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    Some Readers think the ballad form limits their interest in The Ancient Mariner. What is your view of Coleridge’s use of this form? In the Rime of the Ancient Mariner‚ Coleridge employs the ballad form to contrast the traditional with the exotic through this he forms a poem full of supernatural elements that is easily accessible. The ballad form was a typical form of medieval poetry that was revived by the Romantics as it symbolised a form representative of an idealised past. It is also associated

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    Glasgow Sonnet Essay

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    Glasgow sonnet is a touching poem written by Edwin Morgan and is about how Glasgow used to be‚ years ago and the effects that it had on people. It deals with an important issue such as poverty and we see the reality of it and how it shouldn’t be ignored. By examining Morgans use of techniques we will be able to seen more of the effects of poverty and how and things actually are Morgans makes the poem particularly effective by the use of sonnet structure‚ the first 8 lines show us the area and the

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    “The Power Ballad and the Power of Sentimentality‚” Metzer discusses how the power ballad‚ sentimentality‚ and uplift are connected. A ballad‚ as stated in the article‚ is a type of song that narrates a story in short stanzas but also has musical characteristics within it. What separates a ballad from a power ballad is emotional intensity. Ballads conjure up emotions in people‚ but power ballads conjure up more profound emotions. Metzer’s article clarifies the differences between ballads and power

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    Holy Sonnet Diction

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    Holy Sonnet XIX Oh‚ to vex me‚ contraries meet in one: Inconstancy unnaturally hath begot A constant habit; that when I would not I change in vows‚ and in devotion. As humorous is my contrition As profrane love‚ and as soon forgot: As riddingly distempered‚ cold and hot‚ As praying‚ as mute; as infinite‚ as none. I durst not view in heaven yesterday; and today In prayers and flattering speeches I court God: Tomorrow I wake with true fear of his rod. So my devout fits come and go away Like

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    Sonnet 79 Analysis

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    Poetry Analysis Essay Sonnet 79 by Edmund Spenser is organized into three quatrains and a couplet. In this poem Spenser addresses his wife and tells how he does not pay close attention to outward appearances‚ but greatly admires a woman’s internal beauty. In the first quatrain Spenser starts by saying that men call the women beautiful and she herself knows it is true also. Then he states that he believes the truly beautiful are the ones with "gentle wit" and "virtuous mind." In the next quatrain

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    anger. It is apparent that the narrator in “the mother” is suffering from some of these feelings too‚ and wants to shut down and rationalize her choices. She begins strongly‚ describing the fetuses as “damp‚ small pulps with a little or with no hair” (Brooks‚ 71)‚ very distant‚ clinical terms‚ perhaps even the way they were described to her. This terminology dehumanizes‚ helping the narrator emotionally distance herself. However‚ every description used thereafter is intensely human and personal. The narrator

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    William Shakespeare wrote a group of 154 sonnets between 1592 and 1597‚ which were compiled and published under the title Shakespeare’s Sonnets in 1609. Our attention will focus on sonnet 12‚ a remarkable and poignant poem about the relentless passing of time‚ the fading beauty‚ immortality‚ death and Old Age‚ these subjects being typical of all Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Time is omnipresent in everyone’s life‚ just passing and passing inexorably‚ relentlessly‚ so unstoppable. It is a universal problem

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    ‘And so the rest of us set about learning to live in the wide green prison of our own election.’ What do the characters learn about themselves and their relationships with others? Geraldine Brooks’ novel ‘Year of Wonders’ is a factual retelling of an infamous historical event‚ interwoven with an insightful exploration of diverse facets of human nature evoked when faced with adverse circumstances. With the arrival of the bubonic plague in the village of Eyam‚ its inhabitants are subsequently imprisoned

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    On William Wordsworth’s Preface to Lyrical Ballads The late 18th century saw a fundamental change in the historically rigid structure of poetry‚ as witnessed by the collection of poems entitled Lyrical Ballads‚ penned by William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge. At first deemed an experiment‚ Lyrical Ballads garnered enough interest and favor to warrant Wordsworth’s “Preface to Lyrical Ballads” in 1802‚ as an introduction to the second edition of the collection. This revolutionary preface became

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    Mel Brooks A Jewish Comedy

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    World‚ Part I. The other form is to use certain aspects of Judaism for comedic value. This form‚ is typically used by Brooks

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