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The author uses the bleak image of crows at the beginning of the chapter to create a dark and sinister tone. We get a description of the crows scavenging for food around the town and how they perch in the trees outside the local convent at night. The link between the crows and the convent Read More …
Chapter 3 begins by describing the beginning of Christmas in the town as the people get ready for the festivities. The description of the Virgin Mary kneeling passively in the town’s nativity scene is symbolic of the role of women in both religion and in Ireland at the time. The people of the town gather Read More …
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Chapter two introduces us to the life of the main character, Bill Furlong. We learn that Furlong was an illegitimate child and that he had, ‘come from nothing.’ The power of the Catholic Church becomes apparent in this chapter as we see the treatment of Furlong because his mother was not married. The writer creates Read More …
The story begins in October just as the clocks have gone back and there is a sense of darkness and despair in the opening chapter as the people of New Ross brace themselves against the harshness of winter. There is a clear use of pathetic fallacy in the opening chapter as the weather reflects the Read More …
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This was generated by Chat GPT and edited by the teacher. Line-by-Line Summary Lines 1–6: “I caught a tremendous fish / and held him beside the boat / half out of water, / with my hook / fast in a corner of his mouth. / He didn’t fight.” Lines 7–12: “He hadn’t fought at all. Read More …
This post was generated by Chat GPT and edited by the teacher. The Prodigal — Elizabeth Bishop The poem is split into two sonnets. First Sonnet The brown enormous odor he lived by was too close, with its breathing and thick hair, The opening immediately immerses us in filth and stench, personifying the “odor” as Read More …
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Video Summaries of Poem The Prodigal The Fish Filling Station First Death in Nova Scotia Sestina In the Waiting Room
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