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    Prufrock’s Unattainable Desires T. S. Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” describes the inner feelings of an isolated man whose desire for a loving and communicative relationship with a female is unrelenting. Eliot presents J. Alfred Prufrock as an older man who struggles with knowing how to communicate his feelings toward females in fear of being judged. Prufrock’s fear of alienation and lack of self confidence contribute to his difficulty in fulfilling his need to be understood

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    Portrait photography is a type of photography where a person or a group of people express feelings‚ emotions and mood etc. In the photo‚ the main focus of the picture is to capture the persons face although background and the entire body may also be included. Portrait photography can entertain any age. □ UNITY: Unity is achieved by the use of balance and repetition‚ unity simply meaning that everything belongs together when compared by two separate things. □ BALANCE: Can be symmetrical

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    Overanalyzing Art Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man People have been defining art as “good” or “bad”‚ “proper” or “improper” ‚ or simply worthy or not since the first art was sketched on a cave wall. In the novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce‚ Stephen Dedulas continues the trend of passing judgment on art and beauty. However‚ art is merely an expression and beyond that it cannot be judged. Yet many people still look for formulas that can explain art in

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    life. He made this painting and some of his earlier portraits in the spirit of recuperation. “Recuperation; is of the minutely descriptive‚ fully consumed and accoutrement likeness‚ and its various traditions‚ northern‚ Italian and French‚ royal‚ aristocratic‚ and bourgeois. Degas put this spirit in this painting like what has been done in Ingles’ portrait paintings. He was doing what has been done since the tradition of

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    Movement and Space within “Portraits and Repetition‚” by Gertrude Stein Gertrude Steins’ “Portraits and Repetitions‚” facilitates the paradigm of linguistic displacement between subject and listener delineated by the dynamic and effectual relationship of the interrelated‚ rhythmic patterns characterized by the idea of movement as existence. This conviction denotes the essence of mobility portrayed throughout the text‚ the individual and collectives while commissioning itself through geographical

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    Pablo Picasso "Portrait of Sylvette" The piece of art that was studied is "Portrait of Sylvette" by Pablo Picasso‚ of Spanish decent originating from 1881-1954. This portrait is oil on canvas and measures approximately 28 inches wide by 42 inches high. It was a gift of the estate of Tom Slick 1973.36. Picasso utilizes many classical and controlled lines for most of the art work. He uses these precise lines to express the mathematical

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    With flashy gold and silver trail‚ splendid ghost will make it foretold‚ the highest gate may still it stand for its memories as strong as sun‚ It was the Intramuros‚ the splendid Intramuros‚ the old Manila. The center of trade‚ religion‚ brotherhood‚ the home for the royalties‚ the upper class‚ the rich ones. It once stood still firm like that of Great Wall of China‚ its memories will forever remain to people who felt the suffering and pain‚ this placed marks the history of our very great country

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    early age in which he passed. A detail from the mummy case‚ Portrait of Artemidorus (Fig. 15-17) shows us how young Artemidorus was when he died. The portrait depicts a handsome young man with huge brown eyes and smooth skin. He wears a wreath on top of his hair which is stylized in a manner that was popular during the rule of Trajan. Another example from Hawara of painting on woods for a mummy case can be seen on Mummy portrait of young woman (Fig. 15-18). This painting is of a young woman that

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    TRAVELOGUE : MUMBAI Mumbai‚ the city of Sri Mahalakshmi‚ where the goddess of fortune and abundance resides and grants favours‚ worshipped by countless devotees who have made Mumbai their home. Little boxes‚ people on people‚ concrete humanity. The only city where it all works‚ against all odds. A city within which people strive for excellence or how would they stand the pace of desperate living here. A city of crime‚ where the crime is not visible. A city where you feel safe no matter who‚ where

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    Eliot quotes at the preface of his poem. By understanding every aspect of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚” from the author and the use of allusions and themes within his writings‚ to the epigraph‚ to the actual poem‚ one can see the entire portrait of the man that is Prufrock: a man struggling with homosexuality. Eliot undoubtedly is one of the greatest and most complex poets of our time. As stated by Donald Fryxell‚ all of Eliot’s poems are complex‚ never simple: oftentimes‚ they are concentrated

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