Aesop’s Fables The Hart in the Ox-Stall A Hart hotly pursued by the hounds fled for refuge into an Ox-stall‚ and buried itself in a truss of hay‚ leaving nothing to Be seen but the tips of his horns. Soon after the Hunters came up and asked if anyone had seen the Hart. The stable boys‚ who had been resting after their dinner‚ looked round‚ but could see nothing‚ and the Hunters went away. Shortly afterwards the master came in‚ and looking round‚ saw that something unusual had taken
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Centuries ago‚ a writer by the name of Aesop began to tell fables to those around him to make his own commentary on issues such as the ways he believed individuals should live in order to be “good” people. He covered everything from jealousy‚ to cautiousness‚ to being true to oneself. Just like Aesop‚ Arthur Miller uses his play Death of a Salesman to make his own social commentary about society in his time‚ and the points he made can still be applied to today’s society. One of Aesop’s fables‚ “The
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had no food and found itself dying of hunger‚ while it saw the ants distributing every day corn and grain from the stores they had collected in the summer. Then the Grasshopper knew: It is best to prepare for the days of necessity. In this fable by Aesop‚ a grasshopper and an Ant cross paths. The Ant is struggling to carry an ear of corn to its nest. The Grasshopper was having a good time singing and dancing. The Grasshopper tried to convince the Ant to stop its work and come with the Grasshopper.
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Essay The Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy The poem is written in the first person. Duffy gives her lover an onion in which represents St Valentines Day. The onion is a gift rather than a card or a rose‚ Duffy uses this unusual gift but in fact it’s a statement of love. The onion a (metaphor) is a strong ugly vegetable‚ not only does it show love but can show the inner beauty with in the onion itself. There are good points and bad points in love however there are consequences of what love can
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Eurydice and Mrs. Midas portraying strong minded and authoritative females that retell the Greek mythological stories from a women’s point of view. In both poems Eurydice and Mrs. Midas we are introduced to two women who in mythology have been overshadowed by their more famous husbands or left out of the story completely. Through Duffy’s extensive use of language features such as humour and metaphors in the poem Mrs. Midas‚ we are able to understand the previously unheard point of view of Mr. Midas as
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The poem shows the safety and security that Mrs Tilscher’s classroom provides for the children‚ but hints the dangers that one would confront if one were to leave the classroom. Comment on how the narrator does this by close reference to the poem. ‘In Mrs Tilscher’s Class’ by Carol Ann Duffy is a poem about a young person entering the transition from childhood to adolescence. She shows the safety and security of the class through the use of techniques such as simile‚ listing and diction. However
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own problems Carol Ann Duffy seems to ask political/feminist questions in the following poems and believes women to be partly responsible for mass production‚ industrialisation and technology. The women in Duffy’s poems are seen as obsessive (The Diet‚ Work) and not in control (the woman who shopped). All three poems seem to combine aspects of femininity into one character such as gluttony‚ self-harm/losing oneself and seek to change themselves in some way. It seems Duffy has a major conflict with
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poems look at the themes of suffering and unhappiness when cast out from society.which are two states that are inextricably linkable. Unhappiness can come as a result of suffering‚ or the need to make others suffer can come from pure unhappiness. Duffy and Pugh both make these distinctions in their work‚ and are able to engage the reader by exploring these universal themes. In Duffy’s ‘education for leisure’‚ we find a character who is in the grip of unhappiness and possibly some sort of depression
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Carol Ann Duffy &Sheenagh Pugh LT1 exam The alliterative ’m’ in ’Magnificiant‚ she murmurs ‚ moving on’ creates a seductive slow pase tone which constructs a dream like feeling‚ again distancing herself away from her reality. In the third stanza Duffy brings the two characters together revealing the fact that they’re not so different. The metaphorical use of ’stiffens’ creates a sexual imagery along with another sexual reference‚ ’he dips the brush repeatedly’ suggesting that he is responding sexually
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Analysis by theme – Carol Ann Duffy CHILDHOOD Notes from “Originally” Repeatedly returns to the metaphor of childhood as a “country” – echoes of L.P. Hartley’s “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. Notion of past being intimately associated with place‚ and that adulthood is a journey away from it. “All childhood is an emigration.”/ “I want our own country”. Fear of being in an alien place as a child reflected in the alienation of adult life. “I lost a river
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