... love as one possible theme. Not love as in romance or beauty, but an unmentioned love that can never be spoken in any language; the loves between a father and his son. In the first stanza the reader automatically can paint a picture in his or her own head a possible image Hayden wants to get across. For example, "Sundays too my father got up early and ... father got up early", a fisherman has to get early to beat out any other competitors (1-2). The line the starts the theme of the poem is the last line of the first stanza; "no one ever thanked him" (5). Unmentioned love can be the deep...

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• Grade Level: High School

... with Cohn and has him at her disposal. Brett asks Cohn on this trip for purely her own sexual desires. Hemingway uses Brett and Cohn's relationship to show that the "modern woman- is only concerned with how she feels. Brett went on her trip with Cohn to San Sebastian even though she has a fiancé, Mike Campbell. Campbell, an "undischarged ... bankrupt-, who is engaged to Brett, does not care about her affairs. Mike's love for Brett takes place because of her beauty and good looks. When Mike first enters the picture, he constantly comments on how lovely Brett looks: "It's a lovely nose. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... women in today's society do have these same misconceptions about lust and love, but it was obviously a bigger issue then than it is now. "The joke was that the school doctor gave out the pill like aspirin. He didn't ask you anything. I was fifteen. We had a picture of him in assembly, holding up an IUD shaped like a T (307)." This shows you that society recognized ... are twenty acres of woods on this campus If you want to smooch with your boyfriend, there are twenty acres for you to do it out of the public eye (309)." This just goes to show that society caused this misapprehension of l...

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... she leaves him, then he will be forced to seek another land (i.e., another woman). John Hess from the New York Times describes Neruda's style of writing to be "...uninhibited, at times even pompous show of words and slapdash welter of metaphors"(Hess, 2). The poet uses personification in the last stanza, and he goes back to setting a romantic tone. He uses a metaphor of a flower in "If ... in your arms without leaving mine"(47-48). The closing last couple of lines really reiterates the point of the poem. He will forever unconditionally love her forever as long as she feels the same. The...

• Word Count: 855
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... one reads this poem, he or she can identify the theme of love just from the words that are spoken, especially since the word love is spoken ten times. The way she expresses herself through this poem is amazing with the similes. The sincerity of this poem also proves the theme of love particularly when she writes the last line of the poem, "I shall but love thee better after death ... not afraid to speak her mind about whom and what she loved. Shaw agrees by saying, "But to show what the wonderful depth of a woman's love is, and to reach what seems the absolute fullness of human expressi...

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... which is about thirty years earlier when she refuses an inquiry of the town leader. In the next part, the narrator talks about the illness that Emily has suffered for a long time. The fourth section is about the fears of people in town. People are afraid that Emily kills herself with poison. In the last part, the narrator describes what happens after Emily's death. In this story, ... Homer in her house with her. The locked room in Miss Emily's house and the long iron-gray hair which is found on a pillow inside the room are perhaps the most vivid symbols. "The room symbolizes the secrecy...

• Word Count: 1189
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School