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The squirrel's brush with death causes him to develop superpowers, allowing him to understand humans and become smarter. Flora then names the squirrel Ulysses after the vacuum cleaner accident. Flora sneaks him inside and then explains to Ulysses that he must use his newfound powers to right wrongs, fight injustice, "or something."
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter and first published by Frederick Warne & Co. in August 1903. The story is about an impertinent red squirrel named Nutkin and his narrow escape from an owl called Old Brown.
The villanelle is an example of a fixed versed form. Tanka – a classical Japanese poem, composed in Japanese (rather than Chinese, as with kanshi) Ode – a poem written in praise of a person (e.g. Psyche), thing (e.g. a Grecian urn), or event; Ghazal – an Arabic poetic form with rhyming couplets and a refrain, each line in the same meter
Squirrel's New Year's Resolution is a 2010 Children's picture book written by Pat Miller and illustrated by Kathi Ember. It is about Squirrel who wants to make a New Year's resolution but initially doesn't know what it is (her friend Bear explains it to her), then helps her friends ( Skunk , Mole , Turtle , and Porcupine ) with theirs but is ...
The lyrical subject, lyrical speaker or lyrical I is the voice or person in charge of narrating the words of a poem or other lyrical work. [1] The lyrical subject is a conventional literary figure, historically associated with the author, although it is not necessarily the author who speaks for themselves in the subject.
Poems of 1912–1913 are an elegiac sequence written by Thomas Hardy in response to the death of his wife Emma in November 1912. An unsentimental meditation upon a complex marriage, [ 1 ] the sequence's emotional honesty and direct style made its poems some of the most effective and best-loved lyrics in the English language.
The squirrel's death sparked so much outrage that it prompted a state lawmaker to propose legislation to improve animal-rights statutes, calling the bill "Peanuts Law: Humane Animal Protection Act ...
Longo was driving home from work [citation needed] when he saw the squirrel's mother killed by a car in New York City. [1] [2] A mechanical engineer at the time, [3] Longo sought a shelter for Peanut but was unsuccessful, and he bottle-fed the squirrel for the next eight months before deciding that Peanut should be returned to the wild. [4]