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    live near the conflict as well as family of the soldiers who may be thousands of miles away. The people who are able to view war as a positive deed have never experienced a second of combat. The poems “The Man He Killed”‚ “Dulce et Decorum Est”‚ “Dover Beach”‚ and “Patterns” each tell a story of helplessness‚ bitterness‚ and suffering towards war with few exceptions. Helplessness resonates from each poem. During “The Man He Killed”‚ the speaker

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    The Poem “Dover Beach” is a dramatic monologue of thirty-seven lines‚ divided into four unequal sections or “paragraphs” of fourteen‚ six‚ eight‚ and nine lines. In the title‚ “Beach” is more significant than “Dover‚” for it points at the controlling image of the poem. On a pleasant evening‚ the poet and his love are apparently in a room with a window affording a view of the straits of Dover on the southeast coast of England‚ perhaps in an inn. The poet looks out toward the French coast‚ some

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    Poetry Précis for Mathew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” Matthew Arnold’s dramatic monologue titled “Dover Beach” (written in 1851/2 but publish in 1867) reveals the repetitive tragedy one can see when observing a natural wonder like the ocean that is a representation of all of life itself as well as the newfound conflict of his time that was religion versus science. He expresses his observations of life and sadness by using personification and imagery to depict a tranquil scene of the ocean only to have

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    Dover Boys

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    Chuck Jones probably didn’t know that during the creation of “The Dover Boys” he would create an animation style that would later be used by future animation artists‚ especially Robert Cannon from the United Productions of America (UPA). Chuck Jones was known for showing the emotion of cartoons with abstract animation and was the first to use the “smear” style of animation with “The Dover Boys”. One would say that you could see a lot of Chuck Jones style with the UPA cartoon “ Gerald McBoing Boing”

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    "Dover Beach" by Arnold: Irony‚ Images‚ and Illusions In the poem "Dover Beach" by: Matthew Arnold there is a lot of irony‚ appeal to the auditory and visual sense‚ and illusions. The tone in this poem is very sad and dismal‚ but he shows us how to keep faith and hope in spite of that and how important being honest‚ true‚ and faithful to one another‚ really is. Throughout this poem ‚ Arnold mentions all of these traits and ties them all together. The irony in this poem is the main plot

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    The Dover Castle

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    Introduction The Dover Castle is often referred to as the “key of England” because it has been around for so long and so much of the British history relates to this gigantic fortress. It is the largest castle in England and it is located on the coastal portion of the island on a high cliff at the closest point to mainland Europe. Even before the creation of the castle‚ the location has always been popular for building forts for defensive purposes. There is evidence that clans in the Iron Age were

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    Peaceful Dover beach‚ which was calm the night when Arnold was there‚ showed us the difficulty of accomplishing something. By using ideational structure full of metaphors and making each stanza to have its own characteristic‚ Arnold effectively transferred the theme of the poem. The poetry starts with the description of Dover beach at a moment‚ which would not last forever‚ directed us to the sadness or disappointment that he would reveal later in poetry. The first stanza is very much about

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    Connotations and Denotations

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    Denotation‚ Connotation and Myth Beyond its ’literal’ meaning (its denotation)‚ a particular word may have connotations: for instance‚ sexual connotations. ’Is there any such thing as a single entendre?’ quipped the comic actor Kenneth Williams (we all know that ’a thing is a phallic symbol if it’s longer than it’s wide’‚ as the singer Melanie put it). In semiotics‚ denotation and connotation are terms describing the relationship between the signifier and its signified‚ and an analytic distinction

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    Connotation Of Conflict

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    carries a negative connotation bringing thoughts of tension‚ frustration‚ and anger. Conflict is not necessarily bad‚ if fact if properly managed it can be a positive agent of change. The process of issue differentiation can help people to see other’s perspectives and if properly resolved through an integration process can bring parties closer together. There are many well documented and common sense strategies to successfully manage conflict; so why does the negative connotation persist‚ why do we

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    Denotation and Connotation according to semiotics Unlike Wilden‚ who said that ‘signs are more open in their interpretation to their connotation rather than denotation’ ‚ Roland Barthes gave priority to the denotative meaning rather than the connotative meaning‚ in this sense he argued that‚ in photography‚ denotation is fore grounded at the expense of connotation‚ however he noted that denotation is not the first meaning but it pretends to be so and that connotation produces this illusion

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