Comparison of “Porphyrias Lover” and “My Last Duchess”.
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Examine the theme of love and marriage in at least two texts you have studied
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The main theme in 'Twelfth Night' is love
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Pre 1914 Poetry - GCSE COURSEWORK ESSAY: "In Poetry, the authorial viewpoint is not always obvious and meanings might be layered for various effects"
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Compare 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' and 'Isabella, or The Pot of Basil'.
Natalie Ward Both the poems 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' and 'Isabella, or The Pot of Basil' are by John Keats and are on the theme of love. 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' is about a knight who is not named and about a woman who seems in-human from another land. 'Isabella, or The Pot of Basil' focuses on two realistic characters called Lorenzo and Isabella. Keats has written in the literary tradition called Romanticism, which is where things are not explained and are just implied. La Belle Dame's appearance is described well: "hair was long... foot was light... eyes were wild". This is making the reader visualise what she looks like and we see that she is unreal and "a faery's child". Isabella's beauty is again emphasised by lists and repetition but unlike La Belle Dame, Isabella is a normal ordinary girl: "poor simple Isabel!" This is in contrast to the other poem and later on the reader feels sorry for Isabella as she wants to express her love but she can't. In the two poems there is a male figure in each. In La Belle Dame Sans Merci' the knight who is not named behaves in a different way to what a knight is expected to act like. There are many negative words about the knight as he is found "Alone and palely loitering", bewildered and confused whereas typically a knight would seem confident and not "So haggard and so woe-begone". The setting is dull and bleak and this shows the
Romanticism research notes
Romanticism is a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that began in the second half of the 18th Century, it became more powerful during the Industrial Revolution. It was partly due to a revolt against the nobles, social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific explanation of nature, this was fused mostly with visual arts, music and literature. Romanticism can be seen in literature such as work and publication such as Wordsworth and Coleridge, of Lyrical Ballads in 1798. The work is highlighted through what was to become the key beliefs of Romanticism, namely the understanding of man and nature, along with an attempt to abandon the flowery language of 18th century. English poetry tried to attempt to portray poetic ideas through a common dialect. Their work is deeply embedded in the tradition established by Edmund Spenser and John Milton. They, along with William Blake, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Lord Byron, believe that they were revitalising the true will of English poetry by pursuing the "romance" and inspiring that was lost since Milton. John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Lord Byron then included the latter half of the movement, largely continuing in the same tradition, though differing slightly into more metaphysical matters. Perhaps this is due to the perceived personal nature of Romantic
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Feature Article: Love and Self-Sacrifice in the Matrix Trilogy
Feature Article: Love and Self-Sacrifice in the Matrix Trilogy The Matrix Trilogy can be viewed in a number of different ways. Some audiences saw the films as simply science fiction and the idea of good verses evil however many looked deeper to see the many others themes and ideas that the films put forward. One of the key themes that permeates all three films is the notion of self-sacrifice and how these acts of self-sacrifice come from love. The love is not always between two people and is not always the traditional style of love that we know but a love none the less. It also needs to be said that the acts of self-sacrifice are in some instances quite subtle and at other times very obvious. In the first movie "The Matrix" we see the theme of self-sacrifice come up quite early in the film We find Trinity monitoring Thomas Anderson, the hero of the film as he is believed to be the "One" by Morpheus. The One is believed to be the saviour of the human race and an extremely important person. The fact that Trinity is monitoring Thomas is dangerous as she is a freed mind inside the Matrix and the Agents (the enemy) search the Matrix for these freed minds. This is how they discover Trinity and they then set about finding and disposing of her. Trinity is prepared to sacrifice herself so that she may find the One so that the entire human race may be freed. The second instance
