Isabella Martin Courtney Medel English F December 10‚ 2012 Midterm Essay What happens when you realize that turning a year older doesn’t mean to have achieved one more year of life‚ instead being one year closer to death? Uncertainty and fear will take hold of you and this is all due to time. Time has the power to give us joy‚ but it also has the power to give us mourn and sadness. William Shakespeare portrayed the idea of time being destructive in many of his sonnets. In the following essay
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The best way to tackle Sonnet 18 is by breaking up the Quatrains and the Couplet. The first thing to look at is the opening stanza: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May‚ And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: The first thing to note is line one. It is a prompt. Looking at the sonnets in a bigger picture it is comprised into two sentences. Shakespeare asks us‚ and more reasonably‚ himself‚ if he shall
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Desert Places Snow falling and night falling fast‚ oh‚ fast In a field I looked into going past‚ And the ground almost covered smooth in snow‚ But a few weeds and stubble showing last. The woods around it have it--it is theirs. All animals are smothered in their lairs. I am too absent-spirited to count; The loneliness includes me unawares. And lonely as it is that loneliness Will be more lonely ere it will be less-- A blanker whiteness of benighted snow With no expression‚ nothing
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Emily Dickinson’s poem “I like to see it lap the Miles”‚ is greatly comparable to Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “Manner”s “I like to see it lap the Miles” is about a train that is moving along a track in the mountains‚ while “Manners” is about a grandfather teaching his grandchild about manners while driving a wagon. Within both of the poems there is a theme of new technology‚ however the authors describe this theme from contrasting perspectives‚ with Bishop being more hopeful of the future than the fearful
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In the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot‚ I found it easy to relate to the author’s feelings of inadequacy. The narrator was constantly bringing up other famous artists and comparing himself to them‚ only to inevitably fall short of his own expectations. Eliot exemplified it best through the repeated line “In the room the women come and go/ Talking of Michelangelo”. The narrator brings up the famous and very talented artist Michelangelo‚ who is still talked about by the women
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“Larkin is a pessimistic rather than optimistic poet” – Discuss Larkin has been regarded as a pessimistic poet. Larkin surely takes a very dark view of human life. The main emphasis in his poem is on failure and frustration in human life. However Larkin is not a uniformly pessimistic poet. Some of his poems have a profoundly moral character‚ which expresses itself in the need to control and organize life‚ rather than submit to a pre-determined pattern of failure. There is generally a debate going
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Bernie Madoff’s $50 Billion Ponzi Scheme Who is Bernie Madoff The Madoff investment scandal is the Ponzi scheme that former NASDAQ chairman Bernard Madoff confessed to in 2008. On March 12‚ 2009‚ Madoff pled guilty to 11 federal crimes and admitted to operating what has been called the largest investor fraud ever committed by an individual. On June 29‚ 2009‚ he was sentenced to 150 years in prison with restitution of $170 billion. According to the original federal charges‚ Madoff said that his
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The City Planners‚ Margaret Atwood In this poem‚ the poet attacks the sterile uniformity of residential suburbs. Notice that she never mentions people. ‘What offends us is the sanities’ Sanity is defined as being reasonable and of sound mind; she is referring to ‘pedantic houses’‚ sanitary trees’ and things that she considers to be overly controlled or constructed. She does not approve. In stanza 2‚ she lists ‘certain things’ that give momentary access to the landscape…’ The images
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This poem uses the deterioration of an Edenic garden to represent the corrupting effect of organised religion upon our internal state of being. Blake’s ’The Garden of Love’ functions as a criticism upon organised religion‚ poignantly reflecting on its capacity to replace humanity’s innocent joys with rules and empty routines. Stanza 1 The name ’Garden of Love’ almost appears hackneyed through its traditional‚ Edenic connotations. It is a representation of innocence‚ with green‚ open spaces often
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The writer aims to describe to the reader the nature of love through what love is not‚ and uses techniques such as repetition and allusions. In the opening lines of the sonnet‚ the persona bids the reader to “Let me not to the marriage of true minds/ Admit impediments.” It is inevitable that we make a connection to the Episcopal Book‚ where it is stated‚ “…if either of you do know any impediment why you may not be lawfully joined together in marriage‚ that ye confess it.” While it is important to
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