In Alan Moore’s The Watchmen‚ Moore presents the reader with two drastically different characters who have one strikingly similar trait. Ozymandias is a handsome‚ rich‚ public‚ and powerful man. Rorschach is an ugly‚ poor‚ private‚ and almost worthless man. Despite all of these contrasts‚ they share a common philosophy: they believe that the ends justify the means. This is a major theme of the story‚ and through it Moore causes the reader the ask themselves the question - do the ends justify the
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One of the tools that are extremely hard to implement in essays but are often useful in poems are paradoxes. For example‚ Emily Dickinson’s poem “Much Madness Is Divinest Sense — (620)” welcomes her readers with a paradox “Madness is Divinest Sense‚” in which she claims that not all madness‚ but a lot of it‚ is “Divinest‚” or most rational. Dickinson argues that “Madness” as defined by the status quo is‚ most of the time‚ sane. Dickinson “To a discerning Eye.” She clarifies that people with good
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Revised Syllabus Assignments and Due Dates April 9‚ 2011 English 214: Introduction to Fiction Professor PearsonEmail: vpearsonacecc@gmail.comRM 301 (816) 418-1078Office Hours: A-Day (10:50-1:00) B-Day (7:30-9:10) After School: 2:30-3:30 or by appointment | | | | Tentative Schedule of Assignments/Cognitive Reflections/Essays: April 4-April 8 | April 6: Reading Poetry pp. 743-750 a. Read Robert Frances‚ “Catch” pp. 750-751 b. A Sample Student Analysis pp. 751-754. c
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Individualism‚ Balance and Nature Hannah Costley Veering away from the conventional attitude‚ fuelled by ideas of individualism and political liberty‚ authors‚ poets‚ intellects and playwrights played a part in the Romantic Movement of 1790-1860. Influenced by the French Revolution and the works of Jean Jacques Rousseau and William Godwin‚ intellectuals and artists strove to breakaway from the scientific mindset and enter a world that glorified natural sublimity and the equilibrium of nature.
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Blake’s optics in demeanor of cathedral’s codified religion and his mystification of God and religion. “I am in God’s presence night and day And he never turns his face away.” William Blake I am perplexed by the lines as if it has some magnetic gusto to realize belief and his spiritual world. We can easily figure out William Blake ’s artistic accomplishment in scrutiny of the spiritual world of human experience which is also the cardinal theme as
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another it may be Thomas Hardy’s “Channel Firing.” In my personal opinion‚ William Blake’s poem‚ “The Tyger” is one of the world’s greatest poems because of the poet’s use of the various literary and sound devices including: alliteration‚ consonance‚ assonance and repetition‚ among others‚ and also because of the poet’s use of questions to create a sense of mystery. First of all‚ Blake’s poem‚ “The Tyger” is comprised of six quatrains in rhymed couplets‚ and the meter is regular and rhythmic‚ as its
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Alexander’s Feast. Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Locke. The Dunciad. Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels Henry Fielding: Tom Jones Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto William Blake: The Lamb‚ The Black Boy‚
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English 2323 Reading Assignment 1 The Romantic Period (1785-1832) Online Period Introduction Overview and Period Introduction Quizzes I am assigning the online period introduction overviews and online quizzes for both the 8th and 9th editions of The Norton Anthology of English Literature (NAEL) because each provides some information that the other does not. As you will see in the reading list below‚ I have also assigned the introduction to this literary period in your textbook and provided the
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is god-like * Rebellion and non-conformity * Finding beauty and inspiration in nature * Good and evil two sides of same coin – both embraced * Below‚ poems 3 and 5 are typically Romantic. 3 sees that God/artist creates both the tiger and the lamb. 5 finds comfort in
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Romantic period? -William Blake Nowadays when people talked about “romantic” or “romance”‚ usually indicated that of the opposite of ration and reason. Rousseau pointed out that romance is to go back to nature‚ However‚ Heine in the other way thought that romance is to go back to the life style of middle age‚ while Hugo considered romance as the combination of tragedy and quaintness. Romance to me‚ is the opposite of civilization‚ ration‚ and reality‚ just like the typical tension between
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