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- 1451: House On Mango Street
- ... so many women sit their sadness on an elbow" (11). Unlike most of the women in the book her escape is no longer the window. "But that night he comes back and sends a big rock through the window"(85), shattering her glass hopes [???] and making her turn to poetry as an escape. "Minerva is only a little bit older than me but already she has too kids and a husband ...
- 1452: Home Burial
- ... in the family plot. The mother watched from the window as he made the grave. Making the gravel leap and leap in the air, Leap up, like that, like that, and land so lightly. And roll back down the mound beside the hole. I thought who is that man? I didn’t know you (75-79). Here is vision, bearing the flame of piercing feeling in the living word. How exquisitely ...
- 1453: Hercules
- ... from growing back. After Hercules and Iolaus had destroyed eight of the serpents heads, Hercules chopped off the ninth and buried it at the side of a road. Then, for good measure, placed a heavy rock over the spot he had buried it. When Hercules returned, King Eurystheus was not impressed. He said that since Iolaus had helped him accomplish this task, it should not count as one of the ten ...
- 1454: Heart Of Darkness
- ... undersized railway truck lying there on its back with its wheels in the air.... I came upon more pieces of decaying machinery, a stack of rust rails.... No change appeared on the face of the rock. They were building a railway. The cliff was not in the way of anything, but this objectless blasting was all the work going on." (Conrad 19.) George Washington Williams wrote in his diary that three ...
- 1455: Heart Of Darkness
- ... undersized railway truck lying there on its back with its wheels in the air.... I came upon more pieces of decaying machinery, a stack of rust rails.... No change appeared on the face of the rock. They were building a railway. The cliff was not in the way of anything, but this objectless blasting was all the work going on." (Conrad 19.) George Washington Williams wrote in his diary that three ...
- 1456: Great Expectations - The Book Verses The Movie
- ... negative criticisms are… "The film is proof that if you repackage the classics… for the youth market in an era of MTV dislocation, what you get, in essence, is postmodern Cliffs Notes with an alt-rock soundtrack." (Gleiberman) "If Charles Dickens were alive today, he'd probably demand that his name be removed from this weirdly misconceived update of his work, which will make young viewers think he must have been ...
- 1457: Frankenstein
- ... suffering and death. She was given a box which contained all manner of misery and evils and was responsible for letting them escape, to torment humankind forever. Secondly, Zeus caught Prometheus, chained him to a rock, and each day an eagle would visit him and feed on his liver. Prometheus’ liver, however, replenished itself overnight, so he was condemned not so much to a single act of punishment but to perpetual ...
- 1458: Flea
- ... up the tempo of the poem and also fits the context of the lines. Lines 39-41 deal with time: Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapped power. Let us roll all our strength and all These lines actually produce the effect of slowing time down. "Languish in his slow-chapped power" rolls off of the tongue and takes effort to say. When spoken out-loud ...
- 1459: Fawlty Towers Vs Commedia
- ... in the Sixteenth century. Commedia uses stock characters and is a form of theatre for the common man. Commedia techniques are often used as a base for many popular comedies of today including, Seinfield, Third Rock from the Sun and The Simpson’s. Commedia contains eight stock characters all of which can be identified a Masters, Servants or Lovers. There are four servants in Commedia, Arllechino, Brighella, Tartaglia and Columbina. Arllechino ...
- 1460: Emily Dickenson
- ... other poems discussed, it too is able to express the quality of brevity and lightness in that it's composition is full of dashes, with even full sentences broken into short, quick actions that easily roll off of the tongue when spoken aloud ("How dreary - to be – Somebody"). The technical composition of this poem is two stanzas, however, Dickinson is able to refresh the form with her use of dashes and ...
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