writing style‚ in contrast to essays‚ short stories‚ etc. A Subaltern’s Love Song by John Betjeman is an example of poetry that takes the reader on a journey of music and a love story. It was not until I actually read through the poem once did I realize that the title “A Subaltern’s Love Song” would actually allude to the character of this poem. The context of this poem is most certainly romantic‚ and indicative of a love story‚ however the form of the poem actually has a rhythm to it. I am not
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Analyzing Conditioning in the Film Searching for Bobby Fischer The main character‚ Josh Waitzkin‚ in the movie Searching for Bobby Fischer‚ has learned about the game of chess and the consequences of winning and losing through operant and observational conditioning. Operant conditioning‚ according to The Free Dictionary‚ is “a process of behavior modification in which the likelihood of a specific behavior is increased or decreased through positive or negative reinforcement each time the behavior
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Throughout the song “The Love Club” by Lorde‚ she manages to expresses a bitter and satirical tone using DIDLES. The song depicts her joining a clique of sorts‚ in order to achieve freedom. Ironically‚ by joining this group‚ the author ends up losing her freedom and severing ties with the people she loves. The writer selects words such as “choking” and “wicked” to emphasize the the regret and contempt associated with her experience. Such words invoke feelings of empathy in the readers‚ contributing
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Question: Part A: Analyze the social and historical context of a particular poem Poem: T. S. Eliot‚ ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock The context of any given text whether poetry‚ novels or a movie is always integral to its understanding. Social and historical context of not only the given text‚ but the writer’s context and reader’s context play an important role in the interpretation and understanding of the major ideas‚ issues‚ values and beliefs within the text. T.S (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
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“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”‚ is a dramatic monologue in which the speaker recalls his insecurities in dealing with the opposite sex and the choices he made in general in his life. He wonders if he should have done things differently. Prufrock starts in a city-scape “Like a patient etherised upon a table;/ Let us go‚ through certain half-deserted streets” and ends on a beach “I shall wear white flannel trousers‚ and walk upon the beach
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The Song of Songs vs. Lady Antebellum’s “Our Kind of Love” The excerpts from The Bedford Anthology of World Literature entitled The Song of Songs can correlate to the contemporary love song “Our Kind of Love” sang by the notorious‚ award-winning country music group Lady Antebellum. Besides the fact that these two works were written under antithetical circumstances and during distinctly different time periods‚ they both share many of the same attributes. Both of these works closely examine the word
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In T. S Eliot’s literary work‚ “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is introduced with an epigraph from Dante’s Inferno to support the protagonist’s paralysis and the futility of life. The poem is considered a vital work in post modern art used to deconstruct and dehumanize the protagonist’s subjectivity. The epigraph from Dante’s Inferno is quoted by a man trapped in the eighth circle of Dante’s fictional construct of Hell and shares similar existential outlooks on the purpose of life. The epigraph
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poem‚ “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Elliot‚ is about a man who has lost his love. What could a poem about a man losing his chance at love and mermaids have in common? These two things may seem to be entirely unconnected‚ except for the author’s brief mention of mermaids at the end. Mermaids may be the most important word in the entire poem. Mermaids are mythical creature that come with a variety of stories and types. One story is that of a mermaid that will sing a song to sailors
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The poem‚ “Love Song for Lucinda” by Langston Hughes is about love and what it takes to be in love. Hughes uses a lot of metaphors and only three stanzas to talk about love in the poem. In the first stanza his poem states‚ “And the spell of its enchantment / Will never let you be” (5-6). Hughes puts this in his poem because love is supposed to always be there‚ and isn’t supposed to die. You are supposed to fall so in love that you are almost under a spell‚ and you can’t see which way is up. In the
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are many solutions‚ none is more empowering and influential than song. We are a band and this is what we are good at. We can give our contribution to the world even if it is as small as saving a tear from a child that shouldn’t be shed. “Runaway Love” by Ludacris has managed to get that message out. It tells the different lives of 3 troubled adolescent girls; Lisa‚ Nicole and Erica‚ each enduring their own way of abuse. This song engages everyone‚ it supports the abused‚ it tells them that they
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