The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald written in the Jazz age of 1920s America‚ and Sonnet from the Portuguese written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning composed in the wake of Romanticism‚ although the two texts were composed in two distinct time period both texts are influenced by their varying contexts in their portrayal of the enduring human concerns. Both authors explore the universal human concerns of love‚ hope and mortality through the use of various language features such as metaphors‚ use
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Module A – Comparative Study of Texts Elective 2: Texts in Time (F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese) The two comparative texts‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese reflect changing values and perspectives of the modernistic 1920s and the Victorian Era of the mid 19th Century. Through the change in context and literary form‚ The Great Gatsby reshapes our understanding
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In what ways do the texts you have studies highlight the changing values of dreams and desires? The concept of dreams and desires are a constantly changing ideal experienced in human nature‚ and this concept is explored through Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s anthology of poems “Sonnets of the Portuguese” and Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s satirical novel “The Great Gatsby.” Correlative thematic concerns arise between the Victorian era and the Jazz Age in relation to dreams and desires and furthermore
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expressed in texts‚ throughout history‚ and have been influenced by divergent contextual values appropriate to the time‚ in which the text was written. Through the comparative study of the 1925 novel‚ ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s 1845 ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese‚’ HSC students are provided with varying concepts of love in dissimilar contexts through the use of narrative and poetic techniques‚ thus resulting in an enhanced appreciation of each text. The
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Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1861 The poet begins by saying “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways‚” by which she starts off with a rhetorical question‚ because there is no ‘reason’ for love. Rather than using “why” she enforces this meaning. But then she goes on saying that she will count the ways‚ which is a contradiction against her first line. In the rest of the poem she is explaining how much she loves. In the second line she says “I love thee to the depth & breath &
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Sonnet 13 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning says that the beloved wants the speaker to tell him of her love for him‚ but she is hesitant because she is afraid that she cannot appropriately relay her sentiments. The speaker first compares herself attempting to express her love for her beloved as holding “a torch out‚ while the winds are rough” because she believes that there is risk in conveying her emotions. She then states that she drops the torch “at thy feet” because although her beloved wishes for
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at Gatsby and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets explore the role of human aspirations and the quest to establish or maintain an identity against vastly different social contexts and in markedly different literary forms. While The Great Gatsby (TGG) develops an ironic‚ shifting but ultimately pessimistic if not cynical viewpoint on the nature of human aspirations and our likelihood of maintaining an individual identity against the range of social pressures‚ Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets present
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TOPIC: Module A: Comparative study of text and context Weighting: 15% Modes being assessed: Reading (7.5%) and Writing (7.5%) Advanced Outcomes addressed by the task: 1. A student explains and evaluates the effects of different contexts of responders and composers on texts 2. A student explains relationships among texts 2a. A student recognizes different ways in which particular texts are valued. 6. A students engages with the details of text in order to respond
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Sonnet 14: In lines I and 2 of "Sonnet 14"‚ Elizabeth Barrett Browning says she wants only to be loved for "love’s sake". The next four lines describe all the things she does not want to be loved for – “Do not say ’I love her for her smile—her look—her way of speaking gently”‚. She tells us in lines 7 through 9‚ that she does not want to be loved for these reasons because they are changeable (with age)‚ unreliable and superficial whereas real love should be everlasting. In lines 10 through 12‚ she
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet 1 Theme: Unexpectedness of love Falling in love with Robert and his returning of her love came as a great surprise to Elizabeth‚ considering past her circumstances. Analysis: Reworks the traditional sonnet sequence by transforming gender roles. She utilises the female voice instead of the traditional male voice. She assumes the role of epic hero. She adopts the petrachan sonnet style. The octet’s strict rhyming pattern reflects how she feels her life
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