Advice to a Discarded Lover by Fleur Adcock explores both pity and revulsion‚ through the use of figurative imagery; a dead bird‚ maggots and the remaining bones. They are an analogy of the dead affair. With the use of figurative language the images are seen‚ smelled and heard. An authoritative voice is created to advise and command attention‚ through the use of instructive language throughout the six stanzas. Personification‚ analogy‚ rhetorical question and the way a word sounds‚ are also used
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levels of the happy brain chemical‚ serotonin – which is just what you need when you’re feeling stressed out or down in the dumps. However‚ there are other remedies that will do the job effectively without the unpleasant side effects that come from ‘comfort carbs’. Cravings are rarely down to hunger! They could be the result of emotional needs from
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Duchess and Porphyria’s lover‚ as well as Elizabeth Bowen’s Demon lover‚ the protagonists embark upon the hero’s quest in order to resolve their internal conflict towards being the cause or victim of obsessive and overwhelming emotions. The first stage is the call to adventure where the hero‚ in their everyday normal life‚ receives a calling‚ either metaphorical or literal‚ where he or she has to answer to conflict. In The Demon Lover‚ the protagonist‚
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The “Color Purple” and “Porphyria’s Lover”‚ a poem by Robert Browning‚ are very thematically similar. Both have very closely related but different examples to show the effects and the power of possession. The first example of possession in “Color Purple” is exposed in the relationship between Celie and the man she had grown up calling her “pa”. This man had treated Celie as one of his animals‚ acting as if he had owned her. After spending years of forcing Celie to do many of his duties‚ Pa (otherwise
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Country Lovers by: Nadine Gordimer By: Donna Mixon Eng 125: Introduction to Literature Instructor: James Lange 8/25/2014 “Country Lovers” by Nadine Gordimer (1975) is about forbidden inter-racial love between a rich white farm owner ’s son (Paulus) and a poor‚ young black slave girl (Thebedi) who works on the farm. The story is set on a South African Farm and we follow these two children as they grow into a young man and young woman. The main theme of the story is
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are at the heart of every text” In your view‚ what distinctive ideas are explored in your prescribed text? Analyse how these ideas are developed throughout the text by examining the ideas‚ form and language used in the text. The Piper’s Son The Piper’s Son by Melina Marchetta explores a variety of issues‚ themes and ideas. Grief‚ closure and development of the individual are all key issues in the novel. Marchetta engages the reader in the development of these issues via key events and relationships
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Literature 151 Professor John Joseph McCann Pride‚ a quality or a flaw? Pride has raised some into great happiness‚ but has also sunk others in failure and despair. In the novel “Fathers and Sons” by Ivan Turgenev‚ is indeed pride that makes the conflict arise. Where a Nihilistic graduate is exposed to a traditional but constantly changing alien society he is not willing to accept. Bazarov discovers that his pride was his biggest determination‚ as well as his biggest obstacle. Ultimately he
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and "Mother to Son" are both poems that addresses that the central idea is a life lesson. Both writings are similar because‚ they both have a similar central idea. Both authors convey this idea there are similarities and differences. Although‚ the poems have the same idea‚ there are similarities and differences. The poems come across life edvice. "If" and "Mother to Son" are similar in a way because‚ they are both about teaching a life lesson. In both poems it about teaching their sons about life and
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hope of what was laying up ahead. Therefore‚ in Langston Hughes‚ “ Mother to Son” the mother explains to her son that he should be optimistic‚ which leads to the major theme of‚ no matter how hard the obstacles‚ keep on going. When the mother is talking to her son she explains to him that life isn’t easy and that he should be prepared for the obstacles up ahead. For example‚ it is stated that the mother tells her son that‚ “Don’t you fall now-” “For I’se still goin’‚ honey” (17-18). This demonstrates
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Mr. Whyte AP Literature 10 September 2012 “Porphyria’s Lover” Analysis Robert Browning is a Victorian writer during the time of Jack the Ripper. Jack the Ripper inspires Browning’s Realistic art. In “Porphyria’s Lover”‚ Browning’s style incorporates dramatic monologue along with Gothic influences to ridicule the concept of Romanticism. Browning writes the poem as a dramatic monologue to emphasize the uneasy feeling of the situation. The poem opens with the setting of a storm; a storm in which “the
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