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Personificaiton
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- Jan 2021
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The author is describing his past with certain specific memories from his childhood.
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www.poetryoutloud.org www.poetryoutloud.org
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So this is Nebraska. A Sunday afternoon; July
A Sunday afternoon is usually very calming and relaxing, so he's saying Nebraska is a calming and relaxing.
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On either side, those dear old ladies, the loosening barns, their little windows dulled by cataracts of hay and cobwebs hide broken tractors under their skirts.
He's saying that the barns are comparable to elderly ladies. Cataracts are a common eye condition that occurs with age and it causes a blurred vision. He says the windows, which would be the eyes, are obstructed by hay and cobwebs. The skirts of the barn are the walls that the tractors lie within.
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gravel road rides with a slow gallop over the fields,
This is an example of personification by saying the gravel road rides. The word gallop suggests it would be similar as to riding a horse, which means the gravel road is probably bumpy to ride on.
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Ted Kooser, the author of this poem uses lots of imagery in order to describe many of the objects and things he sees.
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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In U.S. government-speak, there’s the “intelligence community,” which every crisis reveals to be not much of a community at all. There’s a “scientific community,” but they quarrel over citations like toddlers. There’s the “European Community”; you know how that’s going. In Silicon Valley, there is a “developer community” of headphones-wearing techies who speak to no one and play video games alone. There’s a “business community,” whose members seek to put each other out of business. Entire races are called “communities,” however gaping their internal divisions. The religious, who always seem to be emerging from or heading into a schism, belong to the monolithic “faith community.”
In each example presented there is tension within each community. This shows how the meaning of the word community has become desensitized.
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hijacked
This word is repeated twice in this paragraph, and I believe it is showing that we have truly changed the meaning of the word community by using this negative connotation.
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