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The Celtic Voice In Walter Scotts Waverley
1,128 wordsThe Celtic Voice in Walter Scott's 'Waverley' One aspect of this novel which may not have received its due attention is Scott's emphasis on the strength and vitality of traditional Scottish culture, especially folk poetry and music. The presence of such an element is hardly surprising, in as much as Scott's first important literary work was an edition of Scottish folk ballads ('Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border', 1803). The Celtic cultural aspect of 'Waverley' is scarcely mentioned by the author...
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Middle Ages Bowdoin College
1,224 wordsWas born in Portland Maine February 27 th 1807 in an old square wooden house, upon the edge of the sea. He entered Bowdoin College, where in due time he was graduated in the class with Hawthorne, in 1825. He wrote verses at this time for the United States Literary Gazette printed at Boston. For a short time after leaving college, he studied law in the office of his father the Hon. Stephen Longfellow; but soon fell into the mode of life he has since pursued as a scholar by the appointment to a Pr...
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Sula Toni Morrison Poetic Language
1,984 wordsAccording to Aldous Huxley, the life of any epoch can only be synthesised by poets: Encyclopaedias and guides to knowledge cannot do it, for the good reason that they affect only the intellectual surface of a mans life. The lower layers, the core of his being, they leave untouched. 1 I like this, particularly the idea of the intellectual surface - a mere surface, with much beyond it - and combined with Jacobson's aforementioned theory, I take this as my starting point: the idea that poetic langu...
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Life After Death Stop For Death
1,049 wordsBecause I could not stop for Death Because I could not Stop for Death by Emily Dickinson is a work of art which speaks of death through a woman's voice. Death itself is personified as a kind carriage driver, and shown as if forthcoming and appears to be in the figurative wisdom of a gentle, sympathetic man, who is arriving to take the speaker on her special expedition. This special journey takes her through various stages of life all the way to her eternal death. Dickinson's representation of De...
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Feelings Of Love False Sense
2,129 words... what will be, we sense, a much better and fuller life in the court. The Language of Love The most obvious concern of As You Like It is love, and particularly the attitudes and the language appropriate to young romantic love. This, I take it, is obvious enough from the relationships between Orlando and Rosalind, Silvius and Phoebe, Touchstone and Audrey, and (very briefly) Celia and Oliver. The action of the play moves back and forth among these couples, inviting us to compare the different s...
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Masque Of Blackness Masque Of Beauty Jonson
457 wordsIt is almost impossible now to figure out what did Jonson mean by cleansing. The language of his masques is highly allegorical, but there is no doubt that the author was able to come to concussion that there is a deep metaphysical difference between Black and White races. According to Johnson, the different color of skin only emphasizes this fact. There is no doubt, in Jonson's mind, that Ethiops are deficient, although he blames the third party for their ugliness: As of one Phaeton, that fired ...
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Type Of Love Nov 2006
719 wordsGiovanni and Shakespeare The sonnets of William Shakespeare and Nikki Giovanni revolve around the theme, which was the matter of foremost importance, for both authors love. Although, the understanding of love, by both authors, is absolutely different, in its essence. Shakespeare talks about the love to a woman, while Giovanni reflects on the love for friends, parents and her immediate surroundings, when she was growing up as a child. There is no doubt that Shakespeare's poetical language is much...
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19 Th Century Robert Browning
705 wordsBy the Fire-Side On the surface, it appears that Robert Brownings poem By the Fire-Side does not have a clear historical references, which would allow us to think of it as poetical piece that contains the essence of Victorian spirit, in traditional sense of this word. In it, author describes his trip to Italy with his wife in terms of metaphysical quest, while allowing readers to interpret the poems main message in variety of different ways. However, there are many indications, which can be foun...
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Modern American Poetry First African American
1,571 wordsGwendolyn Brooks and Her Worth to the Literary Canon Gwendolyn Brooks (born in Kansas, 1917) is one of the most famous African American poets. She was the first African American writer to win a Pulitzer Prize and was best known for her amazing portrayal of urban black people, who face poverty and racism in their everyday lives. Despite the wide range of African American poets, Gwendolyn Brooks arguably made the greatest contribution into the Literary Canon not only in the United States, but beca...
