There are a multitude of techniques used by poets to make their poetry both pithy and complex. Due to the limitations of certain poetic forms‚ poets may be forced to use the devices of meter and blunt diction to accurately express their sentiments. Some poets may choose to use allusions to relate a number of scenarios to a certain theme‚ utilizing the historical context of these scenarios as further material for interpretation. Other poets may choose to the opposite approach to economy‚ intentionally
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Before initial reading: The comments to the right are my thoughts and questions on phrases I have placed in the essay and how appropriate they would be. Analyse the ways conflicting perspectives generate diverse and provocative insights. All texts composed convey an agenda which is based on the composer’s context. William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar‚ Jason Reitman’s satirical film Thank You For Smoking (2005) and George Orwell’s Animal Farm (1945) all use conflicting perspectives to convey
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Compare and contrast Thucydides’ and Socrates’ analyses of the fate of Athenian democracy in war‚ of why the Athenians went to war‚ and of how and why they failed. The Peloponnesian War was the turning point in Athenian hegemony in Ancient Greece. It was fought in 431 B.C. between the Delian League‚ led by Athens‚ and the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. According to Thucydides‚ Athens’ imposing hegemonic status and its overwhelming quest for more power made the Peloponnesian War and Athens’s
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at Caesar’s funeral‚ and both of them swayed the crowd. Another case was when Cassius first convinced Brutus to join the conspiracy. Finally‚ it was shown again when Caesar was convinced to go to the Senate meeting‚ where he was later killed. The power of language‚ speech‚ and written words is displayed in these examples and several other times throughout the play. The best example of the power of speech in Julius Caesar was when Brutus and Antony gave their speeches at Caesar’s funeral. When Brutus
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uses his skilled rhetoric in Caesar’s funeral oration to stir the crowd to revolt against the conspirators. Brutus and Cassius have flaws that lead to their own destruction‚ while Marc Antony proves strong in all the ways they prove weak. Brutus flaw is rigid idealism. For example‚ he ignores Cassius’s advice when he says that the conspirators should kill Antony along with Caesar and ignores him once more when he allows Antony to speak a funeral oration over Caesar’s body.
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so motivational. Plato taught Alexander the Great. Plato also believed that humans have the ability to think and make decisions (Doc 2). Another long lasting effect that the Ancient Greeks had to Western Civilization was government. Pericles’ Funcial Oration was given to the Athenians in about 430 B.C. The Athenians treated everyone equal under the law as their government was democratic. Athens was ruled by many people and it was encouraged that everybody should participate based on ability not
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Julius Caesar makes extravagant expressions of being firm and harsh unlike the old sympathetic‚ flexible Caesar that we know from Act 1 and 2. I think that these expressions will for sure change the way that the audiences used to think about him‚ people used to love Caesar for his kindness acts-sympathetic‚ but now he has turned into a nastier person‚ whom he indicates that he’s strong like the star and immovable in his decision of banishing Cimber. I think that Brutus revealed a lot of dishonesty
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Julius Caesar Essay In Julius Caesar‚ a play written by William Shakespeare‚ a character by the name of Mark Antony makes a funeral speech after his “friend” Brutus allows him too which would become Brutus’s undoing. While Brutus’s speech focused on using loyalty to Rome and Logos‚ Antony uses mainly Pathos to gain the crowd’s favor. And extremely effective it turns out to be‚ Antony manages to have the citizens of Rome revolt and mutiny against the ones they almost cried Caesar against. Antony
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Heidi had a hard time deciding what she shelled say in the oration but all she came up with was At Heidi’s mother’s funeral Bernadette asked Heidi to come up with something to say for the oration. All heidi came up with was. “Who she was” “Sophia Lynne Demuth” “So B. It” “Precious Bouquet” “Mama” “Soof.” I think that she should’ve said more since She finally found out about
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Senate‚ Lincoln’s 186 “Gettysburg Address” orated during the Civil War and Keating’s 1993 “Funeral Service of the Unknown Soldier” given at the Australian War Memorial. Along with universal values of patriotism and loyalty despite difference in time and context‚ all three speeches are timeless and allow us responders to interpret them according to our context and ways of thinking. In Cicero’s oration he exposes Catiline to the Roman Senate and attacks him for attending the Senate’s meeting
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