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 * __ Those Annual Bills By: Mark Twain. __** [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Mark_Twain%2C_Brady-Handy_photo_portrait%2C_Feb_7%2C_1871%2C_cropped.jpg/200px-Mark_Twain%2C_Brady-Handy_photo_portrait%2C_Feb_7%2C_1871%2C_cropped.jpg width="180" height="320" align="right" caption="Mark Twain" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mark_Twain,_Brady-Handy_photo_portrait,_Feb_7,_1871,_cropped.jpg"]]

These annual bills! these annual bills! How many a song their discord trills Of "truck" consumed, enjoyed, forgot, Since I was skinned by last year's lot!

Those joyous beans are passed away; Those onions blithe, O where are they? Once loved, lost, mourned--now vexing ILLS Your shades troop back in annual bills!

And so 'twill be when I'm aground These yearly duns will still go round, While other bards, with frantic quills, Shall damn and damn thes annual bills!

How many a song their discor trills ||< I interpreted the opening of this poem as Mark Twain expressing disgust of having to pay these annual bills and how it is such a task but it is part of growing up and it is a responsibility that you must take on. ||< Repetition Ethos ||< Mark Twain uses child like rhymes to possibly give off the illusion that adults are naive and child like in there own way and maybe just because they as adults dont make there childishness known to shoe around them doesn't mean it doesn't exist. ||
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 * < These annual bills! these annual bills!

Since i was skinned by last year's lot! || Last years responsibilities had robbed them (them being adults) of there naive and childish actions that were once there joy and happiness now being consumed by there responsibilities and being forgotten due to there on going amount of responsibilities and "bills" that they have to take on. || Ethos || In this portion Mark Twain makes it almost seem as if those who this poem pertains to are regretting the loss of there childhoods and the oncoming responsibilities that they took on as they became adults. ||
 * Of "Truck" consumed, enjoyed, forgot,

Those onions blithe, O where are they || although we had fun it is now time to settle down. we have to take on these responsibilities now even though we dread them. Grwoing up means that you are growing out of your childishness and growing into your responsbilities in life even if you truly do not want to. || Rhyming scheme || As you grow up the child in you dies away untill you are left wondering if you really have any child version left of you inside. It is almost as if you are losing a part of yourself as you grow up. ||  ||   || Your shades troop back in annual bills || Fun is now gone we've wallowed as much as possible, it is time to grow up now even if we don't want to. (We being those who have just lost there childhood and gained there adulthood and responsibilites) || Ethos, Parallelism || Having lost something we as new adults took for granted as children we now mourn the loss and dread what we have gained. New responsibilities is what welcomes us now to the "real world" we as adults must push aside the loss of your youth and walk now towards the dreadful responsbilities. || these yearly duns will still go round || Dreadful responsiblities are still sitting here waiting to be dealt with by you the adults. the want to have fun still sits fresh in the new adulthood but is dieing slowly in the older adulthood. || rhyming scheme pathos || Mark Twain uses an almost nursery like type rhyme throughout the poem. This plays into the theory of this poem being about children entering the adult world and those who have been in this world for a while losing there child inside of them completely while others are gaining the adult like status yet still aquire that small child inside of them. || shall damn and damn these annual bills! || In this Mark Twain uses repetition and ethos to get his point accross. The understanding of the inner hatred of these new responsibilities of being an adult. Older adults may understand the need to take on these responsiblities and may not mourn the loss of freedom but the younger generation of adults we mourn our loss of childhood freedom and dread the mounds of responsibilities that our parents and grandparents have dumped upon us to deal with. || Repetition ethos || We all have to grow up sometime so we must face the facts. The loss of the our childhood is dreadful and this is what allows us to tell who is matured beyond there years and who is still wanting to live there life as full and as speratic as possible. not everyone wants to live that life of responsibility and no fun yet almost everyone has to. ||
 * Those Joyous beans are passed away
 * once loved lost mourned now vexing ills
 * and so 'twill be when i'm aground
 * while other bards, with frantic quills,

Mark Twain througout the poem, __Those Annual Bills__ shows how responsibilities pile up as life moves on past, present, and future but the want to have fun and be "as free spirited and care free" as a kid does not die as time passes. Using humor and ethos Mark Twain puts a sarcastic spin on what he is saying allowing the reader to enjoy the poem but also reach the poems meaning with greater understanding. Along with that more aged readers, people more experienced in the adult world relate more to this poem than a 10 year old would. Mark Twains intended audience would be people around and above the age of 25. __Those Annual Bills,__ shows the great humorous, satiric side of Mark Twain.

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