Reflecting back on the two main books we have read‚ Aya and Wild Swans‚ a connection can be main between the main characters of these stories. Aya‚ De-Hong‚ and Jung have very similar character traits even though they are from different times and cultures. A parallel seen between these characters is their independence‚ studious nature‚ and their ambitions to be more than what society deems fit for women in their cultures. Their story of their lives show the importance that these women have for family
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Jung Chang‚ a Chinese-born writer who now resides in London‚ chronicles the history of three generations of women in her family as well as their lives in twentieth century China in her descriptive novel‚ "Wild Swans." As evidenced throughout the story‚ Chang provides her readers with the development of women’s rights‚ customs‚ and traditions as witnessed throughout the development of the Chinese government. Because Chang’s information is derived from her and her family’s personal experiences‚ one
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The Wild Swans at Coole The Wild Swans at Coole by W.B Yeats is one of musicality as it is a direct expression of personal feelings‚ identified as the author’s. The lyrical poem includes three main subjects: setting‚ serving as a correlative to these feelings‚ Swans as the trigger‚ and the poet himself. Written in loosened iambic pentameter and consisting of five six-line stanzas rhymed ‘abcbdd’‚ the poem’s reflective and melancholic mood reflect the time of the poems first appearance. During
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transformation. Similarly in “Wild Swans at Coole”‚ Yeats paints a melancholic landscape of unchanging beauty. The personal context of the poetry‚ converse to “Easter 1916”‚ aids in emphasising Yeats’ consciousness of the ideas of impermanence and timelessness. Yeats starkly contrasts his own “heart which is sore” swan’s hearts which “have not grown old”‚ stressing a tension between youth and age. Yeats portrays his own transient mortality in relation to his age‚ juxtaposed to the swans’ youth‚ a symbol of
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Poetry Commentary: The Wild Swans at Coole by Yeats The Wild Swans at Coole by William Butler Yeats is‚ as the title suggests‚ a poem about a flock of Swans inhabiting the lake at Augusta Gregory ’s Coole Park residence. However‚ the theme of the poem is change and unrequited love‚ presumably inspired by the transformation Europe‚ and Yeats himself‚ underwent in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The poem is written in a consistently contemplative and plaintive tone‚ and it seems the poet is experiencing
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The Affection of Vanity; behind the scenes of “The Little Mermaid” and “The Wild Swans” I believe that the stories ”The Little Mermaid” and ”The Wild Swans” are fundamentally about vanity and the craving for self-satisfaction by main characters in each story. Hans Christian Andersen was born on the 2nd of April‚ 1805‚ in the city of Odense outside of Copenhagen in Denmark. He was a Danish author who wrote lyrical poems‚ fairy tales and novels. He was known as H.C. Andersen throughout the
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Jung Chang’s Wild Swans Christina Ku (Student ID: 050788207) Yunxiang Gao HST 555: Section II: History of Modern China I (1644-1949) Wednesday‚ November 14‚ 2007. As China faced new international pressures and the change to a communist society‚ gender relations transformed women from servants of men to full independent workers‚ who finally became soldiers of the communist state. In Jung Chang’s novel‚ Wild Swans‚ the three women – grandmother Yu-Fang‚ mother Bao-Qin and daughter Jung Chang
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Easter 1916‚ Wild Swans at Coole and Second Coming The timeless essence and the ambivalence in Yeats’ poems urge the reader’s response to relevant themes in society today. This enduring power of Yeats’ poetry‚ influenced by the Mystic and pagan influences is embedded within the textual integrity drawn from poetic techniques and structure when discussing relevant contextual concerns. “Wild Swans at Coole”‚ “Easter 1916” and “The Second Coming” encapsulate the romanticism in his early poetry
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speech of man" and this concept is reflected deeply in his poetic works as he expresses concerns and ideas of close regard to himself and makes them memorable to the reader through his linguistic craftsmanship and mastery of poetic techniques. The Wild Swans At Coole (hereafter WS) examines the theme of intimate change and personal yearning‚ whilst The Second Coming (hereafter SC) examines change in context with cultural dissolution and fear. It is because Yeats’ poetry is so deeply grounded in his
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REPORT TOPIC: Rural Development and Three Rural Problem in China; To what extent China Resources Hope Town Project Helps to Solve Three Rural Problems in Guang Xi? Currently‚ around 900 million of China’s population‚ which account for around 70% of China’s total population and 22% of world population lives on around 2 billion mu (1 mu = 1/15 of a hectare) cultivable land accounting for 7% of world total cultivable land‚ and on average a peasant household survives on 1.5 mu of land (Zhang et. Al
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