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    Shakespeare’s Sonnets In this essay I will describe the themes of Shakespeare’s sonnets‚ the structure and the imagery in the sonnets. The main themes of the sonnets are love‚ beauty‚ mutability and death. The sonnets are almost all constructed from three four-line stanzas and a final couplet composed in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg‚ this is the structure of most of his sonnets and I will describe the effect of the structure in his sonnets. I will also write about

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    different points of views. In the close reading of a particular excerpt‚ it shows the relationship of a husband‚ a WW I veteran‚ and his wife. The text can be found on page 23 of the novel. “For she could no longer stand it. Dr. Holmes might say there was nothing the matter…It was she who suffered – but she had nobody to tell.” This short paragraph tells a world about how Rezia‚ the wife of Septimus‚ is feeling about her husband and their marriage. This close reading will bring out the meaning of

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    In Sonnet 12‚ Shakespeare uses contrasting imagery‚ ambiguous diction‚ and distinct alliteration in order to emphasize the decay of beauty and to convey the urgency of procreation. Firstly‚ Shakespeare creates contrasting images in Sonnet 12 that draws attention towards how easily beauty is lost to the world. Shakespeare‚ instead of highlighting the beauty and strength of nature‚ laments about how nature is wasting away. Early in the sonnet‚ tgohe speaker “[beholds] the violet past prime” (3).

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    Invictus Close Reading The poem Invictus by William Hernest Henley is a quite unusual poem that tells the story of a man trying to overcome and survive when faced with a difficult situation. It starts off with him saying that the “night” covers him‚ which in my opinion refers to suffering and darkness of some sort. This first line plays into the second line because it states darkness again‚ which I believe is talking about a literal hell on earth the way it is worded and it even mentions the north

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    Close Reading: Culture is Ordinary by Raymond Williams The article by Raymond Williams is an attempt to describe and analyse the changing dynamics of culture through its constant shifts in meaning. He begins his essay with a brief account of a visit to his childhood home in Wales‚ in a few words describing his own personal history. From his anecdote‚ Williams delves into his main argument‚ that Culture is ordinary‚ breaking this idea into two parts‚ “the known meanings and directions‚ which its

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    Close Reading of “The Raven” “The Raven” was written by Edgar Allan Poe and originally published in January 1845. It is a narrative poem about a man sitting in his room and falling asleep while reading‚ wanting to forget his lost love named Lenore. All of a sudden his attention is grabbed by a knock at his door. He goes to open the door only to find there is no one there. Then‚ there is a knock at his window. This time a raven swoops into the man’s room. This raven first interests the man‚ but then

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    and contrast the following poems. A distinctive difference in the poems would be that Sonnet 81 is a blazon poem whereas Sonnet 130 is an anti-blazon poem. Both poems revolve around the theme of love‚ describing the woman and their feeling towards them‚ however the former picks out the woman’s admirable physical traits whereas the latter criticizes. Both the Spenserian sonnet and the Shakespearean sonnet presents the theme of love and woman‚ where both authors are absolutely in love with their

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    Sonnet 138

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    order for a poem to be classified as a sonnet‚ it must meet certain structural requirements‚ and Sonnet 138‚ "When my love swears that she is made of truth‚" is a perfect example. Shakespeare employs the traditional rhyme scheme of the English sonnet‚ the poem is made up of three quatrains and a rhyming couplet‚ and iambic pentameter is the predominant meter. However‚ it would be an error to approach this poem as a traditional Shakespearean love sonnet. It is a ‘love’ poem in the sense that

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    Xin Xiong‚ Jury Sabine von Mering Critical Reading‚ July 26‚ 2014 Civil Disobedience Martin Luther King writes “Letter from Birmingham Jail” in response to a letter from eight clergymen who argued against King’s acts of civil disobedience. In this letter‚ the author writes that “Actually time is neutral. It can be used either destructively or constructively” (724). This sentence indicates that time can be used to promote further development or cause more damages

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    speak about love through the use of poems. Some poems tell a story; some illustrate what love should or shouldn’t be; some poems express the separation of two loved ones. There is no limit to explaining what love really is. The poems ‘Sonnet 116’ by William Shakespeare and ‘Valentine’ by Carol Ann Duffy both try

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