Two texts‚ The Awakening‚ from the Buddhist Setsuwa‚ and A Long Tale for an Autumn Night‚ oddly run parallel to each other. Both texts include a protagonist who fails to live up to his religious ideal‚ a god that adopts a human form for the purpose of communication‚ and a god who ultimately reveals him/herself within a dream. Furthermore‚ one could argue that the gods use deception in both texts as a tool to instill piety. Yet‚ this outlook encourages a negative understanding of the nature of religious
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Victorian Femininity Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat From hence‚ ye beauties‚ undeceived‚ Know‚ one false step is ne’er retrieved‚ And be with caution bold. Not all that tempts your wand’ring eyes And heedless hearts‚ is lawful prize; Nor all‚ that glisters‚ gold. (Gray‚ stanza 7) Thomas Gray’s charming way of assembling words together offers the reader a subtle insight on the woman’s role or "place" during the Victorian era. The woman’s role consisted of childbearing‚ and basic domestic
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Modern Man’s Disconnect from the Past: An Analysis of Allen Tate’s “Ode to the Confederate Dead” Less than thirty years after his death‚ Allen Tate has been relegated to the back porch of academic history. A revered poet‚ essayist‚ and social commentator in his day‚ Tate was a prolific writer—a genuine renaissance man‚ and an influential figure of both the Southern Renaissance and the modernist movement. He was appointed Poet Laureate to the Library of congress in 1943 (Poet Timeline). But
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Thomas Gray‚ began to react to the negative stigma placed on the male species by the quickly expanding realm of female poets. Thomas Gray was quite possibly evoked to write the "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat‚ Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes" as a response to the attack on patriarchal ideals. The production of "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat‚ Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes" initiated from an occurrence of events that resulted in the untimely death of a much-loved house cat. Horace Walpole
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In his poem "Ode to a Nightingale‚" John Keats uses powerful‚ distinct symbolism and imagery. The nightingale‚ for instance‚ is interpreted by many to be a symbol of Keats ’ poetic inspiration and satisfaction. This symbolism can be seen by the vivid descriptions Keats hives the nightingale. However‚ the nightingale is definitely not the only item of symbolism in "Ode to a Nightingale." In a short piece of art‚ Keats apparently has mastered using many different items‚ phrases‚ and brilliant‚ descriptive
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John Keats (1795-1821) TO AUTUMN. 1. SEASON of mists and mellow fruitfulness‚ Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees‚ And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd‚ and plump the hazel shells With
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explained that he composed "To Autumn" because Somehow a stubble plain looks warm--in the 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
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various types of language‚ syntax and vocabulary to achieve this. An extract from Jane Eyre‚ by Charlotte Bronte‚ a soliloquy from Hamlet‚ by William Shakespeare and Ode to Autumn‚ by John Keats all have a number of striking similarities between them‚ as well as a few differences‚ which will be analysed to show. Unlike Hamlet and Autumn‚ the extract from Jane Eyre‚ doesn ’t have any particular argument‚ but the use of language is similar to that of Keats and to some extent Hamlet. Jane Eyre is a character
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theme in writer John Keats’ odes is the idea of permanence versus temporality. They investigate the relationships‚ or barriers to relationship‚ between always changing human beings and the eternal‚ static and unalterable forces superior to humans. In John Keats’ poems‚ "Ode to a Nightingale" and "To Autumn" Keats longs for the immortality of the beauty of the season and of the song of the nightingale but deep down he knows he can not obtain it. In the ode "To Autumn" author John Keats longs to
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criticized publications‚ Keats decided to change and envisioned a kind of poetry blooming its beauty from human experiences (biography.com). One of his more sensuous works was “To Autumn” and “Ode to a Nightingale” which was his more different ode and individualized poem. “To Autumn” explicates the season of autumn as a female goddess‚ her hair “soft-lifted” by the wind and “drowsed with the fume of poppies” while fruits ripen and late flowers bloom in the panicking weeks before winter begins
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