The first poem I am going to study is Remember by Christina Rossetti This is a Petrarchan sonnet which means there are two quatrains then a sestet The lines in the sestet look like they are all over the place with the rhymes but this because this style of sonnet was first written in Italian and they had a lot more words which rhymed in their language As this is a sonnet it has fourteen lines each with ten syllables In this poem Rossetti is talking to her husband and asking that he remembers as
English is a silly language One may use the ineffable concept of love to describe even the simplest generic pleasures and say for example I loved that meal Similarly modern society has tainted the concept with the euphemism Making love which insinuates that the sexual act creates love The speaker in Andrew Marvells poem To His Coy Mistress likewise places an overzealous emphasis on intercourse Conversely speakers in the works of Edna St Vincent Millay balance the ideas much more fairly As an il
Comparison of Heroines in Wuthering Hieghts and the Great Gatsby Summary comparison of heroines in wuthering hieghts and the great gatsby Comparison of the presentation of the heroines in F Scott Fitzgeralds TheGreat Gatsby and Emily Brontes Wuthering Heights Introduction to The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby He presents us with many characters one of which is quite complex Daisy Buchanan She is stuck in a love triangle with the affairs brings tension and envy to an unex
Consider the Position of women in J M Synges The Playboy of the Western World In Playboy of the Western World Synge sets out to dismantle Yeats construction of self sacrificing and pious Irish womanhood the revivalists had encouraged him to portray in The Countess Cathleen Irish nationalism sought land reform and Home Rule for the Irish and encouraged the Irish revivalism in theatres as propaganda for their cause They promoted the ideal of a unified Irish peasant whose women were Christian Hist
Towards the end of Shakespeares sonnets his preoccupation seems to be less with the fair young blonde and is steered in another direction towards that of a more mysterious dark lady Where sonnets in the fair youth section seem to be more straightforward focussing on beauty and its preservation against time The dark lady section however is far more thoughtful and takes a totally different angle on love in some poems dubbing it a maddening disease In Sonnet 130 Shakespeare instead of exaggerating
In the play The Crucible Salem is a very religious and well respected community They follow the strict rules and live their way of life by the bible However as the play progresses there are a lot of conflict tension and drama shown Arthur Miller builds up tension through his characters and their actions The tension increases as the play develops and the people of Salem have to deal with the dilemma that unfolds before them The play starts of a cell in Salem jail At the back is a high barred win
Sons And Lovers Sons and Lovers is considered one of the greatest English novels of the twentieth century Centred on the lives of an English rural family the novel explores issues relating to marriage family industrialism class and sexuality While the first sections of the book focus on the early marriage of Mr and Mrs Morel it is their second son Paul who comes to dominate the work Shy clever sensual and in many ways mirroring D H Lawrence himself Paul is an artist brought into the world as an
Days Reality to Nights Imagination In Midsummer Nights Dream there is a lot of role playing a lot of juxtapositions that question the boundaries of ideas of people and of reality and truth The play overall uses several groups of characters set in two time periods night and day to show the progression of love As Shakespeare questions the validity of love within the play he broadens love to represent much of lifes greater truths and questions The periods of night and day are also important as Sha
Death of Reason and Birth of Beast Order and chaos of human nature in isolation in Lord of the Flies by William Golding Order and chaos the two initiated and have kept balance the way of the world since the beginnings of civilization Mankind then established the basis of our culture based on that delicate equilibrium yet to the author William Golding the universe is a cosmic chaos that resist simplistic patterning Friedman 14 We strive to appreciate but also dominate we try to create justice bu
The Demon Lover A Comparison of the Two Stories Weighted Comparison In Elizabeth Bowens The Demon Lover Mrs Drover made a promise with her fianc to meet him at a specific date at a specific time The poem The Demon Lover by an anonymous writer also centers around this subject Mrs Dover tries to remember his face but cannot for the life of her remember it Years pass and the man returns to Drover only to find that she has already married and had kids The story ends as the mans face is revealed to