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    True love is an unconditional and a selfless emotion. Love can produce unexplainable behaviour in most individuals. Love is a very powerful emotion that can be seen in many forms of literature and music. Love can drive a person to do anything in order to either protect or please the other person. In the famous series Harry Potter by JK Rowling there are many examples where love causes the characters to do inexplicable actions. Professor Severus Snape is a victim who cannot control his actions due

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    to choose fools over knaves.” Discuss In King Lear virtually every character is either a fool or a knave; however these terms contain multiple layers. The crucial scene in which this idea is presented in the play is act 2 scene 4 when the Fool talks to Kent after he has been put in the stocks‚ and more specifically his line “The knave turns fool that runs away;/ The fool no knave‚ perdy.” On one level the Fool is mocking Kent for his loyalty towards Lear despite the fact that Lear’s fortunes have

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    Alondra Elizarraras English IV AP/DC – period 7 Ms. Stokes October 6‚ 2013 Woolf: Shakespeare’s Sister “Shakespeare’s Sister” by Virginia Woolf describes a story about Shakespeare’s sister and how being a woman she would have been treated and what types of opportunities she would have had compared to men. What kind of life would she have? What kind of education would she be given? Would she be a playwright like her brother with the same kind of talent? During the time of Shakespeare‚ his

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    an integral factor of literature; sometimes‚ certain political events inspire poets and authors to cleverly voice their opinions regarding the event in ways that require much ambiguity and analysis to completely understand the author’s intentions. Poetic protest is best shown with careful choice of word‚ punctuation‚ and capitalization. The first example of political protest in poetry can be seen in “Buffalo Bills” by E. E. Cummings. Cummings dislikes the fame that Buffalo Bill received from his pointless

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    itself which is untouchable for once it is touched it is destroyed. But as translation of poetry has never been stagnant though sometimes vigorous and sometimes not‚ there is strong evidence in both translation history and present day practice that poetic translation‚ a literary form as distinguished from fiction‚ drama‚ and prose‚ is translatable. Poetry itself serves a purpose‚ be it an illusive matter‚ and aesthetics can be reproduced in another language and

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    Poetic Elements in Sande¿ak¡vyas Introduction Sanskrit is the vast and rich treasure house of various branches of knowledge. It has produced magnificent and sublime poetry since time immemorial. Ancient Indian thinkers thought a lot on the various aspects of poetry from different angles and consequently criticism of poetry developed here. New views emerged‚ several literary principles were explored and a series of schools of poetics came into existence. Sanskrit poetics is remarkably rich. Inasmuch

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    forth in his work coupled with the repeated tragedies in his life makes me want to believe this essay was satirical in nature and to have a laugh at those too unwitting to realize it. Assuming that the essay is not a hoax‚ what is Poe’s preferred poetic composition? And in what ways does “The Raven” portray this easily fit cookie-cutter format? When Poe wills his writing to take wing it has three perches on which it likes to alight before allowing the winds to keep it aloft. His writing’s first

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    individual words. "It’s raining cats and dogs." Foot: the time period into which the beat of the poetic line is divided. A foot is made up of several syllables‚ some long and some short.   Meter: refers to how the feet are put together to form lines of poetry. The combinations of long and short syllables give poetry a musical feel.   Rhythm: the pattern of long and short syllables in a poetic line. In modern poetry‚ some words receive greater vocal emphasis than others. Lyrics: what poets

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    Aristotle’s Theory of Poetics Research Assignment Aristotle bases his theory of poetics on greek tragedy. He defines tragedy as "the imitation of an action that is serious and also as having magnitude‚ complete in itself." (Melani‚ 2009) He views that‚ "Tragedy is a form of drama exciting the emotions of pity and fear. Its action should be single and complete‚ presenting a reversal of fortune‚ involving persons renowned and of superior attainments‚and it should be written in poetry embellished

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    1. Cite three (3) poetic devices you could analyze in an essay. Provide textual support and discuss how these rhetorical strategies affect meaning. 1a. Three poetic devices that I could analyze in an essay are imagery‚ irony‚ and symbolism. Imagery essentially is when the poet uses such specific language that it creates images in the readers’ heads. These images are what develop a poem to have meaning. For example‚ in John Keats poem "To Autumn‚" he uses imagery when it says "Drows’d with the

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