Miranda Lucas L.A. Per. 2 June 5th‚ 2012 Social Commentary in Literature Characters in pieces of literature are often influenced by the societies that they live in‚ and many authors do this to comment on certain social ideas. The story‚ “The Bass‚ the River and Shelia Mant”‚ the author focuses on how people in society should be able to take pride in who they really are and not feel the pressure to be something they are not. The author of “The Handsomest Drowned Man” wrote this story to show
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Mary Shelley is a well-known British novelist who is remembered by many for her gruesome novel‚ Frankenstein. Other successful pieces of literature that she wrote during her life include The Last Man and Valperga. Shelley’s work tends to reflect her life in many instances. The tragic events that occurred in Mary Shelley’s life are the reasons why Frankenstein is written with so many horrendous occurrences. When Mary Shelley came into the world‚ she came knowing she had to live up to her family’s
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“(love song‚ with two goldfish)” Commentary “(love song‚ with two goldfish)”‚ by Grace Chua‚ is a humorous take on the kind of stereotypical romance that is often represented in popular music. In Chua’s version of the love song romance‚ goldfish seem to replace actual humans which gives her an opportunity to poke gentle fun at the genre as well as use some particularly fishy clichés and puns. In the poem we meet two young lovers who seem to be hitting it off. The male of the pair makes the first
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irony in this poem is that Ozymandias‚ a king who probably lived a long time ago‚ believed that his statue‚ which he was proud of‚ will forever venerate him but now only the legs of the statue remain and its head‚ which was given much detail by the sculptor‚ is shattered and corrupted by time. Now‚ the statue of Ozymandias‚ which represented his pride and glory when it was still whole‚ lies alone‚ wrecked and destroyed‚ on the bare‚ wide desert. This poem is showing that Ozymandias‚ when his statue
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‘ T H E S U N L I G H T I N T H E G A R D E N ’ ‚ A C O M M E N T A R Y. Guiding Questions for the commentary: How does the use of setting contribute to your understanding of the poem? Comment on the poet’s style (For example‚ language‚imagery‚ diction‚ form‚the use of a quote from Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra) In the the poem ‘The Sunshine in the Garden’ written by Louis MacNeice‚ the poet is a prisoner of war and is close to his death. The line ‘We cannot cage the minute’ and words
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throughout a chunk of many poems throughout the poem world. Three poems that show and relate to death are: Dulce et Decorum Est‚ Do not go gentle into that good night and finally Ozymandias. These all show extreme relations to death and show many poetic techniques throughout the different poems. Dulce et Decorum Est was written at the time of World War 1 and uses examples of what the men experienced through the time of the war. Do not go gentle into that good night is a poem about a young boy’s father
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Hap- Thomas Hardy (Commentary) ‘Hap’ by Thomas Hardy‚ reflects the poet’s pessimistic and atheistic way of looking at life. In the first stanza‚ the speaker says that some vengeful god is happy for the people who are suffering. He wants God to admit to taking joy from the suffering of the people. The only question that comes to mind is why does the speaker wish for such a sadistic god? The speaker answers this question by saying that he would die in righteous anger at his unmerited
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The story of ancient Egypt began about 8‚000 years ago‚ when farmers started to plant crops and raise animals in the Nile Valley. By about 3400 BC the Egyptians were building walled towns‚ and the country was divided into numerous small states. Soon afterward‚ the northern part of the country (Lower Egypt) was united with the lands upstream (Upper Egypt) to form one country under a single king. 2 Memphis and Thebes were the principal capitals of ancient Egypt. Memphis served as the first
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How does Shelley portray suffering in “Frakenstein”? Throughout the novel‚ suffering of not only an individual but also humanity‚ remains at the heart of the plot. Many critics today believe that this suffering comes from the troubled and tormented life Shelley had. For example from 1815 to mid 1819
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How Coleridge‚ Shelley and Wordsworth Carried Out Their Aesthetic Principles "Poetry‚" according to the definition of Percy Bysshe Shelley‚ "is the expression of the imagination (696)." Samuel Taylor Coleridge would agree with this concise definition. On the contrary‚ William Wordsworth said that‚ "no words which imagination can suggest‚ will be compared with those which are the emanations of reality and truth (336)." Wordsworth also differed from Shelley and Coleridge in his approach to writing
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