She Stoops to Conquer Tom Davis’s introduction to Oliver Goldsmith’s play (E. Benn / Norton‚ 1979) The Author Oliver Goldsmith was born an Irishman‚ the second son of a not very affluent clergyman‚ probably in the village of Pallas‚ County Westmeath‚ probably in 1730. Soon afterwards the family moved to the village of Lissoy‚ one of the candidates for the role of Auburn in Goldmith’s famous pastoral The Deserted Village. The intensity of the longing for the idealized village of the poem is
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Murder... mystery... intrigue... All describe Robert Browning’s poem‚ "My Last Duchess." From the speakers’s indirect allusions to the death of his wife the reader might easily think that the speaker committed a vengeful crime out of jealousy. His flowery speech confuses and disguises any possible motives‚ however‚ and the mystery is left unsolved. Based on the poem’s style‚ structure‚ and historical references‚ it becomes evident that even if the speaker did not directly kill his
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Starry Night) is a song written by Don Mclean. Don McClean‚ “Donald‚” III is an American singer-songwriter. He is best known for his 1971 album American Pie. American Pie is best known for McClean’s two hits “American Pie‚” and “Vincent.” “I was sitting on the veranda one morning‚ reading a biography of Van Gogh‚ and suddenly I knew I had to write a song arguing that he wasn’t crazy. So I sat down with a print of Starry Night and wrote the lyrics out on a paper bag.” (Brown) Starry‚ Starry Night is a
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Analysis by N. Mohsin Autobiography‚ by Louis MacNeice In my childhood trees were green And there was plenty to be seen. Come back early or never come. My father made the walls resound‚ He wore his collar the wrong way round. Come back early or never come. My mother wore a yellow dress; Gentle‚ gently‚ gentleness. Come back early or never come. When I was five the black dreams came; Nothing after was quite the same. Come back early or never come. The dark was talking
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of how or why leaving people like artists to try to make reason of it. The poems “Thanatopsis” by Bryant‚ “Don’t Fear the Reaper” by Blue Oyster Cult‚ and “Dust in the Wind” by Kansas are three poems which speak of death; however they all have different purposes. They each explain and describe death with different points of views. Although all of the poems had different purposes‚ they also had similarities. The three poems are all about the topic of death and how scenarios may differ for different
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Acting Critiques of What of the Night? In the play “What of the Night?”‚ I found the character Rainbow and Ray most compelling. The character Rainbow was played by Mo Rodvanich. Rainbow grew up poor somewhere in the Southwest‚ and finally made it to an Eastern city when she grew older in 1958. In scene two‚ she met her lover who was sick and required medicine to get better. Being poor that she was‚ Rainbow had to steal to afford the price of the medicine. Rainbow risked being caught and proceeded
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Daffodils Essay In the poem Daffodils‚ by William Wordsworth‚ Wordsworth explains how nature’s beauty can positively impact our lives and emotions. Wordsworth believed that all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of emotion. In this poem‚ he uses an array of different figurative language to show nature’s positive effect. He uses figurative language such as simile‚ personification‚ and hyperbole. Not only does he use figurative language‚ but he uses selective examples of rhythm. In a rhythmic
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Introduction The narrator of the poem “To be of use” is inspired by people who he states “Jump into work head first without dallying in the shadows and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.” The narrator who is never given a name in the poem is talking about how he loves people who work hard‚ give it their all‚ and have a passion for what they do. The poem also talks about how these people not only have a strong motivation to work‚ but they also feel connected to the task they are completing
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woodspurge flowered‚ three cups in one. From perfect grief there need not be Wisdom or even memory; One thing then learnt remains to me – The woodspurge has a cup of three. Illustration This poem took place in hill where the trees are shaken out by the wind and a field of grass where the man in this poet saw woodspurge as one of the ten weeds and grieving for his problem all day along as the wind blown. The poet described a visual imagery by
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In the poem “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas‚ expresses his thoughts on how old dying men should not give up and just accept their fate of death. Instead he persists that they fight back and “rage‚ rage against the dying of the light”(line 1). He wants them to put up a struggle and not just simply roll over and take what is given to them. This poem meant a lot to me as I have a dying grandfather and Thomas has a dying father so I understand where his emotions are coming from
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