Morality Among the "Outcasts of Poker Flat" As Mr. John Oakhurst‚ gambler‚ stepped into the main street of Poker Flat on the morning of the twenty third of November‚ 1850‚ he was conscious of a change in its moral atmosphere from the preceding night. Two or three men‚ conversing earnestly together‚ ceased as he approached‚ and exchanged significant glances. There was a Sabbath lull in the air‚ which‚ in a settlement unused to Sabbath influences‚ looked ominous. Mr. Oakhurst’s calm handsome face
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Auden’s “In Memory of W.B Yeats” is an elegy to commemorate the life and death of a great poet‚ W.B Yeats. However‚ Auden adds another dimension to the poem by incorporating political references significant during the age of oppression and turmoil of the impending war and the extent of effectiveness of poetry at any point in time. In this poem‚ he utilizes techniques and themes commonly found in his other poems. Firstly‚ the theme of death existent in the elegy is represented in two ways‚ a literal
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expression of emotion or ideas through literary work‚ often with a distinctive style and rhythm. Kenneth Slessor’s ‘Beach Burial’ and Bruce Dawe’s ‘Elegy for Drowned Children’ both present ideas on how individuals lament for the passed‚ through the major theme of death. Beach Burial follows the recurring events of the battle of El Alamein in WW2‚ whilst The Elegy for Drowned Children questions the fate of those unfortunate souls who have drowned. Although both poems incorporate drownin‚ they contrast in
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In Crossing the Bar‚ by Alfred Lord Tennyson‚ the poem was written as elegy of dying person‚ the speaker compare transition of impending death and crossing the sand bar. The image of the Sea is used to represent the “barrier” between life and death. It was described as hard as saying good bye to love ones‚ eagerly hoping those who will be left behind will not sob or cry. The speaker is in the stage where he is ready to face death also imagining after life experience on what will it turn out after
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THE personal history of Aphra Behn‚ the first Englishwoman to earn her livelihood by authorship‚ is unusually interesting but very difficult to unravel and relate. In dealing with her biography writers at different periods have rushed headlong to extremes‚ and we now find that the pendulum has swung to its fullest stretch. On the one hand‚ we have prefixed to a collection of the Histories and Novels‚ published in 1696‚ ’The Life of Mrs. Behn written by one of the Fair Sex’‚ a frequently reprinted
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earth. The pastoral poem often looks to nature and the simple life as a retreat from the complications of a society in which humans have become degenerate. Two poems from this era which we have studied‚ The Thresher ’s Labour‚ by Stephen Duck‚ and An Elegy Wrote in a Country Churchyard‚ by Thomas Gray‚ fit well into this category of literature. The first poem‚ The Thresher ’s Labor‚ gives a first-hand account of the hard life of a farm worker. Lexico LLC ’s Online Dictionary defines the verb "thresh"
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Memorial by Norman MacCaig This poem is an elegy‚ a poem that is a lament for the dead‚ for a beloved person in Maccaig’s life‚ probably his sister Frances. It is a sad and beautiful poem about how her death pervades every aspect of his life. He makes it clear that her death is not for him an event that has its place in the past. Instead the process of her dying stays with him constantly- In the opening of the poem he states‚’ Everywhere she dies’ and in the final stanza‚ ‘she can’t stop dying’
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Elegy/Repetition Who Am I Jennifer Leff Who am I Who am I Don’t know what to think Living every day Like it’s the first 5 How could it get any worse Don’t know what to think About life They told me to just Hold on tight 10 Who am I Lost and out of control Don’t know who or where to turn Will they just watch me burn Who am I 15 to afraid to fall Am I afraid to find more dark Or am I afraid to loose it all Who
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**** **** Period 5 Pre-AP English 10 Persepolis and Animal Farm In Persepolis‚ the powerful graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi‚ and Animal Farm‚ George Orwell’s eternal satirical fable‚ both authors use their books to tell stories of the oppression and manipulation of powerful states. Their approach to this similar theme is‚ however‚ entirely different. Satrapi’sfirst person narrative employs simplistic diction and black and white comic strips to tell the tale of a childhood amongst the horrors
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the Elizabethan period may be called the first Romantic period‚ dominated by Marlowe‚ Shakespeare‚ Spenser and others. It was followed by the Classical period in the eighteenth century whose important literary figures were Dryden‚ Pope‚ Addison‚ Swift and Dr. Johnson. The later part of the eighteenth century and the early part of the nineteenth century‚ whose prominent poets were Wordsworth‚ Coleridge‚ Scott‚ Byron‚ Shelley‚ Keats‚ was dominated by the romantic tendency‚ and hence it is called
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