The play write‚ Medea‚ scripted by Euripides‚ is about a woman named Medea who seeks out revenge for her husband because of infidelity and his want for power. Medea’s plan is to solely hurt Jason as much as she possibly can. Her plan consists of a lot of deaths including her two sons. At first‚ Jason tries to explain himself about why he left Medea. Still‚ Medea was already hurting and no words of solace from him would help. Medea’s first kill was Glauce‚ the women Jason wants to be with. Killing
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Helen of Troy Poem Analysis In Greek Mythology‚ Helen of Troy was the daughter of Zeus and Leda and was infamously known as the most beautiful woman on earth. Her beauty is claimed to be utterly amazing to those who behold her‚ but this beauty also causes various problems‚ such as causing the Trojan War when Paris takes Helen for himself from the Spartan king Menelaus. Thus‚ various questions arise about her beauty‚ most specifically regarding the worth or harm of such a beauty. In fact‚ in Edgar
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Carrie Cunningham Mr. Ratzlaff ENGL-249 April 24‚ 2015 Langston Hughes Poem Analysis The 1920s consisted of a time when ultimate freedom and creativity collided with music. The Blues have evolved throughout the years‚ however the 1920s were the Blue’s early stages. By linking thoughts with music‚ the poet Langston Hughes was able to create a selection of poems which have a central theme of musical notions. The book Selected Poems of Langston Hughes addresses a variety of content such as home life‚
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POEM ANALYSIS In the poem “Monologue for an Onion” by Suji Kwock Kim‚ the onion metaphor is the centerpiece of the poem. The onion represents the poet‚ and the person she addresses (the reader assumes) is her lover. The onion metaphor is used to convey the message to this anonymous lover that she is by nature heartless and that he should stop trying to unearth a hidden core. The author is trying to dissuade her lover from further fruitless digging which only seems to cause him distress. The speaker
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the wind and sea very often‚ showing their roles of high destruction to the land. They are both written in first verse. “The Storm” is based in America and “Storm on the Island” is set on a small island in Britain. A main difference in these two poems are the people who are targeted: the victims of the tragedy that occurs in their respective towns. The islanders from the “Storm on the Island” poem are prepared‚ (“We are prepared: we build our houses squat”)‚ as if they were expecting the storm
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crimes in a local church. A poem was written by Dudley Randall about a true story that happened in Birmingham‚ Alabama in 1963. A group of white supremacists bombed a church that belonged to Martin Luther King Jr. What they did not know was that there were four little girls playing in there at the time. The church should be a safe‚ quiet place one can pray to God‚ but these incidents indicate that violence is creeping into the most innocent of
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From the beginning of the poem you can see the cottage maiden was in love with the Lord she calls him ‘a great Lord’ and asks herself ‘Why did a great Lord find me out to fill my heart with care?’ She’s admitting he filled her heart with care‚ but by asking why‚ she’s saying he hurt her. She also says ‘O cousin Kate my love was true.’ Here she’s expressing her sadness and the feeling of betrayal she has for her cousin she also says ‘If you stood where I stand‚ I would have spat into his face‚ and
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LANGUAGE RELATED TASKS Grammar item 1: …but sooner or later we have to sleep. Meaning In this sentence have to sleep is used to express the idea that we are obliged to sleep even if we don’t wish to do so. CCQs: Is it something we must do? Yes. Can we avoid it? No. Use of examples: We have to use the safety belt. Children have to attend school by law. Form Have to is a non-modal alternative to the modal verb must to talk about obligation. It is interchangeable with have
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The poem also paints the pool players as revolutionaries by its use of ambiguous meaning. The term “strike” has various meanings including violence and pool playing‚ but it also denotes a strike‚ a demonstration against something. Since the poem was written during the height of the Civil Rights Movement‚ such acts would not have been uncommon. Brooks’ own writings say that she wanted to bring attention to the plight or urban African Americans‚ and the Civil Rights Movement was a significant step
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forbids justice.12 The small nation shouts‚ and the big one brags;13 Futile raids cease and global wars commence.14 And the rude son strikes the father – a sword!15 Commentary: Timothy Wangusa‚ a Ugandan professor‚ has written a fifteen line poem – ‘A Strange Wind’. In this poem‚ he addresses the growing rivalry between the developing and developed nations in the world and portrays the differences between the two. Professor Wangusa is looking at the world after the process of globalization from
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