Unseen Poetry (Road 1940 by Sylvia Townsend Warner) a. The poet begins each stanza by ‘she said’ to convey to the reader about the woman’s feelings like in the first stanza ‘Who do I carry‚ she said‚ This child that is no child of mine’ showing her bewilderment as to why she picked up the child. The use of ‘she’ indicates the poem is written in a third person perspective‚ which is striking‚ as the reader knows only the thoughts and feelings of the woman‚ while other characters such as the child
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different from you - something you cannot give them. Something you don’t want to give them‚ if it were your choice. This is a highly auto-biographical account by Plath of a young girl finding that when she should be most excited about her life‚ she instead finds that things aren’t what she expected‚ and that the culture of the 1950’s doesn’t seem to allow for all that she wants‚ which begins her descent into depression. The Bell Jar is in the form of a Roman à clef‚ with the main protagonist
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Sylvia Plath’s semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar‚ demonstrates the startling effects of an oppressive patriarchal society on a bright and accomplished woman. Esther’s descent into madness can be attributed towards 1950’s America’s absurd expectations of women‚ the pressure women place on each other and the patronising attitude of the medical world. All throughout the novel‚ characters such as Esther’s own mother‚ Buddy Willard and Mrs. Willard all exist as manifestations of the suffocating
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In the piece written by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu‚ she writes a letter to her daughter on how she believes her granddaughter should be educated. Lady Montagu discusses how knowledge affects a woman’s life in that time period. She also discusses how she feels a woman should be educated. In order to effectively communicate her views she uses rhetorical devices. “True knowledge consists in knowing things‚ not words.” Lady Montagu wants her granddaughter to “read books in their originals.”
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A not so famous but still important oceanographer‚ a scientist who spends her whole job under water. This scientist’s name is Sylvia Earle. Sylvia Earle attended a university and went to college for about four to five years. Sylvia Earle decided to become an oceanographer when she was just in middle school. She knew she loved the sea since she was little. Sylvia Earle was born on August 30th‚ 1935. She is currently 81 years old and was born in Gibbstown Greenwich‚ Township New Jersey. She
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Tension in Poetry John Orley Allen Tate Many poems that we ordinarily think of as good poetry -- and some‚ besides‚ that we neglect -- have certain common features that will allow us to invent‚ for their sharper apprehension‚ the name of a single quality. I shall call that quality tension. In abstract language‚ a poetic work has distinct quality as the ultimate effect of the whole‚ and that whole is the “result” of a configuration of meaning which it is the duty of the critic to examine and
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Analysis on the Relationship Between Poetry & Painting An analysis on the relationship between poetry and painting Lope De Vega‚ in one of his sonnets‚ refers to two famous contemporaries in a striking way; he calls the Italian poet Marino “a great painter for the ears” and the Flemish painter Rubens “a great poet for the eyes”. Six hundred year and 6000 miles away‚ a similar concept occurs in a parallel situation. The Chinese poet Su Shi‚ in one of his poems‚ praises two men
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Da Vinci (1452-1519). This painting‚ the Lady with an Ermine 1489-1490‚ has been made of oil on a wooden panel with a size of 54 cm by 39 cm. The painting itself is a departure from the typical mediums of frescos (a type of paint used on murals) and paints made from crushed pigments mixed with egg whites. It is an oil painting. The theme of this artwork is expressed as portraiture during the high Renaissance period‚ traditionally taken to begin in the 1490’s. This era was known as the rebirth of art
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Larkin: Wild oats Talking in bed Broadcast Love songs in age Faith healing Sunny prestatyn For Sidney bechet Abse: St valentines night A scene from married life The Malian bird Blond bys The silence of tudor evans Focus on ideas of love Wild Oats BY PHILIP LARKIN About twenty years ago Two girls came in where I worked— A bosomy English rose And her friend in specs I could talk to. Faces in those days sparked The whole shooting-match off‚ and I doubt If ever one had
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PATRICK KAVANAGH “FAIRYLAND” Brief summary This story written by Patrick Kavanagh is set in Ireland. In fact‚ there are some many places which are mentioned in the tale‚ such as South Monaghan (which is indeed the county where this poet and writer was born)‚ Inniskeen‚ Mullacrew and Louth. All of them are attached to his early experiences in his native Monaghan as well as his relationship with him working as a farmer . Consequently‚ we notice that fondness for rural areas‚ the mode of husbandry
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