In “Porphyria’s Lover”‚ the center of the speaker’s focus is the beautiful‚ blooming girl called Porphyria. The speaker acknowledges the girl’s passion and contrasts her against the storm outdoors. I believe the emphasis on the raging weather is used repeatedly to create the feeling of stark opposites. Even though she is wet and cold‚ Porphyria is glowing with passion. She is a roaring fire inside the cozy cottage. Then pride and pain come into the picture and the emphasis is put on the moral responsibilities
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The Wright Brothers; Inventors of the Airplane The incredible interest of Orville and Wilbur Wright in flying‚ was said to be initially sparked with their experience of a toy given to them by their father. The foot long toy “helicopter” was made out of paper‚ bamboo and cork with a rubber band to turn its rotor. The Wright brothers played continuously with their toy until it broke and after that they built one of their own. Wilbur Wright was born on April 16‚ 1867 in Millville‚ Indiana. He was
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Porphyria’s Lover Context Robert Browning (1812-1889) was a Victorian poet‚ who is particularly famous for his dramatic monologues in verse form. Browning was born in London‚ to a family who relished literature‚ and he grew up surrounded by books. He wrote his first book of poems before he was 12 – but destroyed them as an adult to make sure no-one could publish them! Browning devoted himself to poetry‚ and initially had to live at home and be supported by his parents to do so. He married another
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In “The Demon Lover” by Elizabeth Bowen‚ the female protagonist‚ Kathleen Drover‚ finds that the atmosphere‚ interiorly and exteriorly of her former home‚ is similar to her repressed memories of a past life. Kathleen Drover arrives to her former residence with an initial plan to pack up a few items from her former life; the “steamy‚ showery day” (1) represents Kathleen’s need to restore her current life by obscuring memories that surfaced upon her arrival to the house. However‚ Kathleen‚ in an
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Good morning/afternoon Mrs Morgan and fellow class members. Good poetry makes you think and feel about issues and ideas raised by the poet. Judith Beveridge explores the beauty of nature and man’s relationship to it. Judith Beveridge shows the cruelty of humans towards animals and nature in her poems. The first poem I have chosen to talk about is “The Shark”. This poem is about a bunch of fishermen on a boat‚ who catch a shark and later discover that the shark has eaten a young boy. “The
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‘Porphyria’s Lover’ shows the shift of power in a loving relationship. The poem begins by telling us that the speaker is sitting around in his cottage listening to a storm outside‚ ‘The rain set in early tonight‚ the sullen wind was soon awake’. Waiting for Porphyria to enter‚ ‘I listened with heart fit to break’ this here shows that the reader was in some way obsessed with her Porphyria‚ I say this because he sounds like he is on the edge of desperation to see her as he says his ‘heart fit to break’
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Frank Lloyd Wright is one of the best architects in the modern age. He regarded nature as his source of inspiration of works by designing structures that were in harmony with humanity and its environment‚ a philosophy he called organic architecture. In the year of 1905‚ a summer fire burnt the original Unitarian Universalist church in Oak Park down. Frank who came from a family of Unitarians was appointed to build a new church which was Unity Temple. The building is monumental for it is a perfect
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importance of these “trifles”? The narrator sets the scene; the cold kitchen of the farmhouse the day after John Wright was found murdered in his own bed with a rope around his neck. Nothing has been touched except a fire has been started on the stove to warm the place a bit for when the sheriff and the county attorney would arrive to access the situation and look for a motive. Mrs. Wright who had been found the morning before just rocking back and forth in the kitchen rocker and pleating her apron
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In Robert Browning’s poem‚ “Porphyria Lover‚” both the speaker and Porphyria desire to be the most dominate partner in their relationship. Porphyria‚ however‚ brings tension into their relationship when she constantly attempts to be the most dominate partner. As the tensions keep increasing‚ the speaker finds it hard to fulfill his role as a man. However‚ when Porphyria’s weakness is brought to the speaker’s attention‚ he attempts to take full advantage. In the beginning of the poem
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Book Review Obesity is an upcoming and extremely prevalent phenomenon in America today. Author‚ Judith Moore of the book “Fat Girl” discusses some of the issues fat girls face. Her book is less about every stereo-typed fat girl and more about her story individually. Judith Moore chooses to take a different route‚ instead of complaining continuously about being fat‚ she explains in depth why she believes she is fat. She is not lazy; she expresses her knowledge of diets and her experiences of strenuous
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