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    Promt: Compare the two versions of The Seafarer by Raffel and Pound and give reasoning for why one is a better translation‚ in terms of preserving the Anglo-Saxon poetic tradition and the overall feel of the poem. It would not be possible to translate The Seafarer perfectly‚ keeping all of its patently Anglo-Saxon poetic devices intact. Because much of their poetic tradition involves the sounds of the words themselves‚ unless there were similar-sounding synonyms in modern English for each there

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    Tolkien has experienced a resurgence of interest in the last two decades-in a large part thanks to Peter Jackson’s film adaptations of both The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. However I do not wish to look at the movies‚ or indeed at any of Tolkien’s more prevalent work. I wish to focus on his poetry‚ the poems woven into the narrative of his popular novels (including revised versions published in The History of Middle-earth series) as well as his stand-alone pieces that may have little to do with

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    Invasion I‚ the island‚ all alone in the sea‚ Have been invaded by humanity. A plane crashed while escaping war‚ And left several schoolboys upon my shore. In my jungle‚ a scar their tube did make‚ And simultaneously‚ my peace it did take. Two boys blew into a shell from my beach. All came to whom the sound did reach. They decided that they needed a chief‚ And Ralph was chosen‚ to Jack’s grief. The boys thought that survival would be fun‚ But were they ready to get the work done?

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    Comparing Two Similar Businesses Describe the history and core business of each company. Amazon was founded in 1994 by a man whose name is Jeff Bezos. Mr. Bezos originally started Amazon in his garage. He believed that only the internet had the ability to grant consumers the convenience of being able to browse a myriad selection of book titles in the shortest amount of time. In 1995 he started the website Amazon.com which was primarily an online book store at the time. “During the first 30 days

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    how individuals act and how it affects society as a whole. The “science of society” was developed by Auguste Compte in the 19th century. However‚ not all sociologists share the same ideas. This assignment will be considering two sociological perspectives in detail and comparing a third. The perspectives being considered are Marxism‚ functionalism‚ which took a macro view of society‚ and interactionism‚ which took a micro view on society. and the areas being considered are

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    T.S. Eliot presents modernist concerns of the early twentieth century by portraying the constraints of society and as a result reveals his critical view on human conditions. In both poems‚ ‘The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock’ and ‘Preludes’‚ Eliot explores humanity’s uncertainty of self and the degeneration of society into one that lacks meaningful communication‚ and to a significant extent has been reinforced by Winterson and the other perspectives. In order to portray the thoroughly modern world

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    Comparing Poems I am going to be talking about their methods that the poets use to explore the connection between people and the places in which they live in. The poems that I am comparing are Hurricane hits England and Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan. In Hurricane Hits England the techniques used are personification‚ she says “Talk to me oya” here referring to the hurricane as a person‚ she is doing this to try and feel like she is at home‚ trying to connect back to where she came from‚ it

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    Lord Alfred Tennyson‚ a consummate poetic artist‚ consolidated and refined the tradition bequeathed to him by his predecessors in the Romantic Movement (especially Wordsworth‚ Byron‚ Keats‚ Shelley). Beginning in the after math of Romantic Movement‚ Tennyson’s development as a poet is a romantic progression from introverted and inert states of mind towards emancipated consciousness. The growth of consciousness‚ and the relationship between the self and the world beyond‚ are fundamental concerns

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    created wolvogs‚ creatures that look like playful dogs but will attack like wolves. At first‚ they were made to be protection‚ but once the disease spread out‚ they became the wild animals they were intended to be originally. Because Animal Farm and Lord of the Flies are definitely not set in the same time period‚ they don’t have many similarities to Oryx and Crake and instead have all the differences. In Animal Farm‚ certain animals such as the pigs were given certain privileges that other animals

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    How does Tennyson tell the story of ’Godiva’? In the poem ’Godiva’ Alfred Lord Tennyson employs another famous mythological legend and transforms it into a story of his own. it is a narrative poem written from the perspective of an omniscient narrator whereby Tennyson has introduced political and economical aspects of Victorian society‚ the time in which the poem was written. The poem is written in verse paragraphs

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