A Formalist Interpretation of Windows by Bernice Morgan Conflict: * Character vs. Character (Leah vs. Ruth) – she feels unwanted by Ruth; unwelcome in her home. She has little respect for Ruth’s lifestyle which is filled with second-hand drama‚ meaningless shopping – little overall purpose. * Character vs. Self (Leah = old and tired‚ misses Estonia‚ misses husband) Protagonist - Leah * Changes throughout story * At the story’s start‚ she feels at peace‚ even grateful for the notion
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (Response) When thinking of a typical love story a reader expects compassion and romance‚ but in T. S. Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚ romance is not the topic of discussion. The backdrop of the poem is a typical London‚ England day with numerous travels through the seamless foggy streets early 1900’s London. The mystery or puzzle through the poem tend to transpire with cleverly diverted unanswered question from the narrator that somehow get overlooked
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put in the second position below the man. She is always kept silent. Identifying this issue‚ Indian critic and feminist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak asks— can the subaltern speak? in her essay ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’. To answer this question‚ she says: “There is no space from which the sexed subaltern subject can speak . . . The subaltern cannot speak” (Spivak 103-104). The reason‚ Spivak shows‚ is that Indian woman is always given a label of Sati or good wife. “Sati as a woman’s proper name is in
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I believe in love. Love is a four letter word with a thousand different meanings. Although‚ Webster dictionary defines love as a strong feeling of attraction resulting from sexual desire. But to me love is not just a feeling‚ but it is the way that you treat the ones you care for. Love is making that sacrifice for someone‚ knowing that you might regret it sooner or later. Love is how you make another person feel when you are in their presence. Many people show their love for someone in many different
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When reading the title‚ we often associate a love song as something jaunty‚pleasureable‚ and celebrating‚ or its other extreme‚ regretting‚ nostalgic‚ and full of pity for the singer’s troubles in love. With Williams the singer‚ the main idea revolves around the concept of an incomplete union in first person point of view‚ which makes the reading more personal as the reader is using “I” instead you or he. From this concept stem the ideas that this poem is about hopelessness or happiness‚ communal
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John Donne is one of many poets of his time who wrote love poetry. The thing that sets him apart from the others is that he manages to successfully subvert the traditional conventions to his own ends. Each of the secular poems "The Flea"‚ "The Sunne Rising" and "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning" shows Donne’s verbal dexterity‚ manipulation of the conventional form and the use of a variety of textual features. For the secular love poem "The Flea" the conventional form is that the flea is to be used
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mother never left France? Armad’s mother never left France because she loved the country so much and she died there. c) What was Madame Valmonds’s reply to Desiree’s letter? Her reply was “My own Desiree: Come home to Valmonde; back to your mother who loves you. Come with your child." 1. d) During which month were they picking cotton at L’Abri? October e) What did Armand have put on the bonfire? Armand put the black slaves he owned on the bonfire and old things from his wife and child
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language in his love and religious poetry that make him stand out as a distinguished poet compared with his contemporaries. John Donne’s poetry does not portray the unchanging view of love but express the poet’s genuine and deep emotions and attitudes of different circumstances and experiences. Donne tries to define his experience of love through his own poetry; these experiences are personally felt by the reader as they are part of common human experiences. Donne brings out love as an experience
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Shadows of Forgotten Subalterns: Evolving New Identity in Arundhati Roy’s TheGodofSmallThings Dr. Archana Abstract Arundhati Roy’s‚ novel removes a complicatedhistorical heritage observed with restraints and indignations. Its local fictional world extends into a universal one with its sensitive depiction of perennial conflicts and offers suitable fodder for its international readers. It has as it backdrops a social construction characterized by compulsions of a pervasive caste system.The oppressive
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Song Analysis: Same Love – Macklemore “What’s unnatural is homophobia. Homo sapiens is the only species in all of nature that responds with hate to homosexuality.” Alex Sanchez provides a perfect quote for the opening of this paper. Macklemore’s song and Sanchez’s quote fit hand in hand without flaw. Thus‚ this song is basically trying to make a statement to all people that discrimination against homosexuality is truly sickening. It doesn’t matter what religion you are or what belief you might have;
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