he Poem Andrew Marvell’s poem chronicles his reactions to the artistic merit of John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667) in seven verse paragraphs of fifty-four rhymed iambic pentameter lines. The opening sentence forms a grammatical unit of ten lines. The remaining lines‚ marked with a grammatical pause at the end of each couplet‚ follow the poetic practice of end-stopped couplets. Initially‚ Marvell contrasts Milton’s “slender Book” with its “vast Design‚” its Christian topic of salvation history and
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Hacker: Heroes of the computer revolution‚ New York: Bantam Doubleday dell. Cited in: Taylor‚ Paul A. (1999)‚ Hackers: Crime in the digital sublime‚ London‚ Routledge. 10. Marotta‚ M.E. (1993)‚ ‘online with the super hacker’. Available from: http://www.kzsu.stanford.edu.uwi/post/mercury.html. Cited in: Taylor‚ Paul A. (1999)‚ Hackers: Crime in the digital sublime‚ London‚ Routledge.
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In the following essay‚ the writer analyzes William Wordsworth’s poem “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey.” As you read the essay‚ write down answers to the numbered analysis questions that accompany it. You can find the poem beginning on page 552 of your Holt Literature and Language Arts textbook. from Poetry for Students Memory: William Wordsworth and “Tintern Abbey” by Derek Furr I magine yourself five years from now. You’ve 1. How does the writer received an invitation to your
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Nature’s role in Tintern Abbey ‘Five years have past‚ five summers‚ with the length Of five long winters!’ We can see that the beginning of the poem starts with the speaker referring back to his memories‚ but what makes an impression is that those recollections of the past events are driven back to a specific place in time‚ to the childhood. Many people might wonder what is the connection between‚ the nature and the childhood‚ and why Wordsworth started his work in such a peculiar way. The answer
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Frankenstein Mary Shelly 1818 Part I. Summary of the Plot In a series of letters‚ Robert Walton‚ the captain of a ship bound for the North Pole‚ tells his sister who is in England about his mission. Victor Frankenstein who was traveling by dog-drawn sledge across ice was very weak. Walton takes him in and nurses him. Frankenstein then tells him his story of how he created a monster. Victor had a great childhood with his parents and his cousin‚ Elizabeth‚ and friend Henry Clerval. Later‚ Victor
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innocence children’s views on life compared to the “Song of Experiment” which gives the perspective of the experience of adult life. Both the “Song of Experience and Innocence” relate to the Romantic Movement. William Blake uses the concepts of Pastoral‚Sublime and individual throughout both. William Blake talks about God and children in the two-opposing side of the poems. By using God‚ he talks about the effects on minors of society. As children and adults who constantly evolve and are judged based
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Our Town‚ written by Thornton Wilder in 1938‚ is known as one of his best works. It is usually referred as beautiful and remarkable‚ one of the sagest‚ warmest and deeply human his scripts. One of the themes captured in the play is the one of family relations. We can trace this particular theme though the whole play. In the 1st act we are introduced to 2 families of the Gibbses & the Webbs. Charles and Myrtle Webb and Frank and Julia Gibbs give us a possibility to have a look at the day-to-day
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An ethical question that Shelley poses in Act V of the play may be “Why is Beatrice choosing to behave this way?” Because all of a sudden she starts acting like her tyrant father. Or another ethical question could be “If Beatrice lived‚ would she continue acting like her father or would she change her morals and social behavior as soon as possible back to the way that she was before?” The development of Beatrice is a transference of power that we see in the play because she becomes just like her
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Both Mary Shelley’s 1818 gothic novel Frankenstein and Ridley Scott’s 1982 film Blade Runner explore the dehumanising effects of technology. Although the texts differ in context they connect through their exploration of transcendent societal concerns. A key theme explored in both texts is the dangers associated with unrestricted and dehumanising technology. Both texts depict characters corrupted and challenged by the dehumanising effects of technology‚ whilst simultaneously depicting settings and
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Science was too narrow-minded‚ and held no room for emotion or feelings. In England‚ there was a resurgence into Shakespearean drama‚ and numerous techniques and styles such as Sturm and Drang‚ a style of writing in Germany‚ and in art the title sublime to describe the power of natural disasters that developed in the Romantic period. The perception that the Enlightenment was destroying the natural human soul and substituting it with the mechanical‚ artificial heart was becoming prevalent across Europe
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