Elizabeth Boyle‚ whom he arried in 1594. In ‘‘Sonnet 75‚’’ the speaker is a poetic version of Spenser and the Lover to and about whom he is writing is Elizabeth. The subject of ‘‘Sonnet 75’’ is the immortality of love. In this sonnet‚ the speaker recounts his effort to immortalize Elizabeth and his love for her. Despite his lover’s doubts about his ability to do this‚ Spenser assures his lover (and the reader) that through his poetry‚ her name will be remembered‚ and after their deaths their love will
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observing the rich yet subtle backdrops of A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ it is possible to glean greater understanding of what drives the characters to act as they do. The play opens at Theseus’ grand country estate‚ where he and his Amazon-warrior-turned-lover Hippolyta are preparing for their wedding. Even as they are making these preparations‚ though‚ Theseus tells Hippolyta that the wait until marriage is too long‚ saying “But‚ O‚ methinks how slow this old moon wanes! She lingers my desires like to a
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Before reading the poem‚ based on the title‚ “Love Poem with Toast‚” Miller Williams‚ the author‚ utilized this poem to express his emotions to his lover during breakfast. The unnamed speaker in the poem internally expresses his love to his lover. The speaker mentions that the bond that they share is the reason the world rotates. The love they share puts everything into place in their relationship. For example‚ the speaker utilizes catalogue to show the everyday things such as: “we do to make things
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being separated from his lover feels like winter‚ no matter what season it may be. First‚ to reveal the feeling of loss caused by the separation from his lover‚ Shakespeare employs simile: “How like a winter hath my absence been/ From thee”; second‚ Shakespeare uses visual and tactile imagery to reiterate the sense of winter already established by stating‚ “what freezings have I felt‚ what dark days seen!”; third‚ Shakespeare compares “this time remov’d”: the time he and his lover were apart‚ to “widow’d
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that his lover and his self are much happier than the sun‚ which is half as happy. Conceits are plentiful in this poem by John Donne. One of these conceits is on line 1 where the speaker calls the sun a "Busy old fool" that is "unruly". Donne believes that his bedroom is the whole universe and the sun a rude intruder. The sun‚ regular in its mover across the sky every twenty-four hours is called "unruly‚" that is poorly behaved‚ or without respect for the rules of authority. Here the lovers have their
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In the story‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ the final tragic outcome‚ namely the deaths of the two young lovers‚ was a result of human choices‚ rather than one of fate. Although fate played some role in Romeo and Juliet’s deaths‚ the various characters’ decisions and actions throughout the story eventually led to the tragedy. There were four main stepping stones‚ all resulting from man’s decision‚ which finally ended with Romeo and Juliet taking their own lives. The first event that paved the way towards the
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It is the same play and plot‚ but with just different settings. By doing this‚ audiences can see how the story of the two lovers relates to their real world and life. It has been simplified so that children can understand and relate to the play. We know that hate does not end up well‚ and the play displays this theme. This works everywhere‚ and that is why Romeo and Juliet
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Today‚ we have a thorough understanding of the structure of our universe. We know that the earth is round‚ is the third planet from the sun‚ and the sun is the center of our universe. We also know that the space around our universe simply goes on forever - it is infinite. We know a great deal more‚ but these are the basics‚ and it is these fundamental facts that took humans so long to truly understand. It took mankind thousands of years of study and observation to accurately know the universe‚ and
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old question to his reader in the short story The Lady or the Tiger. Literally‚ he leaves it to your discretion to decide whether a barbaric princess chooses her lovers fate to be death at the hand of a tiger or marriage to a beautiful woman. I believe that even thought this princess was barbaric in nature she chose life for her lover and true love prevailed. I first realized that the princess chose the lady over the tiger because even when she first fell in love with a man of lower standing
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symbolic of the sexual liberation of Jiu-er’s passions through an illicit sexual encounter with the rescuer/lover at the beginning of the film. In feudal China‚ the dominance of patriarchal forced marriages had enslaved Jiu-er to a marriage with a leprous old man that owned a wine distillery. Before Jiu-er’s marriage to Li Datou‚ she is kidnapped and forced to have sex with the rescuer/lover in the red sorghum fields. The red fields represent the symbolic freedom of he sexuality with a person her
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