Option, By Robert Morgan
Written in free verse, this poem dramatizes the chance confrontation of a groundhog and terrier.
As the speaker relates the setting, the poet uses the design of the groundhog den to provide an
alternative, "option", to the latent conflict.
Morgan, asserts the layout of the groundhog den "always has a back door", and in doing so
introduces the option to conflict. The vocabulary, "confronted", used to herald the terrier's
presence, suggests the potential for conflict. The tone the speaker uses with the word "tearing" in
the line "Tearing at the aproned entrance" confirms the potential for violence.
When the woodchuck exits out the back, the poet utilizes the "option" inherent in the den to allow
the animal to flee the confrontation. As the woodchuck surfaces in weeds or a thicket, the poet's
rhetoric could imply the choice is cowardly. However, in the following lines the speaker asserts
the wisdom of the choice of freedom over the possibility of being victimized as described in lines
7 and 8, "prisoner or martyr in his own burrow."
In line 9, the speaker again stresses the whistle pig has an "option" for his whereabouts,
respectfully terming it "deniability". It is interesting to note the poet never refers to the
groundhog using the same vocabulary. The speaker chooses a total of three different nouns to
reference the animal, with "whistle-pig" being the last and least flattering language. This could
Getting one good grade in school is easy, the difficult part is to keep getting good grades. This concept applies to other things also. For example when a group is given a certain privilege they have to maintain it. In the essay “The Unexamined” by Ross Chambers, the author discusses that different races are perceived differently depending on where they are. He says that white people are the superior ones, and they bare the privilege of not being marked by others. While other races are discriminated, the whites are excluded from discrimination. Together with the color category there are other ones which also are the privileged ones, like for example: men and straight people. In the other essay “Man Royals And Sodomites” by Makeda Silvera,
...he “oppressed” will act toward freedom and reintegration into society and will eventually succeed in gaining back their freedom, but it will not be easy. To make steps in the right direction and to determine the right choice, one must take into account the impact silence or non-silence makes on the system as a whole; the better choice does not add to the mass incarceration.
Phil woke up this ground hogs day morning for the 98th time, but today he is so fed up and he knows that whatever happens he will wake up the next morning and it would be as if nothing has happened, and ground hogs day will begin over again.
This poem is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. It is blank verse. Although it doesn't rhyme, each line relates to the one before it. The tone of the poet changes throughout he poem. At first it is sad. Bryant uses words such as guilt, misery, sorrow, and crimes to explain the world. Than when he begins explaining how the woods are the answer to your problems, the tone becomes happy. In the middle of the poem, Bryant talks about birds singing, breezes, and happy, soft, nice things that can happen if one uses the woods as a playground, and finds comfort in them.
Phil!,Phil!,Phil!,Phil! Dang hearing my name gives me the rush, as you all know i'm Punxsutawney Phil the cutest, fluffiest,and awesomest groundhog you have ever seen i'm for sure you already know who I am. What!? You haven't well pull up a chair and listen to my story on how I became the fabulous Punxsutawney Phil.It was a quiet day, I was getting a nice healthy snack which involved clovers, and bark. All of a sudden a very large dark figure picked me up and loaded me into some big cage. I was then in a new home it was strange were I was at I was really hot, but here the temperature has been just fine, not too hot to cold, I was inkling to see where I was still a little figure came up to see me through some weird shield I was startled due
Groundhog Day is a film starring Bill Murray who plays Phil Connor’s, a news anchorman, who gets stuck on the repeating Groundhog Day every day. He is a man who does not appreciate things around him but he expects others to look up to him. He lives the same day while time goes on; he does not make an effort to reach out to others. Phil follows the same daily routines and does not attempt to change anything and accepts his life as it is, even though he doesn’t like it. Phil doesn’t understand the idea of the man creating his own being by experiencing life.
Many people have life changing revelations in their lives, but very few people are as young as Jared when he realizes what he does about his life. Ron Rash wrote the short story, "The Ascent," about a young boy's journey that brought him to have a significant revelation about his life. In the story, Rash uses a naive narrator, foreshadowing, and imagery to show the setting of the story that led to Jared's revelation about his life.
“Without Conscience" by Robert D. Hare is one aimed towards making the general public aware of the many psychopaths that inhabit the world we live in. Throughout the book Hare exposes the reader to a number of short stories; all with an emphasis on a characteristic of psychopaths. Hare makes the claim that close monitoring of psychopathy are vital if we ever hope to gain a hold over Psychopathy- A disorder that affects not only the individual but also society itself. He also indicates one of the reasons for this book is order to correctly treat these individuals we have to be able to correctly identify who meets the criteria. His ultimate goal with the text is to alleviate some of the confusion in the increase in criminal activity by determining how my of this is a result of Psychopathy.
...olitical rally for jobs and freedom which became known as the March on Washington (“March on Washington”). Americans were able to come together to demonstrate the boldness that they had to fight a cause that no person should endure. The march was designed to open the eyes of the American people on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the country (“March on Washington”). One was able to see that what African Americans were going through would not be wished upon anyone. A new nation was being reborn where blacks and white would get along without anyone being mistreated due to skin color. A man by the name of Martin Luther King was the main protagonist of this battle for equality. Martin was a Baptist minister and was also a social activist who held a major role in the American civil rights movement (“Martin Luther King Jr”).
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"When a trout rising to a fly gets hooked on a line and finds himself unable to swim about freely, he begins with a fight which results in struggles and splashes and sometimes an escape. Often, of course, the situation is too tough for him."
Nothing in life is guaranteed, but the one thing that humans demand is freedom. Throughout history, there are countless cases where groups of people fought for their freedom. They fought their battles in strongly heated debates, protests, and at its worst, war. Under the assumption that the oppressors live in complete power, the oppressed continuously try to escape from their oppressors in order to claim what is rightfully theirs: the freedom of choice. In Emily Dickinson’s poems #280, #435, and #732 and Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, freedom is represented by an individual’s ability to make their own decisions without the guidance, consultation, or outside opinion of others in order to find their true sense of self. Once an individual is physically and spiritually free, they can find their true sense of self.
“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan. Dr. Romo, a plastic surgeon for teens, does what he does to improve a teens life by stopping bullying. Although this might give the teen self confidence it may not stop bullies because bullying is complicated and usually isn’t down to just one physical attribute. This is why I think The Baby Face Foundation is not a logical step in improving a teens self confidence or to stop bullies.
“From time to time it is worth reminding ourselves why twenty-seven European nation states have come together voluntarily to form the partnership that is the European Union.” 1
Complete free exercise of will inhibits individual and societal freedom. According to Mill, one may act as one chooses unless one is inflicting harm onto others. He argues that one is free to behave “according to his own inclination and judgment in things which concern himself” as long as “he refrains from molesting” (64). The problem arises in the freedom allowed to the individual performing the potentially dangerous act. People are often blinded by the situation in which they are in and by their personal motives which drive them to act. Humans, by nature, have faults and vices that are potentially harmful. It is the responsibility of society to anticipate harm, whether to oneself or to others. Once dangerous patterns and habits are recognized it is imperative to anticipate and prevent injury from reoccurring. To allow any individual to be inflicted harm forces citizens to lose tr...