Don't know about you, but some days I'm so busy I don't have time to wait while VS.NET spawns...Date: 03/28/2008MacGruber TransactionsFound an interesting bit of code on the newsgroups the other day ... what I like to call MacGruber...Date: 03/26/2008Easy...
POETRY CHALLENGE Write a poem about how courage, determination, and strength have helped you face challenges in your life. Prizes 3 Grand Prizes:Trip to Washington, D.C. for each of three winners, a parent and one other person of the winner’s choice. Trip includes roun...
“Write about the use of metaphors and similes in Emily Dickinson’s work; talk about the techniques Emily Dickinson uses in shaping her highly metaphorical poetic language.“ This was the request for an upcoming post. The correspondent added the following quote by Nabokov: ”The verbal poetical...
I haven’t quit reading Dickinson, or about her. The latest biography I’ve been reading is Lives Like Loaded Guns by Lyndall Gordon, and there was a little aside that dropped like a bomb in the confetti of my mind. Gordon wrote: The achiever among Nathan’s brood was Irene’s brother...
At that time, I was more worried about making rhymes (韵律) than making sense. My poem went like this: “Mother’s Day is something special. And then you will find a wishing well(许愿池)!” The poem was not my best work, but my mom kept it—just like she kept every other piece...
The effect of this simile is similar to that of the later personification of the daffodils: both serve to link the speaker and nature together. The speaker is a stand-in for humanity more generally, so this first line establishes that the poem is about the relationship between mankind and ...
At its heart, “Mending Wall” is a poem about borders—the work it takes to maintain them and the way they shape human interactions. The speaker and the speaker's neighbor spend much of the poem rebuilding a wall that divides their properties. As they do so, they debate the function of...
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“poetry”. The poems are emotions, first-person confessions, and admissions, they contain flowery language and lovely turns of phrase. The poems are beautiful and simple, complex, and deep. They have everything that lovers of poetry enjoy about thegenre. As long as a poem uses emotions as...
Muddy boots and overalls, he stood about six two He was a country bumpkin; hard work was what he knew A carpenter, a roofer, a jack of many trades Countless hours of hard labor with not much time to play He was my mother's husband, the father of us five ...