country. The persona looks at his love for his country along with his mistress and the heartbreak that is inflicted with his choices. The persona admits that they cannot make excuses for his mistress does not take precedence over the personas country‚ however he still commits treason against his country by being seduced by his mistress’s beauty and protection. The persona hopes that his country will forgive him for choosing his mistress. In both the poems the personas give a feeling of guilt in their
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Laura. In Petrarchan poetry‚ the mistress is chaste and remote and the male lover is constant in his devotion‚ often dying of unrequited love for a distant and aloof mistress. This attitude to love became known as courtly love But here the lady is no longer remote‚ but in the bedroom‚ and the poet no longer a passive servant but an active lover. While in SONNET 130 SHAKESPEARE actually satirizes Petrarch’s style and musings as his narrator describes his mistress‚ whose “eyes are nothing like the
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different. Andrew Marvell’s “To his Coy Mistress” from the 1600s was wrote in the traditional lens. While A.D. Hope’s “His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell” from the modern times took the feminist route in his reply to Andrew Marvell. Marvell uses exaggerated metaphors to persuade his beloved woman. Instead of the normalcy of respectful adulation‚ he offers lustful invitation; rather than anticipating rejection‚ he assumes sexual dominion over the eponymous “mistress”. Meanwhile Hope uses Marvell’s words
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each other it is said that they are "in love" and this can give meaning to what is commonly referred to as a love poem. Poets John Donne and Andrew Marvell write such poetry however‚ their poems "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"‚ and "To His Coy Mistress"‚ consider two different concepts. Although they are addressing love‚ they are dealing with different aspects of it. The two poems can be contrasted in form‚ poetic devices such as symbols‚ tone‚ rhyme‚ and the rhythmical pattern. Symbols and
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scaffold for three hours openly acknowledging her sin of adultery. (Chapter 2) Forest a free world and a dark world where no Puritan law exists First‚ the forest is characterized as a dark place‚ home of the "black man of the forest" or the devil. Mistress Hibbins tries to get Hester to come to the forest and meet the black man after she almost loses custody of Pearl. Light/Dark Forest is light and dark Tombstone is light and dark Prison is dark‚ Hester comes out into sudden light Scaffold is light
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like her teacher treated her. Changing a name of a child is a confusing matter for the child to understand. A child is a stranger when it comes down to lying. Most children‚ from ages of 3-6‚ are innocent and do not know how to lie. The head mistress changed Permila’s name to Pamela‚ and Santha’s name to Cynthia. Santha was too young to understand and was okay with the name changing. Permila kept a “stubborn silence” while Santha replied‚ “thanks you.” And when the teacher asked Santha for her
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130 Author: William Shakespeare (British‚ 1564-1616) A My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; B Coral is far more red than her lips’ red; A If snow be white‚ why then her breasts are dun; B If hairs be wires‚ black wires grow on her head. C I have seen roses damask’d‚ red and white‚ D But no such roses see I in her cheeks; C And in some perfumes is there more delight D Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. E I love to hear her speak‚ yet well I know F That
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an essay written by Mr. Frederick Douglass. The essay is about a young boy in the age of the slaves. Mr. Frederick Douglass was a slave that had begun to be taught how to read by his mistress‚ his mistress was directed by her husband to stop teaching him how to read. At this point it was very difficult for his mistress to treat him like chattel‚ but with given time her tender heart became stone‚ even though she was the one who had started teaching Mr. Frederick Douglass how to read nothing made her
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goddess go‚ / My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.” (lines 11-12). No woman will ever be a goddess even if they are compared or contrasted to one. Goddess are very beautiful but even if they do not look like one they can and still have beauty. When he says she walks treads on the ground what he means is she is heavy footed. The word choice he used such as “goddess” and “treads” have an effective meaning as to why he does not compare her as how others compare their mistress’ beauty to the
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and whiter than the moon now. But looked back on after thirty years on a rough road‚ the best of moons is apt to be tinged with sadness. The moonlight reached the side of Feng-hsiao pillow. She was a slave girl brought by the bride‚ the new Third Mistress of the Chiangs. She opened her eyes to take a look and saw her own blue-white hand on the half-worn blanket faced with quilted Korean silk. "Is it moonlight?" she said to herself. She slept on a pallet on the floor under the window. The last couple
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