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    If the Shoe Fits

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    in that most celebrities change themselves in order to conform to what is popular in society. A hero can be a celebrity‚ because their heroic deeds have been showcased to the world‚ but only true heroes do not allow this status to fill them with conceit and ambition that ultimately change them. Jennifer Lancaster has acquired fame due to the many books that she has released‚ but she continues to exude the qualities that a hero should possess. Although she is clad in plaid and a pearls as opposed

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    Quotes such as‚ "My mistress’ breath reeks compared to perfume‚"� is one of the minor things people did not usually say about his or her lover. Perhaps the contrasting views of the poet’s lover in Sonnet 130 is insisting that love does not need conceits to be true. In fact‚ many people believe women do not have to glow like the sun or be as beautiful as spring flowers to be beautiful. However‚ Sonnet 18 explains the opposite. All it does is compares the beloved man to the nature of a summer’s day

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    Most also recognize the poem’s equal relation to body and soul. Although‚ most of the criticisms argue that the poem contains the use of sexual ambiguity‚ the paths diverge on where and how it is used. Similarly‚ in light of Donne’s masterful use of conceit with almost all his works‚ it can almost universally be accepted that such symbols as the gold leaf and the compass are linked to the lover’s unity‚ but there are several interpretations on Donne’s distinct meaning. Actually‚ these kind of specific

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    Huswifery

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    Edward Taylor was a Puritan ‘frontier minister” and doctor in western Massachusetts. This poem was written around 1685. Taylor did not intend his poems for publication and‚ they were not “discovered” until 1930. “Huswifery” works with the conceit of cloth production‚ starting with the spinning wheel‚ moving to the loom‚ and culminating in the finished clothing. The elaborate imagery and emotional tone are atypical of Puritan religious poetry‚ which tends to eschew such rhetorical and personal

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    Donne’s love poetry and his religious verse have an extremely close relationship and this manifests itself in the presence of religious imagery and reference in his love poems‚ the presence of imagery in his religious poems that is more akin to that from courtly love‚ and in his style and technique. It is this sense of Donne’s individuality that creates two types of poetry that‚ for all their differences‚ are strikingly similar. The holy sonnets refer to the old love poet characteristics

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    Satire Analysis

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    Satire analysis: Hannah Milner Primrose Red Brown Jerry Du May 5‚ 2013 Organizer Making connections What does the story remind me of? ▪ “not listening to parents’ advice” o “don’t talk to strangers” ▪ Vanity/self-conceit and the consequences o Not listening to advice on account of looks or impressions ▪ Chinese proverb [roughly translated]: “saying the grapes are sour when you can’t even taste them.” Connects to Hannah Milner because she concludes that

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    Ambition

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    CHAPTER FOUR THE CONCEPT OF AMBITION Ambition: Ambition is the desire for elevation and continuous aspiration. Ambition is the case of a person who never feels satisfied and never stops at a certain level. Now‚ is this wrong or right? Is it spiritual or not spiritual? Normal or abnormal? Should a person go that way or resist it? These are important questions to which we shall give answers here with regard to the kind of ambition and its direction. Ambition is a natural thing‚ part

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    George Herbert (3 April 1593 – 1 March 1633) was a Welsh-born English poet‚ orator and Anglican priest. Herbert’s poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets‚ and he is recognized as "a pivotal figure: enormously popular‚ deeply and broadly influential‚ and arguably the most skillful and important British devotional lyricist."[ George Herbert as a Religious poet George Herbert as a Religious poet George Herbert is considered as a religious poet because of the subject matter

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    Romeo and Juliet Act Two (study guide)   [pic] Explain the Prologue. ACT TWO - SCENE ONE: Explain the dramatic irony in this scene. The audience knows what Mercutio does not‚ that calling on Rosaline’s charms will no longer produce Romeo‚ who now loves Juliet. ACT TWO - SCENE TWO: (This is the most famous scene in the entire play.) 1. Fill in the blanks in this paraphrase of Romeo’s soliloquy (lines 1-32) Shh! What light is at the window? Juliet shines through the window like the sun rises

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    Eng 1501

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    ENG1501/201/3/2014 Tutorial letter 201/3/2014 FOUNDATIONS IN ENGLISH LITERARY STUDIES ENG1501 Semesters 1 & 2 Department of English Studies IMPORTANT INFORMATION: FEEDBACK AND EXAMINATION GUIDELINES Open Rubric ENG1501/201 FEEDBACK ON ASSIGNMENT 01 Dear student In this feedback letter‚ we have given you some pointers about how you could have answered the five questions on the poem. We expected you to expand these ideas sufficiently in order to earn full marks. Please note

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