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Valediction Forbidding Mourning People In The World
1,881 wordsBy Referring Closely to at least 4 poems, examine the distinct characteristics of John Donne poetry, paying particular attention to the Relationship Between Intellect and Emotion. John Donne was born in 1572 and both of his parents were Roman Catholics and as a result religion played a very prominent part in his upbringing, and this influenced his poetry greatly. Throughout his poetry there is a strong feel of religion. He was also an educated man and this is also shows in his work with his logi...
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Centers Chivalric Love Chivalric Love Than Song Lover
565 wordsMicro theme Topic: Courtly songs off differing views of Chivalry, especially of Chivalric love. Contrast as specifically as possible, the views on chivalry in one of these pairs: #s 2 & 4, #s 6 & 7. Courtly songs, both 2 and 4, contain specific views on chivalric love though their views differ greatly. From reading both songs it is obvious that song # 2 centers chivalric love around the adored (female) and song # 4 centers chivalric love on the lover (male). From song 2 it is clear that to the a...
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Marry Below Her Class Vainer Ties Narrator
887 wordsRomantic writers often held interesting philosophies of sexuality. On one hand, they were taught to believe that sensual things were sinful, while on the other hand, they were constantly confronted with sexuality in everyday life. Robert Browning is one of the most renowned Romantic poets who often explored the issue of sexuality. In his dramatic poem Porphyrias Lover Browning demonstrates a malicious intertwining of violence, morals, masculinity, and sexuality. His use of setting, gender roles,...
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Clean Well Lighted Place Sun Also Rises
4,002 wordsThere are a few great writers that have lived truly interesting and exciting lives. While it seems to be a truth that most writers have had some sort of event in there life, whether political, religious, or personal that has shaped them as writers and helped hone their craft to an affective and masterful way, it seems to be that there is one writer who has led a different life, one with adventure, love, death, and challenges that are completely different from the norm that most writers have expe...
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Vietnam Soldiers They Carried Ghosts
1,842 wordsThe relationship between the soldiers of the Vietnam War was different from the relationships with people from home. The soldiers felt as if they could not tell the whole truth about the war through their eyes to their loved ones at home. The soldiers that they were with all the time understood the pain and confusion each other felt, yet no one talked about it. War changed how people had relationships with others. War could bring people closer or tear them apart. The relationships between the so...
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Adrienne Rich Darker Side
958 wordsLit. of Love April 26, 2002 Response Paper # 4 XIX Can it be growing colder when I begin to touch myself again, adhesions pull away? When slowly the naked face turns from staring backward and looks into the present, the eye of winter, city, anger, poverty, and death and the lips part and say, I mean to go on living? Am I speaking coldly when I tell you in a dream or in this poem, There are no miracles? (I told you from the first I wanted daily life, this island of Manhatten was island enough for...
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Ophelia Developed By Symbolism Imagery And Irony
1,711 wordsDenied the freedom of speech, she cannot survive the contemptuous conversations of the cruel world. Being a female in a kingdom full of chaos and deceitfulness, the harmless Ophelia is forced to keep silent and surrender to the domineering men in her life. Her lover feigns madness in an attempt to avoid prosecution of murder. By hiding behind his mask of insanity after accidentally killing Ophelias father, Ophelias lover ultimately loses his true-love: Ophelia. Hamlet is the name of Ophelias lov...
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Critical Analysis Of Lady With The Pet Dog
1,074 wordsThe University of Victorias Hypertext Writers Guide defines the term point of view as, "the perspective from which a narrative is presented" (Keller 1). Another definition is, "point of view refers to who tells us the story and how it is told" (Meyer 174). There are two main perspectives an author can use (TO DO WHAT). The first is called a first person narrative. In this perspective the narrator, or "the character who is telling the story" (Keller 1), uses the word I (ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO U...
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Full Of Life Bright Star
772 wordsA Bright Star by Keats, is a sonnet that shows his infatuation to be with his lover for eternity. The poems main theme deals with the love and appreciation of things that are unchanging. This theme is brought up many times in the poem. For example, Keats uses a bright star and the earth to describe his innermost desires to be immortal, unchanged, and rejuvenated. He expresses deep feelings toward his lover, and if he had to live without her, he would welcome death. In the first two lines, Keats ...
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Dramatic Monologue Porphyrias Lover
1,029 wordsThe finest woks of Browning endeavor to explain the mechanics of human psychology. The motions of love, hate, passion, instinct, violence, desire, poverty, violence, and sex and sensuousness are raised from the dead in his poetry with a striking virility and some are even introduced with a remarkable brilliance. Thanks to the changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution, so many people living in such close quarters, poverty, violence, and sex became part of everyday life. The absence of family a...
