Pygmalion‚ perhaps Shaw’s best-loved play‚ tells of Professor Henry Higgins attempts to transform the poor‚ Cockney flower-girl‚ Eliza Doolittle‚ into a lady by changing her speech. Higgins hears her speaking one night as she sells flowers‚ and he says that‚ within three months‚ he can change her speech so dramatically that she will be accepted in the highest society. The next morning‚ she shows up at his door‚ offering to pay for lessons because she wants to run her own flower shop. The lessons
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William Shakespeare and Elizabeth Browning each wrote a series of sonnets; Shakespeare’s work‚ using his variation of the sonnet and Browning’s‚ using the Petrarchan style. In particular‚ “Sonnet 18” and Sonnet 43‚” (both of which are about how much the speakers love their partners) use great language and expression. They each show love in its deepest forms. Shakespeare confirms his love for his lady friend‚ while Browning illustrates her love for her husband and how it has grown. Both sonnets are
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Elizabeth Jennings was likewise tending to play down the idea of the Movement among a particular generation of postwar poets and in this reference she says: “They may have common aims - but this is something very different from that deliberate practice and promulgation of shared views which a true literary movement implies.” (10) Further she argues that: “it is the journalists‚ not the poets themselves‚ who have created the poetic movements of the Movements” (10).Talking about the poetry of the fifties
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tWhat connections have you found between the ways in which Larkin and Abse write about places in their poems? In your response you must include detailed critical discussion of at least two of Larkin’s poem. In the poem Here Larkin describes the city as ‘rich industrial shadows’ this suggests Larkin sees it as dirtily rich with corruption lurking in the ‘shadows’. ‘Shadow’ suggests misery‚ a lack of hope and spiritual enlightenment. ‘Shadows’ suggests blindness‚ perhaps to clarity which Larkin is
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Comparison between sonnet number 18 and 129. First of all‚ sonnets are interesting mystery puzzles of literature‚ but yet it’s an important part of it too. One of the most renowned poets of all time is no less William Shakespeare. He has written plenty of sonnets‚ in which is formed by three quatrains and a couplet. What is most interesting though‚ are that many of his sonnets are similar and some have highly contrasting styles. It’s as if you could tell that Shakespeare was a maudlin person
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We all know that everything has started to change in music with the recording technology. What we qualified something really important in music in the past‚ such as history‚ time and place etc. ‚ today‚ in a sense‚ they start to lose their “value”. Before explaining the idea of Brian Eno‚ i want to mention what we discuss before him. Previously‚ we discussed Benjamin‚ Gould who supported the opposite sides of one point and i think the main point of these discussions is ’the aura of the music has
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The origins of violence in individuals seem to remain a mystery for psychologists‚ biologists‚ and society as a while; and the question “are people hardwired to kill/be violent” arises. The BBC Documentary‚ ‘5 Steps to Tyranny’‚ shows us how human nature allows us to descend into a domineering society when we are provoked to act according to certain circumstances. The tyrannical acts are analyzed in 5 simple steps: ‘Us’ and ‘Them’‚ ‘Obey Orders’‚ ‘Do Them Harm’‚ ‘Stand Up or Stand By’‚ and ‘Exterminate’
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William Shakespeare’s "Sonnet 129" is cited as an invective poem‚ but it is much more complicated than that. Invective poetry refers to vituperative or censoriously abusive poetry used to express blame or rebuke. "Sonnet 129" is a poem of mixed emotions and is not singularly invective. It expresses hate‚ but‚ underneath its loathing‚ lies layers of shame and madness. How the poem is set up is the main way the reader can see these underlying emotions. On the surface‚ Shakespeare’s "Sonnet 129" is
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Alex Broome Mrs. Thompson English 101 TR 11:00 08/29/2012 Essay 1 The Mystery Murder “A Rose for Emily” is a short story written by William Faulkner. It takes place in Faulkner’s famous‚ fictitious town of Jefferson‚ Mississippi in post Civil War south. The story spans three decades and uses techniques such as foreshadowing and stream of consciousness to set the mysterious tone and to alter the mood and perception of the story. The story’s main theme is resistance to change. Faulkner
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Ethan A. Proffitt ENG 243 Phil Ferguson 11-17-14 Sonnet 130 William Shakespeare’s 130th sonnet is perhaps the most intriguing and conceptually bizarre. The majority of his sonnets on the subject of women detail how lovely and fair they are‚ or how he is unable to serenade them (often because of a superior man); this particular example is an utter contradiction to his other female-based works. The central idea of the speaker here is to describe the appearance of his love interest to someone else‚
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