first line "She walks in beauty" this is an odd way of saying that she is beautiful‚ isn’t it? "Walk(ing) in beauty" makes her beauty seem more dynamic. As though its partly her movement and the spring in her step that make her beautiful . She’s not just has a pretty face‚ it’s the whole living‚ breathing‚ "walk(ing)’ woman that’s beautiful. Her beauty is compared to "night". That seems strange as night is dark and usually poet compares the beauty of woman to the summer’s day like in Shakespeare’s
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The Rape of the Lock Alexander Pope What mighty contests rise from trivial things‚ I sing--This verse to Caryl‚ Muse! is due: This‚ ev’n Belinda may vouchsafe to view: Slight is the subject‚ but not so the praise‚ If she inspire‚ and he approve my lays. Say what strange motive‚ Goddess! could compel A well-bred lord t’ assault a gentle belle? O say what stranger cause‚ yet unexplor’d‚ Could make a gentle belle reject a lord? In tasks so bold‚ can little men engage‚ And in soft bosoms
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Analysis of the rape of the lock Alexander pope is considered one of the greatest poets of enlightenment‚ the age of reason which refers to the time of the guiding intellectual movement. It covers about a century and a half in Europe especially in France and Switzerland. The physical defects that pope suffers made him an easy target for heartless mockery‚ he wrote “the rape of the lock” to satirize a petty squabble by comparing it to the epic world of gods. It was based on an
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Analysis: Themes and Form The Rape of the Lock is a humorous indictment of the vanities and idleness of 18th-century high society. Basing his poem on a real incident among families of his acquaintance‚ Pope intended his verses to cool hot tempers and to encourage his friends to laugh at their own folly. The poem is perhaps the most outstanding example in the English language of the genre of mock-epic. The epic had long been considered one of the most serious of literary forms; it had been applied
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The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century 1660: Charles II restored to the throne 1688-89: The GloriousRevolution.deposition of James IIand accession of William of Orange 1700: Death of John Dryden 1707: Act of Union unites Scotland and England‚ which thus became “Great Britain” 1714:Rule by Hanover begins with accession of George I 1744-45: Deaths of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift 1784: Death of Jonathan Swift Neoclassicism: An Introduction • Neoclassicism dominated
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Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt D.O.B-D.O.B: September 6‚ 1817 - September 19‚ 1893‚ in London‚ England and came to Canada in 1835 to work for the British American Land Company. Family Information: On February 9‚ 1848‚ Galt married Elliott Torrance‚ the daughter of John Torrance‚ of Saint-Antoine Hall‚ Montreal. She died on May 25‚ 1850‚ shortly after giving birth to their only son‚ Elliott. Later he married her younger sister‚ Amy Gordon Torrance. Amy gave birth to 7 daughters and 2 more sons. They
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Flecknoe‚” the mock epic genre “treats the low‚ mean‚ or absurd in the grand language‚ lofty style‚ and solemn tone of epic poetry. The obvious disparity between subject and style makes the satiric point” (Greenblatt et al. 2237). Pope’s The Rape of the Lock is a much more extended example of this genre. For this exercise‚ focus on one of the following passages from the poem to answer the three questions below: Canto 1‚ lines 121-144 (2690); Canto 3‚ lines 37-100 (2694-6); or Canto 5‚ lines 75-104 (2703)
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the world to fall? Who is John Galt? Such are the questions addressed in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged‚ a 1957 philosophical dystopian-fiction novel that the author regards as her masterpiece in the fiction genre. Rand introduces John Galt‚ the novel’s main character‚ not as a character‚ but as a question. The question‚ “Who is John Galt?” is not only the first words of the novel‚ but is also the most repeated phrase in the novel‚ being stated a total of twenty six times. Characters ask the question as
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SACE STAGE 2: English Communications Assessment Task 1- Rostrum Exposition SACE NO: 257112J (J. Keogh) “The Time Has Come” For many‚ many years‚ Australia has been a wealthy nation that has developed quite quickly. With federation in 1901 and 7 states and territories being established and successfully run for the last 100 years‚ we are a lucky country. Our government‚ school systems and technology have progressed at a rapid pace resulting in many people gaining valuable education and knowledge.
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Queen Victoria’s Empire Lesson Plans by Lisa Prososki Plan 1: Inventions that Changed the World Subject Areas: Middle School Social Studies Objective: Students will create small group projects that illustrate the positive and negative impacts of the inventions of the Industrial Revolution‚ the ways this revolution shaped Victoria’s reign as Queen of England‚ and the ways this invention contributed to the idea of a world economy. Materials: Students should
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