Virtues of My Life: Order‚ Courage‚ Patience In order to survive in 1996‚ there need to be at least some standards and goals of morality in a person’s life. Moral excellence is definitely hard to achieve‚ but is definitely something to attempt. Personally‚ there are many distractions and obstructions the present day provides‚ creating a difficulty of direction in my own life. I need to overcome obstacles such as peer pressure in order to become a confident‚ successful person. The present
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Allegory: - A narrative in which the agents and actions and sometimes the setting‚ are conveyed by the author to make sense of the “literal”‚ primary level of significance as well as a secondary level of significance. 1) Historical and political allegory: in which characters and actions represent historical personages and events. 2) The allegory of ideas: Literal characters represents concepts and the plot allegorizes an abstract doctrine. Personification of abstract entities such as virtues‚
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another example of a company attempting to duplicate its strategies and business model unsuccessfully. Wal-Mart didn’t consider how the vast differences in culture could affect their survival and ultimately let their complacency‚ conservatism and conceit get in the way. Their continued losses forced them to withdraw their investment after failing to adapt to the environment‚ the culture and customer needs. Wal-Mart should have adjusted their leadership style to be able to transcend context as well
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Unit 9 William Shakespeare: comedies‚ historical plays‚ tragedies The Metaphysical Poets I. Types of plays with Shakespeare A. Comedies: they start with a conflict (agon) in a world/space perceived as imperfect‚ the comic brings about chaos that has a potential tragic quality which is sorted out with a marriage ( a return to harmony and togetherness) that suggests the beginning of a better world. Types of humour/comic: language‚ situation‚ character‚ manner‚ gags The mechanism of laughter
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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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A Near-Death Experience Breeds RebirthHow close have you come to dying? What value do you place on your own life? Mary Oliver poses these very deep and thought-provoking questions to the reader in her short poem‚ Alligator Poem.In the poem‚ the persona has an experience in which she comes very close to death: an alligator walks by her as she drank some water out of a river while sitting on a riverbank. Oliver describes it in this way: I didn ’t understand/I drank up to the very moment it came/crashing
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that the affection between two true lovers is metaphysical and can therefore resist any strain. Throughout the poem‚ Donne never explicitly states his opinion but rather uses a chain of extended metaphors to argue his point. Thus through a series of conceits‚ Donne attempts to convinces his wife that the love between them transcends the physical realm‚ is equivalent to perfection‚ and is unlike the plebeian relationships of ordinary people. Donne begins his contention that their love is metaphysical
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mystery; ‘legend’ (stanza 4) – we all remember love stories as legends‚ sadly these are mostly incomplete ones; ‘mirrors’ (stanza 5) – love is as reflective as a mirror‚ etc. Love is closely related to asceticism in the poem‚ which is one of the conceits used by the poet. He proves it with great subtlety that the lovers need nothing from the world; they complete each other and hence find peace in each other. The
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attention of the reader. At first instance Donne rejects his past views with passionate contempt but further realizes that if it were not for these carnal ways‚ his metamorphosis into the spiritual could not have occurred. In an exceptional metaphysical conceit‚ this imperforate love is compared to that of mothers milk‚ whereas his indulgence in country pleasures are portrayed as weaning to connote the crucial existence of a relationship existing between the body and the soul – “were we not weaned till then
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Donne‚ the speaker is consoling his lover who is mournful of the speaker’s imminent departure. The speaker is saying that since they have stronger than ordinary love for one another‚ their love will endure the separation. Donne uses metaphysical conceits and comparative imagery to illustrate the crux of the poem. The speaker is reassuring his lover by reminding her of how great their love is; it transcends the physical and therefore will overcome whatever obstacle is set on their path. He is forbidding
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