Sonnet 18
.... remain the same at all times. "…thy…shall not fade." He places an exclamation on that line by using the word eternal. It gives us the feeling that her beauty is one that will last until the end of the earth. Shakespeare then goes on to speak about how exquisite she is. She is different from everyone because she will always have what she has now unlike others that will lose it. Even if death looms before her he has to right or reason to "brag." She will not pale in his shadow .....
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Sonnet 43
.... have dealt with the topic of love. In this sonnet there are several examples of repetition of words within the same line.
The first two lines of Sonnet 43 start with the speaker declaring that he sees best when he closes his eyes, for all day he views things that go by unheeded, or are unworthy to look upon, when compared to the looks of the beloved. There are not many literary mechanisms in the first two lines. Both lines are end stopped, the first with a comma, and the second with a semi colon. .....
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Sonnet 72
.... line 1
2nd sentence: lines 2 - 8
3rd sentence: lines 9 - 14
This is a Shakespearean sonnet with no characteristics of a Petrarchan sonnet.
GLOSSARY
Temperate moderate
Darling very dear
Lease the term during which possession is guaranteed
Date the time during which something lasts
Complexion colour, visible aspect, appearance
To decline to diminish, decrea .....
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Special Delivery
.... the story when riding away in the cab taking sonny home, "…, it came to me that what we both were seeking through our separate cab windows was that part of ourselves which had been left behind". They both are desperate to find faded memories that are left behind of their childhood before the pain and misery came to their life. Once for a short while they were happy before the death of their parents, little Gracie, and use of drugs. Harlem is not what it use to be to Sonny and his brother, now they can .....
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Spelling And Differently - Analysis
.... Flo was in a cage and spelling words like the old patient she met in the nursing home. Rose tells Flo about her visit to the nursing home and is obviously trying to influence Flo into going to the home. Flo is suffering from some sort of dementia, perhaps Alzheimer's. In this story the author doesn't tell the characters ages, Rose's occupation, and other information necessary to develop a clear picture. Instead, Munro makes the reader use more of ones imagination in developing the story. Although Munro is .....
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Spelling Of Emigre Russians
.... topic with Russians. A good friend of mine took a diktant at Moscow University and made 45 spelling mistakes (the acceptable number was 6). A native of Moscow, he had been living in France for the previous 6 years and had only returned to Moscow one month prior to the diktant. When looking at his paper, I noticed that he had made the same mistakes over and over again: single instead of double ‘Ì’, ‘ý’ instead of unstressed ‘Ó', ‘°’ after the intrinsically hard consonants instea .....
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Spin Cycle
.... the White House are constantly frustrated at the stonewalling and the lack of cooperation they encounter while trying to do their jobs. In the middle is the White House press secretary Mike McCurry, a master at defusing volatile situations and walking the fine line with the press. Though less paranoid and cynical of the media than Clinton, he often finds himself on both ends of personal attacks and vendettas that veer far outside the arena of objective reporting. The anecdotes and carefully buried in .....
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Spirit Of The Game
.... example of a 1920-1950s-hockey team. Not one player on the team tried to put their own individual statistics before the team, no matter how good they were. With this intense team playing style they won the Stanley cup the following season. The next and final chapter in section 1 was Behind the Bench. The most substantial role is not being played on the ice, but behind the bench by the coaches. The coaches in any sport set the tone and mood of their team. During the game the coach is probably ranked hi .....
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Spoon River
.... the soul from splitting into cellular atoms." The quotes are metaphors of the people who are always changing their minds because of what other people say and end up doing something they regret so badly, they begin to fall apart emotionally and financially. "While we seekers of earth's treasure, getters and hoarders of gold are self-contained, compact and harmonized." That quote is a metaphor for people who are always trying to find news ways to make more money and those who don't like to spend their mo .....
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Spotted Horses
.... trials and tribulations of life. By using graphically realistic plots and endings, which are consistent to those in real life, interpretive literature achieves a higher literary value than escape literature. Interpretive literature allows its reader too step out of the fantasy world they might be living in and focus on what the world is really about. One might say an interpretive story provides insight to understanding. Not only understanding of ourselves, but our neighbors, friends, family or anyone e .....
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Spring Silkworms
.... people to spin the silk. They were never be able to get out of debt. It is amazing how they managed to survive under such poor economy. Things such as predicting harvest by the amount of sprouts that a garlic put out, the way they isolated Lotus believing that she would bring bad luck to them just because her family had a bad harvest, and Huang's interest in Taoism, they were all somehow reflection of Mao's affection. Just around the same period of time, he has been encouraging the peasants for abandoning .....
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Spring Time
.... picking the glamorous flowers while the boys could diving hteir kites int he blue sky.
in the yellow-shiny sunset, the salty wind has brought calmness and peacefulness in a way that everyone admires to spend their times to feel the warmness and the comfortness with the love ones on the paving stone while the triumph of the whisper of waves that wash on the shore. the fun of building sanded castle and splashing of water that friends and family experience is like the memories taht stamping on the r .....
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Steamboats In Louisiana
.... increased to 735. These steamboats were christened "floating palaces with luxurious quarters, world class food well stoked bars and wealthy passengers. In1937 riverboat travel entered the passenger boat era.
Calliopes were used on the boats to let people know that the boat was docked. The name "calliope" comes from the Greek goddess "muse of sound."
The paddle wheels were mounted either on the side or back of the boat. After the Civil War, the stern (back of the bo .....
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Stephen King
.... when Stephen’s father Donald, a Merchant Marine captain, left one day, to go the store to buy a pack of cigarettes, and never returned. His fathers leaving had a big indirect impact on King’s life. In the autobiographical work Danse Macabre, Stephen King recalls how his family life was altered: "After my father took off, my mother, struggled, and then landed on her feet." My brother and I didn’t see a great deal of her over the next nine years. She worked a succession of continuous low payin .....
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Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
.... direction to take, whether to live as the moral man that he is, or to take the easy way out by taking his own life. Frost portrays "The darkest evening of the year," as the speaker comes to the end of his road.
In the third stanza, while the speaker is giving "His harness bells a shake," he is really contemplating and asking himself if he should go through with the suicide.
The restful imagery of "lovely, dark and, deep" provides a simple, peaceful, and calm feeling that attracts the sp .....
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