ZIONISM’S GREATEST CONCEIT For a people whose traditions and rituals originate from the age of Egyptian pharaohs‚ modernity can be a relative term. The Jewish people have one of the oldest traditions of any culture on earth and have been a part of nearly every major civilization‚ from the ancient Egyptians‚ to the Persians‚ Romans‚ Byzantines‚ Ottomans and British empires. Over the centuries‚ they have traditions both of successful self-governance but also of persecution‚ hostility and exile
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"To His Coy Mistress" is primarily the author‚ Andrew Marvell‚ trying to convince and seduce "his coy mistress"‚ into having intimate relations with him. The poem has three stanzas; each with a different purpose: the first stanza gently and subtly flatters his mistress‚ using positive diction and images to show‚ how Marvell wishes he could love her for all of eternity; the second stanza‚ however‚ uses imagery to show how time is moving fast and also‚ strongly negative diction and images to show how
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author’s words could best illustrate his meaning This little work was prepared as a paper for the Stratford-upon-Avon Shakespeare Club and read in November it all 1904. has encouraged " its The generous me to lay imperfections on its it reception then given before the public with head " Asking only that a kind indulgence may be shown this tribute to one who worked not only for his own land but for all lands‚ and whose influence
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Metaphysical and Cavalier Poetry I. 17th Century Metaphysical Poetry: http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/English_Literature/period/metaphysicals.html http://www.unm.edu/~aobermei/Eng221/metaphysicals.html What is metaphysical poetry? What are its (6) characteristics? What is Platonic Love? How does this concept play into metaphysical poetry? Who first coined the term “metaphysical poet”? What have critics said about these poets? II. Cavalier Poetry: http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Terms/cavalier.html
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Rossano Bhandal 11J Compare the views of relationships in ‘The Unequal Fetters’ with those in ‘To his Coy Mistress’. What is suggested about the different ways in which men and women view love? ‘To His Coy Mistress’ was written by Andrew Marvell (1621-1678). The poem is a metaphysical poem‚ which was mostly used in the seventeenth century and was classed as a highly intellectual type of poetry and mainly expressed the complexities of love and life; just as this poem is. In brief the poem is about
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John Donne as a metaphysical poet John Donne was the most outstanding of the English Metaphysical Poets and a churchman famous for his spellbinding sermons. His poetry is noted for its ingenious fusion of wit and seriousness and represents a shift from classical models toward a more personal style. Donne’s poetry embraces a wide range of secular and religious subjects. He wrote cynical verse about inconstancy (for example‚ Go and catch a falling star and I can love both fair and brown); poems
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“To his mistress going to bed” was a poem written in the 16th century by John Donne; however the poem was not published till after the poet’s death in 1631. The poem is characterised by him expressing the way in which he undresses his mistress‚ who‚ according to Donne‚ the girl in the poem may have been of high social status due to the description given in describing her. The poem is strictly from a male point of view before engaging in sexual intercourse with the girl. She undresses in stages to
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Mistress Hibbins Mistress HIbbins was an actual historic figure‚ she was a woman accused and hung of being a witch. Hawthorne (who is the author of the Scarlet Letter) included her for two main reasons; 1. She was the sister of the governor. 2. She presented a foil to Hester‚ allowing us the readers’ to understand Hester better Hibbins could be on Hesters bad side. Hester could’ve easily gone to the bad side. Having being separated from her whole community‚ like Hibbins‚ she could become
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The Lost Mistress We have read the poem The Lost Mistress by Robert Browning who was an English poet and one of the best known Victorian poets. He has ability to create an image‚ a scene‚ which is not simply vivid and moving‚ but also somehow‚ psychologically accurate. A situation that can happen to everybody‚ and it almost happens to everyone sooner or later. The poem is about a break-up‚ right after it happened‚ when the boy cannot even believe that the girl has just broken up with him. He
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Descartes proves that God exists in his third meditation. He proves that God exists because he wants to be certain about things outside of himself. But‚ he cannot be certain of these things if he is ignorant about the existence of God. This is because if a supreme God exists‚ he could cause Descartes to be mistaken in the one avenue to certainty that he has. This avenue is known as clear and distinct perception‚ and‚ according to Descartes‚ it is what is necessary to be certain about a thing. However
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