness. The lack of substantial trees and any sort of organic built…
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