“The Swimmer” is a story written by the American author John Cheever‚ a story about a man who decides to get home by swimming across all the pools in his country. In the story‚ the author widely uses symbolism through which he shows how Neddy spends his live striving for material success and how he ends up losing more important values as his family and friends. Neddy’s journey through the pools on his way home represent the phrases of time that one has to pass through his life‚ showing that the
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and emphasizes his arrogance‚ Fitzgerald’s passage focuses more on denouncing Gatsby’s impractical hope and ludicrous belief in reliving the past (110). The phone mentioned in Sexton’s poem is also symbolic in The Great Gatsby. In the poem‚ the mistress is being placed “like a phone‚ back on the hook” by her lover‚ demonstrating how temporary their romance is and how hooked on the woman is (18). Indeed‚ she is waiting at his command to be used again when he desires. Likewise‚ Gatsby waits for Daisy’s
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with a great concern for his good name. Emilia - Iago’s wife and Desdemona’s attendant. A cynical‚ worldly woman‚ she is deeply attached to her mistress. Roderigo - A jealous suitor of Desdemona. A vain‚ melodramatic fool‚ he follows Desdemona and Othello to Cyprus and acts as a willing tool for Iago. Bianca - A courtesan in Cyprus‚ and Cassio’s mistress. Brabantio - Desdemona’s father‚ and a Senator in Venice. A friend of Othello‚ he feels betrayed when the Moor marries his daughter in secret
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but a different kind‚ one that is purely an act of love. By combining the two in a literary work‚ it detracts from the aesthetic quality of it‚ undermining the message behind the poem‚ making it no longer about love‚ but lust. The poem “To His Coy Mistress” is a perfect example of how placing love and sex together in a poem takes away from the work‚ leaving the reader less impacted by the poem as a whole. Love is an amazing emotion‚ something that no one can quite understand‚ and that never changes
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women in society at the time - that opinion being that women are lesser in society than men. The three women with active roles in Measure for Measure are: Mistress Overdone‚ a bawd who is arrested for her occupation; Isabella‚ whose ambition is to become a nun; and Mariana‚ who was jilted by Angelo for not having a large enough dowry. Mistress Overdone is presented as a strong‚ independent character‚ which contrasts the societal views of women during the 17th century. This can be seen when she
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The Immortality of Literature Immortality is not impossible to achieve‚ it is in fact a very possible thing through literature. In Sonnet 75 by Edmund Spenser‚ the speaker tells a brief tale about himself and his mistress‚ debating about mortality one day at the beach. In Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare‚ the persona is speaking to his lover via the poem; he compliments him and states that his beauty will live on forever through this poem. Sonnet 75 by Spenser and
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Robert Herrick‚ write more about living life for today and living life like there is no tomorrow. Andrew Marvel‚ a metaphysical writer‚ stated‚"But at my back I always hear Time’s winged chariot hurrying near‚"(679). In this quote from "To His Coy Mistress‚" Marvel expresses Time as a chariot
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Some people say that a person’s fate is pre-determined. That nothing they do in life is by accident and everything that one does has been decided by a higher power. In Romeo and Juliet‚ Shakespeare explores the theme of fate by allowing the audience to be party to his characters’ destiny. In the opening lines of the play the audience is told what is going to happen to the lovers‚ “a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.” Throughout the story‚ the audience is put in an omnipotent‚ god-like
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helps explain what the sonnet is saying and might have underlying meaning in the sonnet. Three sonnets that are affected by their structure are‚ “Sonnet” written by Billy Collins‚ “A Wedding Sonnet for the Next Generation” by Judith Viorst‚ and “My Mistress’ Eyes are nothing Like the Sun” by William Shakespeare. Sonnets are fourteen line poems that‚ most regularly‚ are found with an eight line section (octave) and a six line section (sestet). The octave is commonly divided into two four line sections
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features cannot be contained in the typical features of the zebra‚ the leopard‚ or the peacock. Interestingly‚ the word “some” works similarly to “a” in that it allows for variability and multiplicity. “Some penanced lady elf‚” and “some demon’s mistress” indicate that Lamia could compare to a host of lady elves or any number of demons’
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