Families often get together for outings or to fly kites at this time.根据短文内容,选择最佳答案。1. What does the underlined word "passers-by" in Paragraph 1 mean? A. People who are going past. B. People who you have never met before C. People who lived in the ancient time. D. ...
"Epilogue" was written by the Victorian poet Robert Browning.The poem's speaker is a man at the end of his life who urges his loved ones not to feel sorry for him once he's gone. Ever an optimist, the speaker plans to face death with the same vigor and courage with which he approa...
The speaker’s father “died before [she] had time—” to see him for who he really was, and because of this the speaker has been trapped inside a childlike perception of her father as godlike. Over the years, her memory of him seems only to have grown in its oppressive power, and...
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A Pretty How Town In any love story, you would expect that the lovers have names but Cummings gives the names “anyone” and “no-one”, two faceless people who live life freely in a faceless town. This strategy seems to be put in place to make the two characters invisible to the rea...
Perhaps he passed away not long after reciting the poem at the centre of this article, for unless he was expelled along with most of the Tarābīn or died, he would certainly have left a poetic legacy from a later period as well. The Tarābīn confederation, the largest of the Bedouin ...
Who are the real villains and why are hundreds of thousands of lives being wasted in a war with no meaning? In ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’, the consistent sonnet rhyming scheme is disturbed by a half rhyme, “guns … orisons”, to show how the soldiers all died alone with only the ...
A Tribute to Fred Voss The poet Fred Voss, who has died at the age of 72, was one of the great American writers of manual labour. He went beyond the poet as witness in a journalistic sense, for he lived what he wrote and he wrote more than three thousand poems. ...
For this reason, she specifically mentions Auschwitz, among other concentration camps. She then concludes that she began to talk like a Jew, like one who was oppressed and silenced by German oppressors. Then she concludes that because she feels the oppression that the Jews feel, she ...
And one of us has gone to her eternal rest (died). “Where the Picnic Was” Themes Grief, Nostalgia, and the Brevity of Life One of Thomas Hardy's many elegies for his wife, Emma, "Where the Picnic Was" is a poem haunted by loss and mourning. The speaker (a version of the poet...