{"id":1089,"date":"2024-01-04T15:36:45","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T15:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/write-a-two-page-essay-on-the-following-prompt-it-needs-to-be-in-mla-format-and-use-in-text-citations-you-need-at-least-three-passages-quotes-from-the-poem\/"},"modified":"2024-01-04T15:36:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T15:36:45","slug":"write-a-two-page-essay-on-the-following-prompt-it-needs-to-be-in-mla-format-and-use-in-text-citations-you-need-at-least-three-passages-quotes-from-the-poem","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/write-a-two-page-essay-on-the-following-prompt-it-needs-to-be-in-mla-format-and-use-in-text-citations-you-need-at-least-three-passages-quotes-from-the-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Write a two page essay on the following prompt. It needs to be in MLA format and use in-text citations. You need at least three passages quotes from the poem."},"content":{"rendered":"

In Richard Blanco\u2019s poem \u201cShaving,\u201d published in 1998, the speaker writes about the act of shaving. Read the<\/p>\n

poem carefully. Then, in a well-written essay, analyze how Blanco uses literary elements and techniques to develop<\/div>\n
the speaker\u2019s complex associations with the ritual of shaving.<\/div>\n
In your response you should do the following:<\/div>\n
    Respond to the prompt with a thesis that presents a defensible interpretation.<\/div>\n
     Select and use evidence to support your line of reasoning.<\/div>\n
     Explain how the evidence supports your line of reasoning.<\/div>\n
     Use appropriate grammar and punctuation in communicating your argument.<\/div>\n
                         Shaving<\/div>\n
I am not shaving, I\u2019m writing about it.<\/div>\n
And I conjure the most elaborate idea\u2014<\/div>\n
how my beard is a creation of silent labor<\/div>\n
like ocean steam rising to form clouds,<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
or the bloom of spiderwebs each morning;<\/div>\n
the discrete mystery of how whiskers grow,<\/div>\n
like the drink roses take from the vase,<\/div>\n
or the fall of fresh rain, becoming<\/div>\n
a river, and then rain again, so silently.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
I think of all these slow and silent forces<\/div>\n
and how quietly my father\u2019s life passed us by.<\/div>\n
I think of those mornings, when I am shaving,<\/div>\n
and remember him in a masquerade of foam, then,<\/div>\n
as if it was his beard I took the blade to,<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
the memory of him in tiny snips of black whiskers<\/div>\n
swirling in the drain\u2014dead pieces of the self<\/div>\n
from the face that never taught me how to shave.<\/div>\n
His legacy of whiskers that grow like black seeds<\/div>\n
sown over my cheek and chin, my own flesh.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
I am not shaving, but I will tell you about the mornings<\/div>\n
with a full beard and the blade in my hand,<\/div>\n
when my eyes don\u2019t recognize themselves<\/div>\n
in a mirror echoed with a hundred faces<\/div>\n
I have washed and shaved\u2014it is in that split second,<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
when perhaps the roses drink and the clouds form,<\/div>\n
when perhaps the spider spins and rain transforms,<\/div>\n
that I most understand the invisibility of life<\/div>\n
and the intensity of vanishing, like steam<\/div>\n
at the slick edges of the mirror, without a trace.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Richard Blanco\u2019s poem \u201cShaving,\u201d published in 1998, the speaker writes about the act of shaving. Read the poem carefully. Then, in a well-written essay, analyze how Blanco uses literary elements and techniques to develop the speaker\u2019s complex associations with the ritual of shaving. In your response you should do the following:     Respond […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[66],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/1089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/1089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}