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TFauchery

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The title is an anagram of Gwendolyn Brookss name, and the poem is aparody of her famous We Real Cool. How are the characters in Heaneys poem different from those in the original?
 
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One rhetorical strategy employed by Campo is the repetition of certain keyterms in different contexts. Discuss the poems use of the words knew, magnificent, and ordinary.
 
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  • In just about every conceivable way. Brookss characters are aimless dropouts who pass their time in idle and destructive self-indulgence; they see no future for themselves, and they seem resigned to an empty existence of transient pleasures and early death. Heaneys characters are intense, inquisitive strivers, goal-oriented and focused on a future of achievement and reward.



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  • He uses the word know or versions thereof several times, describing a movement from knowing to not knowing. He uses magnificent twice, describing how ordinary birds became magnificent and how J.W.s voice was comforting, magnificent. And he uses ordinary three times, to describe the birds and sky. Yet beyond pointing to this magical alchemythe transformation of the ordinary into the magnificentthe speaker is for some reason unable to explain exactly what happened when he met J. W.





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Reply 2 on: Jul 20, 2018
Excellent


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