ENGL 201 Study Guide - Final Guide: M.2, Tears, Idle Tears, Gwendolyn Brooks
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Oct. 10th - chapter 12 (pp. 421 - 431: saying or. A word may pick up connotations from the uses to which put in the past: suggestion: the power of a word to imply unspoken associations, in addition to its literal meaning, william blake london. 10 or 11 year olds: the church is expected to teach children not exploit them, themes = freedom, confinement, death, innocence, wallace stevens disillusionment of ten o"clock, the speaker describes houses that are haunted by boring, white nightgowns. He or she then goes on to list a number of more interesting options for nightgowns. He could be talking about the literal end of the world, but he"s also talking abou the power that human beings have to harm or destroy one another. The speaker"s experience with romantic desire has taught him that passionate or hot emotions like love and lust would probably have the power to turn the earth into a big fireball.