Love is the conqueror of the strong and the weak‚ though it is foolish and evil at its core. Sophocles proves that love is the one destructive power in the universe through his third ode in “Antigone.” Its powerful message foreshadows the death of Antigone and her lover‚ Haemon‚ through its crisp imagery and perfect diction. The chorus passionately sings the evils of love while closely examining the situation of the Lovers’ potential ends. Force emanates from each word that Sophocles conducts‚ forcing
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The "Ode of Remembrance" is an ode taken from Laurence Binyon’s poem "For the Fallen"‚ which was first published in The Times in September 1914. The poet wrote For the Fallen‚ which has seven stanzas‚ while sitting on the cliffs between Pentire Point and The Rumps in north Cornwall‚ UK. A stone plaque was erected at the spot in 2001 to commemorate the fact. The plaque bears the inscription For the Fallen Composed on these cliffs 1914 However there is also a plaque on the beehive monument on the East
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or rectangular shape They used mud bricks and stones in the mud with reeds or brush to help build the house. Most of the houses had one room‚ there were very rarely two" (thinkquest.org). These simple homes are the primary foundation for the Grecian style of architecture. Though Neolithic in nature‚ the first Architects laid the basic foundations for all architecture to follow in Greece and the rest of the world. The shapes of these early homes carry through all the way from the Ionic to the
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Athens. This temple is dedicated solely to the goddess Athena. Another great detail that reveals much about the religious factors of this society would be the inscriptions found on the walls of these temples and even on some of the statues that the Grecians sculpted. These inscriptions show the names and evident pictures of various amounts of gods and goddesses and present details about what they wore and looked like‚ what they were rulers of and even what some of their powers consisted of. The fact
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appreciation for nature as a topic for their poems. In “Sleeping in the Forest‚” by Mary Oliver and “Ode to enchanted light‚” by Pablo Neruda‚ they both convey their appreciation for nature. This can be illustrated by comparing and contrasting their use of figurative language and form. In the poems‚ figurative language is used as a technique in both poems. In “Sleeping in the Forest‚” and “Ode to enchanted light‚” the authors utilize similes. In the quote‚ “But my thoughts‚ and they floated/ light
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same way that some pictures look warm--this struck me so much on my sunday’s [sic] walk‚ that I composed upon it. "To Autumn‚" the " perfect embodiment of poetic form‚ intent‚ and effect‚" is an ode‚ a serious and dignified lyric poem that adheres to a stanzaic form and is fairly long. Keats’s ode is divided into three eleven-line stanzas with the rhyme scheme of abab cdecdde. Autumn is personified by Keats‚ and he employs apostrophe‚ addressing Autumn as a woman: Who hath not seen thee
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NAME: LORANNA LAING DATE: October 25‚ 2010 SUBJECT: LITERATURES IN ENGLISH AN ANALYSIS OF THE POEMS “ORPHEUS”AND “EURYDICE” BY MARGARET ATWOOD The poems “ORPHEUS “and “EURYDICE” by Margaret Atwood speaks of the love shared by a Grecian Male called Orpheus and his wife Eurydice. It tells the readers how Eurydice was manipulated into loving Orpheus through his singing which was used to hypnotize both gods and man.The story then goes on to Say that they were married soon after but before
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Autumn John Keats’ poem To Autumn is essentially an ode to Autumn and the change of seasons. He was apparently inspired by observing nature; his detailed description of natural occurrences has a pleasant appeal to the readers’ senses. Keats also alludes to a certain unpleasantness connected to Autumn‚ and links it to a time of death. However‚ Keats’ association between stages of Autumn and the process of dying does not take away from the "ode" effect of the poem. The three-stanza poem
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