Category: Grammar
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The Frog and the Nightingale by Vikram Seth Summary
“The Frog and the Nightingale” is a poem by Vikram Seth that tells the story of a frog and a nightingale who live in Bingle Bog. The frog is a loud and boastful singer, croaking every night without considering how others feel about his noise. Meanwhile, the nightingale is a beautiful singer, whose melodious voice…
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Still Another View of Grace by A.K. Ramanujan Summary
I burned and burned. But one day I turnedand caught that thoughtby the screams of her hair and said: “Beware,Do not follow a gentleman’s moralswith that absurd determined air.Find a priest. Find any beast in the windfor a husband. He will give a housefulof legitimate sons. It is too late for sin,even for treason. And…
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Main Idea Worksheet Grade 3
The central idea or main idea of a piece of writing is like the big picture or the most important point that the author wants you to understand. Imagine you’re painting a picture, and the central idea is the focal point of that painting, the thing that grabs your attention the most. When you’re reading…
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Finisterre by Sylvia Plath Analysis
This was the land’s end: the last fingers, knuckled and rheumatic,Cramped on nothing. BlackAdmonitory cliffs, and the sea explodingWith no bottom, or anything on the other side of it,Whitened by the faces of the drowned.Now it is only gloomy, a dump of rocks —-Leftover soldiers from old, messy wars.The sea cannons into their ear, but…
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Childless Woman by Sylvia Plath Themes
The wombRattles its pod, the moonDischarges itself from the tree with nowhere to go. My landscape is a hand with no lines,The roads bunched to a knot,The knot myself, Myself the rose you acheive—-This body,This ivory Ungodly as a child’s shriek.Spiderlike, I spin mirrors,Loyal to my image, Uttering nothing but blood—-Taste it, dark red!And my…
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Aquatic Nocturne by Sylvia Plath Line by Line Explanation
deep in liquid indigo: The poet begins by describing the ocean as a deep, liquid indigo, conveying a sense of darkness and depth. The use of “liquid indigo” paints a vivid picture of the color of the water. turquoise slivers: The poet introduces the presence of turquoise slivers, suggesting fragments or small pieces, possibly of…
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Gold Mouths Cry by Sylvia Plath Poem Lines
Gold mouths cry with the green youngcertainty of the bronze boyremembering a thousand autumnsand how a hundred thousand leavescame sliding down his shoulder bladespersuaded by his bronze heroic reason.We ignore the coming doom of goldand we are glad in this bright metal season.Even the dead laugh among the goldenrod. The bronze boy stands kneedeep in…
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The Zoo-Keeper’s Wife by Sylvia Plath Structure and Form
I can stay awake all night, if need be —Cold as an eel, without eyelids.Like a dead lake the dark envelops me,Blueblack, a spectacular plum fruit.No air bubbles start from my heart. I am lunglessAnd ugly, my belly a silk stockingWhere the heads and tails of my sisters decompose.Look, they are melting like coins in…
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Sylvia Plath’s “The Zoo-Keeper’s Wife” Analysis
I can stay awake all night, if need be —Cold as an eel, without eyelids.Like a dead lake the dark envelops me,Blueblack, a spectacular plum fruit.No air bubbles start from my heart. I am lunglessAnd ugly, my belly a silk stockingWhere the heads and tails of my sisters decompose.Look, they are melting like coins in…
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The Zoo-Keeper’s Wife by Sylvia Plath Summary
I can stay awake all night, if need be —Cold as an eel, without eyelids.Like a dead lake the dark envelops me,Blueblack, a spectacular plum fruit.No air bubbles start from my heart. I am lunglessAnd ugly, my belly a silk stockingWhere the heads and tails of my sisters decompose.Look, they are melting like coins in…