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- 13061: John Keats
- ... the age of eight when his father died. John’s mother, Frances Jennings, did not take long to recover from her husband’s death because she later married only two months after. Frances and her new wed husband, William Rawlings, had a terrible marriage from the start. As a result, the children were sent to their grandmother’s and will later be joined by Frances when she left William with the ... something that he wrote to fit your interests. It is comical to think that he has about five to six poems that he worked on for a vast number of years where in today’s world people of all ages can come up with good wholesome poetry in a matter of hours. However, I’m not sure what they write and how much of it they do will have the impact ...
- 13062: To Autumn by John Keats
- ... thirty, is another sign of richness, can suggest the lambs who will be born to the songs of next spring, and so the cycle of the year turns onward from plenty to desolation back to new growth. The poem enacts an affirmation of faith in the processes of life and change. In this poem more fully than in any other, Keats allows created life to flow in upon him and rich ... but the generations renew himself. The poem experiences these facts and unflinchingly comes to terms with him. Such a poem is an enduring nourishment to one’s humanity; it alerts one’s vision of the world and it grafts itself into the spirit and the memory.
- 13063: Ozymandias
- ... and the lines inscribed upon his statue are a sermon to those who read it. The tone of "Ozymandias" is one of lamentation, a sorrow that a statue proclaiming Ozymandias as the greatest king the world has ever known is now reduced to rubble; and not just the physical aspect but the glory of the king is also long forgotten. In Shelley's "Ozymandias",there are two speakers; the first speaker ... others of the consequences of poor human relations. Ozymandias is effective in its fight against resistance to our stubborn modes of thought. It forces the reader to probe into their psyche and come out with new answers to these near rhetorical questions. The only limitations that the philosophical critique is subject to is the beliefs and morals of different readers are often as different as their fingerprints. These differences cause different ...
- 13064: Analysis of Stephen Crane's "War Is Kind"
- ... accomplishes this in his book. Crane thereafter, got a real taste of combat, when he covered the Greco-Turkish War in 1897 and the Spanish-American War in 1898 as a war correspondent for The New York Journal newspaper. It was during these two conflicts that he perhaps drew the conclusion that war was not a glorious thing and only the purveyor of the slaughter of young men. His graphic description ... I came to the conclusion that he was one of the few war protestors in the late 19th century. This Anti-War sentiment later grew into a crescendo of anti-war protests, before the reluctant World War I entry of the United States in 1918. To paraphrase the present thinking in the armed forces, our all-volunteer military is focused on preventing conflicts rather than seeking glory in it. If this ...
- 13065: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning: Love Between Two People
- ... love resided in the heavens, among the crystal spheres of the Ptolemaic universe. Even when there is “trepidation” or trembling of the spheres, it is “innocent” -- it will cause no harm or damage in the world below (lines 11-12). Donne continues to refer to the Ptolemaic universe in the fourth and fifth stanzas. In the fourth stanza, ordinary earth-bound lovers are caught up in the physical presence of the ... universal theme, the huge apparent differences bring the mortal love between the speaker and his lady to a level of perfection above earthly faults. Works Cited Damrosch, L. et al., eds. Adventures in English Literature. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1985. Donne, John. “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning.” The Harbrace Anthology of Literature. Ed. Jon C. Scott, et al. Toronto: Harcourt Brace & Comp., 1994. 99-101.
- 13066: Alfred Hitchcock
- Alfred Hitchcock is one of the most well known directors of all time bringing murder and mystery to a new light. His films, starting in 1925 with "The Pleasure Garden" and ending in 1976 with the film "Family Plot", set a precedent for all other directors in the film industry. Many story lines and techniques ... Hitchcock did not start out as a brilliant director, but instead started from the very bottom of the business. As a young man Hitchcock was raised and lived in England with his parents. When a new Paramount studio opened he rushed to get a job there having had interest in film making for quite a bit of time. He was employed at Paramount as a "title designer" for silent films meaning ... standard all directors should work by in my opinion. "The 39 Steps" is the ultimate murder mystery with a nice twist of espionage. The main male character is a man named Richard Hannay who is new to London. After a scuffle breaks out at the theater he is approached by a woman, Annabella, who asks if she may go home with him. He allows her to and soon finds out ...
- 13067: Dylan Thomas's Use of Language
- ... adult point of view, time was toying with him, "Time let me hail and climb" and "Time let me play and be" and then he must leave his privileged land of childhood and face the world as an adult (Masterplots). Thomas' poem "The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower", is a carefully sculptured poem of four stanzas and a coda, its twenty-two lines create power and puzzlement ... T. Lawerence. Grolier Encyclopedia of Knowledge. Danbury: Grolier Inc., 1994. Magill, Frank, ed. Masterplots II: Poetry Series. Lord, Russel; Price, Jonathan; Steele, Thomas; Pasadena: Salem Press Inc., 1992. Masterplots Complete 1999. On Cd-Rom. Microsoft. New York: Salem Press Inc., 1999. Outline: Thesis: Thomas uses different techniques and language to make the poem more effective to the reader. I. Introduction A. Brief History of Thomas' life B. How Thomas alters to ...
- 13068: Ozymandias
- ... and the lines inscribed upon his statue are a sermon to those who read it. The tone of "Ozymandias" is one of lamentation, a sorrow that a statue proclaiming Ozymandias as the greatest king the world has ever known is now reduced to rubble; and not just the physical aspect but the glory of the king is also long forgotten. In Shelley's "Ozymandias",there are two speakers; the first speaker ... others of the consequences of poor human relations. Ozymandias is effective in its fight against resistance to our stubborn modes of thought. It forces the reader to probe into their psyche and come out with new answers to these near rhetorical questions. The only limitations that the philosophical critique is subject to is the beliefs and morals of different readers are often as different as their fingerprints. These differences cause different ...
- 13069: Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666
- Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666 Throughout life people dwell on the fact that material things are all that matter in this superficial world. Yet, there are a few people, scattered throughout our over populated universe, that think our lives lead to a better world up above. It is expressed quite clearly that Anne Bradstreet doesn’t dwell on these unimportant matters for long in her poem “Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666.” She shows that life ... need anything else as long as she has the faith and hope of the life she will have in heaven. If society could realize that life’s tragedies can be taken how one wants our world would be one of life and hope. Anne Bradstreet shows how through the ashes of destruction life sprung forward. Her poem “Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666” if examined and scrutinized ...
- 13070: Poem: My Heart Aches
- ... mirth! O for a beaker full of the warm SOuth, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim: Fade away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The wearinessm the feverm and the fret Here, where men sit ... sad, last gray hairs, Where youth grows pale and spacter--thin, and dies; Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs, Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes Or new Love pine at them beyond tomorrow. Away! Away! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Becchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of poesy, Though the dull brain perplexes and retards ...
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