Look again at Upon My Son Samuel his Going for England, Novem 6, 1657 by Ann Bradstreet, in which the speaker conveys her feelings towards her child, and at one other poem from the anthology in which the speaker conveys his or he

Look again at "Upon My Son Samuel his Going for England, Novem 6, 1657" by Ann Bradstreet, in which the speaker conveys her feelings towards her child, and at one other poem from the anthology in which the speaker conveys his or her parental feelings. With close reference to the way each writer has used language to convey those feelings, compare and contrast what each poem has to say about parental feelings and explain which poem you regard as most successful. The poems "Upon My Son Samuel his Going for England, Novem. 6, 1657" and "A Parental Ode to My Son, Aged Three Years and Five Months" both convey the speaker's parental feelings towards their child, but they do so in very different ways. Ann Bradstreet had herself completed the journey from England to America and knew of the dangers on such a voyage, therefore her fear and terror can be felt throughout the poem. Thomas Hood on the other hand has a much more lighthearted approach as he uses bathos to create a humorous picture of parenthood. The speakers in both poems are the poet as well as the parent, but differ in the fact that one is the mother and the other the father, thus the parental concerns are expressed in very different ways. In "Upon My Son Samuel..." the speaker expresses her worries very directly and sees herself as being primarily responsible for her child. Therefore she does all she can to protect him,

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Relevance of the Bible in Classes

THE RELEVANCE OF KEEPING THE BIBLE IN THE CURRICULAM All major religions have texts that provide valuable insight into their culture, explain the religion's views on creation, cultural laws and their own adaptations of the God. The Bible is the religious writing of Judaism and Christianity consisting of the older scriptures called Old Testament and the newer writings called the New Testament. The scripture is chauvinistic towards all men, but there are some strong female heroines in the stories of the Bible to balance it out. There Bible also teaches many lessons through themes. The Bible should stay in the Curriculum because it provides students with valuable insight in history and helps them gain religious and literary perspective. The bible is undeniably biased and although of many of its lead characters are male, heroines such as Jael, Ruth and Esther to set good role models for the readers. Esther appears in the Bible as a woman of deep piety, faith, courage, patriotism, and caution, combined with resolution. She is a dutiful daughter to her adopted father, loyal to her fellow Jewish people and she was very charming too; "she obtained favor in the sight of all them that looked upon her" (434). Similarly, Jael is often referred to as "Most blessed of women be Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, of tent-dwelling women most blessed" (222). She defies her husband

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Sonnet 43- How Do I Love Thee. This sonnet by Elizabeth Browning is an attempt to measure and quantify love.

Commentary for Sonnet 43 This sonnet by Elizabeth Browning is an attempt to measure and quantify love. Having experienced the deaths of her mother and brother, she tries to replace the love lost with the new-found love of Robert Browning. For her, this love is immense and forever lasting as she tries to grasp onto him in attempt not to loose yet another loved one. The geometric figures illustrated in our head when 'depth', 'breadth' and 'height' lead us to think that the love she is describing has dimensions that are rich of love. This advocates that it is overflowing and extraordinary. Further reference to infinite love is implied when she says that her 'soul can reach'. This metaphysical reference results to think that since the soul is light; it can travel rapidly and in endless directions. 'For the ends of Being' can be interpreted in two different ways. If interpreted positively it could be suggesting that love is until people die out, when 'Being' becomes extinct, where the word 'Being', since capitalized would represent human being. Which again is reference to eternity. However, if interpreted negatively, one could conclude that there is and end to it, that it is not forever, hence the word 'ends'. Browning implies that the person the poem is addressed to is the reason she lives. The words 'sun' and 'candle-light' show that he is her energy source, her life giver,

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A comparative Analysis of Shall I Compare Thee

