What poetic devices does Johnson Agard use in "The Clown's Wife"?

"The Clown's Wife" is a description of the public and private life of a clown
and the contrasts between them. It begins with the public. On stage, the clown is a king on a
thronethough it is already implied that this is the reverse of his private persona: "On
stage, he's a different person." The last line of the stanza, "But at home you should
hear him moan," uses , assonance, andto mimic the sound of moaning.

The
figurative language ("a king on a throne") continues in the next stanza with "the
world on his shoulder." The singular "shoulder" makes him appear hunched and
unbalanced. Thethat the clown makes others laugh but is unhappy himself is compounded when his
wife has to perform the sort of tricks one would expect from a clown to try to cheer him up.
However, the final uneven(providing some closure and resolution through rhyme, though not
through scansion) suggests that her efforts are not altogether in vain.

Describe the government of Oceania in 1984.

Oceania's
government is a brutal technofascist police state. That is to say, it appears to be harshly
fascist in its organization. It is organized around being at war, with a strict...

Explain what is meant by the metaphor "a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams."

In 's
famous poem "," she metaphorically contrasts the plight of oppressed African Americans
with the independent, privileged white citizens in American society by contrasting the lives of
a caged bird and a free bird. While the free bird flies uninhibited through the sky, enjoying
the "orange sun rays," the caged bird struggles to see through his "bars of
rage" and sings of freedom.

In the fifth stanza, the narrator writes
that the caged bird "stands on the grave of dreams," which metaphorically represents
the unattained goals and aspirations of oppressed African...

Book title: America - past and present Volume 1:To 1877 Chapter 1 Describe the effect of European exploration and colonization on African and...

Having
decimated their populations with internal wars and the bubonic plague, Europe was recovering in
the 1400's when exploration in the Americas began. With England and France also recovering from
the Hundred Years War, Spain launched exploration into the Americas, bringing with it
communicable diseases that spread throughout various populations. For, it was the Europeans
close contact with domesticated animals which cultivated diseases such as smallpox, diphtheria,
influenza,and measles to epidemic proportions in South America a continent unexposed hitherto,
killing up to 95% of the population. Added to this, the Spanish explorers felt it incumbent upon
them to make Christians of the natives, so when these South American indigenous people did not
wish to become Catholics, they also perished. In addition, because the crippling effects of
disease and forced changes to their cultures and way of life left the indigenous peoples
weakened and vulnerable to the conquerors, much wealth was...

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What does Archie say about Stargirl? Why?

Without a more specific text reference, it is tough to know exactly which quote
aboutfrom Archie this question is asking about. Archie is the neighborhood cool old guy. He is a
fountain of knowledge and offers sage advice to all kinds of the young people that come to him.
Chapter 7 is the likely location that you are looking for. Leo and Kevin go to Archie's house,
and they are hoping he has some wise words of knowledge about Stargirl. One of the first things
that he says is that she is indeed different.

She is
different, isnt she?

The two boys burst out laughing
and...

Why dose squealer say the song, beast of england,is no longer appropriate? what is sung in its place?

says that the song,
"Beasts of England" was a song for the rebellion and since the rebellion is over, the
song is no longer needed. ...

What are at least three "Romantic" elements in Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Rappaccini's Daughter"?

Romanticism is a term often used to describe many works of art produced in the early
nineteenth century. Romanticism is often seen as a reaction against the art of the eighteenth
century, which is often called neo-classical. If neo-classical art emphasized reason,
responsibility, tradition, order, moderation, and the lives of aristocrats and members of the
upper classes, romanticism often emphasized strong emotion (even passion), freedom, innovation,
lack of restraint, excesses, and the lives of the middle classes or the poor. Neo-classicism is
often associated with the man-made and artificial; Romanticism is often associated with anything
and everything natural, including especially the beauty and power of untamed natural
landscapes.

Romanticism tends to celebrate the distinctive individual, the
exotic or strange, the unusual or even the bizarre. At the same time, it also tends to celebrate
the ideal of humans living in harmony with nature and with one another.

In
what ways...