| Click heading below to drag About This PoemClose Become a Premium Member and post notes about your poem. Written by: Euginia Liapich Read Poems by Euginia Liapich | Form: Sonnet | + Fav Poet | + Fav Poem | Comment | Email | Print | ------------------------------------------------- Last night I dreamt Last night I dreamt Of mountain trees that ail The needle rusted red For beetle bark has ate For
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This poem represents yet another of Browning’s dramatic monologues spoken in the voice of an historical Renaissance painter. Andrea del Sarto‚ like Fra Lippo Lippi‚ lived and worked in Florence‚ albeit a little later than Lippo‚ and was later appointed court painter by Francis‚ the King of France. Under the nagging influence of his wife Lucrezia‚ to whom he speaks in this poem‚ he left the French court for Italy but promised to return; he took with him some money that Francis had given him to purchase
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In his Poetics‚ Aristotle set forth the characteristics of good tragedy. To him the two most important features of tragedy were plot and character. The plot should contain a change in fortune‚ preferably from good to bad‚ and should ideally hinge on a recognition or discovery. T The main character‚ the protagonist‚ should be a person in whom good and bad are mixed but in whom the good predominates. That definition is usually paraphrased as "a basically noble person with
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AP English Literature and Composition “Only connect!....Live in fragments no longer!” General Course Information 1.0 Credits (.5 per semester) Prerequisites: Accelerated English is recommended Course Overview • This class will prepare students for AP English Literature and Composition Exam‚ as well as the AP English Language and Composition Exam. When registering for exams in the Spring‚ students will choose which exam to take. • This course is set according to the requirements
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“Yet I seek not a fellow feeling in my misery. No sympathy may I ever find. When I first sought it‚ it was the love of virtue‚ the feelings of happiness and affection with which my whole being overflowed‚ that I wished to be participated. But now that virtue has become to me a shadow‚ and that happiness and affection are turned into bitter and loathing despair‚ in what should I seek for sympathy? I am content to suffer alone while my sufferings shall endure; when I die‚ I am well satisfied that abhorrence
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IMPORTANT QUESTIONS IN PHYSICS (CLASS XII) ELECTROSTATICS One mark questions. 1. If a point charge is rotated in a circle of radius r around a charge q‚ what will be the be the work done? 2. Does the electric potential increase or decrease along the electric line of force? 3. Give the relation between electric intensity and electric flux. 4. What is the dielectric constant of a metal? 5. What is the potential energy of two equal negative point charges 2μC each held 1m apart in air?
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Reflective Essay It is amazing that my journey as an English: Literature major has almost come to a close so quickly. My path has been a smooth and enjoyable one‚ and it is with great sadness that I begin to gather up the ends of my literary education. I know that I will continue to grow and develop as a critical reader/thinker throughout my lifetime‚ but I will sorrowfully miss the educational structure that has shaped my literary understanding for the last three years. I consider my greatest
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Periods of English Literature. For convenience of discussion‚ historians divide the continuity of English literature into segments of time that are called "periods." The exact number‚ dates‚ and names of these periods vary‚but the list below conforms to widespread practice. The list is followed by a brief comment on each period‚ in chronological order. 450-1066 Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) Period 1066-1500 Middle English Period 1500-1660 The Renaissance (or Early Modern) 1558-1603 Elizabethan
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Coursework Guidance GCE English Literature OCR Advanced GCE in English Literature H471 Unit F664 Texts in Time This Coursework Guidance is designed to accompany the OCR Advanced GCE specification in English Literature for teaching from September 2008. © OCR 2007 Content 1 2 3 4 5 6 Introduction Summary of Unit Content Coursework Guidance Assessment Criteria Unit F664 Texts in Time Administration/Regulations FAQs 3 4 6 16 20 24 2 GCE English Literature 1 Introduction The
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Chapter I: literature of the middle ages A. ANGLO- Saxon period (5th - 10th centuries) During the first five centuries of our era and long before that‚ Britain was inhabited by a people called Kelts‚ who lived in tribes. Britain’s history is considered to begin in the 5th century‚ when it was invaded from the Continent by the fighting tribes of Angles‚ Saxons and Jutes. At the very end of the 5th century they settled in Britain and began to call themselves English (after the principal tribe of
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