The Great Rite has its root in an ancient spring festival performed in old days by farmers. The pagan farmers believed that through the ritual of procreation to represent the coming year for agricultural needs. Additionally‚ children that result from the ritual are born in winter giving parents enough time to properly care for the children before having to return to the fields. The Great Rite evokes the union of Goddess and the God. This is not just sexual intercourse. It is an integration of identity
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recedes before us. It eluded us then‚ but that’s no matter — to-morrow we will run faster‚ stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning —— So we beat on‚ boats against the current‚ borne back ceaselessly into the past.” This conclusive passage in
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This passage is important to Romeo and Juliet because it further develops Benvolio and Mercutio’s characters‚ while establishing the dynamic and roles between the three best friends. The scene takes place outside of Capulet’s house‚ moments before they ‘crash’ the party. Romeo questions what to do‚ deciding between causing a scene or dancing for a bit and leaving swiftly. Benvolio is first to give his opinion‚ by suggesting that they ‘have no Cupid hoodwink’d with a scarf’ (1.4.4) and ‘Nor not without-book
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Forster’s novel A Passage to India portrays a colonial India under British rule‚ before its liberation. For convenience’s sake‚ Western civilization has created an Other as counterpart to itself‚ and a set of characteristics to go with it. An "us versus them" attitude is exemplified in Forster’s representation of The Other. Separation of the British and the Indian exists along cultural lines‚ specifically religious/spiritual differences. Savage or ungodly cultures were to be assimilated into or at
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Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring -MUS 337 -Emily Costin In the early 20th century‚ many composers were beginning to not be so pleased with the status quo of what Romanticism had set for them. Composers such as Arnold Schoenberg and Claude Debussy began to experiment with new ways or writing music. They began to experiment with new sounds‚ textures‚ idea’s‚ compositional techniques‚ etc. They‚ as well as other composers‚ reached success
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"The Great Rite" is a sympathetic magick‚ to represent something a lot greater by doing a small thing. It is a portion of a Beltane ritual‚ which celebrates the start of the planting session. It is a celebration of life - most of the time symbolically done by using a chalice (as a symbol for the Goddess) and an athame (as a symbol for the God). But this rite can be performed in a multitude ways by using items which are representative for the God that can be inserted into another item to representate
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POEM ANALYSIS The Vacuum by Howard Nemerov talks about a widower and his late wife‚ and how he uses the vacuum as a symbol for her death. The poem expresses deep sorrow and sadness that derive from the loneliness of the speaker‚ after his other half’s passing away. Nemerov attempts to take his readers on a grief-stricken journey‚ by strategically employing figurative language (mainly personification‚ metaphor‚ simile‚ and alliteration)‚ fractured rhyme schemes and turns in stanza breaks in the
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Meaning and Muddle in the Marabar Caves: A Look at E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India In E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India‚ the Marabar Caves occupy an important part of the plot. The purpose of this deserves exploration considering Forster entitles the entire second part of his novel to them. Are these caves symbolic of an exploration into one’s own subconscious? Could they be a physical representation of freedom from societal constraint? Perhaps they are meant to embody the enigma that India
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the critical analysis‚ “Trauma Theory.” The poems‚ “An Irish Airman Foresees his death”- W.B Yeats and “The Death Bed”- Siegfried Sasson share various qualities and differences. The similar qualities that the poems share includes a complementary theme of war‚ thoughts of a comrade in the war and the thoughts that run through the soldiers mind before death. The differences in the poems are the forms the poems are written in. The comparison of the poems to the critical analysis‚ Trauma theory
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The Politics of Representation in A Passage to India The discussion on A Passage to India as a political fiction has for long been dominated by the followers of a mimetic theory of literature‚ whose quest for empiricism tied to didacticism is achieved when they find the narrative content to be an authentic portrayal of India and a humanist critique of British-Indian relations during the last decades of the Empire. Since the accession of critical methods concerned with representation as an ideological
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