Medusa‚ originally a beautiful young woman whose crowning glory was her magnificent long hair‚ was desired and courted by many suitors. Medusa was a priestess for the temple of Athena. Because she was a priestess for the virgin god Athena she had to stay a virgin as well and couldn’t take a husband. Yet before she could be betrothed to a husband‚ Poseidon found her worshipping in the temple of Athena and ravished and raped her. Athena was outraged at her sacred temple being violated but was not mad
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The nine Muses are the daughters of Zeus. They have the power to inspire arts. Raised by the god Apollo and nymph Eurifme‚ each Muse created a instrument or inspires a particular art. This paper will explain the origins of the Muses‚ The type of art each inspires‚ and each muse in detail. The nine muses were: Calliope‚ Clio‚ Thalia‚ Melopomene‚ Terpsichore‚ Erato‚ Euterpe‚ Polyhymna‚ and Urania. The muses inspire poetry‚ music‚ and science. The nine muses were the daughters of Zeus
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How does the writer present power in medusa and another poem In medusa‚ Duffy uses the character of a female to show power. "Be terrfied". This quote is a short sentence which emphasises her power and that when she looks at you‚ it doesnt take long till you are turned into stone. The sentence also creates a sinister tone in a way that she wants you t be afraid of her because she was once destroyed now she wants to destroy others as she has the power to do so. Duffy later on uses the verb "shattered"
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Use Audre Lorde’s "Poetry is Not a Luxury" and T. de Lauretis’s "Desire in Narrative" to read May Sarton’s poem "The Muse as Medusa." Expand May Sarton’s project of remaking/retaking the gaze by examining what Audre Lorde and T. de Lauretis understand about the power of looking. The power of looking resides in our agency. The supremacy of seeing; being seen’ gives a sense of self‚ which enables us to encompass our power and identity as an individual. As humans‚ we obsess about how we look;
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Pursuing the ideal is a central theme frequently mentioned within the three poems Sailing to Byzantium‚ Betting on the Muse‚ and Constantly Risking Absurdity and Death. While writing poetry‚ an artist’s main objective is often to reflect on their perception of beauty depicted in either the eternal or temporal realm. Throughout the poetry unit‚ it became quite evident that the eternal realm is the ideal due to its expression of everlasting love and happiness with an emphasized correlation to art and
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To my Muse Invoked no longer is the Muse‚ The lyre is out of date; The poets it no longer use‚ And youth its inspiration now imbues With other form and state. If today our fancies aught Of verse would still require‚ Helicon’s hill remains unsought; And without heed we but inquire‚ Why the coffee is not brought. In the place of thought sincere That our hearts may feel‚ We must seize a pen of steel‚ And with verse and line severe Fling abroad a jest and jeer. Muse‚ that in the
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The story “First muse” by Julia Alvarez tell us about he life in The Dominican Republic. She starts to read The Thousand and One Nights book under her bed. She saw her self reflected in the dark haired almond-eyed girl on the book cover. Alvarez identify with the bright ambitious girl stuck in a kingdom that didn’t think females were very important. Scheherazade gave Alvarez the courage to explore the power of storytelling. When Alvarez came to the United States it was very difficult for her especially
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attention through whatever means necessary‚ lacking the foresight to ascertain that said attention will most likely be short-lived and unsustainable. It is this troubling concept which Charles Bukowski addresses masterfully in his poem ‘Betting on a Muse’‚ perusing the irrelevancy of those who were once relevant early on‚ and the reversal of such with himself. He utilizes the classic example of high-school jocks: popular and well-loved in their prime‚ yet unsuccessful and even destitute in their later
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snakes a very bad hair day‚ but that’s exactly what happened to Medusa. Everyone who knows anything about Greek Mythology knows who she is. She turened people to stone if they looked at her and was killed by Perseus with the help Athena then placed her head onto a sheild. But‚ how did Medusa become the lady with snake hair that you can not look at? She was not born this way it all comes from her talking badly about the wrong Goddess. Medusa was a preistess at a temple for the Goddess Athena. She was
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Did you know Medusa appears on the flag of Sicily? She appears on the Dohalice village of Czech Republic’s flags coat of arms also. Pablo Picasso‚ Rubens and Caravaggio have portrayed her in their work. Leonardo da Vinci once painted an oil canvas called Medusa. Medusa is considered a monster because she has the face of an ugly woman‚ hair of snakes‚ and if anyone looks into her eyes she turns them to stone. She is the daughter of Phorcys‚ god of the sea‚ and Ceto‚ a female sea god. Phorcys
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