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    Compare how the two poems ‘Cousin Kate’ and ‘The Seduction’ explore the similar theme of how young women are exploited by men‚ paying close attention to the poet’s use of language and imagery The two poems that are being compared are cousin Kate and the seduction. Cousin Kate was written in the 1900 and the seduction was written in 1980. Both of the poems were written by different authors. In both of the poems‚ both women get seduced by men and they just get rejected by both men too. They must

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    Chopin's The Awakening

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    anxious. With a final‚ abrupt roar of the wind‚ I was ripped from my fictitious cellar‚ back into the closed confines of my room in Long Island. Chopin’s Etude Opus 25 No. 11‚ the “Winter Wind” Etude. Listening to it‚ imagining the environment that Chopin matured in becomes effortless. His numerous pieces can‚ like the “Winter Wind” Etude‚ instill a myriad of emotions in the listener; his “Revolutionary”

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    includes the id‚ the superego and the ego. The plot of The Awakening‚ revolves around Edna Pontellier and the awakening of her unconscious sexuality‚ the need for love and her desire of independence. Edna and her family go to a resort to spend their summer. Edna’s husband‚ Leonce‚ adores his wife but considers her to be neglectful as a wife and a mother. “He reproached his wife with her inattention‚ her habitual neglect of the children.” (Chopin‚ 2005‚ Chapter 3‚ para. 6). At the resort she meets

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    view‚ making faults and troubles evident. Authors like Willa Cather‚ Kate Chopin‚ and Sarah Orne Jewett were able to portray the struggles a woman would have in the time in a way nobody else had dared to. Willa Cather was an author who wrote about the woman’s place in society in “A Wagner Matinee.” Cather criticized the way women were forced to give up their passions for their husband and family.

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    educated at home by her mother‚ Frances Polidori‚ a former governess. She shared her parents ’ interest in poetry and was portrayed in the paintings and drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites.” Christina was sexually abused by her father‚ her poem ‘Cousin Kate’ could possibly be a recount of the series of events the occurred‚ and given that Christina changed some aspects of it. References from: (http://kirjasto.sci.fi/rossetti.htm) Carol Ann Duffy was born on the 23rd of December 1955; she is an

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    Why is Chopin considered as "The Poet of the Piano"? Music and poetry have a rhythmic and rhythm is the foundation to form these art form. They both engage the listeners and readers emotional level and they rely on the descriptive imagery. Music is simply poetry as they both share love‚ joy‚ sadness‚ or criticism of life. I regard Chopin to be the most magnificent phenomenon not only in the history of Polish poetry but in global art as a whole. – Julian Tuwim (Polish poet‚ 1894 – 1953) In

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    Running Head: “THE AWAKENING” FROM A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE In Kate Chopin’s novel‚ “The Awakening”‚ Edna finds herself in a society where women were socially confined to be mothers and wives. This novel embodies the struggle of women in the society for independence along with the presence of women struggling to live up to the demands that their strict culture has placed upon them. A part of Edna wants to meet the standards of mother and wife that society has set‚ however her biggest desire

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    thing that ever happened to them‚ but then there are others who have decisions to make. They will go through an important stage in any relationship‚ the make it or break it stage. The two stories that I will be analyzing will be “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin and “Hills like White Elephants” by Earnest Hemingway. In both stories the characters found out how babies can be a deciding factor in a relationship‚ and that’s what I will be focusing on. In “Desiree’s Baby” the morale of the story is “we often

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    Romanticism is known as a movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that distinguished literature‚ art‚ politics‚ and philosophy from the previous period‚ before the Industrial Revolution. The term is complicated to clearly define beyond the basic sense‚ but by analyzing the characteristics of the movement and what scholars conclude about it‚ a definition can be offered. Characteristics and themes that are consistently seen in the literature of the suggested period include: individualism

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    Romanticism is a faith in imagination or fantasy rather than faith in reason. In John Knowles’s novel A Separate Peace‚ romanticism is portrayed through the recurring idea of fantasy and unreality. The theme is displayed through the emphasis on melancholy and sadness when Gene’s happiness is vanishing‚ Gene’s intuition and reliance on natural feelings when he bounces the branch and causes Finny’s accident‚ and through Finny’s reliance on his imagination and emotion rather than formal rules. First

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