represented by a multitude of symbols. The most commonly used symbol in this day and age for the word peace is a simple circle bisected vertically. Two smaller lines extend downward from the bottom third of the central line at approximately 60 degree angles and connect to the circle. The symbol is occasionally referred by Christian evangelists as a broken upside down cross inside a circle. This symbol is recognized worldwide but how many people know the history of this symbol or know how it came to be
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Introduction This study guide has been written for students taking GCE Advanced level English literature. It is suitable for undergraduates and the general reader who is interested in the study of poetry. This guide was originally written to cover a selection of poems prescribed as a set text for exam‚ but can be used as a way in to the study of metaphysical poetry generally. The poems considered explicitly here are these: by John Donne‚ The Good-Morrow‚ The Sunne Rising‚ The Anniversarie‚
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Analysis of ‘Diptych’ ‘Diptych’‚ by Robert Gray is a free verse poem in which imagery is used to invoke feelings‚ but also specifically influence a reader’s first impression of character. Throughout the poem Robert Gray has swayed natural speech‚ used strong imagery and also included poetic tone to create a poem which allows insight to his childhood. Robert Gray has explored his parent’s struggles during their marriage‚ in the poem ‘Diptych’. He likens his childhood experiences to a diptych hinge
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you to think and ponder about. A poet uses multiple literary devices in one single poem. When reading a poem you have to decode or decipher what the poet is really trying to say. They may use metaphors‚ irony and much more‚ in the poem “I Finally managed to speak to her”‚ the poet‚ Hal Sirowitz uses both of these literary devices. The first literary device that is used in this poem is a metaphor. The poem “I finally managed to speak to her” is about a young man sitting across from a young
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Plath’s early poems like “Point Shirley” and “Hard Castle Crags” are purely autobiographical in nature and confessional in character. But her best poems like “Daddy”‚ “Lady Lazarus” have deeper connotations. As Brestin puts it: They deal with extreme emotional states and sometimes with the theme of individual suffering as inner registration of outward turmoil. One can recognize the experience of the poet in them‚ whether by internal hints or by clues from their context among other poems‚ but they often
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Herman Melville’s Billy Budd‚ Melville uses the literary device of foreshadowing to allow the audience to be aware of Billy’s inevitable fate before the characters in the novel‚ thus creating a feeling of suspense within the novel. In chapter one‚ the incident with the Red Whiskers (12) functions as a foreshadowing of Billy’s confrontation with Claggart. This is very similar to what happens later between John Claggart and Billy (58). Melville uses the incident to show that although Billy Budd is a gentle
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Billy Elliot (Jamie Bell) is an shy 11-year-old living with his proud miner father (Gary Lewis) and older brother Tony (Jamie Draven) during the political and social unrest of the 1984 miner’s strike. Times are hard - the men of the house spend their days on the picket lines clashing with the police‚ while Billy navigates the minefield of adolescence and takes care of his increasingly senile grandmother (Jean Heywood). Determined to forge his son in his own image‚ Billy’s father sends him for
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have to face and overcome. In Thomas C. Foster’s book‚ How to Read Literature like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines‚ he states‚ “ people expect them (symbols) to mean something. Not just any something‚ but one something in particular” (104). That means that we want symbols to mean in thing like in Beowulf the monster Grendel could symbolize something. Grendel could be the very first major battle the a person faces‚ like Beowulf did in the book. This battle could
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The first poem ‘Sonnet 130’ by William Shakespeare has a humorous view on the traditional ideas of beauty. The poem is a five duplet metre with the stressed sounds starting on the second word of each line. Each line has the same amount of stressed and unstressed patterns which is very common for sonnets to make it quick and easy to read. The five duplet pattern never mimics human speech in the way a four duplet pattern does. The end of each alternating line has a distinct rhyming pattern
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Marva Collins Marva Collins was born in Monroeville‚ Alabama on August 31‚ 1936. She grew up in a wealthy family‚ and her father was one of the richest black men in town (“Collins‚ Marva‚” 2011). He was extremely supportive of Marva and her younger sister‚ Cynthia. Marva’s father challenged her to use her mind. She was greatly influenced by her father because he gave her “a strong sense of pride and self-esteem” (“Marva Collins Biography”‚ 1992). When Marva was growing up in Atmore‚ Alabama‚ segregation
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