making life miserable. So‚ a major source of unhappiness for humans is loneliness. Loneliness deprives us of love and companionship‚ which are basic human needs. Often times‚ humans associate loneliness with sadness and misery. This is shown in My Last Duchess‚ after the narrator and Bill break up. She says‚ “I could make myself cry even more by repeating the words: love‚ alone‚ sad‚ over.” The narrator’s misery is founded in her loneliness‚ specifically loneliness in the heart. Her relationship
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Compare the central characters in ‘Medusa’ and ‘My Last Duchess’ Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Medusa’ and Robert Browning’s ‘My Last Duchess’ are two entirely different poems in many respects. Written in entirely different eras‚ some would say that they are as opposite as poetry could be. However‚ their central characters have some remarkable similarities that strike a chord with the reader and represent a common theme. In each of the poems‚ both Medusa and the Duke of Ferrara represent the fickleness
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In the poem‚ “When our two souls stand up erect and strong (Sonnet 22)” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning‚ the topic that is being dramatized is the love that the speaker has for her husband. The speaker in this poem is the author herself‚ Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Browning is the speaker of this poem because this poem was part of her poem collection called the “Sonnets from the Portuguese”. In other words‚ this poem was written in her perspective;therefore‚ she expresses her emotions and feelings
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My Academic Experience the Past Nine Weeks The long term results and value of completing a degree in higher education are many folded and range from financial to cultural. It is true that those of us who complete a degree benefit from higher paying jobs‚ but also can be said that we gain more acclaim and esteem among our peers as well. It seems that when you are educated and people are able to tell that you are educated you are treated differently than if you don’t have an education. You are able
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Thanksgiving is one of my most favorite times of the year‚ besides Christmas. I love spending time with family and friends while enjoying the delicious Thanksgiving meal. My aunt’s husband is a culinary chef‚ so with that being said‚ our meals are always homecooked and taste heavenly. My entire family gathers on Thanksgiving Day at my aunt’s house where we spend the entire day eating‚ catching up with one another‚ and enjoying each other’s presence. Most importantly‚ we all get to see my cousins who range
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sports stores with the equipment. I see the new on the market brand that is tested to best quality and the same price as the old not as good brand and I move to it. My friend hesitates and follows with resistance. One need‚ one purpose‚ and one responsibility‚ but different viewpoints. The newer brand got us that jump and many more for my friend. You know‚ biases are the stories we make up about gear before we know what they actually are. But how are we going to know what they are when we’ve seen
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effect on the degree of colour change that occurs when they come into contact with atmospheric oxygen. As the pH of solution increases‚ so does the degree of browning of the apple slice. Low pH solutions will cause the enzyme to be inactivated and therefore cause the degree of browning to decrease. As the pH increases so does the degree of browning‚ because the pH becomes closer to the enzymes optimum pH level. Independent Variable: The pH solutions that the apple pieces are placed into. Range of
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written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning composed in the wake of Romanticism‚ although the two texts were composed in two distinct time period both texts are influenced by their varying contexts in their portrayal of the enduring human concerns. Both authors explore the universal human concerns of love‚ hope and mortality through the use of various language features such as metaphors‚ use of irony and the subversion of the established values of their time. Elizabeth Barrett Browning employs the Petrarchan
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A Year’s Spinning written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning is telling a story from the point of view of a woman who tells of the struggles she had endured over the course of a year. The poem closely ties in with the view of women during the time-period. During this time period women were primarily homemakers and any unmarried women outside of the ideal age of marriage with no children were considered to be spinsters. In this poem‚ a woman is doing her spinning on the porch and eventually a man stops
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My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover Robert Browning wrote the two poems‚ Porphyria’s Lover and My Last Duchess. In each poem‚ the speakers seem mentally disturbed. Also‚ both speakers had relationships with "strong" women who‚ despite apparently loving them‚ they each ended up killing. Strangely enough‚ both men seem to be much happier after they have committed these murders. The murders in these poems deal with power based on gender. The females have the power and the men do not. The men feel
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