“Belonging in texts is designed to highlight the intricate mix of social relationships and individual identity.” Discuss. In your answer you must refer to your prescribed text and one text of your own choosing. The notion of belonging is complex and often ambivalent. Developing an intricate mix of social relationships with others can provide positive and moderating influences. On the other hand an individual also needs the personal space which allows for self reflection and the nurture of identity
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This is a translation of the Italian poem "Rime 140" by Petrarch. The following link - shows the original form and two translations - each poem is different. They are built around the conceit of love as a warrior or knight‚ who‚ in the octave‚ makes bold to declare himself through a blush‚ and is promptly rebuked by the beloved; the sestet finds him running away to hide‚ leaving the poet to reflect on his plight as a faithful servant of a cowardly master. By attributing the offensive‚ cowardly‚ and
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Apology for Poetry Occasion The Apology was provoked by the Puritanical attack on poesy by Stephen Gosson’s 1579 The Schoole of Abuse “having slipped into the title of a poet‚ am provoked to say something unto you in the defence of that my unelected vocation” 326 “And first‚ truly‚ to all them that‚ professing learning‚ inveigh against poetry‚ may justly be objected that they go very near to ungratefulness to seek to deface that which‚ in the noblest nations and languages that are known‚ hath
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DONNE ’S HOLY SONNET XIV Batter my heart‚ three person ’d God; for‚ you As yet but knocke‚ breathe‚ shine‚ and seeke to mend; That I may rise‚ and stand‚ o ’erthrow me‚ ’and bend Your force‚ to breake‚ blowe‚ burn and make me new. I‚ like an usurpt towne‚ t ’another due‚ Labor to ’admit you‚ but Oh‚ to no end‚ Reason your viceroy in me‚ me should defend‚ But is captiv ’d‚ and proves weake or untrue‚ Yet dearely ’I love you‚ and would be lov ’d faine‚ But am betroth ’d unto your enemy
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In his poem “Sympathy‚” Paul Laurence Dunbar develops the conceit of a caged bird to retain humanistic understanding of what slavery truly does to a person. Dunbar induces sympathetic emotions and calls for his readers understand his emotions through the use of the conceit. Dunbar backs up his feelings with vivid images while addressing slavery as the clear evil that constrains African Americans of their human rights. In stanza one‚ Dunbar contrasts the image of a caged bird to beautiful images
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mother‚ and that his words must express those false intentions. Hamlet is becoming like the players who so mystified him in 2.2: Is it not monstrous that this player here‚ But in a fiction‚ in a dream of passion‚ Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her working all his visage wann’d‚ Tears in his eyes‚ distraction in’s aspect‚ (560) A broken voice‚ and his whole function suiting With forms
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The ideal of a self-made man is quite American. It is the idea that someone from a humble background can become someone of great importance and wealth through sheer willpower and hard work. The self-made man’s success is not based off his background or the help of others but his own intrinsic values and qualities. It is this idea that allows James Gatz to become Jay Gatsby‚ and it is this idea that also ironically becomes his downfall. Gatsby is a self-made man‚ the embodiment of the American dream
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secretly to ensure his success. Before the murder‚ Montresor utilizes Fortunato’s “weak point”‚ his conceit‚ to successfully induce Fortunato to go with him. During the murder‚ he is exceedingly calm and skillfully exploits Fortunato’s obsession with alcohol. He first makes Fortunato drunk by giving him glasses of wine. Then‚ he mentions Montresor’s illness several times to further utilize Montresor’s conceit to eliminate doubts. William Hazlitt has once said that‚ “cunning is the art of concealing our
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something the two of them can do to make use of their time on earth: to experience their love through sex. It is a pity that readers cannot know the mistress’s answer‚ for the poem poses a persuasive argument‚ without using some of the typical poetic conceits of love poems in Marvell’s time. Marvell starts by appealing to the woman’s sentiments‚ as every smart man who wants something from a woman should do. He claims he would think about her while they are apart: "Thou by the Indian Ganges side / Should’st
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and first published in 1633 is a poem about persuasion‚ in that the narrator is trying to convince his partner to have sex with him. It isn’t a love poem‚ neither is it particularly crude or sexual. Donne manipulates the imagery of the flea into a conceit‚ in that the speaker is metaphorically using it as a persuasive tool in his bid to form a sexual union with the female. This in conjunction with the rhythm and rhyme scheme really puts emphasis on the flea and it’s ulterior meaning. In the first
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