In The Lover‚ Marguerite Duras tells the narrative from the point of view of the protagonist‚ a fifteen and a half year old‚ high school student in Indochina whose French dysfunctional family was bound in poverty. The father was dead‚ an older brother whom she fears and a younger one whom she deeply loves‚ and a mother whom she loves but pities and dislikes at the same time. The narrator has a strained relationship with her mother whose favoritism for her older son and alternating support and abuse
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THE COMPANY OF LOVERS: JUDITH WRIGHT Judith Wright’s 1946 poem "The Company of Lovers" makes a juxtaposition of two essential forces of major impact upon human existence‚ the effects of love and those of death. Within the poem it can be noted that the two stanzas reflect each of the certain themes. The first‚ a universal description of love and the ambitions two lovers might have‚ whilst the second a reflection of how quick all may soon be lost through the loneliness of death. Wright is renown
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“Porphyria’s Lover” to express the hidden depths of the speaker’s mind while still leaving
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4 July 2011 Essay #2 Porphyria’s Lover Paranoia There are many physical and mental diseases Americans encounter each day. Some sickness is more serious than other. One mental disorder is paranoia. Paranoia is when the patient becomes a prey to premature delusion. The disease the cause of delusion is internal‚ and not hallucination is involved. The main symptom is permanent delusion. In paranoia the symptoms of delusion appear gradually‚ and the patient is sentimental‚ irritable‚ suspicious‚ depressed
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“Porphyria’s Lover‚” which first appeared in 1836‚ is one of the earliest and most shocking of Browning’s dramatic monologues. The speaker lives in a cottage in the countryside. His lover‚ a blooming young woman named Porphyria‚ comes in out of a storm and proceeds to make a fire and bring cheer to the cottage. She embraces the speaker‚ offering him her bare shoulder. He tells us that he does not speak to her. Instead‚ he says‚ she begins to tell him how she has momentarily overcome societal strictures
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An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife By : Richard Crashow Richard begins his poem with addressing lovers who are dead and whom death gathered them one more time‚ or‚ as it were‚ wedded them again‚ and this is a metaphor‚ in which‚ he resembles dying together to get married again. The grave that the lovers are in is the second marriage-bed‚ this is also a metaphor. The lovers will fade away‚ for separating soul and body is the fate’s job which is : obligatory; however‚ desting can not sever
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Threw out history there have been animal lovers‚ who would do almost anything to show his or her affection for the animal he or she cares for. In ancient Egypt people treated cats and dogs as if they were gods. They would build sculpture and huge statues to idolize and worship them. Now‚ in modern time‚ we can see some people have a similar action toward there pets. Some of these people who love their pets are willing to give these animals almost anything‚ no mater what it cost them. It has been
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Porphyria’s lover: Like ‘My Last Duchess’‚ this poem is an example of a dramatic monologue – a poem in which the impression the speaker unwittingly gives is rather different from the picture they intend to present. Initially‚ the poem appears to be built around a contrast between the storm outside and the cosy domestic scene within the cottage that Porphyria and her lover share. But there are unsettling notes from the very start –the storm is strangely personified in terms of sullenness‚ ‘spite’
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D.H. Lawrence: Son and Lover "Bildungsroman‚ a form of fiction which allows the novelist to recreate through the maturing of his protagonist some of his own remembered intensity of experience" (Nivin‚ Alastair; pg. 34) D.H. Lawrence re-created his own life experience through the writing of Son’s and Lovers‚ an intensely realistic novel set in a small English mining town‚ much akin to the town in which he was raised. The son of a miner‚ Lawrence grew up with a father much like the character
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Robert Browning starts the poem Porphyria’s lover by describing a storm using personification‚ he uses words such as ‘sullen’ and ‘spite’ which suggests the weather is bad on purpose‚ the misery of the weather could be reflecting the mood of the speaker‚ we can begin to suss that something bad is going to happen as this is often the stereotypical weather for suspicious behaviour and murder stories. Browning hints that the unnamed speaker may not be mentally stable‚ ‘I listened with heart fit to break’
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