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    Porphyrias Lover

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    “Porphyria’s Lover‚” which first appeared in 1836‚ is one of the earliest and most shocking of Browning’s dramatic monologues. The speaker lives in a cottage in the countryside. His lover‚ a blooming young woman named Porphyria‚ comes in out of a storm and proceeds to make a fire and bring cheer to the cottage. She embraces the speaker‚ offering him her bare shoulder. He tells us that he does not speak to her. Instead‚ he says‚ she begins to tell him how she has momentarily overcome societal strictures

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    Educational Series‚ 1993). At the time this letter was written Lawrence was fictionalizing his relationship with his mother‚ as well as the rest of his family‚ in the novel Sons and Lovers . In the novel the Lawrences would be named the Morels‚ but though the names are different there are many parallels between Sons and Lovers and Lawrence’s own life. These parallels are what make the novel truly autobiographical. However‚ the strongest evidence of the autobiographical nature of this novel exists in the

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    literary devices to help portray a theme. One of the most common used literary devices is Simile. A simile is comparing two things using like or as to describe or explain a setting or action to better understand the story. Ray Bradbury uses simile numerous times in his novel Fahrenheit 451‚ which displays a dystopian society set in the distant future All things considered‚ Ray Bradbury demonstrates the use of simile many times in his novel Fahrenheit 451. This example

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    Marriage and Lovers

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    An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife By : Richard Crashow Richard begins his poem with addressing lovers who are dead and whom death gathered them one more time‚ or‚ as it were‚ wedded them again‚ and this is a metaphor‚ in which‚ he resembles dying together to get married again. The grave that the lovers are in is the second marriage-bed‚ this is also a metaphor. The lovers will fade away‚ for separating soul and body is the fate’s job which is : obligatory; however‚ desting can not sever

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    Threw out history there have been animal lovers‚ who would do almost anything to show his or her affection for the animal he or she cares for. In ancient Egypt people treated cats and dogs as if they were gods. They would build sculpture and huge statues to idolize and worship them. Now‚ in modern time‚ we can see some people have a similar action toward there pets. Some of these people who love their pets are willing to give these animals almost anything‚ no mater what it cost them. It has been

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    D.H. Lawrence: Son and Lover "Bildungsroman‚ a form of fiction which allows the novelist to recreate through the maturing of his protagonist some of his own remembered intensity of experience" (Nivin‚ Alastair; pg. 34) D.H. Lawrence re-created his own life experience through the writing of Son’s and Lovers‚ an intensely realistic novel set in a small English mining town‚ much akin to the town in which he was raised. The son of a miner‚ Lawrence grew up with a father much like the character

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    Porphyria's Lover

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    Robert Browning starts the poem Porphyria’s lover by describing a storm using personification‚ he uses words such as ‘sullen’ and ‘spite’ which suggests the weather is bad on purpose‚ the misery of the weather could be reflecting the mood of the speaker‚ we can begin to suss that something bad is going to happen as this is often the stereotypical weather for suspicious behaviour and murder stories. Browning hints that the unnamed speaker may not be mentally stable‚ ‘I listened with heart fit to break’

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    Porphyria's Lover

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    involving the social paradigm of the context‚ essentially conveying the consequences of challenging strict class structures placed on individuals through portraying the disastrous effect of upper and lower class interaction. The text’s title‚ “Porphyria’s Lover”‚ which alludes to a disease highlights that the persona is being infected by Porphyria to point where it makes him sick‚ suggesting that inter-class relationships are abnormal and unhealthy. Porphyria is implied to be of higher social status than

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    Lover of Music

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    What it means to be a lover of music What does it mean to be a lover of music? Being a lover of music means to be a lover of art. Growing up no one around me was into music much‚ so I never had much of an interest in music. My parents brought me up in a religious household. They had a tight reign on what music I could listen too. I started listening to the radio stations I wasn’t allowed to listen too as a kid. It was then when I discovered my love for music. The connection I got from listening

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    Dream Deferred”) by Langston Hughes has many similes and instances of personification. The poem’s first simile is a question about what happens to a dream that is put on hold: “Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun”. This comparison suggest that just as a raisin loses its physical substance‚ so too does a dream deferred lose its meaning. The “dream” that Hughes probably has in mind here is for African Americans gaining equal rights. The poem’s third simile occurs in lines 5 and 6:“Does it stink like

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