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    Respect Your Parents

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    quote about listening to your parents‚ and its influence in the modern society we live in. I chose this particular topic after reading the story of Daudauis and Icarus. It will also include the statistics showing the influence parents have on their children today‚ in the topics of smoking‚ and divorce. In the story Daudauis and his son Icarus are locked in a tower in the city of Crete. Daudis fearing that Minos the king will kill them decides to invent a set of wings for himself and his son. He creates

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    moves from general indifference toward general tragedy‚ to the specific suffering of Icarus as portrayed by Brueghel’s painting. The poet uses a more ekphrastic approach and depicts‚ as the painting does‚ the ploughman continuing with his chores while Icarus succumbs to death. He describes “how everything turns away/ Quite leisurely from disaster (lines 15-16)” to underscore the indifference of the others present. Icarus’ “forsaken cry ( line17)” was possibly heard by the ploughman “But for him it was

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    perceptible that the ancient Greeks valued creativity with regard to Greek mythologies and their innovative society. In order to fulfill King Mino’s goal to hide the Minotaur‚ Daedalus fabricates the Labyrinth‚ a jail that “[is] so complex that no one who [enters] it could ever find a way out” (“Daedalus”). Due to his creativity‚ Daedalus is able to construct a sturdy and secure creation so that the Minotaur doesn’t escape. Since it is inescapable‚ the jail exhibits Daedalus’s extraordinary creativity. Importantly

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    DOCTOR FAUSTUS NOTES

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    [1] Christopher Marlowe’ s Doctor faustus Doctor Faustus is probably Christopher Marlowe’s most famous work. A contemporary of William Shakespeare‚ and author of nondramatic poetry as well‚ Marlowe wrote only seven plays. If Shakespeare had died at an equally young age—twenty-nine rather than fifty-two—Marlowe might be the more famous of the pair. Marlowe was one of the first English writers to perfect black verse—unrhymed iambic pentameter—and to use it with flexibility and poetic effect in drama

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    In the Brueghel’s Icarus painting‚ why is it that when Icarus falls out of the sky‚ nobody notices? Rather‚ in the painting‚ the ship sails on and the farmer keeps plowing without even looking in the direction of the boy. Even though Icarus fell from the sky‚ which is not a sight seen everyday‚ people carry on as if nothing ever happened. Is it that the people are oblivious to what is going on or they choose to ignore it? In the critique‚ On the Edge of the Millenium‚ by Kisa Krohn‚ it presents the

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    I will explain the William Carlos Williams poems in my essay. I am going to analyze his some poems ‘’Spring And All’’‚ ‘’The Red Wheelbarrow’’‚ ‘’This Is Just To Say’’‚ ‘’Landscape With The Fall Of Icarus’’ and ‘’To Elsie. I will start with short entrance of imagism and Williams’ style. Firstly‚ I need to say that he has a big influence to Ezra Pound and T.S Elliot. He is imagist poet and he focused directness of idea and economy of language also he rejected Romantic and Victorian poetry. Imagism

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    W.H. Auden’s poem "Musée des Beaux Arts"‚ which is "Museum of Beautiful Arts" when translated into English‚ is more about death and it’s normal‚ spontaneous occurrence than it is about a museum. The poem speaks of "old Masters" and refers to artists: writers‚ poets‚ and painters who understood the act of death as a necessary process instead of making excuses for it‚ using personification to cope with it‚ or sugar-coating it. These "old Masters" did not see the need to justify death or find a way

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    The Patriot

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    loves his country and intends to do well for his country but on the other hand‚ he clearly feels some sort of hatred. Furthermore‚ Browning refers to the story ‘Icarus’; he says: “it was I who leaped at the sun”. The story ‘Icarus’ links with ‘The Patriot’ because both Icarus and the patriot had ambitions which were then destroyed – Icarus attempted to fly towards the sun but he was too ambitious and he fell from the sky because he flew too close to the sun. This links to the Patriot because he was

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    Breughel’s artwork. II. Symbolism of life and death A. Birth and joy‚ death and mourning. B. Ease of life persisting on after one’s death. C. Arguments of Auden symbolizing Jesus’ persecution. III. Symbolism in Icarus reference A. Auden’s use of Breughel’s Icarus to create symbolism. B. Life‚ death‚ progression in artwork symbolized. C. Connection between symbolism and moral in artwork and symbolism in poem. IV. Conclusion A. The truth behind the symbolism Auden uses. B

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    view of faustus

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    did mount above his reach‚ And‚ melting‚ Heavens conspir’d his overthrow‚” makes a reference to Icarus‚ which is a story told about a man named Icarus and his attempt to escape Crete using wings that his father had made out of feathers and wax. Icarus ignored instructions not to fly too close to the sun‚ and his wax wings melted and caused him to fall into the sea where he drowned. The main theme of Icarus is the structure and consequence of personal over-ambition‚ which can relate very closely to Faustus’s

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