Henry David Thoreau once wrote‚ “If a man does not keep pace with his companions‚ perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears‚ however measured and far away” (Thoreau). Both Esther Greenwood of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Christopher McClandless of John Kraukaer’s Into the Wild had their own “music” different than societies. This “music” lead to Esther’s suicide attempts and Christopher’s journey to Alaska. While media influences both Esther Greenwood’s
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in texts‚ throughout history‚ and have been influenced by divergent contextual values appropriate to the time‚ in which the text was written. Through the comparative study of the 1925 novel‚ ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s 1845 ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese‚’ HSC students are provided with varying concepts of love in dissimilar contexts through the use of narrative and poetic techniques‚ thus resulting in an enhanced appreciation of each text. The themes
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Archaeology‚ and studied mythologies extensively. Hughes graduated from Cambridge in 1954. A few years later‚ in 1956‚ he co-founded the literary magazine St. Botolph’s Review with a handful of other editors. At the launch party for the magazine‚ he met Sylvia Plath. A few short months later‚ on June 16‚ 1956‚ they were married. Plath encouraged Hughes to submit his first manuscript‚ The Hawk in the Rain‚ to The Poetry Center’s First Publication book contest. The judges‚ Marianne Moore‚ W. H. Auden‚ and
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Date Is God Hearing the Children ’s Cry? Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) was considered one of the most influential and highly esteemed women poets of the Victorian era. Her poem “The Cry of the Children”‚ which was written based on a Report by commission (1843) that investigated the conditions of the children who worked in mines and factories‚ clearly manifest her humane and liberal point of view as an anti-child labor advocate. Barrett Browning’s main intent in writing the poem was to
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a connection with another person can be an exciting reprieve from a mundane life‚ but when the novelty of the situation wears off‚ you often question whether the choices you made were the right ones. In her short story “The Littoral Zone‚” Andrea Barrett illustrates just such circumstances through the art of mimetic storytelling‚ making this work of fiction highly realistic in terms of character and plot. Much like the tides of the title‚ Jonathon and Ruby’s relationship ebbs and flows‚ filled with
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“And the language obscene / An engine‚ and engine / Chuffing me off like a Jew” (lines 30-32)This quote depicts the relationship that Plath had with her father. In Daddy‚ Plath depicts herself as a victim‚ as she compares herself to a Jew and her father as a Nazi. She uses this train metaphor to depict herself as a victimized Jew who is being taken away to a concentration camp. Plath uses allusions to describe her father as Hitler‚ as it is written “And your neat moustache / And your Aryan eyes
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A Red‚ Red Rose (1794) By: ROBERT burns O my Luve’s like a red‚ red rose‚ That’s newly sprung in June: O my Luve’s like the melodie‚ That’s sweetly play’d in tune. As fair art thou‚ my bonie lass‚ So deep in luve am I; And I will luve thee still
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Khalvati and Barrett Browning chose them to illustrate their loving feelings to their lovers. Barrett Browning does not correctly carry out all the rules of Sonnets in her poem which gives an effect that she would do anything for her lover and that there are no rules to their love‚ whereas Khalvati does not break any of rules in Ghazal‚ this might‚ perhaps mean that her love is unrequited and that she would follow all the rules to get the attention of the person she loves. Barrett Browning and
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In the short story‚ “Initiation”‚ Sylvia Plath utilizes Millicent and the sorority girls to imply the theme that conformity for popularity is not better than being one’s own self. Following Millicent through the hazing period or ‘initiation’ of a sorority-like high school social group‚ the reader witnesses Plath’s changing of the character. In the beginning of the story‚ Plath describes the protagonist in the basement of a house‚ detailing how it felt “dark and warm‚ like the inside of a sealed jar”(1)
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Compare how the theme ‘passion’ is expressed by the poets Larkin and Plath Passion is an integral theme demonstrated in several poems by Sylvia Plath and Philip Larkin through their conscience use of literary devices which are explored in a number of auxiliary themes. The variety in techniques used‚ in addition to their differing attitudes towards the subjects of their poems express dissimilar versions of passion; there is a contrast in the levels of passion displayed: In Larkin’s poetry‚ a deficiency
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