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Railway Lines Black Clippers Poem
363 wordsDerek Walcott's Old New England is a poem concentrated upon the history of the beginning of New England colonies in America, but instead of presenting our past as a triumph, he manages to illustrate our most prideful moments as a dishonorable time period. By mentioning harsh things and using vivid imagery, it fabricates the poem to seem like a conviction rather than an ode honoring the country. Symbolism is used quite regularly in this poem. For example, the war whoop is coiled tight in the whit...
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Witch Hunt Rebecca Nurse
584 wordsThe Crucible is a play set in a small Puritan town, Salem, Massachusetts. Accusations of witches cause hysteria in the theocratic society and leads to the death of innocent people. Several motives, accusations, and evidence can support the logical explanations behind the witch-hunt. The initial logic behind the witch-hunt is that Salem was a theocratic society where everything was either pure or sin. The government and religion acted as one unit and the Puritan belief was the only standard allow...
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West Indies West Indian
1,619 wordsDerek Walcott Derek Alton Walcott was born in St. Lucia, a small island in the West Indies, in 1930. His parents were middle-class Protestants in a society of predominantly poor Catholics. He studied literature at St. Mary's College in St. Lucia and at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. A man of two distinct and opposite bloodlines; English and African, he often writes of the struggle within. At the age of eighteen, he financed the publication of his first collection of poetry titled ...
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Showy Ladys Slipper Ladys Slipper Cypripedium Species
2,823 wordsThe Ladys Slipper: Cypripedium Plant Name The ladys Slipper, or Cypripedium, is an easily recognizable species from the Orchidaceae family. Plant Description The family is commonly known to have fantastic flowers, with flamboyant color and display. Members of this family are normally found to grow in bogs, meadowlands, and woodlands. The flowers all share some common characteristics, such as, possessing three sepals and petals, with markedly bilateral symmetry. The lowest petal, or lip, usually ...
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North And South Nazi Regime
609 wordsIn the poem North and South Derek Walcott displays its theme of anti-racism through vivid imagery and allusions with a style of graphic comparison. In this poem Walcott describes the north and south portions of the US, reporting the racist tendencies in both the north and the south. Walcott clearly conveys that it makes no difference which side, the north or the south, was fighting for equality, nor does it make a difference which army won the battle, for racism runs rapid through all parts of t...
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Railway Lines Black Clippers Poem
368 wordsDerek Walcott? s? Old New England? is a poem concentrated upon the history of the beginning of New England colonies in America, but instead of presenting our past as a triumph, he manages to illustrate our most prideful moments as a dishonorable time period. By mentioning harsh things and using vivid imagery, it fabricates the poem to seem like a conviction rather than an ode honoring the country. Symbolism is used quite regularly in this poem. For example, ? the war whoop is coiled tight in the...
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Man Make Money
1,681 wordsThe writer that I chose is Derek Walcott. The reason that I chose him was because we had never read his poetry in class and we did not cover many black poets in class. After reading much of his poetry I feel that Walcott and me have not only a lot in common but at times the same feelings toward are heritage. Walcott descended from a white grandmother and a black grandmother on both the paternal and maternal sides, he? s a living example of divided heritage between two worlds. For Walcott his her...
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