Lanark: Prose Commentary 1 Lanark Prose Commentary Retno Widyanti This extract from Lanark ‚written by Alasdair Gray‚ is a highly evocative piece of narrative prose. Set within a church in Lenzies‚ Glasgow‚ the excerpt illustrates the loss of love and theloss of self-belief which are inextricably intertwined for the character Duncan Thaw. Writtenin a post-modern style‚ it is also representative of the subjectivity of perception and its abilityto change with the passage of time. Duncan is forced
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As Leon Battista Alberti once said‚ “Painting is possessed of divine powered‚ for not only does it make the absent present‚ but also makes the dead almost alive”. This seems to summarize the central theme of William Butler Yeats’ poem‚ “Sailing to Byzantium” that through human imagination‚ nature and its raw materials are transformed into something that will withstand the test of time. Through the use of Yeats’ clusters of images‚ paradoxes‚ and syntax‚ this theme of endurance over time is emphasized
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None-Prose Form • Prose is basically written words structured the same as spoken words. Essentially the same as a book or short story‚ newspaper article‚ factual book or dialogue. An example of writing that is not prose is poetry‚ which may rhyme‚ or have a rhythmic structure or form. In a single simple sentence; Prose is writing the same as you would speak out loud. Types of Prose • • • • • • • • Short Story Factual Prose Novel The Personal Essay Journals Diaries Testimony Letters What is
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analysing a prose● ● 3 ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Analysing prose Objectives To establish a strategy for approaching unseen prose texts To practise close reading of prose texts To look at examples of commentaries on prose texts Part 1 The commentary Analysing prose is not so very different from analysing poetry. In both you have to look at literary techniques‚ at choice of language‚ imagery‚ structure and so on‚ but these
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entrance-subject Test/interview. d. Letter of Intent to be enclosed with admission form. NOTE:- No 3rd Division in entire academics career. All HEC conditions apply. Last date for receipt of application in Academics Branch by hand is 12th December 2013. 1. Passing of NTS-GAT-General for MPhil and GRE/GAT-Subject for PhD admissions with requisite score will be necessary at the time of applying for admission. All HEC’s conditions
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Action 3.7 1. Although we use models in teaching prose style but it does not inprove the clarity and directed in student writing. 2. When we precisely plot the location of building foundations the possibility of enhance the accuracy of reconstruct the village. 3. If members of the established procedure depart it may terminate the membership by the board. 4. 5. To implement a new curriculum successfully depends on facility and students are cooperating in setting achievable goals within
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Romantic prose Romantic poetry seems to have exercised an equal and similar but not exactly identical transforming power upon verse and close. Essays and literary criticism and philosophical treatises and historical writings are found bear that new sprit. Of course‚ essay writing is not an invention of romantic age. It is originated in the hands of Francis bacon in the Elizabethan age. A familiar essay contains much of the personal self of the essayist who is quit secretive and confidential to his
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Elements of Prose Setting: The lottery takes place at the central square. Plot: One beautiful summer day‚ Mr. Summers organize a lottery in the town. All of the people gathered at 10:00‚ with stones with them. Mr. Summers has a box with pieces of paper. Everyone’s family is written on those papers. He calls up all the men of each family to draw a piece of paper. After drawing it‚ it turns out the Hutchinson family have picked the marked piece of paper so they put more pieces of paper in the box
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in reading scores when compared internationally. What has caused this dramatic drop in proficiency among American students? In the essay "I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read"‚ writer Francine Prose exposes and examines the fallen standards and serious flaws in current US education. In her essay Prose calls out the methods in which children are being taught in American schools. She believes that America has fallen so far behind because teachers are forcing children to read classic literature in
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Techniques for Prose Analysis Assumptions of close-reading prose: 1. Writing style is itself an expression of philosophy; or‚ to put it another way‚ form contains ideas 2. The formal aspects of writing - diction‚ sentence structure etc. - may work against the literal sense of the writing - or enhance it. 3. The subtleties of connotation and diction form a layer of meaning which is additional to the surface meaning of the text. 4. Every prose text comes with a host of expections - of genre‚ writing
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