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    He remembered him helping a wounded soldier‚ with the assistance of Tom. The soldier was so wounded that blood was pouring out of him. Charlie began to go insane at the sight. Would he recover from all that he’s seen? Charlie saw Murphy again‚ who was surprisingly alive. However‚ Murphy was deeply wounded and Charlie must wait until night to help him or else there would be a chance he would be shot and killed. Would Murphy make it in

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    Discuss the timeless quality of Shakespeare’s sonnets Shakespeare’s sonnets are lively reflections on love and time‚ these two themes seem to be the principal themes of Shakespeare’s sonnets and he returns to them again and again each time exploring them in a lively and personal matter. The theme of love and time are two themes that are timeless and still today‚ appeal to the modern reader. Shakespeare reveals how nerve wracking a relationship can be‚ but he also shows how love is ultimately the

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    Ruth Baez AP/UCONN English Mr. Dodge February 5‚ 2009 The Mortality of Marriage Edmund Spenser’s “Sonnet 75” is an epithalamium regarding the mortality of marriage. The speaker acts upon his lust‚ flattering his lover with bribery and continuously asking her to marry him. The poem implies marriage in the third line‚ with the word “hand‚” because it is a synecdoche to marriage. His lover responds with the statement “taking a mortal thing [marriage] so to immortalize [her name]” is senseless

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    sentiments. Brazil uses the influences from the past to combat current issues. Brazilian Mosaic states that over three million slaves were brought to Brazil because of the slave trade‚ and no women were with the male settlers. This allows the start of one of Brazil’s most crucial disparities – the challenges because of skin color. This issue has persisted throughout the country’s history‚ and it is something that Brazil glosses over. Stuart B. Schwartz in The Portuguese Heritage: Adaptability says that

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    difficult for a person to be happy. “Sonnet 29‚” by William Shakespeare‚ and “Sonnet LIV‚” by Edmund Spenser‚ explain the sadness and depression that comes with rejection. The narrators try to change themselves in search for attention and approval from the people around them‚ but no matter how hard they try to fit in‚ they fail. In both “Sonnet 29” and “Sonnet LIV” the narrators feel outcast and rejected‚ however in “Sonnet 29” the narrator is able to able to bounce back from his rejection by thinking of

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    Text Explication and Facets of Poetic Genre Sonnet 60 by William Shakespeare Professor C. Soldan Poetry is “the art of rhythmical composition‚ written or spoken‚ for exciting pleasure by beautiful‚ imaginative‚ or elevated thoughts”. This paper will focus on poet William Shakespeare (1564-1616) who was famous in the Renaissance Period prior to the year 1750. Shakespeare was found to have 154 written sonnets‚ which dealt with themes such as the time‚ love‚ beauty and mortality. However‚ a personal

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    Sonnet I from William Percy‚ Sonnets to the Fairest Coelia. London‚ 1594. Analysis of the communicative situation and the topic‚ about the figuartive language‚ the metre and the central problem. 1. Communicative Situation and Topic In the following I am going to analyse the poem “Sonnet I” by William Percy which is the first part of his series “Sonnets to the Fairest Coelia” (1594). The poem deals with a man suffering from unreturned love which leads to an unexpected change of his attitude

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    Today Pope Francis gave five addresses in less than 10 hours.  In his final day in Rio de Janeiro for World Youth Day‚ he did not disappoint.  He is known for his crisp‚ clear and emphatic words‚ spoken in down-to-earth language (sometimes even making new words‚ but that’s a story for another day). What follows are the words he spoke to the youth of the world today‚ often shouting them out and using his hands to make his point. The youth responded with equal emotion. But these words aren’t solely

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    impossible to achieve‚ it is in fact a very possible thing through literature. In Sonnet 75 by Edmund Spenser‚ the speaker tells a brief tale about himself and his mistress‚ debating about mortality one day at the beach. In Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare‚ the persona is speaking to his lover via the poem; he compliments him and states that his beauty will live on forever through this poem. Sonnet 75 by Spenser and Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare are similar due to the fact that they both incorporate the idea

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    Appendix Sonnet 18 Shakespeare 1 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? 2 Thou art more lovely and more temperate: 3 Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May‚ 4 And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: 5 Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines‚ 6 And often is his gold complexion dimmed‚ 7 And every fair from fair sometime declines‚ 8 By chance‚ or nature’s changing course untrimmed: 9 But thy eternal summer shall not fade‚ 10 Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest‚

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