A comparative analysis of Shall I Compare Thee... and The Flea The Flea and Shall I Compare Thee... are very similar but very different poems. They are both about love and seduction but the approach to the common theme is different in both poems. Love and Seduction is the core theme in The Flea, the author Donne is trying to copulate with his mistress and is having his advances rejected, so he writes her a poem in order to better his chances. The poem is darkly seductive, it anthropomorphically compares the current and past relationship between Donne and his mistress to a flea; "In this Flea are two bloods mingled be." Donne attempts to seduce his mistress in a curious manner. He tells of her and him being linked in the blood of a flea, comparable and stronger than the tie of marriage, so sex is of little moral issue. To him they are linked forever, stronger than the vow of marriage in front of a man of God, without "loss of shame or manhood" is how Donne reviews the situation, as coupling before marriage 500 years ago was taboo, if a female was to maintain a proper reputation. Love and Seduction in Shakespeare's poem is of a different nature to the flea. Shakespeare reflects his passion in the poem, it is about what he feels not what he wants. Shakespeare personifies his relationship to an "eternal sommer", he compares it to heaven, "but thy eternal sommer shall not

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Nothing's Changed

Macbeth Coursework Essay Macbeth may actually stab Duncan but in you opinion is he solely responsible for the murder or are there other factors involved? The play opens with the three witches on stage, meeting upon the Heath to cause trouble. This sets a supernatural atmosphere because people in those days always thought of witches as a sign on danger and when they saw a witch they automatically thought of them as horrid and nasty. At the beginning, the first witch chants, "When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightening, or in rain." The witches speak in rhyme because they are not human. It's as though they are chanting a spell. The audience would react to this as if they are scared and might think that the rhymes are actual spells. We first hear of Macbeth from the witches. "There to meet with Macbeth." This suggests that the witches have met with Macbeth in the past or maybe that they have been watching over him, planning to do something to him. By involving Macbeth in the story from the start with the witches makes the audience think more about it and will be left intrigued. At the end of the scene, the witches finish with the words, "Fair is foul and foul is fair." This message is warning the audience not to jump to any conclusions and not to take anything at face value. It is telling us not to judge a character to quickly and be careful what you think of the

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The title of Crabbed Age and Youth is important because it gives us an idea of Deloneys view of age

Crabbed Age and Youth’ is quite a self-explanatory poem. You wouldn’t really have to delve onto the poem too much to discover that it’s about a person who despises the effects of ageing, and as a consequence praises the youths. I would like to mention that no-one really knows who had written this poem, one poet who is also supposed to have written this poem is a man called Thomas Deloney, who died a year after ‘crabbed age and youth’ was written. Consequently it makes sense if he had composed this poem because the poet seems to be jealous of the youth or even have resentment towards youth altogether, due to the line ‘Age I do abhor thee, Youth I do adore thee.’Also Shakespeare tended to write in iambic pentameter, which this poem is not. Therefore I will be saying that the poet is Deloney. Despite this if I interpret this poem to refer to the relationship between a child and parent, and then ultimately the poet who has written this is of no significance. Initially when you read this you can see that Deloney seems to have a stereotypical of view of those who are older. We know this because he says, “age is weak and cold, ‘age is lame’ and ‘age’s breath is short’. However if you were to interpret the poem to demonstrate a parent-child relationship, then the poem can be taken in a new, different way. Consequently ‘age’ would represent a parent and

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Comparing the movie of The 13th Warrior and the Epic of Beowulf.

Beowulf VS The 13 warrior There are many vast differences and many similarities between the story of Beowulf and The 13th Warrior written by a Christian Monk and the story called Eaters of the Dead what was later know as The 13th Warrior written by Ibn Fadlan who was Moslem which was later written by Michael Crichton. Then there was a movie called The 13th Warrior. The two things that will be compared and contrasted are going to be the movie of The 13th Warrior and the Epic of Beowulf. Instead of doing a translation of Beowulf, the writer of the The 13th Warrior used his creativity to fabricate a new story. To start off, The 13th Warrior is seen through the eyes of Antonio Bander character, Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan, while Beowulf told the story of Beowulf from a third person point of view. The characters, Beowulf Beowulf, and Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan The 13th Warrior are of different groups. Beowulf is Anglo Saxon and bullseye is Swedish. In The 13th Warrior groups of men fight the evil which are men dressed up as bears, called Wendol possibly to seem more frightening, and their mother, who is an evil witch person and the leader. Beowulf generally fights the evil, which is represented by Grendel and his mother, who are both monsters, descendants of Cain, alone. The warriors of The 13th Warrior and Beowulf, clearly, had reasons for fighting the Grendle, his mom, the Dragon, and the

