Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening Considering questions -> Metre: AABA, BBCB, CCDC,DDDD (Iambic pentameter) -> Structure? Voice? Tone? Sublime vs Banal Apart/ a part Natural life /city life He knows he cants stay in the moment, is dragged into the lullaby but snaps out of it in the break-in rhyme (AABA) Tone […]
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Bodas de Sangre
Compare the Ted Hughes and the Gwynne Edwards translations to ours . . . and to the original if you can. What differences do you see? Which is the “best” and why? The poet Ted Hughes, who translated “Blood Wedding,” observed that “Lorca cannot be Englished.”—Dwight Garner on a translation of Lorca. With College Essay’s, […]
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“The Arrangements” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
How is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‘s writing style reflected in this work? Firstly, I think her attention to detail, and usage of mundane objects to explore the intricacies of human relationships in the story is clear. We can see this in her focus on the floral arrangements in the story, where she uses the mention of […]
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Atlantis
My first question before reading this ‘poem’ so to speak, was how a collection of six lengthy poems could make a whole, unified body of work. While there were observable unifying factors, i.e his use of liminal space and couplets/tercets, the development of his emotions and view of the same situation through the six poems […]
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Act 4 – The War
ACT 4 This act seems to be more dramatic in nature as compared to the earlier acts, resembling more of a tragedy than a comedy. You can see the idea of French pride, culture coming out in the food and the song, you can see the unifying nature of it, probably to rile up the […]
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ACT III
ACT III Ragueneau wife runs away with musketeer Cyrano talks to Roxanne, fishes for compliments, she falls for it, ego boosted De Guiche heavily tricked by Roxanne, playing a back stabbing game. Tender Passion – Place of poetry i guess Christian refuses Cyrano’s help Roxanne demanding, Cyrano speaks in Christians place, Christian and Roxanne kiss, […]
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A guide to life: The Odyssey
Is the book a series of impossible but inevitable choices? The Odyssey, a 3000-year-old epic poem, belonging to an epoch unimaginable by us today, is a story that conveys a certain truth about life that somehow holds true today. Even with the frequent appearances of gods, sirens, cyclops and the likes, Odysseus’s journey is filled […]
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Book 23-24
Book 24 Summary: Hermes guides suitors to fields of asphodel Achilles and Agamemnon simp for each other Meets Laertes, tortures father Ithacan’s plot against him (suitors Fathers) Gods interfere Notes: Finally, Penelope gets some recognition by Agamemnon, even though it was completely fueled by the fact her actions were opposite to his own wife. Odysseus’s […]
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Book 17-18
One of the main ideas that I feel was repeatedly introduced in these two books was the idea of hospitality, and how it is important to treat people with respect regardless of their material wealth and appearance, as you never know their true nature. It reminds me of the age old saying, ‘never judge a […]
On first looking into CAT 3
This is my renewed rewritten and reviewed rendition of CAT 3, ‘On first looking into Chapman’s Homer” On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer BY JOHN KEATS Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold,And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;Round many western islands have I beenWhich bards in fealty to Apollo hold.Oft of one wide […]