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    To Catch A Falling Knife

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    Daniel Johnson’s poetry book‚ To Catch a Falling Knife‚ takes a different approach to any situation. He has an obvious dark perspective to the poems he writes. A common theme to weave through his work is destruction. In the poem‚ Accounting for the Wren‚ the Rocket‚ and immaterial‚ it speaks of how the “ vapor trail vanished: the absence of geese: a gaping/ space where before there was none./ Begin again the slow loss” (Johnson 3). This is a subdued description for Johnson. In the poem‚ My father

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    The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufock Analysis Love is a powerful emotional drive that many authors write about. Many seek to obtain love‚ but never do. In the poem The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufock by T.S Elliot‚ this is true of Alfred Prufock. The meaning gathered from this poem is that‚ Prufock isn’t skilled at engaging in social intimacy because of his negative perceptions of the world. Three shifts in the poem amplify this meaning are shown in his dark descriptions of his surroundings‚ his

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    Title: A Comparison of the Element of Hamartia in “Hamlet”‚ “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”‚ and “Agamemnon” Thesis: One of the elements that can be compared in the plays “Hamlet”‚ “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”‚ and “Agamemnon” is hamartia. Attempt has been made to analyse the main characters’ personality traits and provide the reader with specific examples that help to clarify how hamartia is present in each of the three plays. In order to analyse all the three characters’ personalities

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    Literary critics of Beowulf often criticize the poem for its lack of historical accuracy. The lens in which the poem is viewed engenders a view of the poem’s weaknesses and strengths. Many critics fail to think of the poem in a different perspective and thus fail to capture the literary value and strength the author put behind each line and stanza of the poem. J.R.R. Tolkien asserts his view that Beowulf should be criticized as a work of art and not as a historical piece of literature. Furthermore

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    Julia Kristeva’s quotation from Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia provides an interesting piece of observation in regards to the rampant depression apparent throughout literature. Kristeva points out that melancholy and depression can send writers into an “abyss of sorrow‚” (Kristeva). However‚ she believes that so long as a writer avoids collapsing into the “noncomunicable grief‚” (Kristeva)‚ extraordinarily powerful pieces of literature can rise from ashes of depression. The melancholy experienced

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    Tone Of The Hollow Men

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    The Hollow Men Resemble the novella Heart of Darkness‚ T.S. Elliot’s poem The Hollow Men conveys the darker side of human nature. Allegorically‚ the poem acknowledges how hollow men are -- trying every possible way to achieve their high hopes not knowing that they are just empty aspirations that will lead them astray in the end. Through the utilization of imagery‚ tone and contradicted diction‚ Elliot is warning mankind to stop follow their noble pursuits blindly that only leave them “sightless

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    John Donne Apparition

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    John Donne – "The Apparition" In John Donne’s poem‚ "The Apparition‚" the title tells us that the poem is about a person having an epiphany. We know this because the word "apparition‚" means "to become visible" or "an epiphany." In the opening lines of the poem‚ the speaker addresses his listener as a "murdresse." He then goes on to tell her that when she "thinkst" she is "free from all solicitation from" him‚ his "ghost will come to" her bed. This tells us that the speaker is a rejected

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    No Man is an Island (Page 490 Question 5) In the poem Meditation 17‚ by John Donne‚ is describes death and new beginnings. Writers in Donne’s day often depended on the support of Patrons‚ wealthy supporters of the arts. The young Donne did not publish his poems‚ most of them were printed only after his death. Instead‚ they were circulated among a select literary audience that included Patrons such as the countess of Bedford. After Donne was dismissed from his position with Sir Thomas Egerton‚ he

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    Hamlet to Prufrock

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    Ophelia. Hamlet’s loss of romance and only real relationship results in an empty and meaningless life. ‘Swounds‚ show me what thou’lt do. Woo’t weep? Woo’t fight? Woo’t fast? Woo’t tear thyself? Woo’t drink up eisel‚ eat a crocodile? I’ll do ’t. Dost thou come here to whine‚ To outface me with leaping in her grave? Be buried

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    Lesson 5 Essay Outline

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    Essay Outline Introduction Topic: Comparing the element Hamartia‚ to the central characters from “Hamlet‚” “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚” and “Agamemnon.” Thesis Statement: The central characters from “Hamlet‚” “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚” and “Agamemnon‚” embodies the element‚ Hamartia. Hamartia is commonly understood as a protagonist’s error or flaw that determinately leads to a chain of plot actions culminating in a reversal from their good fortune to bad. Their flaws evidently

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