Culture is ever changing across time and space. People study artifacts to better understand cultural norms as well as what the people went through on a day-to-day basis. An artifact can be interpreted in many different ways since they have multiple meanings. These multiple meanings may be hard to understand if you‚ as the viewer‚ do not know anything about the culture prior to viewing this artifact. Office Space is an example of a cultural artifact of the United States in the 1990’s. It takes
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MODULE B: CRITICAL STUDY OF GWEN HARWOOD Through examining Gwen Harwood’s poems “Triste Triste” (1963) and “Father and Child” (1975) it becomes apparent that their enduring popularity is rooted in their exploration of issues integral in defining the human condition‚ in particular (QUESTION transience of time‚ but also the conflict between creativity and domesticity‚ the inevitability of loss of childhood innocence and the fragility of life respectively ). However; Harwood’s poems are not only
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In Conrad’s 1902 novella Heart of Darkness‚ there are several ways of interpreting Marlow’s journey down the Congo River. Marlow’s journey is symbolic and metaphoric‚ and hence can be interpreted psychoanalytically‚ mythically and historically. A psychoanalytical reading involves examining Marlow’s journey in the light of Freud’s and Nietzsche’s understanding of humanity’s inner psyche. A mythical understanding reverberates on the plot‚ such that Marlow engages on a heroic quest to find his holy
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1. Alliteration The repetition of an initial consonant sound. is a term that describes a literary stylistic device. Alliteration occurs when a series of words in a row (or close to a row) have the same first consonant sound. For example‚ “She sells sea-shells down by the sea-short” or “Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers” are both alliterative phrases. In the former‚ all the words start with the “s” sound‚ while in the later‚ the “p’s” take precedence. Aside from tongue twisters‚ alliteration
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LINES WRITTEN A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY William Wordsworth CONTEXT (AO1) Written in July of 1798 and published as the last poem of Lyrical Ballads. At the age of twenty-three (in August of 1793)‚ Wordsworth had visited the desolate abbey alone. In 1798 he returned to the same place with his beloved sister‚ Dorothy Wordsworth‚ who was a year younger. Dorothy is referred to as "Friend" throughout the poem. (whom he addresses warmly in the final paragraph as "thou my dearest Friend‚
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The Ruined Maid Denying the harsh moral codes set upon you can at times improve your material circumstances; however it can reduce you to a situation lower than poverty. Hardy’s dramatic dialogue “The Ruined Maid” attempts to portray the injustices and ironies of Victorian morality. Hardy is able to achieve this through his elaborate control over language. The class distinctions and moral codes placed upon women in the Victorian era have a large degree of irony. In the first stanza Hardy introduces
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At various places in the book the phrase encompasses the terms similarity‚ metaphor‚ analogy‚ abstraction‚ model‚ illustration‚ figure‚ hypothesis‚ theory and even mathematics‚ as well as literary terms such as simile‚ irony‚ trope‚ metonymy‚ and synecdoche. Brown asserts‚ for example‚ that observational data "can be related to models only through metaphors for interpreting the data." He also says that "Molecular models are metaphors because they represent a mapping from the domain of pictorial or
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Stanza 1 The beginning of the poem creates a sense of immediacy in the poem: This morning I watched from here By stating the time at the beginning he suggests how deeply he was affected by his experience as he wants to write about it right away. This shows how important the themes and ideas of the poem were to him. This sense of immediacy is emphasized later in the stanza when he writes ‘But now Midnight has come in . . .’ He is writing the poem as he experiences the
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Ideas/Background: Bob Dylan is an American folk rock musician who influentially utilised poetry and current social themes in his music to create an impact. The song ‘Hurricane’‚ released in 1976‚ is one of his most famous songs. It discusses racism‚ racial injustice and corruption through the incorrect trial and murder conviction of African-American male Rubin Carter‚ an issue relevant to its time of release. Martin Luther King Jr. was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He delivered
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FORMALISM (also known as NEW CRITICISM) A Basic Approach to Reading and Understanding Literature Formalist theory has dominated the American literary scene for most of the twentieth century‚ and it has retained its great influence in many academic quarters. Its practitioners advocate methodical and systematic readings of texts. The major premises of New Criticism include: "art for art’s sake‚" "content = form‚" and "texts exist in and for themselves." These premises lead to the development
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