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    truth.’ ‘How do you speak so coldly‚ my dear? What have you done to my Edward‚ my dear?’ ‘Our son no longer breathes our air‚ my love‚ I warned you‚ and now your worry has revealed my truth.’ This poem is written in the form of a folk ballad in which a husband and wife engage in dialogue with a conversational tone‚ where it is revealed that the wife has killed their only son Edward. It is written in direct speech with two speakers. The effect I have aimed to create with this form is

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    capture Constantinople 1488 1488 Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope 1492 1492 Columbus sails the ocean blue. 1502 1502 African slaves begin to arrive in the Americas. 1517 1517 Martin Luther writes the 95 Theses 1521 1521 Cortez conquered the Aztecs. 1533 1533 Pizarro conquered the Incas. 1571 1571 Battle of Lepanto (naval defeat of the Ottomans) 1588 1588 British defeat the Spanish Armada 1600 1600 Battle of Sekigahara – beginning of Tokugawa Shogunate

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    One of the primary sonnets I’ll be investigating in this exposition is by Robert Frost‚ "Out-Out". Ice has a special strategy for exemplification to make certain feelings in this ballad. The buzz saw‚ however one might say‚ it’s a kind of hardware‚ is also called being‚ forcefully growling and rattling as it does its work. At the point when the sister makes the supper declaration‚ the saw shows that it has its very own psyche by "bouncing" out of the kid’s deliver its energy. Robert Frost wouldn’t

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    Role of Teacher : As helper and guide Teacher‘s role to put a child in real life situation‚ so that he might be able to understand his life‘s problems and there by solve them. Doing is more important than knowing‚ the pragmatic teacher wants his pupil to think and act for themselves to do rather than to know‚ to originate rather than to repeat. Teaching should not be based on lecturing and repeating only. The teacher should create a problem solving attitude in his pupils. Discipline: Pragmatism

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    teenager‚ he spent hours in his bedroom writing stories and poems. Second‚ Steinbeck built up his ideas by a poet and a scientist named Ricketts. He wrote a tribute after Ricketts died in 1948 and published it in his book The Long from the Sea of Cortez (Shillinglaw). Third‚ Bob Anderson‚ a playwright‚ asked Steinbeck for help on what to write about in his writing. Steinbeck told Bob to write poetry to throw away (Plimpton‚ Crowther 3). John Steinbeck married a powerful

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    form (either a ballad or lyric poem). 2. Thesis statement: A general statement about what the poem communicates about life and life experience. 3. Signpost: briefly outline the more specific reasons for how/why the poem conveys this life experience and / or message. (Introduce the main features which will be explored in more detail in the body of your essay). | INTRODUCTION 1. “The Highwayman” is a ballad poem written by the author‚ Alfred Noyes. Many features of the ballad are evident in

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    *ΔLyric: Originally a lyric signified a song sung to the accompaniment of a lyre. Thus lyric still carries the sense of a poem written to be set to music. A lyric is a common short poem uttered by a single speaker who is expressing his state of mind very often in solitude. In dramatic lyric the speaker is represented as addressing another person in a specific situation like the poem Canonization by John Donne. The genre comprehends a great variety of utterances from say the Dramatic Monologues of

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    According to the ballads‚ Robin attended St. Mary’s church in Nottingham. Inside is a private chapel built and paid for by the city’s guildsmen among whom were knights‚ clerks‚ carpenters and drapers. Across the road is the market‚ and in King John’s day‚ the price of wool in Nottingham set the price of wool for the whole of England‚ such was its importance. Merchants travelled from far and wide to trade there despite the danger from Gisborne’s 1‚500 men‚ and Sir Walter Tailboys‚ who in partnership

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    In the Aztec empire‚ religion was really important. They honored a lot of goddesses and gods‚ and each of these gods had ruled different people‚ so each god had different jobs. The Mesoamerican religion is the way of saying “the Aztecs”. In the Mesoamerican religions‚ they had elements of human sacrifice in most of the festivals‚ and they were held in the Aztec calendar. God And Goddess The first subtopic in the Aztec life is the god and goddess and what they are known for. In the Aztec religions

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    love of the beautiful‚ mysterious and unattainable mistress. In the early nineteenth century‚ an interest in the ballad of earlier centuries was sparked by the romantic poets of the time‚ of which John Keats was one‚ and his poem‚ “La Belle Dame sans Merci‚” became a true example of what became known as a literary ballad. Similar to the popular folk ballad that was sung‚ a literary ballad sticks to the basics of repeated lines and stanzas “in a refrain‚ swift action with occasional surprise endings

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