Analysis – Poetry Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West Thomas Gray 1. Communicative Situation‚ Theme and Figurative Speech a) Communicative Situation In the poem “Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West” by Thomas Gray‚ the speaker can be identified by the use of personal pronouns of the first person singular “me” (l.1) and “I” (l.13)‚ as well as the possessive pronoun “my” (l.7‚8). It can be assumed that the speaker is male‚ since he mentions
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Compare And Contrast Essay In William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 and Christopher Marlowe’s The Passionate Shepherd To His Love‚ the themes of unconditional love‚ opulent treasures‚ and vivid imagery are all conveyed throughout the poems but through different point of views. The theme of unconditional love is expressed through the two poems. The poet proclaims his affection for her by telling his “love” that he will give her anything in the world if she would just
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Sonnet 130 Shakespeare put a twist on how similes and metaphors are used to compare the girl the narrator loves to other girls and/or things that represent beauty. Instead of using similes and metaphors to compare things that are alike‚ Shakespeare used them to contrast the girl with different things that she is not. In other words‚ he used them to show everything that the girl is different in‚ doesn’t have‚ and is flawed in. Shakespeare does this to show that the narrator truly loves the girl
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William Somerset Maugham. Stylistic pecularities. Maugham became a witty satirist of the post-colonial world and wrote over thirty plays‚ mainly light satiric comedies. At one time he had four dramas running simultaneously; only Bernard Shaw has had more plays on at the same time in London. The British Library holds many of Maugham’s published plays‚ and the Library’s Lord Chamberlain’s collection contains a considerable number of typescripts. Though Maugham doesn’t denounce the contemprorary
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Within 18 days‚ Kolaveri Di became ‘murderous rage’‚ it was the title of a ‘Tanglish’ India’s most downloaded song on mobile phones (Tamil-English) song written and sung by actor (2‚10‚000 downloads) and on November 24 it Dhanush for his film 3. became the first Tamil film song to be premiered on a national music channel‚ MTV India. A video of the song being recorded in a studio was uploaded at precisely 12.53 am that day on YouTube Imitators played the role of flatterers as versions by Sony Music
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E1: Describe the development of children in a selected age range and in TWO (2) areas of development/E2:Describe the development of children in a selected age range‚ different from E1 and in TWO (2) areas of development. I am going to describe the development of children aged birth to three years and three to seven years and also describe two areas of development which are: physical development and social development for the selected age range. Children from birth to three months start to develop
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Critical Analysis of “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” and “The Facebook Sonnet” Light and happy or dark and lonely‚ both “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” and “The Facebook Sonnet” are similar in that both of their themes describe solitude. Still‚ William Wordsworth and Sherman Alexie use opposite ideas to take this concept in different lights. While Wordsworth describes an enjoyable evening walking through a meadow and speaks of his contentment thinking of this day when he is alone‚ Alexie describes
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W.S. Maugham’s stories make exciting reading and give food for reflection The writer is a great master of ironic style. By using a biased 1st person narrator the author pretends to praise and justify what in fact he exposes and condemns. Thus the writer forces the reader to see through this pretence and make his/her own conclusions as to the purport of the work. The story "The Escape" is a fair example of Maugham’s ironic style. The basic theme of the story is marriage in bourgeois society‚ relations
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THE PUB Goddamn it’s bright out here‚ all the phonies going to the lousy lake that depresses me. It really does. Everyone and they’re phony smiles just trying to get on a boat. It’ll make you puke just seeing these goddamn girls with their tits all in their face‚ make you want to puke. It really will. The only girl worth looking at was old Jane Gallagher; you could stare at that ass of hers all day long. You really could. She looked like one of those playboy models. Those girls sure are nice to
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Chapter 18 Bats and vocab Absent Nomadic life A nomad is someone who lives by traveling from place to place. Silk roads routes that were central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian continent connecting the West and East by linking traders‚ merchants‚ pilgrims‚ Commoners an ordinary person‚ without rank or title. Charismatic leadership The guidance provided to an organization by one or more individuals seen as heroic or inspiring Khan a title given to rulers and officials in central Asia
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