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  • Date Submitted: 01/15/2011 05:42 PM
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The poem "the dumka" by B.h. Fairchild is a work with much contrast.
there are many experiences of contrast throughout the poem. The most evident is the continual contrast between the couples lives present and past. The poem begins with the couple in their old age   who are swirled with their memories of past events that occurred in their lives in the past. The speaker describes the couple as “dense”, showing their lives and many experiences. In the beginning of the second stanza, the speakers talk’s of the couples memories of living through the depression of the 1930s, “ the dust storms of the thirties”. The speaker then goes into further detail discussing times of hardship by mentioning “bread lines in the city,” which is poverty that the speaker is referring to, “and then the war”, that people lost the meaning of war. Towards line 26 of “the dumka”, a shift occurs which then describes the positive times of the couples lives. This is shown by the end of the war, “the homecoming”. lastly, which everyone dreams of, the increase in wealth, “green lawn and a new piano”, and their new relaxed lives, “slow mornings of coffee”. Through the speakers use of positive and negative events of the couples lives in the dumka, one can see that the poem possesses strong contrast.

Raising children isn‘t very easy, but as they get older they start to stand on their own feet and experience a whole big wide world. As children get older their parents are there to parent them. Parenting a child or children can be a struggle. There are many ways a parent can teach their children to be respectful and self-sufficient. But some parents are unable to accomplish that and this struggle of parenting is raised in the compositions, “the most powerful question a parent can ask..” and “be-ers and doers”. The story “the most powerful..” displays the more friendly and respectful method of teaching children than “be-ers and doers”.

Parents want their children to have a wonderful, care free life...

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