Essays Tagged: "Bonsai"

Women and Sexism.

"A Work of Artifice" by Marge Piercy describes there is much work and time that goes into making a Bonsai tree as beautiful as it is. However as we read on the author writes about how "lucky" this tr ...

(4 pages) 226 3 4.1 Jul/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Death: The High Price of Life

wronged because Ponciano had taken his Kool-Aid...Vickers stabbed his victim to death then carved "Bonsai" into Ponciano's back. Vickers's only regret is that he didn't get to carve a swastika beside ...

(11 pages) 82 3 4.2 Aug/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty

Virgina Woolf

The use of metaphors in this poem is significant, along with the use of imagery and symbolism. The bonsai tree represents the woman, and the gardener represents a man. As shown in the poem, the bonsa ... as possible, until that husband comes and picks her up. Marge Piercy is comparing this life of the bonsai tree to a life of a middle-class woman. The tree has potential to grow eighty feet tall, yet ...

(4 pages) 41 0 0.0 Nov/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature