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Top Ten Songs About Sleep

My thirteen year old daughter hosted one of those sleepovers that I dread so bad. The term sleepover is really a misnomer, seeing that the girls neither sleep nor does the party ever seem to be over. Even though I had them established in the basement with all the food, drink, cookies, popcorn and anything ...

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The Use of Literary Techniques in Poetry

Thomas Hardy’s “Neutral Tones” examines a relationship that has lost its passion and fallen into a state of near-death. In the poem, Hardy uses the environment as an objective correlative to invoke a state of melancholia in the reader, which is the same feeling the speaker had about the relationship in the poem. Essentially, Hardy ...

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“Neutral Tones” Explication

We stood by a pond that winter day, And the sun was white, as though chidden of God, And a few leaves lay on the starving sod; –They had fallen from an ash, and were gray. Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove Over tedious riddles of years ago; And some words played ...