Beauty and Sadness Literary Background: A Hawaiian of Chinese and Korean ancestry‚ Cathy Song centers her verse on island themes and activities and understated pastoral settings. Her language is Standard English inset with words and phrases from Pacific and Asian sources. She has gained credence for lifting the mundane from homely backgrounds to produce a lyric strangeness offset by teasing and‚ at times‚ startling analogies. The poem “Beauty and Sadness” is one of the poems in Cathy Song’s
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A comparison of structure‚ poetic/language devices and themes between ‘Hour’ and ‘Sonnet 116’ Both ‘Hour’ and ‘Sonnet 116’ were written 500 years apart‚ yet both of these poems explore the significant characteristics of love and time. Both poems explore that time and love does not match. But in ‘Sonnet 116’ love is the dominant figure from time and in ‘Hour’ time is the dominant figure from love. In the poem‚ ‘Hour’‚ Carol Ann Duffy is talking about how one ‘Hour’ of their day can be spent as
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SEMESTER OF ENROLLMENT: Spring 2013 ENGL 216-B01 LUO___ NAME: _________ ID #__ WRITING STYLE USED: APA______________ When you think of an event do you think of the before or after‚ or do you compare them? In Thomas Hardy ’s poem "The Convergence of the Twain: (Lines on the Loss of the Titanic)" he compares the intent of the original areas within the ship purpose to the current location at the bottom of the ocean; in addition to the fate of the ship and the iceberg. The Titanic was known to be the
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A comparison of Donne’s poems John Donne is the name in English literature who gave a new direction to the literary activities of his age. He is in a sense founded the metaphysical lyric‚ which was practiced by a score of writers. He set up a new tradition in versification. By and large Donne must be regarded as an original poet‚ a poet who gave much more than what he borrowed from his age. One of Donne’s poems‚ "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" comes to the same conclusion as seeing the poem
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Silence the Sadness Scott Eyman’s review on the novel A Life Lived Off Balance‚ written by Peter Ackroyd‚ is a look into Edgar Allan Poe’s complex mind and vigorous life. Eyman shares his thoughts through describing Poe’s tortured childhood‚ Poe’s reasoning behind his poems‚ and Poe’s unstable mind. Poe was a tortured misfit whose depression was portrayed through his work. Eyman aspires to depict the circumstances Poe went through‚ and how his brilliant work is as result of an inadequate life
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Owen uses structure to present the loss of innocence of the soldiers in Anthem for Doomed Youth alongside Futility. The poem is presented in a Petrarchan sonnet form‚ which is ironic as their conventional functions are as love poems. However‚ it can be interpreted that this sonnet conveys strong emotions of fear and grief‚ reflecting the love and admiration he had for the soldiers lost. In the first eight lines (octet)‚ the soldier asks a rhetorical question in the present tense. The imitation of
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“Inside Out”‚ Joy ignores Sadness’ help even though they must work together to save Riley. At the start‚ Joy does not work with Sadness and ignores her. In the middle‚ Joy still doesn’t listen to what Sadness has to say. In the end‚ Joy finally realises Sadness’ importance and that they can work together as a unit. Throughout the film‚ Joy disregards Sadness despite the fact that she is necessary to help Riley. At the beginning of the movie‚ Joy does not cooperate with Sadness and pays no attention
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Essay on Sadness What is sadness? Sadness is‚ contrary to popular belief‚ a natural emotion or feeling. People feel sadness whenever they lose something that they previously enjoyed such as someone they loved‚ or something as simple as a stuffed animal. This particular emotion is actually good for you. It offers relief from the pain of the loss and it gives you some measure of the importance of what you’ve lost. In Fahrenheit 451‚ Ray Bradbury strives to create a society that lives in the absence
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Title of poem means A question asking the general who is this person. Paraphrase parts of the Poem I’m irrelevant. Who are you? Are you irrelevant too? Then that makes two of us. Don’t tell anyone. They tell everybody. How sad it is to actually be relevant. How popular they are. Like the sounds of a frog. To talk about someone. The whole year round. To a certain extent. Connotation of some of the words – changing literal meaning to implied or associated values The poem is constituted
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