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    Are the foreign dramas evading our culture The foreign dramas are attacking our culture and these are not according to our culture After a contentious time of the Indian dramas‚ now numerous Turkish plays are giving rise to curious hype not only in our television drama industry but also in the minds of the general public. As a matter of fact‚ it is true that our local drama production is invoking the interests of thousands and millions of viewers and most of these spectators are finding these

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    Jethro and Mr Sommers We had to create a still image ‘statue’ of Jethro. Underneath the statue‚ I chose to show Jethro as being hopeful. I was on my knees but had my fist clenched and to the side of me‚ suggesting that there were still issues with the way that people were treated‚ the time that the statue was meant to be made was during the peak of slavery. The clenched fist representing that Jethro and his fellow people would fight towards freedom. Dan played Mr Sommers‚ he stood with folded arms

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    extended soliloquies‚ in Moby Dick. In fact‚ Shakespeare so influenced Melville that the novel’s main character‚ Captain Ahab‚ is a classic Shakespearean tragic figure. Shakespeare’s writing was so influential to 1800s English poetry that critic George Steiner said that all poetic dramas of the time were “feeble variations of Shakespearean themes”. He is also credited to inventing over 1700 of our common words by changing nouns into verbs‚ changing verbs into adjectives‚ connecting words never before used

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    English: Analysis of Drama IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER: AN ANALYSIS OF NORA‚ THE MEN IN HER LIFE‚ AND HER NAVIGATATION TO INDEPENDENCE   The play‚ A Doll House‚ written by Henrik Ibsen in 1879‚ is considered a  landmark in drama for its portrayal of realistic people‚ places‚ and situations. Ibsen  confines his story to the middle class. He writes of a society that is limited not only by its means of livelihood but also its outlook. Ibsen portrays his characters   as preoccupied with work and money

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    Poetry in Literary Studies

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    4. Poetry Table of Contents: 4.1. What Is Poetry? ................................................................................... 142 4.1.1. Outward Indications .......................................................................... 142 4.2. Types of Poetry ................................................................................... 144 4.2.1. Lyric Poetry ......................................................................................... 144 4.2.2. Narrative Poetry .....

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    The Power of John Donne’s Poetry Louis Hunt John Carey’s description of Donne’s “power” is laudable‚ and to a certain extent‚ accurate. Carey captures the masculine nature of Donne’s tone; the vividness of Donne’s imagery; the subtle coercion of Donne’s metaphor. Carey also notes Donne’s application of syntax and rhythms‚ writing that Donne’s words‚ “are packed into the poems like boulders… Inversions and interjections fracture the run of the lines‚ necessitating a strenuous advance.” Carey

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    Sagar Gohel D. Samaha English 2 Honors September 30‚ 2012 The Death and Transfiguration of Poetry One of the greatest poetic minds of the 20th Century once said‚ “Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion‚ but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality‚ but an escape from personality. But‚ of course‚ only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.” It was Solari’s chief aspiration to show this to the world. “The Death

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    Close Reading In the poem‚ “Happiness”‚ the poet‚ Priscilla Leonard‚ illustrates for the reader that happiness cannot be contained and that one human cannot own all happiness. The poem happiness is about how to live life to the fullest. In the first two lines of the poem‚ ”Happiness is a crystal/ fair and exquisite and clear” the feeling and emotion that the poet gives the reader‚ is peaceful and tranquil(1-2). Leonard throws a different perspective at the reader when she write ‚”broken in a

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    1 Hope by Emily Dickson Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul‚ and sings the tune--without the words‚ And never stops at all‚ And sweetest in the gale is heard; and sore must be the storm that could abash the little bird that kept so many warm. I’ve heard it in the chilliest land‚ and on the strangest sea; yet‚ never‚ in extremity‚ it asked a crumb of me. Analysis of the poem In first stanza Dickson defines hope by comparing it to a bird‚ which

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    Poetry Analysis

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    Asleep in the Valley by Arthur Rimbaud The poem starts with a blissful scenery. The mention of flowers‚ streams‚ mountains‚ the valley‚ and how the rays of the sun reached the mountaintop emits cheerful thoughts from the readers. By reading the first paragraph‚ readers would want to go to the place the author described. They would also have their own conclusions that the poem would end in a happy note. In the second paragraph‚ a young soldier is being introduced by the author. Readers would

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