I was living far away when my grandmother passed, and I couldn't make it to her funeral. This was read at her funeral by my mother on my behalf.
This poem published in, In Memoriam A.H.H., is an elegy (a poem of lament for someone who has passed away) and uses an ABBA Rhyme Scheme. It was written about Alfred Tennyson’s friend, Arthur Henry Hallam, who was engaged to Tennyson’s sister. Arthur H
Dryly, she notes that there are "Few applicants for that honor" due to the suffering involved. The last section then envisions the arrival of a kind of modern goddess: a redemptive figure who is "long about her coming" but finally "deliver[s]" on women's hopes and ambitions. Yet ...
There, she roomed with Mary Norcross, Marianne Moore’s mother’s closest friend and the person who prepped Marianne for entry to Bryn Mawr in 1905. After a brief stint at Smith College, Fanny joined the staff of the Vassar Library in 1908, from which she retired in 1945. Moore wrote ...
the woman with the Pomeranian Who said she’d once had posture just like hers And recommended her podiatrist. “To think what shoes have done for my career!” Adding, “Between us women.” Taking off Her skin is never easy. She’s worked hard To wear it tight at hip and thigh. First...
to interpret the Gun—My Life—as the Dickinsonian wit as expressed by Emily Dickinson. In other words, the Loaded Gun is Dickinson’s poetry (informed by her family’s acerbic and irreverent wit) that had only been waiting for Emily to carry it away. But wait, you say, who isHeand...
I promised that when I arrived, I would make up for lost time. I arrived in Florida at 1 a.m. My father had passed away at 9:12 p. m. This time it was he who did not have time to talk to me. ( )51. Which of the following is TRUE according to...
When I | am dead, | my dearest, Sing no | sad songs | for me; The meter isn't totally regular, however, as readers can see right away here. For one thing, the speaker leaves off the final stressed beat in line 1, a variation she will return to throughout the poem. Still, ther...
Once removed from his home and taken to Auschwitz, he loses his mother and his sister. There, he sees an incredible amount of tragedy that should move the reader to feel for him and for all those who suffered at the hands of the Nazi regime. Here is a particularly moving part of the...
某快递公司收费标准是10kg（含）以下每千克5元，超出10kg部分，每千克收费标准要低一些。现在已知小明的托运费是110元，小丽的托运费是80元。小明托运的重量比小丽的多50%。那么，超出10kg部分每公斤的收费标准要比10kg内的低多少元？（ ）