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    Sonnet 116

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    Sonnet 116 Sonnet 116 is a poem written hundreds of years ago by William Shakespeare. It has bee used to presents a beautiful and optimistic view of real love. The features of a sonnet include 14 lines consisting of three quatrains and a rhyming couplet. Each quatrain have a rhyme pattern abab‚ cdcd‚ efef and gg.The quatrains all discuss the same idea of love being unchanging different circumstances. Shakespeare uses enjambment throughout his sommet. Sonnet 116 follows strict rules to keep the ideas

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    you have seen poets writing about feelings in an artistic and effective way. John Donne indeed uses poetry as a vehicle for expressing emotions towards a variety of subject matter‚ however particularly with reference to his lover‚ to God and to death. Donne documents his confidence in his emotions towards his lover in “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”. Moreover ‚ post his wife’s death‚ in “Holy Sonnet X” Donne cements his assuredness of emotions toward death in verse. Conversely to Donne’s

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    Sonnet 138

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    Close Analysis Essay 138 As a reader I have chosen sonnet 138 also known as “when my love swears she is made of truth” this is written by the one and only William Shakespeare. With this it seems to have examples of literary elements and various types of rhythm. Shakespeare seems to write the sonnet in alphabetized letter rhyme scheme. As the reader it seems at a poem that the meaning of the poem changed. Also the author seems older then the woman that he is dating. The woman tells to the speaker

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    Jasmine Pate English 231 Mrs. Faust 21st October 2017 Donne and Marvell John Donne The Flea and Andrew Marvell To Coy His Mistress is written in the 17th century. The language that was used allows the reader to understand which century it was from. Both Donne and Marvell speak about how they are trying to persuade a woman into having sex before marriage. However‚ in the 17th century women were very precise about who were to have their virginity and who to marriage. Men in the 17th century were

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    Holy Spirit

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    Holy Spirit The “Person” of the Holy Spirit Of the three “persons” to the concept of the Trinity‚ the Holy Spirit is often shrouded in more mystery than the other two. While the person of God the “Father” as the creator and sustainer of creation is well established in the scripture and the history of Judaism and Christianity‚ and while the person of Jesus the “Son” as an actual person in the course of human history is well documented in history and scripture‚ the person of the Holy Spirit

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    poem analysis

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    INTRODUCTION (1 paragraph) Use key words from the essay title in a brief description of what the poem is about. Comment briefly on the themes‚ issues‚ thoughts and feelings the poem explores.  Identify the narrator‚ the tone and viewpoint of the poem. STRUCTURE (1 or 2 paragraph) Divide the poem into sections and explain in more detail what the poem is about‚ section by section.  Write about the development of ideas and themes from one section to another and one stanza to another. Consider the

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    The Holy Thursday

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    Holy Thursday – Notes Introduction "Holy Thursday" is a poem by William Blake‚ first published in Songs of Innocence and Experience in 1794. This poem‚ unlike its companion poem in "Songs of Innocence" (1789)‚ focuses more on society as a whole than the Holy Thursday ceremony. In "Holy Thursday" Blake expresses feelings towards the society around him; England in the 18th Century and the emotional‚ spiritual and moral poverty. Summary The poem begins with a series of questions. The poet asks

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    sonnet 18

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    Sonnet 18 Tracy Brito 4/1/2014 A sonnet is a fourteen line poem‚ formed by a single complete thought‚ sentiment‚ or an idea that originated in Europe. The sonnet consists of rhymes that are arranged according to a certain definite scheme‚ which is in a strict or Italian form‚ divided into a major group of eight lines‚ which is called the octave. The octave is followed by a minor group of six lines which is called the sestet. In common English form it is in three quatrains followed

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    Poem Analysis

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    achieved great things eventually drift away. But what if soon after their peak of glory they die. Would the memory of them and their glory live on longer? In the lryic poem "To an Athlete Dying Young" by A.E. Houseman the narrator shows how dying young and at the peak of your glory is better then living to be forgotten. The setting of the poem is in a town and cemetery in nineteenth-century England during the funeral and burial of a young athlete‚ a runner. The first stanza explains the victory of a boy

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    Tabernacle's Sacred Nature

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    The Sacred Nature of the Most Holy Tabernacle Beginning with the meticulous beauty of the specifications regarding the Tabernacle’s construction to its actual manifestation‚ the Tabernacle is the pinnacle of the idea of “sacredness” and sacred space. Beginning in Exodus chapter 26‚ G-d begins to give Moses instructions of the utmost specificity for the construction of the Tabernacle. Every aspect of the building process is accounted for‚ from the exact amount of wooden boards to be used‚ to the

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