Synopsis The first four stanzas describe a pastoral setting. The Lady of Shalott lives in an island castle in a river which flows to Camelot‚ but little is known about her by the local farmers. And by the moon the reaper weary‚ Piling sheaves in uplands airy‚ Listening‚ whispers‚ " ’Tis the fairy Lady of Shalott." Stanzas five to eight describe the lady’s life. She suffers from a mysterious curse‚ and must continually weave images on her loom without ever looking directly out at the world
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“I am always directed by you” – Mariana “I am directed by you” – Isabella. Both these lines are addressed to the Duke. What do they suggest about women status in this play? What other evidence can you find to support your view? Measure for Measure is a play written by William Shakespeare in the seventeenth century which crucially presents the role of women. Women were viewed as pure and were not expected to be promiscuous‚ but dependent on men with few options or choices. Shakespeare’s interpretation
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poetry are the use of Para rhyme (The rhyming of two words which have the same consonants but whose stressed vowels are different)‚ alliteration‚ and assonance. Alfred Tennyson was born on 5th August 1809 in Somersby‚ Lincolnshire and died on the 6th October 1892 to later be buried in the poet’s corner in Westminster Abby. Tennyson was often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry‚ succeeding Wordsworth as poet laureate in 1850. Wilfred Owen’s poems are inspired by
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Introduction: The battle of Saipan was a battle within the framework of the Pacific war‚ corresponding to the Second World War‚ fought on the island of Saipan (Mariana Islands) between June 15 and July 9‚ 1944. The 2nd and the 4th Marine Division‚ along with the 27th Infantry Division‚ were military forces placed under the command of lieutenant general Holland Smith. They would defeat the 43th. Division of the Imperial Japanese army‚ under the command of lieutenant general Yoshitsugu Saito. In
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of the Bruiser is young adult Neal Shusterman‚ the book is a level 5.5 and is supernatural fiction. It takes place in the twins house Tennyson and Bronte and the mysterious brewsters house‚ One day Tennyson tells his twin sister‚Bronte to stay away from “The Bruiser “ aka Brewster. She has a knack for bad boys and bruiser is the ultimate outcast. In fact‚ Tennyson has such a big problem with Bronte befriending Bruiser that he decides to follow him one day to learn
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Tennyson’s ‘Charge of the light Brigade’ contains many techniques to enhance the conflict as well as glamorise the ‘light Brigade’ in various ways. Tennyson presents the cavalry men of the Crimean war (1854- 1856) as great victors and a powerful army. This glorious army is bragged about in the form of a poem by Tennyson. Imagery is one of the techniques which Tennyson uses to build the conflict up as a picture to let the audience visualise the conflict on the battlefield. He talks about the dangers the light
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Part I: Client and Presenting Problems The presenting family consists of 7 individuals. While the family as a whole is the identified client‚ each individual within the family is suffering from individual issues that are resulting in creating stress throughout the whole family. The identified parents‚ Lena and Stef‚ are a lesbian couple (Bredeweg & Paige‚ 2013). Stef‚ a Caucasian female who is as a police officer‚ was previously married to Mike‚ a fellow police officer‚ and they had a son identified
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The poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred‚ Lord Tennyson uses strong imagery and figurative language which creates the tone of exhilaration and the theme of honouring the qualities of the Light Brigade. With this imagery he describes the violence of the battle from the lines "Reeled from the sabre-stroke / Shattered and sundered". The strong verbs like "reeled"‚ "shattered"‚ and "sundered" give a clear image of both forces fighting with their sabres. He also uses metaphors to help
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age. one of the critic says : ’’ HE exhale a lyric as a flower exhale the fragrance’’ LYRIC IN VICTORIAN ERA : ( AGE OF PESSIMISM ) In the victorian age ‚ there are number of lyric of note (note worthing ).Tennyson and Browning being the greatest of them. TENNYSON : Tennyson is a great artist with words and so his lyrics are characterized by verbal fellicity (prosperous and abundance) of a high order. Moreover‚ he is matchles in his gift of making music with words. But his artistry introduces
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“beyond the utmost bound of human thought.” Finally‚ the poem is divided into four paragraph-like sections‚ each of which comprises a distinct thematic unit of the poem. Commentary In this poem‚ written in 1833 and revised for publication in 1842‚ Tennyson reworks the figure of Ulysses by drawing on the ancient hero of Homer’s Odyssey (“Ulysses” is the Roman form of the Greek “Odysseus”) and the medieval hero of Dante’s Inferno. Homer’s Ulysses‚ as described in Scroll XI of the Odyssey‚ learns from
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