two. “This miserable mode / Maintain the melancholy souls of those / Who lived withouten infamy or praise.../ The heavens expelled them‚ not to be less fair / Nor them the nethermore abyss receives / For glory none the damned would have from them” (Dante 15. 34-36‚ 40-42). Because they never bled for a cause during their lifetime‚ they are fated to bleed now. Wasps and flies sting them as they stumble in the darkness and worms feed and fester in their open wounds. Yes‚ they might followed all of the
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Jeffrey Rivet "I’M NOT SCARED" DIRECTOR: Gabriel Salvatores: Salvatores‚ A Writer‚ actor‚ and director. Born on July 30th‚ 1950 In naples. He moved to Milan and started his career as a theatre director in 1972. For most of the 70’s and the 80’s he directed everything that was shown at Elf’s Theater. His popularity among italians was growing immensely. His style of directing was classified as Avant Garde or "cutting edge". A style that i think he has continued to use today. As a director
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Analysis of the poem “Remember” by Christina Rossetti This poem is composed by fourteen lines that are divided in two quatrains with four lines‚ and one sestet follow the structure of the Italian sonnets. The structure of the poem is iambic pentameter because it has five feets‚ the rhyme is abba‚ abba‚ cdde‚ ce. In the first stanza‚ Rossetti conveys an infinite need to stay alive in the memory of her love even when natural events in the lives of people‚ such as death and separation may come
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“Remember” is a sonnet by a poetess of Victorian England‚ Christina Rossetti. The poem was written in 1849 but was first published in 1862 in “Goblin Market and Other Poems” by Rossetti (Petacovic‚ 2009). Rossetti suffered from ill health throughout her life (Shanks‚ 2010); she seemed to be obsessed with her death and therefore wrote several poems (“Song”‚ “The One Certainty”) exploring the theme of death. Christina Rossetti was only 19 when she wrote “Remember”. Scholars believe that the poem
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‘A birthday’ by Christina Rossetti was written to express her emotions of happiness and new life after finding her true love. The title ‘A birthday’ is ambiguous‚ she does this deliberately to mislead the reader and introduce a new idea to the mean of having a birthday. At first sighting of the title must readers would assume that the poem is based on some one celebrating their birthday; however the actual meaning behind it is she feels reborn and happy after finding the love of her life. By hiding
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Inferno is the first part of Dante Alighieri’s 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy. Inferno is an allegory telling of the journey of Dante through Hell‚ guided by the Roman poet Virgil. In the poem‚ Hell is described as nine circles of suffering located within the Earth. Allegorically‚ the Divine Comedy represents the journey of the soul towards God‚ with the Inferno describing the recognition and rejection of sin. Because Dante is an educated Christian‚ he uses mythological references to make Hell
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The Inferno provides a journey of Dante through hell with the guidance of an ancient Roman in the poem. Throughout the poem‚ hell is identified as a series of nine circles of troubles and misfortunes which are present in the world. It is the consequence of the people who have denied the attributes connected to spirituality and desire earthly pleasures and violence. The individuals who suffer in the circles have inflicted malice or fraud in the lives of other human beings. Dante’s Inferno describes
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold This passage from Marquez’ Chronicle of a Death Foretold displays numerous elements that through careful analysis‚ can reveal the society in which the characters live and throw some light on the character of the puzzling Santiago Nasar. The extract is taken from the first few pages of the . It presents the first instance in which the reader is exposed tochronicle Santiago Nasar’s darker side‚ and gives a number of accounts of the series
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suggests Gabriel’s extreme consciousness‚ especially about himself‚ is the main cause for his struggle between stagnation and change‚ which gradually creates a state of paralysis that he is physically alive but yet spiritually dead. Within the story‚ Gabriel is portrayed as a man who is very sensitive about his own identity. He considers himself or at least strives to give others an impression that he is an intellectual who is well-educated‚ and yet Gabriel’s “ sense of superior
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Dante wakes up and he is exposed to the strongest odor crawl into his nose. He sees a bright light‚ and wonders if it is heaven but he is on a sweaty and moist floor. The mist has a putrid smell of eucalyptus and male fragrance‚ in combination with the smell of a Protein shaker bottle left inside a gym for a month. He gets up and walks toward the dim light in the other room‚ as he walks through this room‚ and Boom! A 10 Foot 750 pound man of forty years of age stands over Dante. The man flexes his
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