John Sullivan Period 7 February 25‚ 2013 The Raven Parody The game was tied and no one winning‚ it was the start of the thirteenth inning. Approaching the plate with courage and conviction. Tapping the plate side to side‚ I positioned my stance to wide. I studied the pitcher go through his motion‚ ignoring my opponents making commotion. My third base coach nods to me and makes a notion. I distinctly remember‚ it was a cold evening in November. One ball no strikes was the count‚ a
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the tragedy Macbeth by Shakespeare lady Macbeth is stronger than her husband. She manipulates her husband Macbeth to kill Duncan. She is the root of all evil. She tells her husband to kill Duncan and afterwards she tried to confront him and act as if she is upset knowing that’s what she wanted. She seems to be to be stronger than her husband. Macbeth wouldn’t have murdered Duncan. In the relationship between Macbeth and lady Macbeth‚ lady Macbeth is the pushover. She fills Macbeth head up with
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Critical Analysis: Soliloquies in Macbeth A soliloquy is a monologue‚ delivered by a character alone on stage. o Soliloquies are central to the play because in them there is only truth. There is no deception as there might be when speaking to other characters. o o Soliloquies contain the most powerful emotion and imagery in the play. Soliloquies are extremely important in revealing character‚ and are only spoken by the most important characters in the play There are several soliloquies in the first
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happier and greater‚ My innocence means more than the precious metal that resteth upon Macbeth’s head. Foul hags‚ I hope the last of thee spake true. Thou hast a bright road ahead of thee Fleance I f thou can keepest a fair head thyself. Macbeths scheming counts for none as it is My family that shall take to the throne. ‘Thou shalt get kings though thou shall be none.’ Take good care Fleance and look after my wife. Mysterious chasms open Gaping holes of death Warning others of
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“The Raven” and “Annabel Lee” Edgar Allen Poe known as a poet and critic but most famous as the first master of the short-story form‚ especially tales of the mysterious and macabre. The literary merits of Poe’s writings have been debated since his death‚ but his works have remained popular and many major American and European writers have professed their artistic debt to him. Edgar Allen Poe is noted as one of the few American “Romantic” poets. Poe’s poem “The Raven” and “Annabel Lee” portray
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In the play ‘Macbeth’‚ Lady Macbeth is presented as the female who dominates her husband. Discuss this statement and how typical Lady Macbeth is of a woman of her time. The play ‘Macbeth’ was written between 1603 and 1607 by the famous playwright William Shakespeare and it is considered to be one of his most famous darkest tragedies. It is about a regicide and its aftermath which would have been a topical issue in the period in which it was written in as it relates to the Gunpowder Plot. Since the
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Sleep became a very important symbol in William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”. A major theme of the play was guilt and how it ate away at the life and personality of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth‚ tearing them away from who they used to be. The nightmare that their lives turned into was a reflection on their lack of sleep and inability to escape from the evils they committed. Right after Macbeth murders Duncan‚ he says “Now o ’er the one half-world / Nature seems dead‚ and wicked dreams abuse / The curtain
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totally immersed‚ she remembers trying to get clean. She scrubbed herself with loofah‚ over and over‚ as if there was some dark stain and she Lady Macbeth. Out‚ damn spot. She was dirty‚ all of her” (I‚ the Divine 82). Alameddine relates Sarah to Lady Macbeth because the two ladies use to clean themselves from filths. Thus‚ comparing Sarah to Lady Macbeth is a postmodern intertextuality technique by borrowing literature references than reality. Moreover‚ Sarah’s narrative is split up when she is
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The Raven: A Close Reading The entire poem including the first stanza‚ as scanned here‚ is octametre with mostly trochaic feet and some iams. The use of a longer line enables the poem to be more of a narration of the evening’s events. Also‚ it enables Poe to use internal rhymes as shown in bold. The internal rhyme occurs in the first and third lines of each stanza. As one reads the poem you begin to expect the next rhyme pushing you along. The external rhyme of the "or" sound in Lenore and nevermore
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The raven sat far above the Yukon trail‚ searching for a source of sustenance. The cold had paralyzed most life driving them to seek shelter in their dens and nests. The Raven cared little about the cold as his mind focused solely on finding food. The long days of no sun made locating food difficult and even the raven struggled to see within the maze of the pine woods. He shook his wings to remove a layer of frost that the freezing winds had carried. He waited for any signs of life in frozen pine
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