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Walt Whitman Good Times
1,061 words... f his work. If Walt was not in this setting of mood, there are many who believe that Whitman would have been able to write such poetry. Walt being alone kept him from being happy, although this motivated Whitman to express his thoughts and feelings in to what he wrote. Also the look of the tree being rude, unbending, and lusty was how Whitman felt how he looked and how he was. This poem is also about the love that Walt Whitman wanted in his life. Whitman felt alone without a lover near. And ...
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Semi Barbaric Princess Frank R Stockton Love
583 wordsWomen will do almost anything for love, to be loved, or to keep love. That is their mission. When women become jealous, however, the love they want to hold onto disappears, becomes selfishness, and one does not know if it is love anymore. In the short story "The Lady, or the Tiger?" written by Frank R. Stockton, a semi barbaric princess motions which door her lover, the accused man, must open to either receive punishment or a reward. The punishment is to be devoured by a fierce tiger and the rew...
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Catherine The Great Denis Diderot
2,346 wordsCatherine the Great By: Meredith Klein CATHERINE II I. Early life a. Childhood b. Interests II. Relationship with Peter III a. Marriage and Motherhood b. Overtaking of Peter III c. Death of Elizabeth II III. Catherine Empress of Russia a. Russian Orthodox Clergy b. Philosophers c. Pastimes d. Worries IV. Love and Power a. Love affairs b. Accomplishments V. Conclusion a. Catherine II was worth of the title, Catherine the Great. 1 / 4 / 58 Women fell under her spell as well as men, for underlying ...
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Act 1 Sc 1 Sc 3
3,217 wordsDiscuss the presentation of the themes of love and marriage in? Romeo and Juliet? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Love and marriage are key themes that run throughout? Romeo and Juliet? . The opinions of these two topics differ from each character. Shakespeare based? Romeo and Juliet? on an earlier poem by Arthur Brooke, ? Romeo and Juliet? . The opinions of the authors about the subjects of love and marriage differ and it is shown in their writing. Brooke condemned the conduct of Romeo and Juliet in a pr...
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Hamlet Madness Kills Claudius
2,138 wordsOphelia, in this tragedy many see her as just Hamlet? s lover, a character who is selfish in not helping Hamlet when in need, or just a psycho lover with a lot of problems. What if the story was twisted so that the play wasn? t a tragedy and actually turned into a love story due to Ophelia? This is how I would have written it if I were William Shakespeare. Ophelia who was Hamlet? s love in the play would have recognized the reason for Hamlet? s madness, taken the situation in to her own hands in...
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Valediction Forbidding Mourning Dante Alighieri
1,676 wordsJohn Donne's A Valediction Forbidding Mourning At the beginning of A Valediction Forbidding Mourning the poet, John Donne, engages in a didactic lesson to show the parallel between a positive way to meet death and a positive way to separate from a lover. When a virtuous man dies, he whispers for his soul to go while others await his parting. Such a man sets an example for lovers. The separation of the soul from the body, and the separation of lovers from each other, is not an ending but the begi...
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Oxford Oxford University Troilus And Criseyde
2,974 wordsChaucer? s epic poem, Troilus and Criseyde, is not a new tale, but one Chaucer merely expanded upon. One of these expansions that Chaucer? s work has become renowned for is the improvement of the characters. Generally, Chaucer? s characters have more texture, depth, humanity, and subtlety than those of the previous tales. Of the three main figures in the epic poem, Troilus, Criseyde, and Pandarus, Pandarus is the character that Chaucer took the most liberty with, creating and evolving Pandarus u...
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Reflect His Mood Porhyria Lover Poem
473 wordsPorhyria's Lover is a monologue, which gives the reader a dramatic insight into the mind of an abnormally possessive lover. Love poems often express the wish that time would stand still so that a particularly intense moment of love will last forever. This is the same with the lover in the poem. He feels the same way and feels he has to immortality the moment in a different way to anyone else. In the poem we can see that right from the beginning he loves Porhyria. His moods differ throughout the ...
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Browning Lover
1,042 wordsPorphyria Lover vs. My Last Duchess by Daniel Vila The similarities between Robert Browning? s two poems, My Last Duchess and Porphyria? s Lover, are uncanny, as they can be compared in theme, plot, style, language, perspective and various other ways. The two poems make the same statement concerning men and love and men and their relationship with women. In both poems, the male narrator looks like a jesus, overbearing tyrant, and the woman a passive victim of circumstance. Neither poem makes men...
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Porphyrias Lover Robert Browning
759 wordsBY PorphyriaS Lover PORPHYRIAS LOVER BY ROBERT BROWNING Violence towards a woman who was once desired and wor-shipped by men appears to be a recurring motif in Brownings po-ems. Porphyrias lover is one of the earliest dramatic mono-logue's by Robert Browning in which he explores the mind of an insane male lover. Browning reveals the changing thoughts and feelings as well as the emotional disorder of his speaker. The reader often perceives a gap between what the speaker says and what he actually ...
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