Explication of "The Flea" John Donne’s "The Flea" (rpt. in Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson‚ Perrine’s Literature: Structure‚ Sound‚ and Sense‚ 8th ed. [Fort Worth: Harcourt‚ 2002] 890-891) explains that a teenage male will say almost anything in order to seduce a woman. The reader discovers that "The Flea" is about a man who is quick on his feet‚ clever‚ and persistent in trying to win the woman. With his poem‚ Donne also gives the reader an insight to his own life as a Casanova before entering
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about the Noh drama masks‚ as the masks are the soul of the Noh drama. Without the masks‚ most people wouldn’t realize that this is the Noh drama; the masks are very important as a symbol for the Noh drama. Besides being symbolic of the Noh drama‚ the masks also include much history and skill. The four topics I am going to talk about in this research paper are the history of the masks‚ how they were made‚ the different types of masks‚ and the changing of the expressions on the mask. The histories
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Do Not Go Gentle- Explication In the poem “Do Not Go gentle into That Good Night” written by Dylan Thomas is a poem about death and how we all will die eventually but we shouldn’t restrict ourselves and should live how we want to live. The first line of the poem “Do not go gentle into that good night” what Thomas is saying is that you should not go gentle or quietly‚ that we should not just die but do something with our lives. The third line of the poem “Rage‚ rage against the dying of the light
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In “The Mask of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe a prominent theme is that people can’t just run away from your problems‚ eventually‚ they will catch up to them. In “The Mask of the Red Death” is very clear that the main problem in the story‚ it is the red death. The red death is not meant to be thought of as real plague; it is a symbolism for the problems that await us and in the case of the book‚ the problem of death. The people inside the castle are sheltering themselves from the red death. They
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Dudley Randall’s “Ballad of Birmingham” is a look into the effects of racism on a personal level. The poem is set in Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. The tone of the title alludes to the city of Birmingham as a whole. The poem gives the reader‚ instead‚ a personal look into a tragic incident in the lives of a mother and her daughter. The denotation of the poem seems to simply tell of the sadness of a mother losing her child. The poem’s theme is one of guilt‚ irony‚ and the grief
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Daniel Okolo Antigone Mask Project In the Greek Theatre‚ the actors used masks in order to communicate the characters to the audience. One actor could play several different characters‚ and each character would have several masks‚ in order to show different emotions. Choose two different characters in Antigone. Complete the character analysis worksheet below for each character. Design a mask for each of those characters. Trace the shape of your face on a large sheet of paper. The mask should cover the
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Brownjohn We are going to see the rabbit. We are going to see the rabbit. Which rabbit‚ people say? Which rabbit ‚ ask the children? Which rabbit? The only rabbit‚ The only rabbit in England‚ Sitting behind a barbed-wire fence Under the floodlights‚ neon lights‚ Sodium lights‚ Nibbling grass On the only patch of grass In England‚ in England (except the grass by the hoardings Which doesn’t count.) We are going to see the rabbit And we must be there on time. First we shall go by
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in a brilliant poem written by a compassionate and hard working woman of the 20th century. Struggling to to accept her father’s way of separating English from Spanish‚ Rhina Espaillat‚ in her poem‚ “Bilingual/Bilingue”‚ shows a personal account of the realities of bilingualism and how it is possible to overcome language and culture barriers to learn a second language. As the speaker‚ Espailat uses rhyming couplets to make “Bilingual/Bingue‚” the nine stanzas‚ eighteen lines poem‚ flow smoothly
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Explication of Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 73” In “Sonnet 73‚” William Shakespeare utilizes a somber mood‚ strong imagery‚ and intense metaphors‚ which construct a window into the soul of a dying old man for Shakespeare’s audience to visualize the dreadful oncoming of death and question the meaning of life. “Sonnet 73” is identical in structure to Shakespeare’s other sonnets with three quatrains and ending in a couplet. In the three quatrains Shakespeare compares the narrator to the transition from
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Stephney Keller S. Baker Eng. 1302.341 09/20/2010 My Window of Sadie and Maud This poem dramatizes the conflict between social acceptance and true happiness‚ specifically with its ironic depiction of the lives of two sisters. The theme of this poem is based on its structure and symbolism. The poet is using this poem to show her feelings regarding the limited opportunities that were available for African American women in this society. The narrative four quatrain
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