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    Maria B. LEKAKOU Department of Shipping‚ Trade and Transport‚ University of the Aegean‚ 2 Korai St‚ Chios 82100‚ Greece Tel.+30-22710-35275‚ Fax +30-22710-35299‚ E-mail: mlek@stt.aegean.gr Evaggelos XIDEAS Department of Shipping‚ Trade and Transport‚ University of the Aegean‚ 2 Korai St‚ Chios 82100‚ Greece Tel.+30-22710-35275‚ Fax +30-22710-35299‚ E-mail: exideas@aegean.gr Evaggelia S. STEFANIDAKI Department of Shipping‚ Trade and Transport‚ University of the Aegean‚ 2 Korai St‚ Chios

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    time period‚ and Ben Jonson’s‚ “On My First Son” which takes place around the 1600s. Both pieces of poetry deal with the passing of human life‚ which in other words means that we must all die eventually at some point in time‚ and they do that in elegies. In the first piece of poetry it starts out with the narrator: “Often the wanderer pleads pity And mercy from the Lord; but for a long time‚ Sad in mind‚ he must dip his oars into icy waters‚ the lanes of the sea; He must follow the paths of

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    “Thinking about Bill‚ Dead of AIDS‚” by Miller Williams is a poem written as an elegy to Bill‚ and all other victims of the AIDS epidemic. In this poem the narrator is speaking about his friend dying of AIDS. Instead of speaking of just his emotions towards his friend dying‚ the narrator uses words such as “we” and “us‚” speaking of many people feeling sorrow. Miller’s poem personifies the national mood in the form of a poem about‚ and more appropriately to‚ Bill‚ a presumed friend who has died

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    English poet‚ satirist‚ lawyer and priest. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong‚ sensual style and include sonnets‚ love poetry‚ religious poems‚ Latin translations‚ epigrams‚ elegies‚ songs‚ satires and sermons. His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor‚ especially compared to that of his contemporaries. Donne’s style is characterised by abrupt openings and various paradoxes‚ ironies and dislocations

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    An ancient Polynesian canoe An ancient Polynesian canoe. (Courtesy of Herb Kane.) Space Through a multi-disciplinary effort‚ recently enhanced by the contributions of modern Polynesians eager to experience their past‚ a picture is emerging of the development of a seafaring culture oriented toward oceanic exploration. The islands scattered along the north shore of New Guinea first drew these canoe people eastwards into the ocean. By 1500 B.C.‚ these voyagers began moving east beyond New Guinea‚ first

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    and organizational commitment in three maritime organizations. American Journal. Retrieved March 5‚ 2013‚ from http://www.acjournal.org/holdings/vol5iss3/articles/concept.pdf Segrin‚ C.‚ & Nabi‚ R. L. (2002). A manning agencies guide to help seafarers get a job fast. Journal of Communication. Retrieved March 5‚ 2013‚ from http://maritime.com/blog2010/01/ maritime-shipping-and-manning-companied-directories-part-12/ Anderson‚ P. J. (April 2008). Are you aware of your financial status and educational

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    purpose for writing and publishing the poem was to inform you but also to describe what the Author Frank O’Hara was feeling at the moment when he last heard Billie Holiday sing. Frank O’Hara was known to be the poet of all painters. The poem is a elegy which is a poem composed especially as a lament of a deceased person. The poem as a whole was made for the poetic society. The New York Times are known to be America’s paper of record. Whenever people in other countries want to known what is going

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    Ans 2:- Together with the Mystery play and the Miracle play‚ the Morality play is one of the three main types of vernacular verse drama produced during the medieval period in England. The Morality plays attempted to educate via entertainment. It is thought that the Dominican and Franciscan orders of Christian monks developed the morality play in the 13th century by adding actors and theatrical elements to their sermons. By doing so‚ the (mainly illiterate) masses could more easily learn the basics

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    of Percy Shelley‚ Adonais‚ an elegy about the death of John Keats. In modern literature‚ the greatest representation of death is in the work The death of Ivan Ilych by Tolstoy and a short story called The dead by James Joyce. Since colonial times to the nineteenth century‚ the motif of death was very present in the American literature. Scholars such as Gerald Kennedy‚ Wendy Simonds and Barbara Katz noted that this theme was very popular in poetry‚ especially in elegies about maternal grief. Examples

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    meaning. William Blake uses metaphors to make the mind work overtime to find multiple meanings in his work "To See a World in a Grain of Sand"‚ while Chidiock Tichborne uses paradox to baffle the mind and reiterate the single meaning in his work "Elegy‚ Written With His Own Hand Before His Execution". "To See a World in a Grain of Sand" by William Blake is a short poem that is filled with deep meaning. Through the use of metaphors and word choice the work seems lengthy to the mind but short to

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