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#14 "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost

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#14 "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost

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When I was given a choice of a literary work to add to this wall, it was a no-brainer to add this poem. It is one of my favorites of all time. He is telling us to take the untraveled path when we can. There are more things to be discovered when someone has not already discovered them before us.

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Here is a live version of the play. The jist of it is that a man is murdered, his wife is acting very strange and some of the town's people and the county attorney are looking for evidence in her house. The women find a broken bird cage and then a dead bird hidden away. They hide this evidence from the men. There is definitely a bond between the women of this play and the men as well, there is a clear divide.

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Trifles by Susan Glaspell, a d'moiselles production in NYC

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This story tells of two sisters and their mother and the struggles they go through. To me, it is about entitlement. Dee or Wangero as she changed her name to feels she is entitled to take whatever she wants from her mother and sister's house just because she is fancier than they are. The mother finally stands up to her though and gives the family's hand stitched quilts to the person who would appreciate them more, Maggie. Once Dee does not get what she wants, she gets mad and leaves. She seems like such a spoiled brat. In this picture, it shows Dee and her husband standing and the mom sitting with Maggie standing behind her.

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#11 "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke

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#11 "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke

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This poem is about a drunk father and his loving son sharing a dance and the mother getting annoyed with them. There are some violent undertones but to me, this is just a happy memory a son has of his father.

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This story is about the struggle of Jeng-Mei to balance her American identity and her Chinese identity. Her mother wants her to be a prodigy but she doesn't even want to try. She ends up realizing she could have been good at the piano if she would have at least tried. The song she plays at the end is symbolic of her struggle. It is a two part song called "Pleading Child" and "Perfectly Contented".

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#9 "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

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#9 "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

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This story is about soldiers and the different things they carry with them along their journeys. Some of them are physical things and others are emotional. The burden is a lot to bear and they are left with physical and emotional scars that will probably never he

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In this story the boy is so excited to see his father after many years of not seeing him. The father then proceeds to embarrass the son over and over again because he is drunk. Alcohol has such a horrible affect on families as is shown in this story.

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#7 "The Red Convertible" by Louise Erdrich

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#7 "The Red Convertible" by Louise Erdrich

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This story starts out rather light and carefree but quickly takes a rather dark turn. Henry joins the military and is gone for over three years. When he comes back, he is suffering from PTSD. He suffers alone for a long time then he has a few minutes of calm and seemingly happiness before he jumps in the river and disappears out of sight. This is such a sad story.

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#6 "A Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes

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#6 "A Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes

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This poem questions what happens to a dream when it is not acknowledged or processed. I believe it is important to try to find hidden meanings in our dreams and use those meanings as we go forward but also, not to dwell on them. Here is a colorful rendition of the poem that I liked.

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#5 "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins

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#5 "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins

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To me, this poem is just saying to enjoy the beauty of a poem instead of tearing it apart and over analyzing it. You lose some of the beauty when it is pulled apart so much and in writing we just need to let the words flow, don't worry so much about what they say

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This story was my favorite of our assigned readings. Desiree is found as an infant and raised by the people who found her. She gets married and has a baby and the baby is of mixed race. Her husband assumes she is mixed and that's how the baby came out mixed so he tells her she should leave. She and the baby die in the woods and he then finds out that he is the one who is mixed and he threw away his family for nothing

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This story is set in this grocery store which is where the name for the story comes from. It is about some girls in the store in bathing suits and the employees are oogling them until the manager comes in and tells them they may not shop there without proper attire. The narrator of the story ends up quitting his job because of the way the manager treats the girls and the girls don't even know what he has done. He is only 19 and it shows in his actions as he quits and does not consider the consequences as he does so.

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This story is about a girl on her 11th birthday. She is upset because the teacher gives her a sweater from the lost and found that is not hers but she cannot seem to find the words to express that it is not hers. Because all of this occurs on her eleventh birthday, she wishes she was one hundred and two because her eleventh birthday has not been pleasant to her.

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This story was about a love potion and an old man that knew the love potion was not what the man truly desired. This is a puppet show video based on the short story