what is the extended metaphor in Anne Bradstreet's upon burning our house?
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try checking out this link:\n\nhttp://www.getasite.com/STG/ENG11/handouts/CL_bradstreet_poems.htm
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Wow, this poem is something else. By that I mean it is really abstract in its language and in its metaphors. I have a guess on it's meaning, but that is merely a guess. This author is using so much personal experience that it is hard for me as a reader to really connect well with what is being said, but here is my hypothesis:\n\nFirst of all, I think the title "Call It Fear" needs to be kept in mind when reading through the entire poem. The structure and the wording is suggestive of a person who is caught in the panic of fear ("call it an ocean of fear of the dark"). So, it can easily be assumed that this poem is analyzing fear and the essence of fear in the human mind.\n\nThe author has this deep fear, a fear of the dark, or possibly a fear of the unknown. The author is not alone however as she has found someone, referred to as Goodluck, who also has the same fear. They have come together to escape the fear, and their only escape has been found in the music that they have found on the radio, the church music that plays on a lot of stations on Sunday mornings. \n\nThere is also a question of the repeated imagery of "a string of shadow horses kicking and pulling me out of my belly." This image is repeated in the first and third stanzas and is linked to anxiety, the butterfly feeling that everyone gets in the pit of their stomach when they are controlled by fear. The idea of "shadow horses" seems to suggest the idea that death is pulling and tugging at the speaker of this poem, and it is the fear of death that drives the speaker to use music to escape the fear.\n\nThis is my guess on the meaning of the poem. . . I hope it proves helpful!
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Hmmm...no. It's not a sentence, so it's not clear what rules of grammar apply, but I don't think "a symbol" can be taken to refer grammatically to "burn their underpants"--so that makes the underpants themselves a symbol of throwing off their matriachal oppressors. You might want "to represent throwing off..."\n\nI am a matriarchal supporter but that doesn't make me any less a grammar queen.
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This is taken from the story to screen play book:\n\nand there, on the back of the closet door, WE SEE THE SHIRTS, on a wire hangar suspended from a nail, and next to them, a postcard of Brokback Mountain, tacked on the door.\n\nCONTINUED:\nHe has taken his shirt from inside of JACK's, and has carefully tucked JACK's shirt down inside his own.\n\nHe snaps the top button of one of the shirts.\n\nLooks at the ensemble through a few stinging tears\n\nENNIS: Jack, I swear ....\n\nStands there for a moment.\n\nThen closes the closet door.\n\nHe looks out the window, at the great bleakness of the vast northern plains ....\n\n\nTHE END
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I would say hyperbole - an incredible exaggeration.  We all know he didn't REALLY hold his tongue.  \n\nI don't think it's a metaphor because they show comparisons -- this isn't comparing that with anything.  It's really just kind of an idiom.
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Aha!  The Revenge of the Spurned!  LOL.  LOL.\n\nGood for her! Burn that Hussy!  LOL.\n\nGood one.
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The main theme as you should be able to tell from reading it is parental abuse, if you are unsure why, then it is because the child who the writer knows can climb trees without any problems, seems to be extremely clumbsy as far as his own mother is concerned, this is most likely the mother making excuses for the child being beaten by her or another relative.\n\nMy next-door neighbor tells me\nher child runs into things.\nCupboard corners and doorknobs\nhave pounded their shapes\ninto his face. She says\nhe is bothered by dreams,\nrises in sleep from his bed\nto steal through the halls\nand plummet like a wounded bird\ndown the flight of stairs.\n\nThis child who climbed my maple\nwith the sureness of a cat,\ntrips in his room, cracks\nhis skull on the bedpost,\nsmacks his cheeks on the floor.\nWhen I ask about the burns\non the back of his knee,\nhis mother tells me\nhe walks backwards\ninto fireplace grates\nor sits and stares at flames\nwhile sparks burn stars in his skin.\n\nOther children write their names\non the casts that hold\nhis small bones.\nHis mother tells me\nhe runs into things\nwalks backwards\nbreaks his leg\nwhile she lies\nsleeping.
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So Much Water So Close To Home\nBy Raymond Carver\n\n"Significant changes occur between Raymond Carver’s first publication of So Much Water So Close To Home"
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"Spirts look down upon love make. No more. No More!"\n\nsend by smoke signal for optimal effect.
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Yes, it is a reference to Erol Flynn.  Apparently, he was a pretty wild guy.  According to IMDB:\n\n"The phrase "In like Flynn," stems from his 1942 trial for statutory rape."
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liked them lol\n hows this one;\nBlonde sets herself on fire with her ghd's, she calls the fire brigade, \n"help! help!, I've set my house on fire"\n"All-right dear, try to stay calm, what's ur address?"\n"I'm not wearing a dress I'm in my bath robe?"\n"You've misunderstood me dear, where do you live?"\n"I told u already, in a house and it's burning, can u stop with the chit chat and send someone quick"\n"Ok sweetheart, for the last time, how do we get there?"\n"DUH, HELLOOO, in the big red shiny thing!!!!!!!!"
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In much of his poetry, Bontemps links the black self to the cycle of the seasons and a closeness to natural rhythms. "A black man talks of reaping," the last poem in this collection, moves slowly and powerfully to the conclusion that it is unnatural and disastrous for human beings not to reap what they themselves sow. The persona of the poem represents the black race forever planting but never reaping. Just as Cullen's "From the Dark Tower" advises the white world that blacks "shall not always plant while others reap," and Hughes threatens that continual deferral of dreams may result in explosion, Bontemps ends "A black man talks of reaping" with an implied threat:\n\nYet what I sowed and what the orchard yields \nmy brother's sons are gathering stalk and root; \nsmall wonder then my children glean in fields \nthey have not sown, and feed on bitter fruit.
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Used in several stories.  See if this is the right one.\n\n2nd one is the book:
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It's  From "A Death in the Family" by James Agee.\nThe full quote is\n\n"How far we all come. How far we all come away from ourselves. You can never go home again." \n\nIt's a story about a family dealing with the accidental death of the father.  See my source link to read more.\n\n(One interpretation:  Once you grow up and have your own life, even if you physically return to your childhood house, you can't return to that place of innocence and safety -- it's never "home" as it once was because you are a different person.)
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I have not seen the movie so I am not certain what specific quotation you are seeking, but in researching this answer, have watched the movie trailer, I know I will have to see this film. \nIn the trailer she says "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure..." now I am searching for the author of that quote (insert eye-rolling smiley here!!)
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I think this is a great question.  While I'm at a loss for which philosophy can be compared to this episode, Serling makes a point of the breakdown of society (represented by the residents on Maple Street) when confronted with external stress or fear.  This breakdown is analgous to the Salem Witch Hunts or McCarthyism during the 1950's.
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"Before you decide to critize someone walk a mile in their shoes. Then when you critize them you are a mile away and you have their shoes"\n-sisterhood of the traveling pants (book 3 i think)\nIt's hilarious!!!