A Romantic as he was‚ William Blake created his rather simple songs as an opposition to the poetry the eighteenth-century poets tried to impose‚ the so called ornated word‚poetry of beautiful words saying very little. Songs of Innocence and Experience are about the "two contrary states of the human soul" as Blake put it. To confirm this he wrote some of the poems of Innocence with their pairs in Experience. Such a pair is "The Lamb" from Innocence and "The Tyger" from Experience. "The Lamb" consists
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Landscape in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot Although the full meaning within T. S. Eliot’s dense poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” proves difficult to grasp‚ the deep meaning packed into every word makes the pursuit to understanding this poem a never-ending adventure. Scenery in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” represents an intensely psychological account which should never‚ in any instance‚ by taken literally. The loss of time‚ the confusion of past‚ present
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received the proper nutrition nor attention she needed from her mother to accommodate for her personal needs. This lack of care caused Lucy to feel unloved and neglected by the woman she desperately needed the most. The memoir “Will you love me?” by Cathy Glass adequately describes Lucy’s traumatic childhood. As the adoptive mom‚ Glass wrote this book to tell the true story about her adopted daughter. Lucy and her single mother (Bonnie) both endured extreme levels of domestic violence. During the course
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In "Remember Who You Are" by Cathy Guisewite‚ Guisewite discusses the fact that women do so much more then men. In Guisewite’s first passage labeled " Give up the quest for perfection and shoot for five good minutes in a row"‚ she discusses the fact that when women do in actual fact more work then men that they don’t get the credit they deserve. Guisewite also talks about how she would pressure her self into losing weight‚ and at the end of her college education at the University of Michigan she
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Priscilla Grunauer Period 3 3-27-07 3. The evening in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is compared with “a patient etherized upon a table‚” the “evening is spread out against the sky.” T.S. Eliot has compared his lonely night to a patient who is under an anesthetic‚ completely numb to all that surrounds him. “The evening is spread out against the sky‚” gives a very distinct image lending itself to another image; a patient spread upon an operating table completely subdued. 7. The obvious
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In part 2 of They Say/I Say‚ authors Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein begin the process of teaching how to present the writer’s counter-argument‚ the “I say.” The “I say” segment is where you discuss and offer your own argument to what they have said or wrote. The three most common ways of using “I Say” are agreement‚ disagreement‚ and a combination of the two. Graff and Birkenstein goes on to explain that when you agree‚ disagree‚ or even both‚ you should not mildly or incompetently do either
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Music is also a great conversation piece. People hang out and talk about their favorite artists or songs. Debates rage about who’s the best or what genre is better. My favorite is to listen to a group do music trivia. There are all sorts of games that can be played that involve music as well. Let’s not forget the great invention of karaoke. This gives people the chance to get up and sing your favorite songs either by yourself or with your friends. It never seems how bad you are‚ just as long as you have
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slowly and quickly passes we discover that not everything about life is quite so pleasing. Along with the joys and happiness we experience there is also pain‚ sadness and loneliness. Hemingway’s "A Clean‚ Well-Lighted Place‚" and Eliot’s "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" both tell us about older men who are experiencing these dreadful emotions. <br> <br>In Hemingway’s short story there are three characters‚ two waiters and their customer. Of these three‚ two are older men who are experiencing
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reader. How much imagination one contributes to the poem is infinitely unrestricted. The study of poetry has and will always be a valuable part of history; especially when dealing with an emotion as universal as love. Interpretation “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚” by T.S. Eliot takes the reader on a depressing‚ timid‚ overcautious‚ middle-aged man. It could be said that he is afraid of his own shadow. Eliot begins the poem with a short excerpt from Dante’s epic poem; “Divine Comedy;”
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The song “When I Grow Up”‚ by Pussycat Dolls was released in 2009. The Pussycat Dolls were a group of five female artist who sang and performed pop music in the mid years of 2000s. In “When I Grow Up”‚ features a lot of narcissism in the lyrics that tells their audience they should grow up to be famous‚ that they are better than any other person‚ and everything they do matters. From the title of the song “When I Grow up”‚ people may not think nothing much of the song at first. Once the song plays
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