Tendril Essays

  • Theodore Roethke's Elegy For Jane

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    damp as tendrils" to create this positive sense of who Jane is (line 1). In order for one to understand the comparison, we must know that a tendril is a branch of a growing plant. This simile allows to see that just as a plant, the teacher has seen Jane blossom and grow into the strong women she was before dying. The poem goes on to elaborate on the complexity of the tendrils stating how Jane no longer is, "waiting like a fern" out in the field. These two similes tie in well as tendrils are the beginning

  • Hollow Creek Creative Writing

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    the water from the pond water. I cupped some water in my hands and splashed it into my face. I looked at Enna and Grayson to see them staring behind me. I looked behind me to see a hunter looming behind me. It raised its arm as tendrils came from its forearm. The tendrils contorted and morphed its raised arm into a spike. As it was about to drive the spike into me, I dove into the pond and quickly swam to the side where Enna and Grayson were standing. I then got out of the pond and ran with them

  • The Incredibles Essay

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    The Incredibles’ Chapter… Luminous lights glinted in the eery darkness of Syndrome’s evil lair. Machines turned. Red warning lights flashed. Lurking in the unknown, the devil stood, red hair blowing in the wind like a roaring flame. He strode out of the shadows, with a menacing smirk right across his face and glared intensely at Mr. Incredible. Long blue snakes grasped Mr. Incredible as he hung from a mysterious machine, their sharp teeth piercing him every time he tried to move. A once strong,

  • Metaphors Analysis in Sylvia Plath's Poem

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    Metaphors Analysis in Sylvia Plath's Poem In Sylvia Plath’s poem, Metaphors, she uses striking imagery to explore her ambivalent attitudes about pregnancy. For example, she uses a negative metaphor saying she is an elephant, meaning she thinks that she has become very fat since she got pregnant. On the other hand, she uses a positive metaphor saying the baby is precious, meaning although pregnancy has its down sides it has got a few good sides like the baby. The number nine features a

  • Analysis Of Bruce Dawe's 'Televistas'

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    Donald ‘Bruce Dawe’ encountered various career paths, greatly influencing his phycological and emotional beliefs. His works illustrate the extensive life experiences of which he endured. Dawe’s works are the focus point of ideas such as; love, consumerism, seclusion and the values of a man. The ideas in Dawes poem were relatable during the contextual years and relate to modern audiences; with themes such as consumerism and love. The poem Televistas’ focuses on the effects of consumerism on love,

  • Symbolism In William Golding's Lord Of The Flies

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    they were full of savagery they did have compassion and love for one another. Q.O.P “Then dog-like, uncomfortably on all fours yet unheeding his discomfort, he stole forward five yards and stopped. There was a loop of creeper with a tendril pendant from a node. The tendril was polished on the underside; pig, passing through the loop, brushed it with their bristly hide.” “What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?” “We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English

  • Lord of the Flies - Savagery

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    Lord of the Flies - Savagery “There are too many people, and too few human beings.” (Robert Zend) Even though there are many people on this planet, there are very few civilized people. Most of them are naturally savaged. In the book, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, boys are stranded on an island far away, with no connections to the adult world. These children, having no rules, or civilization, have their true nature exposed. Not surprisingly, these children’s nature happens to be savagery

  • Examples Of Loss Of Innocence In To Kill A Mockingbird

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    Wept for the End of Innocence The capacity for humans to do good and evil the shows ethics of humanity. In Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird, she is flashbacking her experiences growing up in Maycomb as a six-year- child from an adult perspective. Scout describes the situations her widowed father Atticus is dealing with, such as his legal defense of the Tom Robinson case. In the realistic fictional novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding the behaviour of the children changes when they

  • What Brings a Poem to Life?

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    Poetry, like any other piece of literature, is written to express certain emotion,feeling or idea as desired by the author. Without a defined format, poems come in all sorts of variations, each with it’s own sound,smell, and taste. The most successful poems masterfully give readers the Ah Ha! experience and invoke in them incomprehensible emotions that render them vulnerable to the poets message. William Shakespeare’ s Sonnet 18 and Sylvia Plath’s Metaphors adequately contain imagery,lineation,and

  • Night Descriptive Writing

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    the pounding behind my eyes subsided and I sat up in my bed. After a few moments, I opened my eyes only to be struck with fear.He stood in the corner of my room. Black tentacle-like tendrils began protruding from His back. Black fuzz along with the sound of hushed, raspy child-like voices began growing around the tendrils. His knee length arms reached out towards me, His fingers beckoned me to Him. His face began to split where His mouth should be and he spoke with the black mouth that had been recently

