Fears that I May Cease to Be”‚ by John Keats‚ uses metaphor‚ romantic imagery‚ and figurative language to reflect the speaker’s fear of dying without accomplishing what he aspires for in life which is success and fame in his writing and the love of one who will never love him back. In his writings‚ I think he is also saying to live you life to the fullest. To try to experience every little thing in life and to take advantage of it because we only live once. John Keats died at a young age from tuberculosis
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The art of “Early Autumn” With the advent of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s‚ strong black voices‚ writing with African-American rhythms and cadences‚ broke out all over the country. Of this remarkable creative outpouring‚ one voice rose among all of the rest. This was the voice of poet Langston Hughes. Langston Hughes was a well known poet‚ novelist‚ journalist‚ and playwright‚ and was nicknamed the "Poet Laureate of Harlem”. During the Harlem Renaissance‚ Langston Hughes gained fame
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William Wordworth’s Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood 1. (beginning) Nature Explanation: It talks about the mountains‚ fields‚ land‚ and sea. It is getting you to look at nature more thoroughly. Quote: “The cataracts blow their trumpets from the steep‚ No more shall grief of mine the season wrong; I hear the echoes through the mountains throng. The winds come to me from the fields of sleep‚ And all the earth is gay; Land and sea. Give themselves up to
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of the most debated issues because some people think that vivisection is an immoral and cruel thing while others think that it is necessary. While John Dalton supports vivisection and thinks it is necessary for humans to learn more‚ Frances Cobbe thinks that vivisection is not only cruel‚ but also morally wrong. After reading both authors’ work‚ John Dalton’s work is ultimately more structured and persuasive to his audience than Frances Cobbe’s chaos and
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The Mid-Autumn Festival is a Vietnamese festival in which the children carry bright lanterns and play with alacrity until the midnight. There would have been no problem with me‚ an eighteen year-old who just wanted to gather my team to play a zealous soccer match on that day‚ if the principal had not decided to hold the Mid-Autumn Festival at high school. We students felt ridiculous about the idea‚ and the announcement seemed to be a joke rather than a serious idea. When our head teacher came and
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Celebrated for centuries‚ the Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋節‚ zhōngqiū jié) is a harvest festival celebrated on the 15 day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar. What Is the Mid-Autumn Festival‚ and Why Is the Mid-Autumn Festival Celebrated? The Mid-Autumn Festival is derived from the tradition of praying to Chang-e‚ the Moon Goddess‚ in the autumn for a plentiful harvest. According to a legend from the Han Dynasty‚ Chang-e was the wife of divine archer Hou Yi‚ who shot down one of 10 suns that appeared
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Sutterfield IB English III 10 May 2012 Keats and Longfellow: Poem Comparison “When I Have Fears” by John Keats and “Mezzo Cammin” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow provide a complex perspective of each author’s own description for impending doom‚ and how failure is an inevitable force that will consume them in the near future. Although both poems deal with a similar theme‚ the situations in which the authors have placed themselves reflect through the poems themselves. Keats‚ who speaks with little to no ardor
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The Ode of Heroine: Mulan Many ladies have ever imaged a different life they would have if they were men. Some of them would like to do some real men’s things‚ challenging the task which they impossibly accomplished as a lady. But there is a young maiden called Mulan whose surname is unknown in the history of Ancient China‚ who disguised herself as a man to attend fight in an army replacing for her father. Frankly‚ Mulan was a brave maiden and her romantic life was written in a ballad named as
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Throughout the two poems provided‚ each one has its uniqueness‚ however they both share similarities just as much as differences. In the first poem “Bright Star” by John Keats‚ the speaker is talking about how they want to be like a star. First‚ the speaker starts out by addressing the star and saying‚ “bright star‚ would I were stedfast as thou art--”‚ which describes the speaker’s wanting desire to be a star. Throughout the poem‚ the tone is very gloomy considering the speaker is wanting to be
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In the sixth stanza‚ Keats completely overthrows rationality by having the speaker claim‚ “for a many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death” (Lines 51-52). If rationality is all about self-preservation‚ and if many philosophers looked down on suicide as a desire rather than any real need‚ Keats has created a speaker that is seemingly entranced by death‚ thinking it “rich to die‚ / To cease upon the midnight with no pain” (Lines 55-56). The transcendence of death from a physical plane
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