“unsinkable‚” typifying the vanity she was associated with‚ and the captain that led the Titanic was rumored to have ordered the propellers travel at a faster speed despite numerous warnings of the danger of a crash. In the second stanza‚ the once lively “salamandrine fires” of the Titanic are contrasted with the now cold‚ “steel chambers” of the sunken ship. Moreover‚ this can be viewed as a comparison between death (cold) and life (warm fire). In the last line of the stanza‚ Hardy describes
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What I Have Lived for ---Bertrand Russell Three passions‚ simple but overwhelmingly strong‚ have governed my life: the longing for love‚ the search for knowledge‚ and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions‚ like great winds‚ have blown me hither and thither‚ in a wayward course‚ over a deep ocean of anguish‚ reaching to the verge of despair. I have sought love‚ first‚ because it brings ecstasy --- ecstasy so great that I would have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few
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‘Where I lived and What I Lived For’ – Henry David Thoreau Many of Henry D. Thoreau’s ideas are clearly seen in his piece of writing ‘Where I Lived and What I Lived For’. Through his work‚ not only do we learn about his experience in the woods at Walden Pond‚ but also about his values and the way he sees life‚ which he shares with his readers all throughout the chapter. In my opinion‚ of the most significant topics this chapter deals with is ‘the beauty of nature’. As said by Thoreau‚ "The morning
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describes sexuality in African Americans based on the movie “She gotta have it”. The author illustrates an African American female named Nola‚ who is sexually attractive and a dependent young lady. She had three lovers and did not know who to choose among the three of them as husband. She had difficulty in choosing one of them‚ so she decided not to get married‚ but rather have an affair with all of the three men at the same time. All the men she was dating knew they had one sex partner which is Nola.
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violence and moral hypocrisy as themes in many of his poems. Browning‚ like Charles Dickens‚ filled his literary works with people from all levels of society and he also included characters that were immoral and evil. According to The Literature Network‚ “Robert Browning’s dramatic monologues covered a wide array of subjects‚ from lucid dreams to the nature of art and even the meaning of existence.” His poems “Porphyria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess‚” are similar in that they both include murderers
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Period 1 “Faith is Lost in the Night” The horrible accounts of the holocaust are vividly captured by Elie Wiesel in Night‚ an award winning work by a Holocaust survivor. It describes his time in the Holocaust and helps the reader fully understand the pain he went through. In the text‚ Elie continuously mentions how he is losing his faith to god. It is evident that he has nearly‚ if not completely lost his faith during the events of the holocaust. In the memoir‚ Night‚ Elie Wiesel’s faith changes
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says What the text means Rhetorical Devices I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately‚ to front only the essential facts of life‚ and see if I could not learn what it had to teach‚ and not‚ when I came to die‚ discover that I had not lived. Thoreau wanted to get the most from his life by determining what was really important. In this quote Thoreau uses the rhetorical device‚ aphorism: a pithy observation that contains a general truth‚ such as‚ “if it ain’t broke‚ don’t fix it.” He
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Shaista Khalid “POEM ANALYSIS” Life leads us to excessive wishes that often result in a man’s downfall. Sir Philip Sidney in “Thou Blind Man’s Mark” portrays his hypocrisy towards desire and shows how it influenced to their downfall and destruction. In his sonnet‚ Sidney uses metaphor‚ alliteration and repetition to convey his feelings for desire. Throughout “Thou Blind Man’s Mark” Sidney uses metaphors that clearly illustrates the effects of desire on ones life. He begins with the
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expressive purpose is to explain to the Count’s servant why he‚ the Duke‚ doesn’t have a Duchess anymore. The first line of the poem‚ “That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall‚ looking as if she were alive‚” hints of the last Duchess’s death and the rest of the poem elaborates on the complete story of the last Duchess. Throughout the poem‚ we discover that the main reason for the last Duchess’s disappearance was because the Duke felt threatened by her friendly nature towards everything‚ especially towards
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Samantha Brenton ENC1102 Steinke In the poem “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Goodnight” author Dylan Thomas writes about how people should not so willingly accept the inevitability of death but rather rage and fight against it. The poem was written for Thomas’s dying father and shows how anguished Thomas is at his fathers acceptance of death. Thomas seems to think that it is not honorable or befitting for a great or interesting man to die quietly in old age. In the poem nighttime is used as a metaphor for
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