Essays / My Antonia-essay topic help [4]

1. What is the role of the landscape in the novel? How does the novel thematize the relationship between man and environment?

2. What is Ántonia's relationship to her native Bohemia? Does she have stronger feelings for Bohemia or for Nebraska? What does Ántonia's predicament say about the lives of immigrants during the time of the novel?

3. How does the structure of the novel serve to emphasize some of its overriding themes?

4. Can Jim's view of Ántonia be considered reductive or patronizing in any way? Consider that Cather is a woman writing from the perspective of a man writing about a woman.

can anyone help me on these essay topics? im really confused

Writing Feedback / Nora becomes prepared to fullfil Pleny's request [6]

Is this good so far?

Overcoming her personal emotions, Nora becomes prepared to fullfil Pleny's request. Nora recognized that Pleny would be dead if his finger was not cut off, so" in neccessity and tenderness, she swiftly did what must be done." During the process of cutting off his finger, Nora was strengthened and committed to not backing down. After the finger was cut off, it was as if Nora was a totally different person that was mentally and physically tough. "As Nora was kickied, a child a child of the plains had awakened within her." When her baby was born, she understood how important life was and precious to grab onto for as long as possible. Accepting the fact that she was a plainswoman, Nora was proud and joyous. Defeating the task, Nora is ready and

Poetry / Blank verse - "The Ball Poem" by John Berryman Help [3]

Blank Verse- A blank verse is unrhymed poetry that is written in iambic pentameter. Iambic pentameter is a meter in poetry that consists of five feet or units. Each foot contains 2 syllables. Majority of the pairs begin with an unstressed syllable which is then followed by a stressed syllable. An unstressed syllable means that it is not bearing an accent for example short vowels. Stressed Syllable is a syllable having strong relative emphasis in a metrical pattern.

"The Ball Poem" by John Berryman:

What is the boy now, who has lost his ball,
What, what is he to do? I saw it go
Merrily bouncing, down the street, and then
Merrily over-there it is in the water!

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

To be, or not to be: that is the question:

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;

No more; and by a sleep to say we end

The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks

That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wish'd.

My teacher said to mark the meters in the examples to prove they are iambic pentameters.
I need help with that.