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History of King Richard III

Saint Thomas More is a renowned figure in the literature world. He was an English lawyer and author. Throughout his life, More was regarded as one of the premier humanist scholars. More held many posts in public leadership including the powerful Lord Chancellor post. He was a highly educated man having studied Latin and Greek as well as being a qualified lawyer who had been admitted to the bar. More also had a monastic calling, which at times conflicted with his desire for public service. He at one time served as a monk, a calling to whose principles he Continue reading...

Over the Rainbow

Harold Arlene’s song, ‘Over the Rainbow’ takes the nature of a poem in the essence that most of its elements are poetic. Melody, rhythm, harmony and texture are all evident in the song. Through the manner that Arlene arranged his verses and stanzas, he is able to clearly bring out melody and rhythm. For the purposes of this assignment, the paper will analyze how the song uses melody and rhyme, and the effect of these elements in the enjoyment of the musical piece.
In general terms, rhyme occurs when the author uses words that begin with different sounds Continue reading...

In the poem, Hall employs symbolism as a significant element (Strachan, John, and Richard). The poem focuses on an infant who enters the world and in a sense takes the life of the parents. When a child is born, parents must sacrifice many things and give up their old life to concentrate on caring for the child. For instance, the line "Your cries and hungers document our bodily decay" symbolizes parents giving up themselves to make their infant happy and healthy. To devote oneself to the child and make them the most significant thing in oneself is a demanding Continue reading...

In "5000 Apply for 100 Jobs", Jim Daniels paints a short poem with brushstrokes of despair and depression, as he casually relates his experience of waiting in an employment line, along with 5000 other people. Daniels uses several literary devices in the work. His use of alliteration, imagery (figurative language), simile and metaphor, hyperbole, rhythm and rhyme, as well as alliteration flavor the poem uniquely, effectively revealing the thoughts and emotions of the poet.
While alliteration is not used often in the poem, Daniels finds a place for repetition of the same consonants at the beginning of some of Continue reading...

WRITING ASSINGMENT WEEK 3

Shelley’s ‘England in 1819’ and Keats’s “When I have fears that I may cease to be" are sonnets that have a different rhyme scheme. Shelley’s sonnet is written in iambic pentameter and has an ‘a-b-a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, c-c-d-d’ rhyme scheme making it a Petrarchan or Italian sonnet whose traditional structure has been disregarded. Keats’s sonnet follows the Shakespearean or the English sonnet with the ‘a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g’ rhyme scheme. Typical of a Shakespearean sonnet, Keats’s sonnet has a rhyming couplet at the end with the last two lines ending with ‘and think’ and ‘do Continue reading...

This passage is taken from William Blake’s poem “The Tyger” (1794). William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet and painter. Blake was not recognized during his lifetime. But nowadays he is considered as a great figure in the history of the English poetry and visual arts during the Romantic Age. “The Tyger” is considered as the most famous poem of William Blake. It is often quoted in different areas of culture and art, i.e.: cinematography, theatre and music.
The first passage was chosen for the analysis because of its main function of introduction Continue reading...

1 When to the sessions of sweet silent thought 2 I summon up remembrance of things past, 3 I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, 4 And with old woes new wail* my dear time's waste: *bewail5 Then can I drown an eye, unus'd to flow, 6 For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, 7 And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe, 8 And moan th' expense of many a vanish'd sight; 9 Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, 10 And heavily from woe to woe tell* o'er *count11 The sad account of Continue reading...

This week’s hero is Lanval, a French knight in King Arthur’s army. Lanval cannot even be compared with those muscular, testosterone-flavored fellows that are considered heroes nowadays. The present day heroes put emphasis only on their body and on the way they look, i.e. they care mainly about their physical appearance, leaving the spiritual and moral qualities without attention. Marie de France does not tell us much about Lanval’s appearance, but we know that Lanval was famous first of all due to his bravery and generosity. That was the reason why other knights envied and women Continue reading...

Helen Farries in her poem, ‘Magic of Love’ and Sharon Olds in her poem, ‘Last Night’ both talk about love albeit in completely different ways. As the title suggests Farries’ poem is about magical love, the kind of love that is universal and makes everything right while Olds’ poem is about physical, frenzied love or rather the lack of the kind of love that Farries talks about in her poem. Love in Farries’ poem is abstract while Olds’ poem talks about the feelings that is experienced during passionate love making as well as the love that comes out of Continue reading...

When The Lamp is shattered is a love poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley as an expression of loss of the affections of a woman that once loved him. Percy is renowned as one of the forces behind major English romantic poems. He is also revered by many admirers and critics alike for being one of the best lyric poets. His poems such as When The Lamp is shattered continue to show his strong position on political and social views. Much of his poetry, however, gained much fame after his death at a young age of thirty years. The poem, Continue reading...