AS2 Assignment 1 Compare the poems Remember and Funeral Blues on the their poetic form‚ structure and language In this assignment I will be comparing the poems Remember by Christina Rossetti and the poem Funeral blues by WH Auden. I will show some intensive points of comparison in the form‚ structure and language used and how both poems deal with love‚ tranquillity‚ peace and death. Both poems are about the feelings of love and death. There is a universal feeling between love and death‚ as
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INDONESIAN BASIC EDUCATION CURRICULUM CURRENT CONTENT AND REFORM* Agus Dharma‚ PhD Board Member from Indonesia Background 1. The vision of Indonesian education is the realization of educational system as a solid and authoritative social institution to empower Indonesian citizen to become intelligent persons that are able and proactive to stand facing the ever changing challenges of the era. They are bright (spiritually‚ emotionally‚ socially‚ intellectually‚ and kinesthetically) and
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Response to Literature Poem Analysis Writing Guidelines Subject: Poem Form: Analysis Purpose: To explore meaning Audience: Instructor Sample Poem Read the poem below and think about its content‚ theme‚ organization‚ and use of poetic techniques. Then read student writer Stefano Giagregorio’s analysis. I AM THE PEOPLE‚ THE MOB By Carl Sandburg I AM the people--the mob--the crowd--the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me? I am the workingman‚
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------------------------------------------------- Example: ------------------------------------------------- Discuss how the theme of ‘childhood’ or ‘war’ is expressed in two of the works you have studied. (You might discuss the theme of childhood in a poem and a novel you have studied this year) 1. Think about important themes that appear in each of the texts that you have studied this year. 2. Consider significant characters and their role in the texts you have
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achieved great things eventually drift away. But what if soon after their peak of glory they die. Would the memory of them and their glory live on longer? In the lryic poem "To an Athlete Dying Young" by A.E. Houseman the narrator shows how dying young and at the peak of your glory is better then living to be forgotten. The setting of the poem is in a town and cemetery in nineteenth-century England during the funeral and burial of a young athlete‚ a runner. The first stanza explains the victory of a boy
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In the introduction to one of his many books‚ John Bowlby quotes Graham Greene; ‘Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term may just as well be thirteen years.’ It is quite clear that John’s childhood was not a happy one. He experienced many years of separation from family and it can be connected as to why he developed the theory of attachment. Edward John Mostyn Bowlby‚ known as John Bowlby‚ was born in 1907 in London as
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Romanticism refers to a period in literature during which authors were concerned more with the individual than with society. There was a focus on individual consciousness and the imagination. This focus on the individual lead to the exploration of each man’s own destiny. During this period‚ a popular literary archetype was the Byronic Hero. This kind of hero was charismatic‚ intelligent and interested more in the game than in the resulting love or social connection. Mihail Lermontov wrote the novella
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Foreshadowing the Death of Fortunato The use of foreshadowing in “The Cask of Amontillado” entices readers and increases the tension of the gothic piece. In the short story by Edgar Allen Poe‚ there are numerous examples of foreshadowing that lead to the death of Fortunato. In the beginning of the piece‚ Poe wrote‚ “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could‚ but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge” (Poe 1). The sentence implies that the main character‚ Montresor‚ is
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Edgar Allen Poe was a foster child‚ his mom died in 1811 when he was not yet three. Poe’s dad had left the family. Edgar Poe married his cousin Virginia. Poe lost most of his loved ones to Tuberculosis. He was renowned with the community when he swam against the current for miles. Poe died unexpectedly at the young age of forty. Some believe that he died of Alcoholism‚ others believe it was rabies. I believe Edgar died of alcoholism because Poe had drunk all throughout his age and alcohol will wear
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Edgar Allan Poe was an author who wrote of gruesome‚ horrific things. Born in 1809‚ Poe was left early in life by his father‚ and soon after his mother passed away leaving him orphaned. After his unfortunate start in life‚ he was taken in by John and Virginia Allan who were quite wealthy due to their tobacco company. From an early age‚ Poe was an exceptional poet‚ but was not supported by his family. Money became an issue‚ which drove Poe away from the Allan’s‚ who left him with nothing after his
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