“Dover Beach” during or shortly after a visit he and his wife made to the Dover region of southeastern England‚ the setting of the poem‚ in 1851. The first stanza opens with the description of a nightly scene at the seaside. The speaker calls to his beloved to come to the window‚ to share the visual beauty of the scene. The speaker projects his own feelings of melancholy on to the sound of “the grating roar/Of pebbles‚ which the waves draw back‚ and fling/At their return‚ up the high strand” (9-11).
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"Lose something every day." seems to command one to practice the art of losing things. In the three stanzas‚ first person is used‚ and the speaker relates how she "lost her mother’s watch" and other life incidents. However‚ the speaker addresses her beloved "you‚" and then in the last line‚ herself. Language in "One Art" is simple‚ yet many literary devices are used. The last line repeated‚ to the effect of "The art of losing isn’t hard to master" suggests that the speaker is trying to convince herself
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The names Astrophil and Stella mean Star-lover and Star‚ suggesting the impossibility of their union because of the distance between them The sixteenth century was a time of scientific‚ historical‚ archaeological‚ religious and artistic exploration. More attention was being allotted to probing into the depths of the human psyche and it was up to the artists and poets rather than the priests and scholars to examine and mirror these internal landscapes. The ’little world of man’ [1] was reflected
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Love in literature What do we talk about when we talk about love? Early poets reached for the sun and stars to describe their beloveds‚ while novelists have struggled to convey their ’wretched ordinariness’. At matins on 6 April 1327‚ in the church of St Clare in Avignon‚ Francesco Petrarch may or may not have seen Laura for the first time: her skin "whiter and colder than snow‚ not touched by the sun for many years"‚ golden hair‚ black eyes. We don’t know for sure whether Laura really existed
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which all of the non muslims has named as "JIHAD"‚ but i would like to make it very clear to all of you that islam is a religion of peace and it teaches the most peace full ways of living‚ ALLAH is most beloved to his creatures in this world even more then the love of 70 mothers and our beloved prophet HAZRAT MOHEMMED (S.A.W.) was the most loving & honest person which world has ever had‚ so how can be their followers could be terrorist In his time he has proved himself as an unrelentless person
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between them‚ whether it is in the theme or structure. I6th century poetry‚ otherwise known as Elizabethan poetry was mainly based around courtly love conventions. The unattainability of the lady‚ passions of the lover and cold emotions of the beloved and expression of the beloved’s
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enviable position. I am specifically referring to my high sense of discipline‚ hardworking‚ academically good‚ physically sound and friendly. These are not all‚ my astuteness‚ Honest and ability to turn adversity into advantage are just proverbial. Beloved student‚ a compound prefect should be descent and well discipline‚ dedicated and wiliness to serve his people with all diligence. These are qualities that I am not deficient in. I know by now most of you are wondering how I will be able to realize
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"In his madness Hitler was convinced that the ’Jewish poison’ had done the same thing to his beloved Germany in 1918 what the ’cancer poison’ had done to his beloved mother in 1907‚" wrote historian and journalist Dr Joachim Riecker. ’November 9: How World War One Led to the Holocaust’ examines the speeches both public and private of Hitler to try to solve the riddle of how a dictator could morph into the industrial-scale murderer of an entire people. "The core of his hatred lies at the defeat
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love the poet has for a particular beloved is greatly superior to others’ loves. Loving someone is as much a religious experience as a physical one‚ and the best love transcends mere physicality. In this kind of love‚ the lovers share something of a higher order than that of more mundane lovers. In “Love’s Infiniteness‚” for example‚ Donne begins with a traditional-sounding love poem‚ but by this third stanza he has transformed the love between himself and his beloved into an abstract ideal which can
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to his beloved comparing him/her to a summer’s day. What was the purpose of this poem and what is its true meaning behind the obvious? What is he saying exactly? For me this is almost hieroglyphics seeing as it is in old English text but I will attempt to extract some of the true meaning and thoughts of this poem. Who speaks in this poem? Shakespeare was obviously quite fond of this person. I will attempt to explicate this poem. The writer writes about the conflict of comparing his beloved whom ever
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