Right from the start‚ the verse is preceded by her choral hymn rising over the ambient electronic sound. Her choral hymn has a swinging nature‚ where it alternates between a strong and weak pattern. Every couple beats‚ she doubles the strong hymn‚ and it emulates a backing up effect‚ as if the music is being played backwards. Slowly‚ as the hymns get louder‚ Lorde’s vocals comes in the pickup‚ and the hymns are replaced with the drum set bass drum keeping the tempo underneath. Throughout
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(Greenblatt). When comparing to other forms of poetry‚ there are 6 key characteristics that define alliterative verse: four-beat lines‚ medial caesuras‚ enjambments‚ half-line alliteration‚ kennings and litotes. In addition to Beowulf and “Caedmon’s Hymn”‚ examples will also be taken from my alliterative verse translation of the nursery rhyme “Little Jack Horner”. Jack the Horner By Student Jack the Horner‚ not gigantic was he. Sitting in the corner‚ on Santa’s big day Endlessly consuming
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the poem. Within the first two quatrains of the poem "sleep" is personified to be an "embalmer of the still midnight‚" closing our eyes and offering a "forgetfulness divine." The voice of the poem speaks to "sleep‚" referring to his words as "thine hymn‚" and offering himself to "sleep" when it should choose. The rhyme scheme of these two quatrains follows the Shakespearian sonnet form‚ and does not deviate from the iambic pentameter. This lends the poem a natural tone and the voice of the poem appears
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Persephone. That word lingered in my mind. Daughter of Zeus and Demeter. Queen of the Underworld. Wife to the Underworld god‚ Hades. She reminded me nothing of the Underworld goddess. If anything‚ she looked like the complete opposite. “Hi‚ I’m James. Nice to meet you.” I smiled. I sat back down and she proceeded to sit next to me. So‚ she was my train buddy for today. Glad it’s not another tourist fiasco. “So‚ where’s Zeus and Demeter?” “I’m sorry‚ what?” “You know‚ Persephone - greek goddess
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Since the days when man lived in caves and struggled to survive‚ wondering about the world that surrounds him. What makes the sun rise and set? Why are there seasons? Where do things go when they die? To the ancient Greeks‚ there were simple explanations to all these questions – it was the gods! Things that seemed unexplainable could suddenly make sense when there were gods and goddesses involved. And these stories of the gods that the Greeks created to help make sense of the universe have survived
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translations in Eastern Nigeria. By 1930‚ this pioneer native African in Church music had set to work on the first Catholic Igbo Hymn Book‚ translating into the vernacular from foreign hymns whose tunes included English‚ La¬tin‚ French and German‚ arranging them in poetic and stanza forms and fixing unto the translated Igbo texts foreign tunes. By this method such hymns as the following came to be: IFE Nke Kpakpando adapted from Ave Maris Stella; Bianu Ndi Kwelunu adapted from o Come All Ye Faithful;
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Descent into the Underworld DESCENT INTO THE UNDERWORLD DESCENT INTO THE UNDERWORLD . Narratives the world over tell of descents into the underworld. Many traditions include myths connected with journeys to the "otherworld" undertaken by both human and suprahuman beings. Experiences of such journeys are especially common in the shamanistic traditions‚ but they are also found in association with various ecstatic religious phenomena and various heroic and visionary contexts within a great number
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RELATED INTRODUCTION BRIEFLY AND THE THEMATIC MEANING TO ONLY UNDERSTAND THE POEM--‘Caedmon’s hymn’ ORIENTATIONS BRITAIN‚ ENGLAND AND ENGLISH “The cliffs of England stand Glimmering and vast‚ out in the tranquil bay.” Matthew Arnold‚ ‘Dover Beach’ (c.1851) The cliffs at Dover were often the first of Britain seen by early incomers and have become a familiar symbol of England‚ and of the fact that England is on an island. These cliffs are part of what the Romans‚ perhaps from as early as the 2nd
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Divine Myth; “True myths” or “myth proper”. Stories in which the main characters are super natural beings. Generally explain some aspect of the world Example would be Zeus over throwing his father and the related stories; creation of myths and of the ancient greeks Nyx (Night): the abstract concept of night given to a few human characteristics. Union of Nyx and Erebus (Darkness) produced their opposites‚ aether ”Radiance” and herma “day” Legends (Sagas) Latin word is Legenda “something that
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