  • The History Of Art Nouveau

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    Art Nouveau was an artist movement that started in Europe and peaked in popularity between the years of 1890 and 1910. It had a great influence on graphic design, but was also practiced in the fields of art, architecture and applied art. Art Nouveau is a French term meaning “new art” and is characterized from the highly stylized forms as well as organic and plant motifs. “The organic forms often took the shape of sudden violent curves which were often referenced by the term whiplash” (Eskilson, 56)

  • Hyperbole In Lord Of The Flies

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    1. The boys on the island start developing tensions. One group of boys was assigned to build huts and the other was supposed to keep the signal fire alive. During the time that the boys were building shelter, they began fighting amongst themselves about the conspiracy of the so-called ‘beastie’ and whether monsters are real or not. Meanwhile, while Jack is supposed to be watching the signal fire, he decides to lead his group to hunt a pig. Although Ralph strongly disagreed with this idea, Jack still

  • Fire as a Symbol of Hope in Lord of the Flies

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    The Lord of the Flies book was written by William Golding and published in the 1954. The world would’ve gone through two world wars already, as it was written after the two wars. The death and violence was fresh in everyone’s minds still, which would explain why there were so many references to the wars. Such as “Didn't you hear what the pilot said? About the atom bomb? They're all dead” (Golding 16). There are several references to the wars, Piggy even talks about grown-ups being responsible and

  • Metaphors By Sylvia Plath Essay

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    Metaphors by Sylvia Plath describes feeling heavy, fat, and nauseous literally. However every phrase, every line, and every word in Metaphors symbolizes a deeper alternate meaning. Sylvia Plath uses metaphors, symbolism, and motifs to explain the feelings associated with pregnancy. A riddle of 9 lines is the perfect way to describe this poem, and there is no coincidence that it in fact is the first line of the poem. This poem about a pregnant woman gives many hints toward pregnancy. The most obvious

  • Descriptive Writing Beach

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    not daytime. Were one to attempt a midnight dip, they would find the waters to be frigid and biting against their bare skin. Long grasses sway in the brisk air, as hair may swirl around a girl’s face as she dances in the wind. Their shadows appear tendril-like, and stretch far along the beach. Waves gently lick the shore. The full moon in the sky indicates spring tides to be in full effect, meaning that tonight the tide is far lower than average. Damp sand is the evidence left behind from the high

  • Savagery In Lord Of The Flies

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    affected by the lack of enforced guidelines and the defiance against them. His changing hair is symbolic of his changing character. When Ralph is running away from Jack’s tribe, “His hair was full of dirt and tapped like the tendrils of a creeper”(212). The simile “tapped like the tendrils of a creeper” is comparing Ralph's hair to a special stem of the winding vines in the forest. This describes his hair as being stringy and winding around in the same manner the vines covering the forest are tangled. This

  • Donatellos David

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    Donatellos David Donatello was one of the most important and influential artists of the fifteenth century. As a master artist, he sculpted some of the most beautiful pieces of the Italian Renaissance. His innovations impacted many artists of his time, and set the standard for centuries of sculptors to follow. Donatello’s style is clearly defined and easily recognized in nearly all of his pieces. An exception is the bronze, David, dated 1425-1430. David strays from the traditional style of

  • A Tyrant's Cruelty in Pakistan

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    heartlessly cremated, lives bid farewell with a lonely tear, and not even the ashes of liberty were able to be whiffed in the monoxodized morning sky. Pakistan and its civilians had plunged into deepest mourning as an onyx blanket leisurely wove its tendrils over the nation, plaguing it, depriving the once-united country of its birthright. Was this an epidemic like the Bubonic Plague, a warfare like the WWII, a revolution like its own, a natural disaster like a massive earthquake, or perhaps mass destruction

  • A Summary Of Owl Creek

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    towering redwood trees, gazed in awe at the magnificence of a statuesque mountain, or happened upon a crystal clear alpine lake, there is no experience quite so ethereal as a lotus field at dawn. Freshly killed rabbits cooking on ceramic hibachis send tendrils of smoke curling upward from the fire, as though the animals’ spirits are reaching for each other under the low haze that presses down across the darkness of the water. Whispers, and the gentle stirring of the water against the raised stone path

  • Death Bringer's Gauntlet Monologue

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    Prologue The Death Bringer’s Gauntlet. One of the most coveted things in this war infested world. More wanted than diamonds, but only one in the entire world. It is said that the person who has the gauntlet controls the world. Abandoned in battle the owner not knowing it’s true worth, the gauntlet is ready to rise once more. Part One Ben put on his gauntlets. Another day of bloodshed and murder greeted him. He sighed. Was all this killing necessary to restore earth to the utopia it once was? A peaceful