Michael Ugulini
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Michael is a full-time freelance writer from Ontario, Canada. He's a Business graduate from Niagara College of Applied Arts and Technology in Welland, Ontario. He is a published writer of newsletter articles, feature articles, SEO articles,and corporate profiles, short stories, and poetry. He ghostwrites a daily stock market newsletter for a client. Creative writing works include short screen and play scripts, short stories, and poetry. His business experience includes report writing, administration, store management, accounting/internal auditing, and customer service. His short screenplay PARCHED won First Place in the American Gem Short Screenplay Competition in 2006. He has experience writing Book Reviews and Analysis of novels and poetry books. His short story The Cardinals of Avery Street was published by The Baltimore Review (Winter 2013). (baltimorereview.org/index.php/ winter_2013/ contributor/michael-ugulini) His poetry has been published by Foliate Oak Literary Magazine (University of Arkansas at Monticello), New Writer (UK), Wilderness House Literary Review, Ancient Paths Literary Magazine, De La Mancha Literary Magazine, and Miller's Pond Poetry Magazine. He also writes/has written business articles for Seeking Alpha, QualityStocks, Motley Fool, Motley Fool Canada, B and H Photo and other offline and online publications. He and his wife Catherine live in Thorold, Ontario.
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Answered a Question in Sara Teasdale
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Answered a Question in James Shirley
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Answered a Question in D. H. Lawrence
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Answered a Question in The Tables Turned
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Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451
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Answered a Question in Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
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Answered a Question in Songs of Innocence and of Experience
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Answered a Question in William Wordsworth
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Answered a Question in Lovers' Infiniteness
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Answered a Question in Dover Beach
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Answered a Question in Richard Cory
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Answered a Question in Soldier's Home
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Answered a Question in The Scarlet Ibis
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Answered a Question in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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Answered a Question in Still I Rise
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Answered a Question in The Raven
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Answered a Question in The Battle Of Blenheim
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Answered a Question in Poetry
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Answered a Question in Poetry
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Answered a Question in Paradise Lost
As written in the first five lines of Paradise Lost, poet John Milton's subject is the Fall of Man and then Man’s redemption through Jesus Christ. Milton immediately informs the reader that the... -
Answered a Question in Paradise Lost
God cast Satan out of heaven because Satan, through pride, lust, and greed, wanted to usurp God’s heavenly throne. Satan wanted to be as God at the very least, and also above God. He was full of... -
Answered a Question in Little Things
The analysis/theme of the poem "Little Things" by James Stephens is as follows: Theme The theme of this poem is Forgiveness. James Stephens is asking for forgiveness, not just for himself, but for... -
Answered a Question in Piano
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Answered a Question in Caged Bird
The theme of self-awareness is shown in the poem "Caged Bird" by Maya Angelou in that the poet highlights how this bird has a rage within itself. This rage is because this caged bird senses it is... -
Answered a Question in War Is Kind
The meaning of the 23rd line “"Mother whose heart hung humble as a button" in the poem “War is Kind” by Stephen Crane is that this mother humbly accepts what war does to families. The meaning here... -
Answered a Question in One Art
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Answered a Question in Literature
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Answered a Question in Poetry
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Answered a Question in Literature
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Answered a Question in Poetry
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Answered a Question in Sea Fever
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Answered a Question in Emily Dickinson
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Answered a Question in Walt Whitman
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Answered a Question in The Bight
The following is an explanation of a simile from the poem "The Bight" by Elizabeth Bishop: The lines I’m highlighting from this 36-line poem are lines 11 to 13: The birds are outsize. Pelicans... -
Answered a Question in Edgar Allan Poe
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Answered a Question in Ode to Walt Whitman
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Answered a Question in The Road
A significant major event in the book 'The Road' by American novelist Cormac McCarthy is the discovery by the man and his young son of a group of people who have resorted to cannibalism to survive.... -
Answered a Question in George Santayana
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Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451
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Answered a Question in Power
The literary element used in Audre Lorde's poem "Power" is monologue. The poet, using a narrator, is vividly presenting views in first person—this narrator is talking directly to the audience... -
Answered a Question in Poetry
The poem "When I'm An Old Lady" by Joanne Bailey Baxter is a poem meant to convey to the reader, in a humorous way, the trials and tribulations of being a parent. Joanne Bailey Baxter has written a... -
Answered a Question in The Scarlet Ibis
The narrator's treatment of his brother in the short story, "The Scarlet Ibis" is harsh essentially. He says that his brother Doodle was, “…from the outset, a disappointment." He even says that his... -
Answered a Question in Poetry
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Answered a Question in Paradise Lost
In Paradise Lost, if Satan is the protagonist, then the antagonist in the poem is God. Why is this so? It is because God stands in the way of Satan’s devious plans. God is the righteous being who... -
Answered a Question in Robert Lowell
The meaning of the poem "July in Washington" by American poet Robert Lowell is that the natural beauty of the area is in sharp contrast to what really sometimes goes on in Washington as pertains to... -
Answered a Question in Richard Cory
Richard Cory killing himself (in the poem “Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson) when he appeared to have everything, is an example of “appearances being deceiving.” In the poem, Richard Cory... -
Answered a Question in Gothic Literature
The meaning of the term “Gothic Novel” in literature is writing that was inspired by the Enlightenment Period. Fundamentally, Gothic Novels deal with intrigue and are suspenseful and also have... -
Answered a Question in Literature
The rationale for the poem “Matilda” by Hilaire Belloc is that one should refrain from lying – or crying wolf – because one day, when you need someone to really believe what you are saying, they... -
Answered a Question in Literature
The meaning of the poem “Summer Storm” by Louis Simpson is that a couple is on the move to move their house to another part of the land. They are lovers but are unmarried. They are in the midst of... -
Answered a Question in Poetry
In the poem "Father Returning Home”, by Dilip Chitre, the poet shows that in old age people withdraw into an isolated life-style in the following ways: 1. The father is tired on the commuter train...
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