MONIVAE COLLEGE UNIT 1 VCE ENGLISH TERM 2‚ 2015 OUTCOME 3 On completion of this unit the student should be able to identify and discuss‚ either in writing and/or orally‚ how language can be used to persuade readers and/or viewers. Workbook and Notes on Selected Poetry of Robert Frost CONTENTS PAGE Context and Focus 3 Assessment 3 Poems 3 - 11 Focus Questions – A Summary 12 Essays/ Commentary on Frost 13 - 20 Context and Focus: The
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The Allusions in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land The Waste Land is an important poem. It has something important to say and it should have an important effect on the reader. But it is not easy. In Eliot’s own words: "We can say that it appears likely that poets in our civilization as it exists at present‚ must be difficult. Our civilization comprehends great variety and complexity‚ and this variety and complexity‚ playing upon a refined sensibility‚ must produce various and complex results. The
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How to Analyze Poetry Poetry is a compact language that expresses complex feelings. To understand the multiple meanings of a poem‚ readers must examine its words and phrasing from the perspectives of rhythm‚ sound‚ images‚ obvious meaning‚ and implied meaning. Readers then need to organize responses to the verse into a logical‚ point-by-point explanation. A good beginning involves asking questions that apply to most poetry. Context of the Poem Clear answers to the following questions can help
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Bones In The Waste Land English Literature Essay In the movie Spiderman 2 (2004)‚ Peter Parker‚ aka Spiderman‚ gets in to a conversation with Dr. Otto Octavious‚ the scientist‚ who later morphs into the super villain Doc Ock. Dr. Octavious tells Peter about his fiancée‚ a literature student‚ when they met in college and how she attempted to learn science for his sake and how he tried to learn literature for hers. She was more successful and he less‚ as he explains to Peter‚ “She was studying T
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Walt Whitman Walter "Walt" Whitman was an American poet‚ essayist and journalist. A humanist‚ he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism‚ incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon‚ often called the father of free verse. His work was very controversial in its time‚ particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass‚ which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality. Walt was born in Westhills‚ Long
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the final version of "The Waste Land" is significant. At the time of the poem’s composition‚ Eliot was ill‚ struggling to recover from his nervous breakdown and languishing through an unhappy marriage. Pound offered him support and friendship; his belief in and admiration for Eliot were enormous. Pound‚ like Eliot a crucible of modernism‚ called for compression‚ ellipsis‚ reduction. The poem grew yet more cryptic; references that were previously clear now became more obscure. Explanations were out the
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and Dickinson are entirely opposite. Second‚ while Walt Whitman ’s voice is quite loud‚ clear‚ and boastful in “Song of myself‚” Emily Dickinson ’s voice is quiet and modest “[I’m Nobody! Who are you?].” In her poem‚ it is obviously that he is very pound of himself. One of the evidences is that he names the poem‚ “Song of Myself.” On the first sentence of the first stanza‚ he says “I celebrate myself” (Lauter 1225).From this note‚ Whitman creates his own image that he is great and he implies his life
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consider Anne Tyler on Her New Book‚ ’The Beginner ’s Goodbye ’ Anne Tyler ‚ The Accidental Tourist ‚ Accidental Tourist ‚ Anne Tyler Books ‚ Anne Tyler New Book ‚ Beginner ’s Goodbye ‚ New Book Anne Tyler ‚ The Beginner ’s Goodbye ‚ Books News BALTIMORE — in the living room of Anne Tyler‚ you could shelve virtually all the books under a single heading: fiction. Eudora Welty. John Updike. Vladimir Nabokov. Reynolds Price. A rare brush with fact is "More Matter‚" a collection of Updike ’s
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RESEARCH REPORT ABOUT THE ATTACK ON THE BRITISH POUND 1992 1 Table of Contents 1 Description of the crisis scenario around the British pound in summer 1992 applying the theory of speculative attacks.................................................................... 3 2 Why did this represent a “classical one-way-bet” scenario? ................................ 8 3 How could Mr. Soros be so confident about the German reluctance to support the British pound? Describe the situation in summer 1992 from
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Chapter 9 Mini Case – McDonald’s Corporation’s British Pound Exposure 1. How does the cross currency swap effectively hedge the three primary exposures McDonalds has relative to its British subsidiary. In general‚ cross currency swap is a contract to swap currencies of debt service obligation (Eiteman‚ Stonehill‚ & Moffett‚ p. 245). For example‚ McDonalds needs to swap pound denominated fixed interest rate and adopt floating interest rate from the US headquarter. The need to enter into swap agreement
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