As we know‚ there are many ethnic group in Indonesia. They are our valuable heritage. One of them is Toraja ethnic in South Sulawesi. The word toraja comes from the Bugis language’s to riaja‚ meaning "people of the uplands". The Dutch colonial government named the people Toraja in 1909. Torajans are renowned for their elaborate funeral rites‚ burial sites carved into rocky cliffs‚ massive peaked roof traditional houses known as tongkonan‚ and colorful wood carvings. Toraja funeral rites are important
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Garvin Hunt CES 640-A: RILKE Final Paper June 25‚ 2012 Rainer Rilke: The Power of a Childhood The story of Rainer Maria Rilke has been told through the pens of many authors. And justifiably so. With a plethora of beautifully expressive poems written by his pen in constant circulation‚ there will always be room for interpretations and critiques. Throughout his career as a poet there have been considerable differences in his writing styles and‚ as well there have been a number of themes. Some of
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Donne parodies Odysseus’ adventure and applies it to the consulting tone present in Ovidian lyric. The elegy incorporates motifs of “the dramatic qualities of marvel‚ risk and triumphant adventure” (Dean 229) in Homeric epic‚ already present from the elegy’s introductory lines: “Whoever loves‚ if he do not propose / The right true end of love‚ he’s one that
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Sydney Walcher Instructor‚ Lisa Ward English 1213 8 April 2013 To an Athlete Dying Young A.E. Housman was a poet born in 1859 who became very successful during his lifetime. “To an Athlete Dying Young” represents the theme of glory is fleeting by illustrating the point that if a successful athlete dies young‚ they will not have to worry about their glory of victory fading. They can rest in peace knowing they will be remembered at their athletic peak when they were successful and victorious. They
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Maud Martha is constantly compared to her sister Helen‚ who is deemed to be prettier and better liked than Maud in her family and amongst strangers: “For the basic situation had never changed. Helen was still the one they wanted in the wagon‚ still ‘the pretty one‚’ ‘the dainty one.’ The lovely one” (Brooks 50). The comparisons and attitudes towards Helen and Maud Martha are a prime example of colourism. Helen is considered to be high yellow. Maud Martha is considered to be low yellow. HIgh yellow
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(2000). Divining Desire: Tennyson and the Poetics of Transcendence. Brookfield‚ Vt.: Ashgate‚ Laurence. M. (2004). W. Alfred Tennyson: The Critical Legacy. Rochester‚ N.Y.: Camden House‚ Matthew‚ C.( 2002). The Consolation of Otherness: The Male Love Elegy in Milton‚ Gray‚ and Tennyson. Jefferson‚ N.C.: McFarland‚. Richard‚B. (2004). Experience and Faith: The Late-Romantic Imagination of Emily Dickinson. New York: Palgrave Macmillan‚ Lundin‚ Roger. Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief. Grand Rapids
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As a poet Arnold is generally admitted to rank among the Victorians next after Tennyson and Browning. The criticism‚ partly true‚ that he was not designed by Nature to be a poet but made himself one by hard work rests on his intensely‚ and at the outset coldly‚ intellectual and moral temperament. He himself‚ in modified Puritan spirit‚ defined poetry as a criticism of life; his mind was philosophic; and in his own verse‚ inspired by Greek poetry‚ by Goethe and Wordsworth‚ he realized his definition
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English 2202 Mid-Term Examination Answers 1. What does Montagu say is the real reason that Swift wrote “The Lady’s Dressing Room”? She says that that the real reason is that Swift had failed sexually with a prostitute. 2. What is Clarissa’s advice to Belinda? Clarissa tells Belinda that because beauty will fade‚ she should use “good sense” to preserve what her beauty has gained for her. In the context of what has happened‚ Clarissa means that Belinda should accept with good cheer
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humour‚ and their appreciation of beauty. Gray died on 30 July 1771 in Cambridge and was buried beside his mother in the churchyard of Stoke Poges‚ the setting for his famous Elegy. His grave can still be seen there. There is a plaque in Cornhill‚ marking his birthplace. It is believed that Gray wrote his masterpiece‚ the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard‚ in the graveyard of the church in Stoke Poges‚ Buckinghamshire‚ in 1750. The poem was a literary sensation when published by Robert Dodsley
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