Amine Bekki Instructor: Shadi Shidrawi Course: English 203 Date : 13 september 2013 Response 1 An Analysis of Mahmoud Darwish’s “ a gentle rain in a strange autumn In this poem‚ “A gentle rain in a distant autumn”‚ Mahmoud Darwish‚ Palestine’s national productive poet and author‚ expresses his nostalgia and craving for both; his homeland after his exile‚ and for the glorious and sparkling era when Palestine was a free country. In my opinion‚ his love of the
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the short life span of John Keats’‚ his work best representation of Romanticism. At the age of 21‚ Keats gives up his pursuit to be a surgeon and starts to be a full-time poet. Keats change his occupation to be a poet after reading Edmund Spenser’s 16th-century epic poem The Faerie Queen‚ which leads Keats to write his poem Lines in Imitation of Spenser. Addition to Spenser’s work influencing Keats to be a poet‚ William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge influence Keats to change his style of writing
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Q- Keats wrote that he struggled to settle his mind on women‚ by turns adoring them as angels and reviling them as whores. Discuss Keats’s attitude to women in at least three poems in light of this opinion. Keats once wrote in a letter to Fanny Brawne “You have ravish ’d me away by a Power I cannot resist: and yet I could resist till I saw you; and even since I have seen you I have endeavoured often ‘to reason against the reasons of my Love’- I can do that no more”. The quote‚ from John Ford’s
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Langston Hughes’s‚ “Early Autumn‚” is an example of something that can happen in everyday life. The conflict in this story shows how one decision can result in a time of sadness. I believe the author uses the end of fall and the beginning of winter to show just how cold and empty the relationship is between the characters. It could represent that there was nothing to say‚ in the story it seemed like she was happier to see him than he was or maybe he was in shock. “The leaves fell slowly from
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Reflects The Cycles of Life To Keats‚ nature was the playground for the five senses. By leaving the urban life in London and going out into nature‚ Keats was able to fully live in the moment and enjoy the sensuality of nature. Nature balanced the scales of Keats’ life by providing solitude‚ inspiration and beauty in contrast to his urban world that was the backbone of his social life. In addition‚ nature mirrored the natural cycles of human life in Keats’ work. Keats’ relationship to nature was
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it can entrench itself into the folds of history as truly immortal. Two Romantic poems that engage wonderfully with these themes are Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias” and John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”. Although they take opposite approaches--Shelley uses “Ozymandias” to express the mutability of life‚ while Keats uses the Urn to show that art can be timeless--both poems revolve around an object struggling against the passing of time. Both “Ozymandias” and “Ode on a Grecian urn” exemplify the
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A Year Without Autumn by Liz Kessler is about a 12 year old girl named Jenni Green who goes on a family vacation with her best friend’s family. In this book‚ young Jenni Green learns a valuable lesson about being careful for what she wishes for‚ because once you get it it may not be as expected. In A Year Without Autumn Jenni faces the problem of her best friend‚ Autumn going into depression and tries to get her out of it. It all started when Jenni and Autumn decided to do a activity together at
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Chau Tran Instructor Jordan English 107 25 september 2013 Mid-Autumn Festival Lantern Mid-Autumn (Moon Festival) is celebrated in Vietnam as a traditional festival in which most of young children take part in‚ that is why it is also known as Children’s Festival- need to separate into 2 sentences or use difference structure such as:: mid autumn(moon) festival is one of the traditional festival in vietnam and it is also known as children’s festival‚ because … . This is one of the most popular
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turns into a cold and rainy day in my hometown of Autumn Burrow. Damp and mellow was what my town felt like today. Autumn Burrow’s the place where everyone works day and night‚ and urban myths and rumors of weird encounters with weird creatures. Such as vagabonds‚ shadows‚ or any other type of phenomena. I never have actually seen a ghost roaming around town‚ but it would be a weird experience if I ever saw one. Today‚ I plan to make a trip to Autumn Burrow’s deep forest to find even more mysterious
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Analyze how Hughes develops the theme that it is urgently important for people to "take time out" to communicate with one another The beginning of the story "Early Autumn" Hughes demonstrates that communication is very important‚ without it can forever change lives. How do two people in love‚ spend so much time together talking let something not very important forever stain their lives. Mary and Bill needed to "take time out" and communicate. After several years in a chance meeting in the park
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