Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens‚ Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan depicts the moment when the god Apollo tells Vulcan that Venus‚ his wife‚ is having an affair with another god‚ Mars. Apollo has presumably entered Vulcan’s blacksmith workshop to bear the bad news amongst the other blacksmiths in the forge. The moment when Apollo warns Vulcan of Venus’ adultery is the focus of the painting‚ centered by Apollo’s gaze and Vulcan’s reaction. Vulcan’s importance to the painting’s narrative is signified by his
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comparison between the creator of the tiger and a blacksmith is the question‚ “In what furnace was thy brain?” (l. 14). This line‚ specifically‚ creates the comparison between the tiger’s maker and a blacksmith. Blake asks what furnace was the tiger’s brain: the driving force of it’s life created. Was it the furnace of an evil creator? Was it the God’s furnace? Who created the malicious ways that you act: an evil force or a force of good? Like how a blacksmith can create a “hammer” for good or a sword for
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Stephen Crane Stephen Crane (November 1‚ 1871 – June 5‚ 1900) was an American novelist‚ short story writer‚ poet and journalist. Prolific throughout his short life‚ he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism. He is recognized by modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of his generation. The eighth surviving child of Methodist Protestant parents‚ Crane began writing at the age of four and had published several articles
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Fordenden captain arranged his players among the daisies‚ buttercups‚ dandelions and sorrel‚ which grew in abundance on the uneven terrain. The terrain behind the bowler’s wicket sloped away abruptly as a result of which the batsman saw the bowler blacksmith only during the last few of the latter’s ‘galvanic’ yards. The writer
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and change. In stanza one‚ Judith Wright utilizes personification “rivers hindered him” and “thorn branches caught at his eyes to make him blind” coupled with metaphor “the sky turned into an unlucky opal” to emphasise nature’s hindrance of the blacksmith boy‚ if the poem is to be deemed as a metaphorical representation of life’s journey‚ this can be portrayed as the obstacles that must be overcome through our progress. The repetition of “I can” in the phrase “I can break branches‚ I can swim rivers
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schools and the Hobart Academy in New York. His father was a farmer but Gould decided not to follow his footsteps. Jay Gould’s first job was working as a bookkeeper for a blacksmith. While working for the blacksmith he was able to see how the business world worked. The blacksmith then started to offer Gould half interest in the blacksmith shop. As Jay grew older he then opened a tanning business with a man named Zadock Pratt. The business was doing very well until Pratt retired and Gould bought him out
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Midterm 1 Study Guide 1. Call & response- The lead vocalist sings a lyric and “the other workers repeat it” 2. Race records- All recorded product‚ c. 1920-1945‚ by black artists‚ for black audience. 3. Slapped bass-A plucking of the bass that makes a distinctive clicking sound. 4. Walking bass- a type of bass line in which each bear of a measure is a different tone. The bass line is usually a conjunct type of melody that enables the bassist to go from one chord to the next. 5. Field holler-
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the end stood a fielder who saw nothing saw nothing of the game but the blacksmith walking back or running to bowl. It was only during the last few yards of his run when the blacksmith was visible to the batsman. The blacksmith ran up to bowl climbing the slope superbly like a ‘mettlesome combination of Venus and Vulcan Anadyomene’. The manner in which each ball is described is hilarious. The first ball which the blacksmith delivered was a high full pitch to leg of appalling
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wanted to be an actor‚ or an astronaut. A painter‚ or a pilot. Pip has always had his mind set to being a blacksmith‚ but later realized that he has changed his mind about it. The theme of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is that what you may desire the most in life may not be best for you. Ever since Pip was a little boy‚ he has always longed to follow Joe’s footsteps to become a blacksmith himself. After visiting Satis House‚ Pip’s “eyes were opened”. He recalls this incredulous moment of realization
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octave (the first eight lines) and a sestet (the final six lines). While the octave‚ apart from its initial reference to the narrator‚ focuses solely on the inanimate objects and occurrences inside and outside the forge‚ the sestet describes the blacksmith himself‚ and what he does. Interestingly‚ the transition from the octave to the sestet is a run-on or enjambment containing one of the key metaphors of the poem‚ the anvil as altar: Set there immovable: an altar Where he expends himself
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