Sashanka S. Das‚ 4028‚ B.A. (H)‚ English‚ IInd year Q. Write on John Dryden’s ‘Mac Flecknoe’ as a satire. A. John Dryden’s Mac Flecknoe‚ as part of his corpus of satirical verse‚ is a short piece‚ and not as overtly political as‚ say‚ Absalom and Achitophel. It does aim to censure through indirect ridicule rather than direct condemnation‚ but‚ being a censorious poem directed specifically at an individual subject‚ Dryden’s literary rival Thomas Shadwell‚ it seems more a lampoon‚ as defined
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and fantasy were distrusted. Finally‚ Neoclassical verse was characterized by the (4) heroic couplet‚ also called heroic verse. The term heroic verse derives from Dryden’s use of rhyming couplets in iambic pentameter in his heroic plays. “Mac Flecknoe” Discussion Questions 1. Explore how and why Dryden references classical literature and mythology. How is this a “mock heroic”? 2. Examine the use and effect of heroic couplet. Where and why is there an occasional triplet (three rhymed
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The title of Dryden’s poem Mac Flecknoe initiates the theme of familiar succession thus presenting many father/son or successor pairs. The poem begins with a mock sentential in the ponderous‚ aphoristic manner of a heroic poetry‚ gradually unveils the pathetic monarch of “Nonsense Absolute”. The first four lines which open the poem are in the high style with a delicate Horatian irony controlling the mock heroic inversions of terms. In the opening twenty lines of the poem Dryden introduces the readers
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Written about 1678 and published in 1682 Mac Flecknoe (full title: Mac Flecknoe; or‚ A satyr upon the True-Blew-Protestant Poet‚ T.S.[1]) is a verse mock-heroic satire written by John Dryden. It is a direct attack on Thomas Shadwell‚ another prominent poet of the time. As an English poet‚ John Dryden is classified as classic writer. When compared to romantic verses‚ Dryden’s poems‚ found lacking that love of nature. His verses are commonly simple. He loved to apply intellectual approach. Brower
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ridiculing the characters in the plot and their actions. In the form and style‚ MacFlecknoe is a kind of mock-epic or mock-heroic poem. The very opening of MacFlecknoe is characterized by epic inflation which has a comic effect. Flecknoe who is known to be a worthless poet is compared to Augustus Caesar. The mock-heroic vein is continued throughout the poem in the portrayal of Shadwell as MacFlecknoe. The note of ironic politeness is continued also‚ being inseparable from the mock-epic
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the Macintosh personal computers. It is known as Mac PCs. Based on the article‚ it is written that no doubt the sales of iPod music players together with iTunes music downloads and sales of the iPhones had generated a lot of profit for the company‚ but the Mac PCs still managed to regain their title as the company’s highest revenue source in June 2007 even though Mac PCs had to struggle their way to break through the worldwide market. The Apple’s Mac sales have indeed increased at triple the rate of
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PCs vs. Macs Marketing Research Report December 8‚ 2011 _________________________ Whit Chapman‚ Emily Choi‚ and Candice Harden Table of Contents: Executive Summary…………………………………………………….Page 2 Research Motivations…………………………………………………..Page 4 Secondary Research……………………………………………………Page 4 Focus Group Analysis…………………………………………………..Page 4 Survey Analysis……………………………………………………….…Page 7 Works Cited ………………………………………………….…………..Page 10 Appendix ………………………………………………….……………...Page 11 Executive
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Consumer Behavior Final Presentation MAC vs. PC “Hi‚ I’m a Mac…and I’m a PC.” A man dressed in casual clothes introduces himself as a Mac ("Hello‚ I’m a Mac.")‚ while a man in a more formal suit-and-tie combination introduces himself as a PC ("And I’m a PC."). These ads for Apple’s Mac laptops aimed to grab a big chunk of the personal computing business‚ especially among younger users. The “Get a Mac” campaign was a television advertising campaign created for Apple Inc. that ran from 2006 to
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Mac Forensics: Mac OS X and the HFS+ File System Philip Craiger‚ PhD Assistant Director for Digital Evidence National Center for Forensic Science & Department of Engineering Technology University of Central Florida philip@craiger.net Paul K. Burke Senior Digital Evidence Research Assistant National Center for Forensic Science paulkburke@gmail.com ABSTRACT There are few resources that describe a forensics analysis of an Apple Mac computer. The purpose of this paper is describe procedures
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