Laugh and be MerryJohn Masefield The poem ’Laugh and be merry’ by John Masefield probes the premise of living life to the full. The poet advises that we should have a constructive outlook in life. Life is brief and it is not to be frittered away in sorrow and despair. He advocates us to get pleasure from our lives in this world‚ since the universe itself is a manifestation of the joyousness of God. Each instant of our life should be savoured and rejoiced. God created the moon and the stars for the
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Laugh and be Merry‚ by John Masefield Laugh and be merry‚ remember‚ better the world with a song‚ Better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong. Laugh‚ for the time is brief‚ a thread the length of a span. Laugh and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man. Laugh and be merry: remember‚ in olden time. God made Heaven and Earth for joy He took in a rhyme‚ Made them‚ and filled them full with the strong red wine of His mirth The splendid joy of the stars: the joy of the earth. So
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John Masefield Masefield was born in led bury‚ Herefordshire. When Masefield was only six‚ his mother died giving birth to his younger sister. He ended up living with his aunt because his father died after mental break down. Masefield was really unhappy through his high school years due to the unexpected deaths of his parents. After an emotional education at the kings school in Warwick he was a boarded between 1888 and 1891‚ he left to board the HMS Conway‚ both to train for a life at sea and to
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The poem‚ Sea-Fever written by John Masefield talks about a man who tells us what he wishes to see when he goes near the sea. The poet brings the poem to life by appealing to senses with all the images that he includes in his poem‚ for instance: “grey mist” and “grey dawn breaking”. We can see the great relationship with nature. The theme of this poem is freedom and adventure. The theme of this poem is one of wanderlust‚ serene‚ addiction to the sea and independence. This is brought by the images
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Analysis of the poem “Sea Fever” by John Masefield The poem is about a person whose intense desire is to return to the sea. The person or the speaker has been to the sea before and the repetition of the line “I must go down to the seas again” in every stanza‚ brings out the speaker’s longing to experience sea life again. The speaker wants only a star to guide his tall ship‚ with the sails moving to the wind thereby wishing for a solitary life‚ with only nature taking control in directing him. “And
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I am writing for the Federalists and will talk about a proposal for the ratification of the Constitution. The Articles of Confederation has both its strengths and weaknesses. A Strength would be that the government passed the Northwest Ordinance of 1787‚ which allowed the Northwest Territories to organize their own governments. It has also banned slavery from the region. A weakness of the Confederation would be that the congress had no power to coin money; therefore each state developed its own
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Many patients had proven that the Laugh Therapy really works and that laughter is the best medicine. There’s a mind and body connection that allows the it to work. I have experienced that it is true and people can recover faster when they have a positive attitude. Also‚ people have nothing to lose if they try to have a positive life whenever they’re sick. For these reasons‚ I believe that the laugh therapy can help people to recover from their illness. As a child‚ I got flu and colds every time
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THE LAUGH OF MEDUSA 1. Cixous is well known for her notion of écriture feminine. In "The Laugh of the Medusa‚" Cixous maintains that to define a feminine practice of writing‚ or écriture feminine‚ is not possible since "it will always surpass the discourse that regulates the phallocentric system" that aims to theorize or enclose it (1976‚ p. 883). Cixous discusses her wariness of reductive language that would simplify or capture her practice of écriture feminine. Nonetheless‚ her basic attempt
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In response to essay question 1 involving narrative construction and style‚ The Merry Widow (Ernst Lubitsch‚ 1934) is constructed using both the classic Hollywood film and the American film musical structure. Due to its familiarity‚ the style of such films goes relatively unnoticed‚ although within the veranda scene depicting Count Danilo (Maurice Chevalier) and Madam Sonya’s (Jeanette McDonald) first encounter‚ stylistic features and narrative construction are quite overt. The musical genre of
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