Royal Military College of Canada Department of English ENE 110-4: Introduction to Literary Studies and University Writing Skills Monday‚ 1000-1050; Wednesday‚ 1240-1330 ; Friday‚ 1000-1050 Instructor: Dr. Huw Osborne Office: M323 Phone: 6269 Email: osborne@rmc.ca Office Hours: by appointment Course Objectives There are two primary goals for this course: 1. Above all‚ we are concerned with exploring literary expression with a simple desire to improve our abilities
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‘Romeo and Juliet/Catrin/Follower’ Controlled Assessment: Examining Shakespeare’s ideologies on parental influence and the impact on modern/Elizabethan audiences: Examine the way Shakespeare presents the relationship between Juliet and her parents. By Tiffanie Gould‚ 10x1 The iconic tragedy written by the world’s most honoured writer William Shakespeare‚ ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is a title the world is familiar with. Its impact on modern society is impeccable‚ whether related to love‚ tragedy or both
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fortunes of war favored Hrothgar. / Friends and kinsmen flocked to his ranks‚ / young followers‚ a force that grew / to be a mighty army. So
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Compare and Contrast the ways in which Heaney and Blake write about innocence and experience in their poetry Both Seamus Heaney and William Blake explore the themes of innocence and experience in their poems. Heaney’s poetry develops powerful ideas of sacrifice in which childhood’s innocence is surrendered to a more experienced and developed life. Similarly‚ Blake explores innocence and experience through his religious awareness of sacrifice where innocence is repeatedly presented through childhood’s
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about a tragic death of a child. ‘Mid Term Break’‚ written by an Irish poet Seamus Heaney‚ describes how a young boy dies from what we assume is in a car accident. This being similar to the storyline of the poem ‘Out‚ Out’‚ written by an American poet Robert Frost‚ about a young boy who dies from another tragic accident. The title of Heaney’s poem ‘Mid Term Break’ doesn’t suggest any sign of death. The words that Heaney uses in the title suggest a holiday however this ‘break’ doesn’t happen for
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Some poets look from the particular to the universal to explore human experience. Discuss poems from at least two poets in relation to this statement‚ considering also the ways in which they achieve their effects. Some poets reflect on the particular and the universals of the world to unveil certain aspects of human experience. Through the use of particular and universal ideas along with intensive visual and kinesthetic imagery‚ the reader is able to adopt the same feeling of awe at these simplistic
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In lines 122-125 Heaney also uses alliteration in describing Grendel’s powers of destruction‚ “Greedy and grim he grabbed thirty men…blundering back with the butchered corpses.” Heaney’s use of alliteration is used differently in consonant sounds but has the same overall
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Claire Smith P6590497 Assignment 03 Part 1 THE DALAI LAMA Identify two of the reputations of the Dalai Lama revealed in this newspaper extract and discuss them in relation to Book 1‚ Chapter 7. This essay will discuss and consider two of the several reputations that surround the 14th Dalai Lama‚ as found in the newspaper extract and other sources. well done for giving your reader an idea of the discussion that will follow‚ however‚ try to avoid single-sentence paragraphs. Also‚ it would be
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investigate whether it relates to abnormal mental functions (Kaye par. 3). Using these three ways of psychoanalysis‚ I analyzed the poems “Digging” by Seamus Heaney‚ “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke‚ and “Lady Lazarus” by Sylvia Plath and discovered how the mental state of the author affects the characters and tone of their writing. Seamus Heaney ’s "Digging” opens with the author at his desk‚ pen in hand‚ and beginning to write. The first person to investigate would be the speaker‚ who is distracted
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ideal example of what courage entails. Beowulf initially appeared as a boy who has encountered the ocean‚ “to be a match for Grendel and settle the outcome in single combat” (Heaney 29). Moreover‚ Beowulf points out that he is undertaking this to “perform to the uttermost what the Danes want or perish in the attempt” (Heaney 43). In fighting with
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