The Immortality of Literature Immortality is not impossible to achieve‚ it is in fact a very possible thing through literature. In Sonnet 75 by Edmund Spenser‚ the speaker tells a brief tale about himself and his mistress‚ debating about mortality one day at the beach. In Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare‚ the persona is speaking to his lover via the poem; he compliments him and states that his beauty will live on forever through this poem. Sonnet 75 by Spenser and Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare are similar
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“Learning to Read and Write” by Fredrick Douglas is a story about a slave breaking the bondage of ignorance by learning to read and write. During the course of 7 years Douglas discreetly teaches himself to read and write by means of stealing newspapers‚ trading food with poor white boys for knowledge and books‚ as well as copying his master’s handwriting. Douglas learning to read gave him extreme awareness of his condition as he says “…I would at times feel that learning to read had been a curse
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The piece that I have chosen for this assignment was William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18. At the very first line‚ it is apparent that the metaphor that he chooses‚ is a "summer’s day‚" to describe his friend or loved one. For the ease of explanation‚ I will refer to that person using feminine pronouns‚ due to the fact that the gender of the person is not explicitly stated; I would believe it is assumed to be female. Through reading the poem a couple of times‚ I noticed that his choice of words would
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How the Renaissance changed literature and England Many events occurred during the Renaissance. For instance‚ Guttenberg from Germany invented the printing press in the late fourteen hundreds which was the turning point for literature. Now that the printing press was invented not only can the rich and noble obtain books‚ the lower class and uneducated citizens can also obtain these worldly possessions. Writers can now share their works to the world and not only to a select few. During the Renaissance
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The image of hero plays a significant role in British literature. In Beowulf‚ Beowulf is a leader of men than a king‚ and defined as epic hero. In contrast‚ in King Lear‚ Lear is a King at the beginning‚ but fall from grace at the end‚ and defined as tragic hero. There are similarity and differences between epic and tragic hero through out the two passages given. First‚ the two passages “king Lear” and “Beowulf” come from the very end of the story‚ where An epic hero is based on the Epic Tradition
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Literature Songs Killing An Arab by The Cure History Composer Robert Smith has said that the song "was a short poetic attempt at condensing my impression of the key moments in L’Étranger (The Stranger) by Albert Camus". The lyrics describe a shooting on a beach‚ in which the Arab of the title is killed by the song’s narrator; in Camus’ story the protagonist‚ Meursault‚ shoots an Arab on a beach‚ overwhelmed by his surroundings. Meursault is condemned for his honesty about his feelings. He is
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(26).the part that has really interested me is how they speak of the unmentionable times “but we must never speak of the times before the great rebirth‚ [..] only the old ones who whisper about it in the evenings‚ of the towers which rose to the sky‚ in those unmentionable times‚ and the wagons which moved without horses and the lights which burned without flame. But those times were evil.”(19-20). I found this description very mysterious‚ and I like mysterious. Given the fact that this book is shorter
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How to Make Someone like You You may wonder why someone is always able to turn the spotlight on themselves and make others under their charm. Are they born to be attractive? Or do they have magic power to remain popular? Actually‚ attention can be shifted to the word “LIKE” itself. It consists of four parts‚ “L” representing “listener”‚ “I” coming to “interaction”‚ “K” referring to “kindness” and “E” standing for “excuse”‚ which are qualities of great significance to make someone fond of you. To
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The Open Boat" Sections 1-3 The story opens in the month of January with the oft-quoted line: “None of them knew the color of the sky” (Crane 57). “Them” means four individuals who are aboard a dinghy‚ having been shipwrecked: the captain with an injured arm‚ the correspondent‚ the cook‚ and Billie‚ the oiler. Except for Billie‚ the rest of the characters remain unnamed. The oiler and the correspondent row the dinghy‚ while the captain provides directions and the cook bails water out of the boat
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can’t believe I only read it now‚ everyone already said that to me‚ and looked at me in that weird way as if I was living on Mars for the last few years. But well‚ I only got to read it now‚ and I totally loved it. A friend of mine told me a few days ago when I started reading "The Alchemist" that it was the kind of book that would either change your life or change your conception of things. Well‚ he was right‚ it did both to me. This is a really light yet important read‚ which is very well written
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