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Out Out Poem Analysis

OUT OUT It is evident that though at the start, a boy is mentioned, the further the poem goes on, when tension systematically rises and chaos unfolds, more people are introduced, as if replacing the boy with themselves and the terror of the situation, despite it involving the boy the most. He is almost substituted and mentioned less and less in direct comparison with the other minor roles of other characters. The start of the poem almost seals the boy’s fate due to the innocent tones which exude inevitable misadventure in the near future. This is suggested, if not implied, by the poems simplistic underlying overall message conveyed about everyday life. It essentially articulates that societies greatest downfall is naivety which leads to inevitable misfortune, or at least this is what I interpret. At first, the saw in the poem is seen as the main perpetrator, responsible for the tragic death of the boy. Remember, though heavy imagery and personification was used throughout the poem but centred mostly around the saw, drawing attention away from the dominant fundamental cause - the naivety of the boys sister. The entire situation of a young boy handling such heavy machinery, which could be compared to a much stronger grown man, almost determines the fate of the boy from the very beginning, despite what the sister did. So, this is left to the reader to deduce what the

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C o m m e n t a r y o n T h e S u n R i s i n g b y J o h n D o n n e

Commentary on “The Sun Rising” by John Donne The poem “The Sun Rising” by John Donne covers different clashing themes such as love and hate, and wisdom and ignorance. The poem is a dramatic monologue portraying a metaphysical hyperbole in which the speaker and his lover are the only ones who matter in the world, or at least in “their” world. As the sun is portrayed as almost an invader, Donne makes use of effective descriptions and similes to depict the unimportance of the sun in the speaker’s everyday life, yet finally taking pity of the sun towards the end of the work. The poem is structured in three ten lined stanzas which follow a clear rhyming scheme: ABBACDCDEE. Also, alterations in meter occur and they successfully intrigue the reader by breaking the natural flow of the work, reinforcing his recurring colloquial feel. As an example, lines 1, 5 and 6 portray iambic tetrameter; lines 3,4, 7,8,9 and 10 are in common pentameter, and line 2 is in dimeter. The poem is written in first person narrator form and the saucy tone is quickly set in the first line: the expression “Busy old fool, unruly Sun” depicts a chiding discomfort which the speaker feels towards the sun, later developed into pity (line 2, “Why dost thou thus”) and anger (line 5, “Saucy pedantic wretch”). As emotions start building up

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How do the words of Tennyson's poem express Marianas frustration and depression?

How do the words of the poem express Mariana’s frustration and depression? Although “Mariana” is comparable to “The Lady of Shalott”, in that both poems focus on a lonesome and isolated woman, “Mariana” has much more emphasis and focus on her frustration and depression. Tennyson successfully portrays her emotions through a variety of creative uses of words: the personification of the landscape subtly shows how she has no other human contact, thus it seems that “her mind” is subconsciously making the surroundings into animate objects to show this. The other effective, and sometimes more evocative, technique is the regular use of onomatopoeic vocabulary, which, aurally, vividly annunciates Mariana’s frustration, such as with long vowels. These, and other features, create a lucidly presented mood that supports the underlying meaning that the poem is written upon. Tennyson uses pathetic fallacy regularly to enhance the mood that is being put forward to the reader. A point that is being made is that fact that Mariana has being living in this house for quite some time, which has partially led to her frustration. This image of frustration, stagnation and despair is reflected in her environment: “blackest moss”, “rusted nails”, “broken sheds” and “ancient”. These images effectively lead the reader to associate these characteristics with Mariana,

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