8 November 2013 Close Reading: Heart of Darkness Imagine being stuck on a steamboat outnumbered by the other‚ who happen to be starving‚ unable to advance through the unnerving scream filled fog. This enigmatic experience is only one of many told by Marlow in the story of his journey up the Congo. Marlow is attentive to the restraint shown by the black slaves on his boat in fighting off the hunger that weakens them. The colleagues of Marlow are more concerned with the anonymous screams of
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Nastasia Schreiner Megan Fernandes ENGL 234: Poetry February 4th‚ 2015 Close Reading of One Art by Elizabeth Bishop In Elizabeth Bishop’s poem‚ “One Art”‚ the speaker uses repetition to stress the change of her feelings about loss after she loses someone she really cares about‚ creates symbolism through material objects to show increasingly greater loss throughout her life‚ and uses a satirical tone and voice to portray her struggle managing loss. In Bishop’s villanelle‚ she follows the traditional
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A Close-Reading of DAFFODILS ’ By William Wordsworth The poem Daffodils ’ by William Wordsworth reflects the inherent connection between man and nature‚ which is so commonly found in his poetry; for example‚ in Tintern Abbey ’‚ and The Two-Part Prelude ’. In my essay I am going to explore and analyse the variety of figurative devices Wordsworth uses to communicate this idea‚ and the poetic motives behind his writing. Daffodils ’ is essentially a lyric poem which is expressive
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A sonnet is a form of lyric poetry with fourteen lines and a specific rhyme scheme. (Lyric poetry presents the deep feelings and emotions of the poet as opposed to poetry that tells a story or presents a witty observation.) The meter of Shakespeare’s sonnets is iambic pentameter (except in Sonnet 145). The only exceptions are Sonnets 99‚ 126‚ and 145. Number 99 has fifteen lines. Number 126 consists of six couplets‚ and two blank lines marked with italic brackets; 145 is in iambic tetrameters‚
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Elijah Brown Study of Lit Eng 213 Close Reading on The Story of An Hour In the short story‚ “The Story of An Hour” written by Kate Chopin‚ Mrs. Mallard the main character‚ finds out that her husband has been killed on a train accident. However‚ the narrator tells us that Mrs. Mallord has heart trouble. Mrs. Mallard then leaves her sister Josephine and Richard to get privacy in her bedroom. Why it is that Mrs. Mallard began to feel free the more she came to her senses that her husband was no
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Close Reading on The Sun Also Rises This passage I choose is a dialogue between Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley in the final chapter of Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises(1926). ). It happens after Brett sent Romero away‚ and asked for Jake’s support through telegrams. Jake hurried to the Madrid hotel where Brett stayed‚ and they had a seven-page- long conversation. This piece of dialogue is pretty much the end of their conversation as well as the end of the novel. In this dialogue‚ Brett is telling
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Close Reading Analysis: The Handmaid’s Tale Often times when one reads a piece of literary work‚ the way that its’ themes and storyline are interpreted is truly dependant upon the reader’s individual beliefs and morals. The same passage from a novel or poem can be seen in completely opposite perspectives from two different readers‚ despite the fact that they contain the same literary text. By definition‚ this is what close reading is. It is taking a passage (or passages) from a work of literature
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creates an atmosphere of eeriness and evil. The imagery causes the reader to feel as if they are actually inside the story and on the boat. They can actually feel the darkness “pressing into them”‚ just as the author has written. For example‚ by reading the phrases put in the story‚ I can suddenly feel a cold chill and imagine the sound of animals and the sea at night. The Caribbean is also well known for its mysteries‚ and by having the second phrase the author can insert more fear and curiosity
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sands of the vast desert. Also‚ when he said that everyone should be afraid of him because of his might as shown by his works‚ now‚ in the time wherein the poem is present‚ no one fears him‚ and worse‚ no one minds him and his memory. This poem and Sonnet 55 talks about one central idea: the mortality or limited time statues or monuments‚ which represented the honor and memory of royalty or important people‚ would exist in this world. In the poem Ozymandias‚ it talks about a king who had his own image
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My current‚ and so far only thesis for Shakespeare’s Sonnet 53‚ and entirety of the sonnets in general is that he wrote the sonnets in such a fashion that he created a unique work that embodies both a subjective-objective goal‚ as the objective of the story seems to be shrouded in ambiguity so much so that even it is lost in the subjective hurricane of theories and emotions‚ that generate a turbulence among those who read and study the pieces‚ so much so‚ that one page containing no more than fourteen
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