Mid-Autumn festival’s Background What is mid-autumn festival? The Mid-Autumn Festival also known as the Moon Festival or Moon cake Festival. The festival is held on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month. When was mid-autumn festival first appeared? A description of the festival first appeared in Rites of Zhou‚ a written collection of rituals of the Western Zhou Dynasty from 3‚000 years ago. The celebration became popular during the early Tang Dynasty. The history and origins of mid-autumn
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John Keats was a man that died way too young‚ he left this world way too early but when he passed‚ he left get amazing literature. His stories has many messages to them that you can’t help but think of what he had to say as the reader reads each line of his stories. The message that brings up in Ode on a Grecian Urn for example‚ brings up how art is the true beauty of this world and how art speaks in many different ways that a person really wouldn’t think of. Keats wanted the people that read his
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In the story " Early Autumn" Langston Hughes presents the thought about the loss of people who loved and people changing. Hughes tells the idea of the possibility that rushed development through life keeps individuals from shaping or keeping up significant connections. Hughes makes the story interesting by describing the scene and the plot of the two characters. The setting of the story brings back two characters together who once were in love‚ but they had a little amount of time to communicate
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Keats and Smith‚ Two Peas in a Pod The presence of sleep and night are often seen in John Keats’ and Charlotte Smith’s works. John Keats was a lonely man‚ who was talked down to by critics his whole career. Charlotte Smith‚ although married with twelve children‚ is often thought of as unhappy. Both poets saw the night and sleep as an escape from reality which is present in "To Sleep"‚ "The Night"‚ and "Ode to the Nightingale". Charlotte Smith wrote “To Sleep” as a reflection on her own life. Smith
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In life today‚ people tend to over exaggerate the phrases “happy as a clam” and “living the dream.” Dean Young‚ the author of “Clam Ode”‚ expresses how he relates to every other American struggling to find happiness in their life but in the end wishing to be comparable to a clam who is content with where he is in life. As humans we have the natural reaction to want more than we already have. We often focus on what is ahead of us or what we could have‚ rather than appreciating and accepting the pleasantness
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Wrestling; when most people hear the word‚ they imagine a hefty man with bulging muscles in a skimpy singlet‚ throwing other men across the mat. In reality‚ this is not the case for all wrestlers. They don’t all have hulk like physiques. No one could have imagined a small‚ lean 5’3 girl like myself be a wrestler. Barely weighing over 100 pounds‚ I struggle with the dirty looks and glares I get. The news spread like wildfire around my gossip-loving-school that there was a girl on the wrestling team
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"Ode to an Orange" by Larry Woiwode took place in the winter of 1940s. It was "the winters of the forties" which I felt was very important in setting the background. It was a time of war‚ rationing of food‚ limited transportation‚ a difficult time to import items from other states and then adjustment from war of peace. Winter did not just represent cold‚ snow‚ wind‚ gray sky‚ limited sunshine‚ but a limiting of the senses. With this in mind it have also been difficult to obtain an orange that would
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personal connection to nature. The set texts Fancy and Ode to a Nightingale explore a world created by imagination‚ emphasising the importance of reflection and sustaining a relationship with nature. Northanger Abbey however‚ examines the interplay between reason and imagination. The related text Thanatopsis possesses tropes of Dark Romanticism‚
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now seemed to overwhelm and constrict me as I longed for the flexibility of digitized text. The computer is the latest development in writing technology; a promises to change literary practices for better. Bonnie Laing‚ the author of the essay “An Ode to the User-Friendly Pencil” is strongly against the boycotting pencils. Unfortunately‚ Laing’s argument that the pencil is superior to a computer is poorly demonstrated due to her biased diction towards analog writing instruments and ignorance of the
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English Project A Written Report of Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” I. The Author Percy Bysshe Shelley‚ the author of “Ode to the West Wind”‚ was a significant part of the English literary period we now refer to as the Romantic Age which ran from 1798 to 1832. The most prominent features of the Romantic period were the reflected effects of the American and French Revolutions‚ as well as the growth of a new romantic stream in poetry‚ and the development of a strong sense of delight
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