1. What was this poem’s expressive purpose? The poem’s expressive purpose is to explain to the Count’s servant why he‚ the Duke‚ doesn’t have a Duchess anymore. The first line of the poem‚ “That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall‚ looking as if she were alive‚” hints of the last Duchess’s death and the rest of the poem elaborates on the complete story of the last Duchess. Throughout the poem‚ we discover that the main reason for the last Duchess’s disappearance was because the Duke felt threatened
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Movie Critic Katy Norris HUM/150 November 10‚ 2014 Lori Martindale Movie Critic The Nightmare Before Christmas is a children’s stop motion movie which was directed by Henry Selick and produced by Tim Burton. The plot of the movie is based on the poem written by Tim Burton in 1982. The movie was released in 1993 by Touchstone Pictures and distributed in the United States. I was nine years when I first saw this movie in theaters and even now this movie continues to entertain me. During this film’s
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Different But The Same (Comparing and contrasting My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover) Robert Browning is one of the best writers when it comes to dramatic monologues. Dramatic monologue is a poem where a person is speaking to an intended audience about something that they feel strongly about. There are two questions that you ask when reading dramatic monologues they are: Who is the speaker? And who is the speaker speaking to? Robert Browning is known for some of the most influential dramatic
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Explication Of: My Last Duchess‚ By Robert Browning The situation- This poem tells a story of a man that is paranoid about his wife and how much he admires her. This is a narrative poem. The poem’s expresses a mood of desperation and the character is worried. The speaker is the Duke of Ferrara and the poet is speaker through the Duke and telling us a story. The tone of the poem is anger and love. He admires her sculptures but also is angery at her because he suspects her of cheating. The structure-
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My Lai Massacre How Important was the My Lai Massacre in Generating Support for the Peace Protest Movement? The Peace Protest Movement was a time in the Vietnam war when people disagreed with it. This was because of a number of things. The amount of money it was costing‚ The amount of people killed‚ but it originated largely from the massacre at My Lai. The reason that the happenings in My Lai‚ 1968 were so unpopular is because it was the first time that people back home‚ in USA and
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I read a critical article on Robert Browning’s "My Last Duchess". I confess it was harder to find something in the NCLC’s than I would’ve thought. There was a considerable accumulation of critiques on Browning’s work‚ but very little on "My Last Duchess". The article I found concentrated mostly on the Duke in the poem‚ and our reactions to him‚ stating that "[t]he utter outrageousness of the Duke’s behavior makes condemnation the least interesting response " The title of the article was "Sympathy
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Halloween conjures up our fears and phobias. Have you noticed how eerie it can be at night - a "lonely" night or a night that would be ideal for a horror movie! Have you noticed how the best horror movies feast on your imagination‚ it’s so dark you can’t see anything but the music and atmosphere it creates‚ for example‚ hearing footsteps following the future victim and as the "victim" hurries‚ the footsteps behind hurry too and you‚ the viewer‚ can feel your heart racing and feeling the fear -
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Murder in the name of Love Comparisons and Contrasts of Porphyria’s Lover and My Last Duchess Robert Browning was an author of two very eerie and dramatic monologues known as‚ Porphyrias Lover and My Last Duchess. Although both poems have very related themes‚ they still contrast in ways that are too apparent to go unnoticed. You clearly recognize the similarities of both writings in the way that oddly enough‚ both point of views come from insecure men and they both irrationally kill the women they
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Analysis of "My Back Pages" "My Back Pages" Bob Dylan My guard stood hard When abstract threats Too noble to neglect Deceived me into thinking I had something to protect Good and bad I define these terms Quite clear‚ no doubt somehow Ah‚ but I was so much older then I’m younger than that now. "My Back pages" by Bob Dylan can be interpreted in any number of ways by any number of people for such is the beauty and artistry of his work. It possesses this quality which allows it to reach out
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Lieutenant William Calley and the My Lai Massacre Very few things in our world bring about resentment‚ bewilderment‚ and anger as easily as the massacre of innocent civilians. It seems that the history of the Vietnam War includes some well known instances that involved the massacre of innocent people. This could be for many reasons‚ stress‚ anger‚ U.S. sentiments towards the war‚ and even plain hatred of the massacred people. The most infamous account of the slaughtering of civilians took
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