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- 5751: A Comparison and Contrast of Love in Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" and C. Day Lewis's "Song"
- ... A gown of the finest wool" (13) , but the speaker in "Song" promises that "thou shalt read of summer frocks (dresses)" (6) . This demonstrates that the speaker offers what he can, and does not fabricate stories about the way things will be. When he speaks of an "evening by the sour canals / We'll hope to hear some madrigals" (7-8) , he knows that because of the pollution they will more ...
- 5752: Analysis of John Donne's Sonnet 10 and Meditation 17
- ... stanza he says why should people gloat about death if know man has control over death? Why should you have pride about death? In the final stanza he says that our lives are but a short sleep compared to the eternal live we have after we awaken from that sleep. Once we die the soul is alive and death no longer presides. We are brought into eternal life. Death can no ...
- 5753: Herman Melville
- ... to pass their lips he was not averse to taking advantage of their reputation for the sake of suspense. From the very beginning Melville played a game with his audience as he strung out his stories to book-length with picturesque descriptions, details from memory, and other details gathered in reference books." (Unger 75-76) Although Melville was down for a 120th share of the whaler's proceeds, the voyage had ...
- 5754: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock": Surrealism and T.S. Eliot
- ... cat is often used in surrealist, symbolist and fantasy genres. In this poem, the reader may remember the Cheshire Cat from Lewis Carroll's The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland or Edgar A. Poe's short story "The Black Cat". In any case, what would normally be a very real landscape is darkened, bastardized and animated by Prufrock's descriptions. This un-real dark landscape holds out (with the exception of ...
- 5755: The New Deal
- ... s project employed young scholars who would publish numerous local and state guidebooks. In the long run the government made these projects, acts and commissions to aid the society. The projects, acts and commissions had short term benefits yet if the government did not make these aids the country would have fallen to pieces and may not have even existed today. Throughout the years of the depression the economy, government and ...
- 5756: Beowulf - A Noble
- ... him if he ever needed help again. Throughout the entire story Beowulf acts courageously without thinking of himself, helping other people and rescuing then from great dangers. His noble character has been preserved in these stories.
- 5757: Analysis of Whitman's "Drum Taps" and "The Wound Dresser"
- Analysis of Whitman's "Drum Taps" and "The Wound Dresser" Like most of the unprepared, naive Americans who believed the Civil War would consist of a few short battles and little casualties, who then after the war reached it's second year truly saw the Civil War for what it really was- the bloodiest in America's history; Walt Whitman's "Drum Taps ...
- 5758: The Poetry of John Keats
- ... dying are no longer avoided in Ode to autumn, they are embraced and accepted as necessary for the continuity of the seasons cycle. Keats, through his poetry, is constantly reminding us that the moment, whether short of duration or eternally present, is to be savoured; for all things that exist in man's world are subject to decay and death because our ability to perceive them is limited. The world is ...
- 5759: The Atomic Bomb and its Effects on Post-World War II
- ... treason (118)These calypsos, and the rest of the book, express the points Vonnegut in a more abstract , symbolic manner. They only add to the impact of the books message expressing it in a very short, satirical way. The black humor used when talking about the end of the world the nuclear end was pioneered by Vonnegut. But what many consider to be the the climax of this pop culture phenomena ...
- 5760: Christian Morals in Beowulf
- ... can be removed and the story will only lose the background of Grendel's evil side. This could have been where the real story of Grendel originally was. As with many of the classic medieval stories there is a sense of a higher being and fate is a major factor in Beowulf. " Had fate but granted, born of my body/ An heir to follow me after I'm gone." Fate is ...
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