Joan Gardona Andrada II-BSE English Creative Writing (POETRY) Forms Specific poetic forms have been developed by many cultures. In more developed‚ closed or "received" poetic forms‚ the rhyming scheme‚ meter and other elements of a poem are based on sets of rules‚ ranging from the relatively loose rules that govern the construction of an elegy to the highly formalized structure of the ghazal or villanelle. Described below are some common forms of poetry widely used across a number of languages
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Gwendolyn Brooks was a highly regarded‚ much-honored poet‚ with the distinction of being the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize. She also was poetry consultant to the Library of Congress--the first black woman to hold that position--and poet laureate of the State of Illinois. Many of Brooks’s works display a political consciousness‚ especially those from the 1960s and later‚ with several of her poems reflecting the civil rights activism of that period. Her body of work gave her‚ according
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is also widely credited with first extensive use of iambic pentameter. The mock heroic style was popular in the Post-Restoration. MacFlecknoe" traces its "hero’s rise to stupidity in verse deliberately mimicking the style of and alluding to the Aeneid and other epics. Like the Odyssey‚ it starts in a kind of Olympus‚ only it’s the realm of Nonsense‚ until recently ruled by Flecknoe. The dying king of dullness searches for a successor and‚ by virtue of his vices (as it were) MacFlecknoe (Shadwell)
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A Paper AN ANALYSIS OF ELEMENTS OF “THE MAN IN A CASE” BY WENDY WASSERTEIN ARYA FRIZANDIKA 1005121046 ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM LANGUAGE AND ART DEPARTMENT EDUCATION AND TEACHING TRAINING FACULTY RIAU UNIVERSITY 2013 I. Introduction “The Man in a Case” is a drama authorized by a well-known American playwright‚ Wendy Wasertein. Simply‚ this drama told about an optimism aproach of Byelinkov and Varinka. This is a love story which can tell the audience how human beings can find
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C.‚ Rome began to expand and Romans came into greater contact with the Greeks‚ which suggest that Aeneas has a role in the creation of the great city. In the first century B.C.‚ the Roman Poet Virgil developed the Aeneas myth in his epic poem the Aeneid‚ which talked about Aeneas’ journey to Rome. Augustus‚ the first Roman emperor and emperor during Virgil’s time‚ and Julius Caesar‚ his great uncle and predecessor as the Roman ruler‚ were known to be decedents of Aeneas. ( Information founded in
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BACKGROUND OF DIRECTOR Name: Wolfgang Petersen Nickname: Wolfie Age:72 Date of Birth: 14 March 1941 Birthplace: Emden‚ Lower Saxony‚ Germany Nationality: Germany Spouse: Maria-Antoinette Borgel (1978 present) Ursula Seig: (?-1978 Divorced) 1 Child TRIVIA Petersen Fluent in English and German. Received “Bayerischer Verdienstorden” (Bavaria’s highest decoration) on 17 July 2003 Broke into the entertainment industry in 1960 with the hamburg Emest Deutsch Theater as an assistant director
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HELEN OF TROY In Greek mythology‚ Helen of Troy was the most beautiful woman in the world. A daughter of the god Zeus*‚ she is best known for the part she played in causing the Trojan War*‚ a story told by Homer in the Iliad] and the Odyssey]. Some scholars suggest that Helen was also a very ancient goddess associated with trees and birds. Birth and Early Life. Some myths say that Helen’s mother was Leda‚ the wife of King Tyndareus of Sparta*. Others name Nemesis‚ the goddess of revenge‚ as her
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It ’s So Clichéd "She sat down to write her paper without batting an eyelash." This sentence contains an example of what is called an idiom. Idioms are individual forms of expression specific to one language. They can be thought of as a group of two or more words that together mean something different from the literal meaning of the individual words. "Without batting an eyelash" means to be passive‚ or show no interest in an event or situation. This phrase first appeared in the early 1900 ’s."Batting"
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with a majestic fortified citadel enclosing palaces and administrative buildings‚ surrounded by an extensive lower town‚ also fortified. Troy is directly associated with the universally significant literary works of Homer (The Iliad) and Virgil (The Aeneid). Hellenistic
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Civilizations: East Asia Shang Dynasty a) Pan Ku (mythic ancestor of Chinese)‚ stories about early kings b) Hwang He River (Yellow River)‚ isolated from rest of world-> little trade c) Line of kings called the Shang‚ powerful military d) Developed ideas based on basic harmony Ancestor worship Gods controlled all aspects of peoples’ lives e) Irrigation and advanced technology Skilled in pottery and silk Horse drawn chariots Good bronze workers Oracle bones (writing)
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