To be able to explain the aspects of poetry to you all‚ I thought I would break the mini lesson down into two parts. It will help you understand the differences between a poem and a sonnet‚ and will make it easier to absorb all of the components involved. First we will start with a sonnet. Let’s start by talking about just what a sonnet is. “Before Shakespeare’s day‚ the word “sonnet” meant simply “little song‚” i.e.‚ a short lyric poem” (poetry.about.com‚ 2010). By the 1200’s‚ the sonnet had come
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I was the oldest of seven little boys and girls‚ who couldn’t understand what was going on. We were sitting in the hospital waiting room‚ some of us screaming and playing‚ others just silently crying and me‚ I was sitting next to my father‚ taking his hand into mine. The minutes seamed like hours‚ everything was so slow. Time passed and my brothers and sisters began to fall asleep all over the room‚ but my dad didn’t care‚ he just stood in the chair‚ with his hands covering his eyes. He wouldn’t
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involves the rhythmical movement of the body‚ usually with music‚ to express an idea or emotion‚ to narrate a story or simply enjoy and take pleasure in the movement itself - As an art‚ a dance may tell a story‚ set a mood or express an emotion - As a form of recreation‚ it has provided fun‚ relaxation‚ and companionship -As an art it started from the moment it was harnessed to a rhythm‚ probably the stamping of the feet and clapping of the hands. -In many societies‚ dancing has been used in worship
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Is gender performative? “One of the interpretations that has been made of Gender Trouble is that there is no sex‚ there is only gender‚ and gender is performative.” (Judith Butler interview 1993) When approaching and investigating the discourse of gender roles‚ gender performance and gender trouble one will find that there have been different approaches over the centuries and that the connection made between sex and gender is one of change and development. The questions that are going to be answered
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Judith Butler has advanced a notion of gender performativity in 1990 book Gender Truble. For Butler‚ she regards gender as a script that is a rehearsable act. Every human beings is actor that performing the script in the reality through repetition. Then it turns to perform in the mode of belief that everyone should act accordingly to those norms. Women keep on practicing what femininity is that culturally prescribed‚ men are masculine because they fulfill what the society think that is masculinity
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Poetry is an unusually polarizing form of literature. While many are elated by it‚ others could not care less about it. To me‚ I always considered myself to be one of the latter. However‚ now that I have been given the opportunity to select poems I admire instead of being forced to know a poem‚ I have started to really enjoy certain aspects of poetry. The poems I chose for my anthology were ones that I had an instant connection with‚ but also had a deeper meaning. The five poems I selected were
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Short stories‚ poetry and drama are different types of literature but they share many of the same elements. Some of the many elements shared are figures of speech‚ conflict‚ foreshadowing. One of the same elements short stories‚ poetry and drama have is setting. "The setting of a work of fiction establishes its historical‚ geographic‚ and physical context." (pg. 251.) Setting can also be important in short stories‚ poetry and drama because setting "encompasses a wide variety physical and cultural
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is also known as the golden age of English drama. In this age the tremendous impetus received from the renaissance‚ reformation‚ and from the exploration of the new-world. Such an age of thought‚ feeling and vigorous action finds its best expression in the development of drama which culminating in Shakespeare‚ Johnson and University Wits. Though the age produced some excellent prose works‚ it is essentially an age of poetry‚ but both poetry and drama were permeated by Italian influence‚ which was
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Aspects of Literary History: Spring and Summer Terms 2008 Aspects of Literary History course‚ convenor: Dr Alistair Davies [B331] [H.A.Davies@sussex.ac.uk] Welcome to the Aspects of Literary History course. This is an ambitious course with a number of separate but interwoven strands: 1) The course will introduce you to some of the key concepts of literary history. 2) The course will enact literary history by examining the history of a particular mode of writing from its
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Definition of Drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance.[1] The term comes from a Greek word "dran" meaning "action" which is derived from "to do" or "to act". Drama is an art form that explores human conflict and tension. It generally takes the form of a story presented to an audience through dialogue and action. The story is conveyed using the elements of the theatre: acting‚ costumes‚ props‚ scenery‚ lighting‚ music‚ and sound. Drama has an emotional and intellectual
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