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Considering and Analyzing the Denotative and Connotative Meanings in "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke
... , understanding the denotative and connotative meanings attached to the language provides the reader with a richer understanding of the ... . The poet communicates the connotation of the title by manipulating our emotional response to the poem through a number ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
Passing the Torch: An essay exploring the mother/daughter relationships in Toni Morrison's novel, "Sula"
... not genuine and her unconscious aim is to control by "manipulating her daughter and her husband" (18). Her insistence on clothes- ... by refusing to admit that she understands Creole. The Creole language is obviously a part of Helene and Rochelle's heritage ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Be Thee Passionate With Long Wind or Quick Discourse: A Comparative Analysis of the Slave Narratives by Siblings Harriet and John S. Jacobs
... could examine the different ways that both narrators manipulate language or investigate why there are discrepancies between ... Jacobs vacillates between the highly stylized and oblique language that characterizes the sentiment of the antebellum period ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Discuss how Ibsen and Strindberg present the protagonists’ relationship in ‘a dolls house’ and ‘Miss Julie’. How far do you agree that Nora overcomes yet Julie succumbs to male dominance?
... . He lied specifically to influence her emotions, purposely using poetic language such as "heaven" and "angel" to seduce her. Yet Strindberg ... cunning lie, to which he used as a tool to manipulate Julie. Not too far into the drama, Jean illustrates his ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Edgar Allen Poe's View of Death in "The Fall of the House of Usher"
... 1976. 2. 'death'. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. 1992 edition. 3. Lawrence, D.H. Studies in Classic ... admired for its 'atmosphere' and for its exquisitely artificial manipulation of Gothic claptrap and decor'(Abel, 380). Bringing ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe
Love and sex in Geoge Orwell's novel 1984
... stands for, has heavily ironic meaning in 1984. The language along with the emotion is manipulated by the Party to gain control of the people. The ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: The Anatomy of a Hero
... mechanical, humorless control. McMurphy speaks an older American language of freedom, unhindered movement, self-reliance, anarchic humor ... from oppressive, regimented civilization, and big Nurse Ratched. "Manipulative to the core, the only thing that really ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
"Sleepers" by Lorenzo Caracttera.
... and Lorenzo a newspaper writer, together devise a plan to manipulate the court case, attaining redemption and innocence once again. ... powerlessness and ultimately learned helplessness. By it's very language the book positions the reader to accept killing, and ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Death and Rebirth In the Poetry Of Sylvia Plath
... War II. (Curley, Maureen 2) Failing at her art and at manipulating the Docktor she vows revenge against her enemies.(Salem Press 1) ... : Mutually Exclusive Expectations for Women in Sylvia Plath 's 'Edge'" English Language Notes 37, no. 2 (Dec.1999): 68-75
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
In the following essay, I will examine the development of Plath's poetry through analysis of major themes and imagery found in her description of landscapes, seascapes, and the natural world.
... idea is at once dropped and without the modulating help of language we are brought into the human domain of memories, relationships ... Oh no. It stood squarely in the middle of my poem, manipulating its dark shades, the voices in the churchyard, the clouds, ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American