EN 115 23 October 2012 Essay Two: The theme of ‘Illusion versus Reality’ in Matthew Arnold’s ‘Dover Beach’ ‘Dover Beach’ is a poem by the English poet Matthew Arnold. The locale of the poem is the English ferry port of Dover Kent‚ facing Calais‚ France. This was the place where Matthew Arnold honeymooned in 1851 (Wikipedia Contributors). In Matthew Arnold’s ‘Dover Beach’‚ the speaker draws visual imagery to show that what is generally perceived is false and hence an illusion
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Kenneth Burke’s Dramatism Life is drama; playing roles in relation to other people. Interest in the interaction of language and action. Symbolic Interactionist—Language is symbolic action. “Verbal symbols are meaningful acts from which motives can be derived (Griffin‚ p. 329).” “Human beings…are a symbol-creating‚ symbol-using‚ and symbol misusing animal (Littlejohn‚ 1978‚ p. 69).” A theory of Motives—why do people act (particularly rhetorically) the way they do? Assess motives
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Dover Beach Mathew Arnold Time and Place Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) wrote "Dover Beach" during or shortly after a visit he and his wife made to the Dover region of southeastern England‚ the setting of the poem‚ in 1851. They had married in June of that year. A draft of the first two stanzas of the poem appears on a sheet of paper he used to write notes for another work‚ "Empedocles on Etna‚" published in 1852. The town of Dover is closer to France than any other port city in England. The body
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AirBorn By: Kenneth Oppel Summary: Matt Cruse is a cabin boy on the Aurora‚ a huge airship that sails hundreds of feet above the ocean‚ ferrying wealthy passengers from city to city. It is the life Matt’s always wanted; convinced he’s lighter than air‚ he imagines himself as buoyant as the hydrium gas that powers his ship. One night he meets a dying balloonist who speaks of beautiful creatures drifting through the skies. It is only after Matt meets the balloonist’s granddaughter that he
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This paper will analyse the first movement of The Wasteland titled‚ “The Burial of the Dead” by employing Eliot’s “theory of impersonality” and certain principles of New Criticism. It seeks to examine how Eliot subverts his personality and emerges as a catalyst in the Burial of the Death by using various element such as as paradox‚ unity of structure and contrastive imagery to ensure the organic unity of the poem. To Eliot‚ a poem or a work of art is thing in itself . Following The New Critics tradition
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suitcase‚ sitting near the black colored T.V‚ and grabbed my bright orange swim trunks. I ran like a cheetah catching it’s prey‚ into the tiny cramped bathroom to change. I sprinted out of my beachfront hotel and onto the golden brown sand of the beach. The sand wasn’t too hot since it was still morning. I love the feeling of the rough‚ grainy sand sliding through my small toes and I smell the gentle breeze of the clear‚ blue ocean. In my mind I know the ocean has to be freezing cold‚ but I can’t
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white fluffy clouds that go on forever..The sweet breeze and the smell of salt in the air make the day smell new and fresh..Sea oats that blow in the wind as if they are telling a secret that has been kept for years..Blue waves that crash against the beach making the sand crumble between my toes..Crabs running everywhere.. Then I see it..a blue house..with its paint starting to fade from the hot sun..pink shutters that storms have almost destroyed..but the house still looks amazing sitting there facing
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This article argues that Stonehenge was a cremation burial site from its beginning and continued to be so throughout the third millennium Cal BC with an estimate of a hundred and fifty individuals buried at Stonehenge. It also goes further‚ saying how the 56 Aubrey Holes belong to the primary stage of Stonehenge construction and also the chance that they contained Welsh bluestones. The cremation burials were appointed to have taken place around the twenty-seventh to twenty-sixth centuries cal BC
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What does the language and structure of the opening sequence of ‘On Chesil Beach’‚ reveal about the two protagonists characters. The initial information that we learn from Ian McEwan in the opening paragraph‚ about the two protagonist characters in ‘On Chesil beach’ is that they are newlyweds on their wedding night‚ and that they are extremely inexperienced of anything remotely sexual and are both fairly ignorant of the subject. The phrase‚ ‘They lived in a time when a conversation about sexual
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