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    Elegy for Jane Analysis

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    Elegy For Jane By Theodore Roethke Theodore Roethke’s “Elegy for Jane” is a poem of a teacher’s reaction to the tragic death of one of his students‚ Jane. The speaker expresses his sentiments to his deceased student‚ allotting the fact that he had developed some kind of feeling towards Jane. “Over this damp grave I speak the words of my love: I‚ with no rights in this matter‚ Neither father nor lover.” Roethke illustrates the affiliation between the speaker and his student with this line. Society

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    The poems “The Wanderer” and “The Seafarer”‚ found in the Exeter Book with unknown authors‚ represent a lot about what Anglo-Saxon life is about. The Anglo-Saxons are a group of people from the Baltic shores of Germany who drove out the Britons in order to settle the greater part of Britain. The Sutton Hoo treasure‚ composed of ornate weapons and jewelry‚ demonstrated that the Anglo-Saxons were great craftsmen‚ historians‚ scholars‚ and poets disparaging the common depiction of them as barbaric.

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    Poem Summary(Seafarer)

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    Poem Summary(seafarer) Lines 1-5 The elegiac‚ personal tone is established from the beginning. The speaker pleads to his audience about his honesty and his personal self-revelation to come. He tells of the limitless suffering‚ sorrow‚ and pain and his long experience in various ships and ports. The speaker never explains exactly why he is driven to take to the ocean. Lines 6-11 Here‚ the speaker conveys intense‚ concrete images of cold‚ anxiety‚ stormy seas‚ and rugged shorelines. The comparisons

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    Wanderer”‚ is an Old English poem written during the time King Edward died; it discusses a warrior’s lone journey to find a new lord and ponders through thoughts‚ memories‚ and craves companionship. “The Seafarer”‚ is also an Old English poem written during the Anglo-Saxon time‚ it is about a seafarer who longs for the waves of the sea and similar to the wanderer‚ he has no companion. The people described in both poems have very similar characteristics and thoughts that reflect Anglo Saxon warriors

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    election season passes‚ taking the nation’s citizens under its tight grasp. Many feel as if their voices are not heard by “the establishment‚” and resort to the voices of political outsiders to convince them that hope still exists. The memoir Hillbilly Elegy explores this anti-establishment attitude and the group of people who passionately fuel this movement. Sociologically‚ the perspectives of hillbillies are analyzed by one of their own‚ Mr. J.D. Vance. He defines the white underclass as those who promote

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    Beowulf and The Seafarer In a comparison between “Beowulf” and “The Seafarer” one finds two contrasting beliefs in fate and the sea from the story’s main characters. Beowulf is resigned to fate and is humble before the force of the sea‚ while The Seafarer is fearful of the powers of fate and the sea and is unwilling to accept them. Though the actions and thoughts of Beowulf give him a god-like appearance in the story he believes that God and fate work together. He boasts of his encounters

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    According to Vance in Hillbilly Elegy what are the features of the culture and family he comes from that create "...a family and culture in crisis"? The first thing that while reading Hillbilly Elegy that stood out to me was the lack of stability that JD has growing up. He said “I could always distinguish my address from my home” (Vance‚ 1). His address was where they lives‚ got mail‚ just a house that they were able to sleep in every night but his home was a place of security‚ familiarity‚ and stability

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    Donald Hall's Elegy

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    earlier works focused on nature‚ culture‚ and national history. One of his more popular works‚ "An Elegy for Wesley Wells‚" in Exiles and Marriages (1955) displays just this in dynamic balance. Poems such as this also have a side of death and the realistic view on this event in life. By looking at several of Donald Hall’s pieces we notice how his life impacts what he writes about. For example‚ in "In an Elegy for Wesley Wells‚" this famous author was undergoing a death of his grandfather while he was

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    “The Seafarer” contains something that is very particular to it. After analyzing various parts and components of the poem I came to the conclusion that it has two authors; the one that came up with the story and the monk that wrote down the story and added a little Christian reflection in the second part. In line 65‚ we can definitely notice a drastic change in style and in the context. Both parts seem to be two different pieces‚ which they are. All the Anglo-Saxon poems used to be passed down orally

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    Roethke's Elegy For Jane

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    Beyond the natural course of literary pieces‚ unrequited and familial love are the predominant outliers for woeful tales of longing and disastrous ending. However‚ in the poem‚ “Elegy for Jane‚” platonic love resonates as a passionate voice in remembrance to his fallen student‚ Jane‚ who experienced an untimely end by falling from a horse. He speaks from a place of nostalgia‚ connecting her physical attributes to that of nature‚ and finishes with a jaded desire to wake her from an eternal slumber

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