physical attractiveness should be connected with more positive outcomes in marriage. Apparently‚ many studies of physical attractiveness came about to support or over- throw two poets recognition on the period of physical attractiveness. Poet John Keats believes that the benefits of beauty are everlasting while poet G.B. Shaw believes that beauty is destined to fade over time. Different theories were also taken into consideration. Equity and similarity theories predict that attractiveness should be
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In the assignment that I am going to explore “A world of Difference” and show connections between the four texts I have selected they are: Witness by Peter Weir (Film)‚ Meg Merrilies by John Keats (Poem)‚ The Bath by Janet Frame (S/S) and What I ever wanted by Vikki Wakefield (Novel). This texts/film has similarities or connections through characters that are involved in them are: Rachael (Film)‚ Meg (Poem)? Unnamed (s/s) and Jemima (Novel). Through them involved the way he/she live‚ background
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The Winter Sundays By: Robert Hayden Explication In the sonnet “Those Winter Sundays”‚ the theme is the warmth of the coal fire becomes the warmth of the love that radiates throughout the house. An adult speaker presents memories of how his father expressed love for him through his actions. In particular‚ the speaker remembers that his father rose very early on Sunday mornings to stoke the furnace fire. Only when the house was warm did he awaken his son to dress. Line 12 notes that the father
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mystery of the antecedent forms a more vivid image. Apostrophe: Apostrophe is a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead orsomething nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and able to reply. Example: Lines 12-22‚ To Autumn by John Keats. Function:
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Sociological Approach Sociological critics believe that the relations of art to society are important. Art is not created in a vacuum. Language itself is a social product. A writer is a member of the society. And he takes his material from the society. A literary piece is not simply the work of a person. It is of an author fixed in time‚ space and his environment. Taine‚ the French man‚ said that literature is the consequence of the moment‚ the race‚ and the milieu. Edmund Wilson traces
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Analyzing Poetry (the DFTT model): 1st reading – Just read the poem. Most of us have to read a poem multiple times to figure out the meaning. 2nd reading – DECODE: Try to figure out what is being said literally. What is happening in the poem? Start with the biggest‚ most obvious things first. When you decode a poem‚ translate it (paraphrase) into your own words. It’s probably better to decode it stanza by stanza‚ rather than line by line. Try to find any possible shifts in the poem‚
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Invention of Lying Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said‚ “Silently‚ one by one‚ in the infinite meadows of heaven‚ blossomed the lovely stars‚ the forget-me-nots of the angels.” There has been a lot of talk about heaven over the years. Many people who have claimed that they know what heaven is like or what we experience when we die. While this can be comforting to some‚ it raises questions of how they could know given the fact that one would have to either be a prophet of God or someone who has actually
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The Postman Always Rings Twice as Film Noir Tony Garnett’s The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) seems a quintessential film noir. The title suggests a fateful conclusion for the two main characters—a flawed drifter named Frank (John Garfield) and his restless female conspirator‚ Cora (Lana Turner). Garnett’s crime drama is crafted with the stylish devices usually characteristic of the film noir genre—low-key lighting; a flawed‚ inept hero; and an archetypal femme fatale. Certain
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which includes: William Wordsworth‚ William Blake and Taylor Coleridge and a second for: Lord Byron‚ P.B Shelley and John Keats. Even though they are all labeled as romantics‚ their conceptions differ from one another‚ thereby Coleridge will think more systematically and will write more copiously‚ Byron is more penetrant and pertinent‚ while Blake‚ Wordsworth‚ Shelley and Keats are “deeply interested in the nature of their art‚ and their critical insight is prominent”. George Gordon Byron‚
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Advanced ENGLISH ___________________________________________________________ Area of Study: Belonging A study of Emily Dickinson (and related texts) Dr Selina Samuels‚ Ascham School 2 What is the Area of Study? The Area of Study is the exploration of a concept that affects our perceptions of ourselves and our world. Students explore‚ analyse‚ question and articulate the ways in which perceptions of this concept are shaped in and through a variety of texts. In the Area of Study
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