of life’ were becoming progressively more sought after‚ yet paradoxically city life was not always successful. The countryside however‚ appears as an environment where although lacking in prosperity and eminence‚ its inhabitants are overall happier. This concept is particularly prevalent in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations and Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd which portray the hardships of working life in the city and the countryside. The predominant message attained from both novels is
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(Mahabharata Vana 28.31) The above verse from the Mahabharata may be translated in English to mean the following: The soft destroys the hard‚ and the soft destroys what is not hard. Nothing is impossible to softness and therefore softness is the hardest. In essence‚ the verse means that aggression or cruelty can be conquered by softness‚ meekness or politeness. Also‚ if we are polite and meek‚ nothing is impossible to achieve. Thus‚ the verse aims to suggest that we can win over hatred
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Protagoras‚ an Ancient Greek sophist‚ was a self-proclaimed teacher of virtue. In ancient Greek times the term ‘sophist’ described men who claimed the ability to teach the art of politics‚ and the art of being a good citizen. In his conversation with Socrates‚ Protagoras claimed to have an ability to teach sound deliberation - to better manage one’s household and public affairs. According to Socrates‚ Protagoras was a teacher of the art of citizenship. The art of citizenship involved sound deliberation
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Teds Hughes and mark doty poems are written in animals point of view ‚ Showing each unique animal character and their point of view about this world from their perspective. The poet uses literary devices in their poems using tones‚ personification ‚ and visual imagery to evoke the reader’s emotions and to make the poems more comprehensible. In this two poems the poets made a unique quality of personifying the hawk and the dog because they cannot articulate their thoughts and emotions into
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EXPLICATING A POEM [pic]In order to explicate or give a detailed literary analysis of a poem‚ it is useful to ask the following questions. You do not necessarily have to follow this order. 1. What is the literal sense of the poem? • Can it be broken down into sentences? • What is the meaning of each sentence? • How could the poem be paraphrased: restated in prose form? • In what ways is the poem different from a prose paraphrase? 2. What is the diction of
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In reading the Book of Deuteronomy‚ specifically‚ chapter 5 verses 6-21 which contains the second giving of the Laws to Moses known as the Ten Commandments‚ one could say that the some of the commandments could be interpreted to be verses that draw an inference to prosperity. Verse 14‚ teaches that we are to keep the Sabbath holy and rest “But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work‚ thou‚ nor thy son‚ nor thy daughter‚ nor thy manservant‚ nor thy maidservant
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Explication of EE Cummings “[i carry your heart with me (i carry it in]” To better understand this very romantic poem‚ “[i carry your heart with me (i carry it in]‚ we must first understand that Edward Estlin Cummings was an avant-garde‚ which can be defined as an intelligentsia that develops new or experimental concepts especially in the arts (Merriam-Webster). Punctuation and lowercase type are used in a way that ’s visually appealing‚ while also highlighting the poem ’s theme of unity. Cummings
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inheritors of this excess‚ Eat up thy charge? is this thy body’s end? Then soul‚ live thou upon thy servant’s loss‚ And let that pine to aggravate thy store; Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross; Within be fed‚ without be rich no more. So shalt thou feed on death‚ that feeds on men‚ And death once dead‚ there’s no more dying then. Sonnet 146‚ as in all Shakespearean sonnets‚ exemplifies the importance of poem structure. Following the rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG‚ this English
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thoughts‚ concern‚ and emotions of her life by writing in the form of poems. Her poems consisted of settlement‚ family‚ home life‚ surroundings‚ nature‚ role of women and religious belief. She believed that anything that caused pain to her was by Gods will. Her poems talk about the people close to her life. Anne Bradstreet’s poems convey a personal feeling about her life and believable to the reader. For example‚ in her poem “Verses upon the Burning of our House” her house had burnt down and she does
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Taken Up is a poem that could illustrate two possible scenarios. This poem can be interpreted as viewing a group of people waiting on‚ meeting‚ and leaving with extraterrestrial beings. It could also be a personified colony of aspen trees that are awaiting the sun on a spring day. It is written in free verse that does not have a specific amount of syllables per line. The poem consists of seven terza rima rhyming verse stanzas‚ which displays the authors control over the free verse form. These stanzas
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