“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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The Demon Lover and Other Stories by Elizabeth Bowen was first published in Britain in 1945. In 1946‚ the collection was published in the United States under the title Ivy Gripped the Steps and Other Stories. Without exception‚ reviewers greeted it enthusiastically‚ praising it for what was described in the New Yorker as ‘‘a completely successful explanation of what war did to the mind and spirit of the English people.’’ Today‚ ’’The Demon Lover’’ is probably the most anthologized of Bowen’s short
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[pic] Martin Lawrence returns as FBI agent Malcolm Turner‚ who again goes deep undercover as "Big Momma." The FBI has learned that a computer software developer named Tom Fuller has created a computer virus that allows access to classified US government files. Fuller is planning to sell the virus to terrorist organizations all over the world. Upon hearing this‚ the FBI’s best chance is Fuller’s wife. So Malcolm goes undercover as Big Momma in order to pose as Mrs. Fuller’s nanny and as always
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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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involving the social paradigm of the context‚ essentially conveying the consequences of challenging strict class structures placed on individuals through portraying the disastrous effect of upper and lower class interaction. The text’s title‚ “Porphyria’s Lover”‚ which alludes to a disease highlights that the persona is being infected by Porphyria to point where it makes him sick‚ suggesting that inter-class relationships are abnormal and unhealthy. Porphyria is implied to be of higher social status than
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matter the timeframe‚ the one constant that rings true is that love will not always overcome all. It didn’t take reading past the title of “Country Lovers” to be instantly attracted to this short story. Just knowing it was a story of love and romance was enough of a draw to this literary piece. No matter how the story played out between these lovers‚ the feelings that would most certainly be evoked from such a powerful story raised curiosity to follow the tragic-turned-morbid love story of Paulus
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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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What it means to be a lover of music What does it mean to be a lover of music? Being a lover of music means to be a lover of art. Growing up no one around me was into music much‚ so I never had much of an interest in music. My parents brought me up in a religious household. They had a tight reign on what music I could listen too. I started listening to the radio stations I wasn’t allowed to listen too as a kid. It was then when I discovered my love for music. The connection I got from listening
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