Swift- A satirical elegy... Context: Grammar and Sentence structure: Swift uses a rhetorical question to describe the general through lines 3 and 4‚ ‘And could that mighty warrior fall‚ and so inglorious after all?’ Swift does this to show that the inglorious end to the general is a question. Line 23‚ ‘his profit and his pride’ uses collocation and is used to emphasise the self interest that the late general was motivated by. On line 25‚ an imperative sentence is used‚ ‘come hither..!’ the
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Elegy For Jane By Theodore Roethke Theodore Roethke’s “Elegy for Jane” is a poem of a teacher’s reaction to the tragic death of one of his students‚ Jane. The speaker expresses his sentiments to his deceased student‚ allotting the fact that he had developed some kind of feeling towards Jane. “Over this damp grave I speak the words of my love: I‚ with no rights in this matter‚ Neither father nor lover.” Roethke illustrates the affiliation between the speaker and his student with this line. Society
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"Elegy for Drowned Children" is a poem written by Australian poet Bruce Dawe in the 1960’s. An elegy is a sad poem or song that laments the death of a person. This poem implies that the persona had a close relationship with someone who had drowned or loss their child to drowning. This poem has five four-lined stanzas. The first and last lines rhyme with each other while the middle two lines rhyme with each other. This creates a song like quality to the poem. The first three stanzas of the poem end
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generally discover everybody’s face but their own.” What Swift is trying to convey through this quote is that when people are being satirical and expressing their comments of society‚ they tend to see all the flaws so clearly‚ like a glass. Yet‚ when people do this they don’t pay attention to what they are doing. Jonathan Swift is one of the world’s best satirist and poet‚ born in Dublin‚ Ireland to Abigail Erick Swift and Jonathan Swift. He suffered a lot as a child‚ from not being able to have
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Beyond the natural course of literary pieces‚ unrequited and familial love are the predominant outliers for woeful tales of longing and disastrous ending. However‚ in the poem‚ “Elegy for Jane‚” platonic love resonates as a passionate voice in remembrance to his fallen student‚ Jane‚ who experienced an untimely end by falling from a horse. He speaks from a place of nostalgia‚ connecting her physical attributes to that of nature‚ and finishes with a jaded desire to wake her from an eternal slumber
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like having a penpal who is in deep with some loan sharks‚” Oliver satirically commented‚ gaining yet another laughing response at the poke. This is evidence that parody works in cooperation with satire‚ though parody hardly can exist outside of satirical context. The mailing correspondence engages in a normal practice of those who are exploited by the Televangelist Tilton‚ but the latter joke comparing him to an “in deep penpal” is the scornful remark of
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election season passes‚ taking the nation’s citizens under its tight grasp. Many feel as if their voices are not heard by “the establishment‚” and resort to the voices of political outsiders to convince them that hope still exists. The memoir Hillbilly Elegy explores this anti-establishment attitude and the group of people who passionately fuel this movement. Sociologically‚ the perspectives of hillbillies are analyzed by one of their own‚ Mr. J.D. Vance. He defines the white underclass as those who promote
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earlier works focused on nature‚ culture‚ and national history. One of his more popular works‚ "An Elegy for Wesley Wells‚" in Exiles and Marriages (1955) displays just this in dynamic balance. Poems such as this also have a side of death and the realistic view on this event in life. By looking at several of Donald Hall’s pieces we notice how his life impacts what he writes about. For example‚ in "In an Elegy for Wesley Wells‚" this famous author was undergoing a death of his grandfather while he was
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Satirical Essay: Destruction of Social Media Today’s society is faced with the continually growing problem of electronics and social media. What used to be considered a precious treasure is now the cause of teenage obesity‚ lack of concentration‚ inadequate communication‚ and above all a far less intellectual society. Cell phones‚ internet‚ video games‚ television all have taken over the youth in society and corrupted them into unimaginative‚ unqualified‚ dull robots. Facebook is merely a tool
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Out of a bad situation‚ you can learn and grow. In all three poems‚ The Seafarer‚ The Wanderer‚ and The Wife’s Lament the main character was exiled causing great pain and sorrow. Through this pain and sorrow they saw some beauty in the situation. In The Seafarer the character is on his ship hopelessly lost at sea. He suffers from loneliness‚ sadness and pain from being lost at sea. In the poem he says “How the sea took me‚ swept me back And forth in sorrow and fear and pain.” ( The Seafarer
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