motivated by pride and vanity.” (Dale Carnegie‚ How to Win Friends and Influence People) “Loneliness has been linked to depression‚ anxiety‚ interpersonal hostility‚ increased vulnerability to health problems‚ and even to suicide.” (Liz renzetti‚ Life of solitude: A loneliness crisis is looming) Chronic can be blamed to an increasingly self-absorbed society‚ because economics dictates you should be concerned about your own interests so people tend to shy away from others‚ unless there’s a financial gain or
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pattern: In each stanza‚ there are rhymes on alternate lines‚ forming a regular pattern of efgefg‚ hijhij etc. Such regularity seems to suggest a sense of restriction which echoes with the confinement human beings impose on the racing horses for the pleasure of human entertainment. Assonance: The use of repeated long vowels as in ‘shade’ (/ʃeɪd/)‚ ‘tail’ (/teɪl/)‚ ‘mane’ (/meɪn/) creates a gloomy atmosphere in the depiction of the setting where the once gloried but now anonymous horses are situated in
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BON COP BAD COP: 2 Brothers or 2 Solitudes? 1. 2 Solitudes & 2 Nations 2. Vive Le Quebec Libre 3. Bon Cop/Bad Cop a) Stereotypes b) Languages Politics c) Togetherness d) Reading the Film’s Meaning 2 Solitudes 2 Nations Quebecois Habitants Maitres chez nous Je me souviens Vive Le Quebec Libre Pepsi 2 Solitudes by Hugh MacLennan French/English – 2 separate cultures which can’t understand each other A persistent metaphor for Canada Quebecois Understanding of Canada: 2 Nations Quebec
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Solitude can be considered a positive and constructive state of engagement with oneself. A state of being alone where you provide yourself time that can be used for reflection and sufficient company. It can also mean something devastating where depression and loneliness reeks from the absence of company. For writers like Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe‚ solitude can be an opportunity to renew ourselves or an opportunity to seclude ourselves even more. Hawthorne’s social isolation and shyness
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daffodils with surprise. The second and third stanza showed the scene of the beauty of nature.The daffodils fluttered and danced in the breeze. The stars twinkled on the milky way. Then his heart was filled with happiness and pleasure. In the fourth stanza the poet felt his solitude was disappear. But in the same time‚ the poet thought the daffodils not always around him‚ the pure and peaceful world not always associated with him. He didn’t want to associated with the changing and complex society‚ he
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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a gothic text that raises many interesting ideas. The basis of these ideas come from contextual influences upon Mary Shelley‚ prior to and while she was writing her novel. Key ideas include the need for nurturing‚ love and family‚ responsibility of creation/ birth‚ discrimination and prejudice on basis of appearance and the dangers and consequences of unbridled ambition and obsessions. The contextual influences that these key ideas stem from are childbirth‚ the industrial
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Prometheus- had to give qualities to animals -had none left when it came to humans-Prometheus loved humans so he stole fire from the gods -Fire (spark)- spark of creativity/civilization Jupiter was mad‚ and he tortured Prometheus- by making birds come and eat at his liver and he would heal and he would start again Romantics see him as the divine rebel Victor Prometheus - steals back from gods -over reaches -steals from gods Paradise-Lost-God‚(victor)(The monster can manipulate him)
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of tranquility and contentment that is present in the natural world. This allusion personifies nature as not only the surroundings of a person‚ but something that they are truly connected to. It is evident that the truth comes from intuition and solitude‚ not God. Indeed‚ a life well-spent is when someone focuses on the life in front of them and realizes what nature has to offer. In the excerpt‚ “Nature” by Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ he states that “all natural objects make a kindred impression when the
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Analysis of Defense of Poetry Steve Budd Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Shelley was born in 1792 in Sussex England‚ Shelley would become one of the finest poets of the Romantic period. He was brought up under very privileged circumstance and attending Syon House Academy at the age of ten‚ Eton at the age of twelve and would later attend Oxford University (Penn par 1). It was at this time he would received extensive knowledge of the classics and become interested in science and
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Quiz 16: Thoreau Directions: Answer the following questions in paragraph format. Be thorough in your response‚ use examples from the text‚ and be sure to address all parts of each question. 1. In the final paragraphs of “Solitude‚” Thoreau asks the following rhetorical questions: “Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself?” What does he mean when he writes “intelligence with the earth” (a very different thing from saying intelligence of the
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