who actually had the courage to write a whole book on Shakespeare’s sonnets. Her book‚ The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets‚ contains every analysis she did on each and every sonnet of Shakespeare. Although she did a pretty good job on analyzing his sonnets‚ a normal student like me can’t agree with her on every single point. After reading Shakespeare’s sonnet 17 and Helen’s analysis on it‚ I will do a quick summary of her analysis and I will comment her ideas by stating my own opinions when I don’t
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Sonnet 129 is an interesting poem in Shakespeare’s set of sonnets‚ supposedly‚ addressed to his dark mistress. This sonnet is full figurative language and other poetic devices that let the reader know exactly how the poet feels about the emotions and dangers associated with lust. He also uses interesting punctuation choices that create the flow and tone of the poem. As the readers‚ we do not know who this poem is addressed to due to the lack of thou‚ he‚ or she in the poem. It does seem to be describing
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Sonnets 1-31 1. The author opens this first sonnet by explaining his motivation for composing the sonnet sequence. He believes that if his love were to read the sonnets‚ she would eventually return his affection. He argues that her pleasure in his pain would cause her to read his sonnets‚ and her reading of the sonnets would allow her to know the extent of his affection‚ which might make her pity the author’s situation-and this pity may transform into grace and love. The author also describes his
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MASTER ARTIST CHUCK CLOSE Chuck Close is an American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist; paintings based on using cameras and photographs to gather visual information and then from this‚ creating a painting that appears to be photographic. Close was born on July 5‚ 1940‚ in Monroe‚ Washington. Since a young boy he had a desire for art‚ throughout his childhood he had quite a few rough times whether it was his parents becoming very ill or his own health taking a turn for
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Dylan Spurlock Gassel English 1101.22 14‚ September 2010 Close Call My day began like any other day. I had a friend stay with me the night with me‚ so we woke up‚ walked outside and smoked a cig. We were just standing talking about how wild the night before got. I asked Slim‚ “You ready to do it again tonight?” He said‚ Hell yea! You already know!”(Laughing and smiling while saying it). After we got done smoking we walked inside and ate us some breakfast .For a while we just sat around
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A Close Reading Exercise From: http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Literature/21L-003Fall2003/E3B42E8B-1A45-447E-938E-7CC3C79F6FC2/0/notes_on_close_reading.pdf What does it mean to read a text closely and analyze it? Why do we do close reading in literary study? The answers to these questions emerge more from the doing than the talking. Briefly‚ close reading is a basic tool for understanding‚ taking pleasure in‚ and communicating one’s interpretation of a literary work. The skills employed
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Close analysis on We Real Cool This poem is about young school dropouts who make the wrong choices while they are young – ‘Left school’ (line 4)‚ ‘Lurk late’ (line 5)‚ ‘Strike straight’ (line 6) ‘Die soon’ (line 10). The setting could well be in the current‚ because there are still many school dropouts right now and they could possibly make the same choices as the dropouts in the poem. The larger issue is about the coolness of the school dropouts; they die soon‚ so are they really that cool as they
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Introduction In this paper‚ different perspectives of the nature of poetic language will be illustrated by using a stylistic analysis of a poem‚ „Sonnet 55‟‚ written by William Shakespeare (see Appendix for full poem). In the stylistic analysis‚ the use of sound and rhythm to convey complement meaning by Shakespeare will be in focus here. Poetic function in poem Poetic language is a type of language that commonly found in poetry1. According to Jakobson (1960)‚ formalists believe poetic
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‘A Room with a View’ – Close textual Analysis p.105-107 Throughout the whole of the novel the theme of light and dark is constantly reoccurring and is openly present within this extract: ‘thinking of the old man who had enabled her to see the lights dancing in the Arno’‚ this metaphor gives the reader an insight to how Lucy is desperate for the freedom of her own independence which the lights clearly symbolise. The passage begins with ‘‘The Curtains parted.’’ This gives the reader an impression
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