On March 6, 1984, Collins was killed when the car in which he and his best friend were driving crashed into a culvert near his home in Antioch, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville. The autopsy showed he died a short time later at the scene of the accident. What boxer put cement in gloves? Tragic […]
The Historical Allusion is a reference to some historical events of the period. It makes the reader dive into the ocean of history and finds some pearls of culture, persons, places, and events and grasps their importance in the text. What is an example of a allusions? An allusion is when we hint at something […]
The poet tells a woman whom he loves that if they had endless time and space at their disposal, then he could accept her unwillingness to go to bed with him. Life is short, however, and opportunities must be seized. What does the phrase world enough and time mean? By ‘world enough, and time’, Marvel […]
October 1961October 1961 and appeared in Crossing the Water, one of two posthumous collections Hughes published from her leftover manuscripts. When did Sylvia Plath wrote the poem mirror? 1961 “Mirror” Poem Sylvia Plath wrote “Mirror” in 1961. It was originally published in the New Yorker on August 3, 1963, a few months after Plath’s death […]
Emotive language is the use of descriptive words, often adjectives, that can show the reader how an author or character feels about something, evoke an emotional response from the reader, and persuade the reader of something. What is an example of emotive language? Examples of Emotive Language in Everyday Life Here are a few examples. […]
More videos on YouTube Don’t try to remember too many at once. … Choose quotes for the main characters and themes. … Make a flashcard for each quote. … Make sticky notes and stick them where you’ll see them. … Draw cartoons or sketches to help you remember. … Act them out. … Read, cover, […]
The central idea to o captain my captain: “O Captain my Captain!” is a well known to all that this is the lament for death of “Abraham Lincoln”. The Ideas and the emotions which is conveyed in this poem is not necessary tied to the singular situation. What is the central idea of Captain my […]
The Song of Autumn focused on the speakers feelings toward his life anxieties and negativities which give him an idea of becoming so attached to the spleen side of the world. What is the song of autumn about? The autumn leaves are being given the human qualities of longing and comfort, and it is implied […]
Definition of metaphor 1 : a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) broadly : figurative language — compare simile. What is metaphor short answer? A […]
“When You Are Old” is a poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats. In the poem, which is published in Yeats’s second collection, The Rose (1893), the speaker asks someone to think ahead to old age, strongly suggesting that the addressee will eventually regret being unwilling to return the speaker’s love. What is the […]