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Stopping By Woods Woods On A Snowy Evening
1,383 wordsThe Use of Imagery, Word Choice and Tone in Robert Frost's Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frosts poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is rightfully considered as one of his best poetical pieces. This is because its semantic properties imply philosophical simplicity and complexity at the same time, while resulting in making this poem particularly memorable. In this paper, we will analyze poems structural components, within a context of authors ability to provide readers with pro...
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Memories In Tintern Abbey
2,508 wordsMemories in Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey In 18 th century Western Europe, an artistic and intellectual movement arose. This movement came in the history of ideas, often referred to in a similar vein to an approach called intellectual history (Wikipedia). Indeed, as the name says, the Romantic period was characterized by strong emotions which include awe, horror, caution and many other aesthetic experiences (Wikipedia). The period greatly stressed the nature in art and language. This was the time w...
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Romeo And Juliet Balcony Scene
1,118 wordsMeaning of Light in Act II Scene II of Romeo and Juliet Scene II of the second Act of Romeo and Juliet is usually being called as the Balcony scene. Its noteworthy that William Shakespeare himself in his poetry or stage directions does not give any word showing that Juliet appears exactly on the balcony, the author only states that she comes out above Romeo. This scene is one of the happiest and moving in the whole tragedy, it includes famous part of amorous poetry beginning But soft, what light...
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Ben Jonson Socio Political
1,287 wordsBen Jonson's Masques The majority of people consider the masques to be a frivolous genre, which had no other purpose but the entertainment of nobility. The masques became especially popular in post-Elizabethan England, because of relative geopolitical security, achieved during her reign. Yet, if one carefully reads the works of Ben Jonson, who excelled in this genre, like no one else, it becomes clear that his masques are actually wrapped around Jonson's own socio-political ideas. In order for u...
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Circle Of Hell Freedom Of Choice
1,572 wordsDante's Inferno Dante Aligieris Divine Comedy marks the beginning of Renaissance period in European literature. Up until now Dante is counted among the greatest Italians that had ever lived besides being a masterpiece from strictly poetical point of view, Divine Comedy contains the ideas that were totally new to medieval perception of the world. In this poem, earthly passions enter heaven and hell something unheard of in European literature before Dante, which was largely nothing else but an ext...
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William Shakespeare William Blake
1,058 wordsComparative analysis of poems by W. Blake and W. Shakespeare Someone has said that everything genial is very simple. However, some people would also argue that the more difficult the poem is, the more valuable it becomes to the reader. In their poems, both William Blake and William Shakespeare were able to unite simplicity of expressions and complication of symbols into two beautiful poems. These poems are rather different, if compared to each other, as are their composers. William Blake, an Eng...
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Bust Of Pallas Brought Back
1,069 wordsWhen Faced With the Raven Of all works of poetry, few are as well known as Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven. Its narrative nature and a gothic, gloomy ambient appeal to the humans appetite for entertainment, and this makes The Raven very popular among all kinds of readers. This, along with a romantic, tragic theme helped The Raven to become Poe's best poem. Yet there is more to this masterpiece then just an intriguing story. The Raven explores the coherence of a man who realizes how powerless he is w...
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5 Th Century Bc Aristotle Believed
1,505 wordsGreek vase painting is one of the only surviving visual arts that we have that could possibly lead to historical connotations. Aristotle provides us with a particular way of viewing art that leads to an understanding of their time. Aristotle believed that Greek playwrights should write their plays with contemporary and local situations in mind, and by this they would gain the audience of posterity by virtue of universalizing their stories. I hope to illustrate Aristotle s Poetics through several...
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Read And Write Iliad And The Odyssey
1,079 wordsHomeric Poems: Oral or Written Tradition Homer. A name synonymous with Greek literature and poetry. Some call him the most famous and greatest poet of the Greek society. Known for his masterpieces of western literature the Iliad and the Odyssey, Homers poems have been passed down through generations and studied by many. But how did the translations, if they are, infact, the true Homeric poems, get to where they are today? Dating as far back as 1120 B. c. , the poems may have gone through a drama...
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Power And Wealth Shows The Reader
830 wordsThe Romantic Period began in the early nineteenth century; it radically changed the way people perceived themselves and the nature around them. Romanticism allowed people to get away from the constrained, logical views of life, and concentrate instead on the emotional side of life. Out of this time period stemmed many great poets. Their works concentrated around the themes of beauty, nature, political liberty, and imagination. Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of these poets. Born in 1792 Shelley led...
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