concepts of love and war are inextricably linked with the similar attributes and emotions that are concomitant to each idea‚ however their paradoxical relationship suggests divergent ideas when involved in variant contexts. The love poem‚ ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ by Robert Browning conflates passion and violence‚ reflecting notions of obsessions‚ hunger for ownership and abusiveness within a relationship whilst Bruce Dawe’s ‘Homecoming’ investigates the anonymity and insensitivity for the deaths of the soldiers
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Text | Porphyria’s Lover – Robert Browning (published 1836) Porphyria’s Lover (1836) is one of Robert Browning’s earliest dramatic monologues that reintroduced dark and sensual concepts disturbing the audience of the Victorian Era; since such ideologies had not been explored since the Renaissance Period. He employs annotative literary techniques such as morbid imagery‚ metaphors‚ symbolism and natural and vegetative diction; to portray the innate trait of humans to yearn for a sense of belonging
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Body of a Lover: An Analysis of Marguerite Duras’ The Lover Sexuality is evident in every form of life. Plants‚ animals‚ humans all actively engage in sexual practices; however‚ it is only mankind that offers various forms and perspectives of sex and its subcategories. Much focus of sex is its effects on the body and its senses. The focus of the human body‚ its sensuality and also the harm that is inflicted upon it‚ is one of Marguerite Duras’ themes throughout her work The Lover. The paradoxical
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Assignment: Compare and Contrast Jacqueline Stephens ENG 125 Introduction to Literature Instructor Annemarie Hamlin September 20‚ 2012 Week Three Assignment: Compare and Contrast I have chosen to compare and contrast the literary works‚ “Country Lovers” by Nadine Gordimer and “The Welcome Table” by Alice Walker‚ the theme being race / ethnicity. I want to explore the differences in how each of the black women portrayed their selves and how the narrator made me feel when reading each of the
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The understanding of critical approaches to literature helps a great deal while handling the novel. If we choose to take up D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers‚ psychological approach throws light upon certain issues which otherwise would remain unexplored. Along with this engagement with literature‚ film viewing and discussion sessions are also handled. Either we move to a film after finishing a particular section of literature or engage extra hours on Saturdays for watching films ( six/seven sessions
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In “The Demon Lover” by Elizabeth Bowen‚ the female protagonist‚ Kathleen Drover‚ finds that the atmosphere‚ interiorly and exteriorly of her former home‚ is similar to her repressed memories of a past life. Kathleen Drover arrives to her former residence with an initial plan to pack up a few items from her former life; the “steamy‚ showery day” (1) represents Kathleen’s need to restore her current life by obscuring memories that surfaced upon her arrival to the house. However‚ Kathleen‚ in an
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characters were faced and affected by racism‚ poverty‚ and love. This paper will also briefly summarize the stories and depict the feelings of the characters and how they were treated. The two literary works are “Country Lovers” by Nadine Gordimer and “The Welcome Table” by Alice Walker. Country Lovers is a story of a forbidden love on a South African farm. (Clugston‚ 2010). The main characters in this story are Thebedi and Paulus. Paulus was the son of a rich white farmer and Thebedi the daughter of a
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‘Porphyria’s Lover’ shows the shift of power in a loving relationship. The poem begins by telling us that the speaker is sitting around in his cottage listening to a storm outside‚ ‘The rain set in early tonight‚ the sullen wind was soon awake’. Waiting for Porphyria to enter‚ ‘I listened with heart fit to break’ this here shows that the reader was in some way obsessed with her Porphyria‚ I say this because he sounds like he is on the edge of desperation to see her as he says his ‘heart fit to break’
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Robert Browning’s “Porphyria’s Lover” written in 1836 explores and undermines the complex gender stereotypes regarding power and authority present in the nineteenth century. The typical stable male figure is absent. Instead‚ the male narrator is extremely capricious and erratic in nature‚ making for an unusual story. Porphyria‚ the female in the poem‚ also undermines regular stereotypes. On a deeper level‚ Porphyria seems to be the one with the power even although physically she gets strangled. The
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Theme and Narrative Elements in the Short Story ENG 125 Introduction to Literature Instructor: Loretta Crosson In the short story Country Lovers by Nadine Gordimer is discuss the Apartheid in South Africa where two young people fell in love. This was a forbidden love. The black woman Thebedi‚ and Paulus the son of her white masters took a chance on love and engaged in a sexual relationship which lead to Thebedi getting pregnant. Paulus then leave for veterinary college not knowing that Thebedi
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