“An Hour to Live‚ an Hour to Love” was written based on a true story of the best gift ever given. Richard Carlson wrote the letter ‘an hour to live’ to his wife‚ Kristine Carlson as their 18th anniversary gift. Three years letter‚ Richard passed away and Kristine wrote a reply ‘an hour to love’ as a tribute to the authenticity of Richard’s wisdom. Richard mostly talked about his life throughout his marriage but it portrays reality as I read the book. He took Stephen Levine’s quote as an inspiration
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Lloyd Schwartz’s sonnet In Emily Dickinson’s Bedroom”‚ tells about the self-reflection needed to find one’s inspiration even through the simple things around us like in Emily Dickinson’s room‚ the speaker talks about how it felt to be in Emily Dickinson’s room: explaining it was a very simple room with very little if not any furniture. The speaker develops this theme by introducing the room and explaining how his experience of being in it alone like Emily Dickinson; the speaker addresses it by using
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The two poems I chose to bring into comparism are sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare and Song:To Celia by Ben Jonson. Both poems are similar in the sense that they both come under the broad theme of romantic love although they differ much in terms of aspects. In sonnet 18‚ the persona expresses his deep admiration towards the beloved while rating her beauty of one that is even more impressive than that of the lovely and lively season summer putting across a subject matter of admiration and adulation
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John Donne is widely known to incorporate or allude to various religious symbols and concepts throughout his poems. His poem “Holy Sonnet XII: Why Are We” questions the concept of creation‚ humankind and all elements‚ exploring the ideas of the original sin and God’s relationship with man and nature. The poem also explored the concepts of human supremacy over nature. Through several language devices such as metaphors‚ rhyme and rhythm‚ repetition and tone‚ Donne attempts to understand the Creator’s
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“Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?” William Shakespeare Many poems can convey am attitude of the poet towards the subject of the poem. William Shakespeare’s “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?” shows the poets high regard of the subject’s beauty. The regard is portrayed through the alternating cacophonous and euphonious diction. The sonnet form helps express the poet’s regard toward the subject’s beauty. The literary device of metaphor aids in depicting the poet’s regard of the subject’s
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Long working hours harms more than it can benefit Introduction ‘Working hours of laborers has become increasingly burdensome and invasive’ (Donis‚ 2003). Over the past half century‚ economy growth has caused large amounts of changes in work organization and management. As an important aspect of work organization and management‚ working hours of stuff has caused much concern. However‚ working hours seem to become longer as the economy growth. According to Acirrt (cited in Pocock 2001‚ p.4)‚ full-time
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decrease in the minimum shift of secondary school students to one and a half hours pursued by the employer associations in the retail industry was due to the discrimination against any secondary student who wanted to work after school hours but could not work the required minimum of three hours because of school hours clashing with business closing times. Secondary school students do wish to have flexible working hours as they might want to get off work early when they have exams or assignments.
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Appreciation of Shakespeare’s sonnet 18 William Shakespeare (1564～1616) born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon‚ was an English poet and playwright‚ widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England’s national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works‚ including some collaboration‚ consist of about 38 plays‚ 154 sonnets‚ two long narrative poems‚ and several other poems. Shakespeare produced most of his known
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The speaker has been forced to endure a separation from the beloved‚ and in this poem he compares that absence to the desolation of winter. In the first quatrain‚ the speaker simply exclaims the comparison‚ painting a picture of the winter: “How like a winter hath my absence been / From thee‚ the pleasure of the fleeting year! / What freezings have I felt‚ what dark days seen! / What old December’s bareness everywhere!” In the second quatrain‚ however‚ he says that‚ in reality‚ the season was that
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In The Hours Intertextuality is a term first introduced by French semiotician Julia Kristeva in the late sixties. She says that a literary work is not simply the product of a single author‚ but of its relationship to other texts and to the strucutures of language itself. "Any text‚" she argues‚ "is constructed of a mosaic of quotations; any text is the absorption and transformation of another." ( www.litencyclopedia.com‚ Kristeva: Word‚ Dialogue‚ and Novel‚ 1966). The Hours is a piece
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