An Ocean Apart, a World Away written by Lensey Namioka was such a fascinating demonstration of persuading readers to go on
Nga Vo March 1, 2005 Period 1 Summary An Ocean Apart, a World Away written by Lensey Namioka was such a fascinating demonstration of persuading readers to go on and pursuing your own dreams. It was published in 2002 by Dell Laurel-Leaf, who is an imprint of Random House Children's books in New York. This book that I had just read was mostly about this one Chinese girl named Xueyan who is also known as Yanyan, or Shelia in her school. During the early 1900s, China was struggling to maintain their unstable democracy. They didn't worry much about their citizens' living. They only knew one goal in their mind which is to fight over territories and political titles. At that time, many young women were finding themselves caught between old traditions and new ideas. Typical Chinese girls at the age of sixteen would most likely be putted into the plans for their marriage. Yet Yanyan was fortunately being born into a family whose father, in this case, was one of the few who believed in education for women. Yanyan wasn't interested in marriage like other girls would. She has a bigger and brighter vision of her future than just being a housewife in her mind. She was interested in schooling. When Yanyan finished with high school, she wonders what the next stage of her life will bring. Since Yanyan has always with the interest in medical, Yanyan was thinking of finding a
First Love By John Clare
First Love By John Clare This is a poem about love. The writer John Clare wrote this poem in the 19th Century and worked from the age of seven on a farm as a farm labourer. The particular day he refers to in the poem is when he saw a beautiful woman and he felt for the first time the emotion of love. He describes how his emotions were in total turmoil and left him unable to walk. "My legs refused to walk away" He also tells the reader how futile the hope of his love is when he says, "My life and all seemed turned to clay." In the second verse, John Clare explains to the reader that when he sees her everything turned to darkness. "Seemed midnight at noonday" John Clare writes about the physical affect that the girl has on him. This might make the reader relate to the poem, "I could not see a single thing" "Words from my heart did start;" "They spoke as chords do from the string" "And blood burnt round my heart." "Are flowers the winter's choice?" "Is loves bed always snow?" In these two lines the writer is basically saying that even though it is winter, he can see flowers in his mind when he pictures her, as she is so beautiful. "I never saw so sweet a face" Means that the girl was beautiful and was sweet looking. "My heart has lest it's dwelling place," "And can return no more." These two lines could mean two things. The first one being that he has
Summer Love
Summer Love The heat radiated throughout, and the fragrance of newly-blooming orange blossoms was in the air. The girl glanced at the undisturbed water of the lake. She threw a pebble, and watched the ripples multiply atop the placid surface. From behind her, a boy ran his fastest and dove into the world of water. He swam back to the edge, and looked at her with eager eyes. Inviting eyes. Eyes they both knew she couldn't resist. She backed up and did as he did, yet, her dive appeared much less graceful. She swam to him and splashed him playfully, then backed away, as if expecting a chase. He hesitated, then chose to retaliate. He dove under once again and grabbed her long, bare legs. She was yanked under, and returned with a mouthful of lake water and a curtain of her braids blocking her face. She pulled it aside, and glared at him, a glare they both knew was all in fun. She lunged back at him, but failed to make much of an impact. The water was much too deep for anyone to push off of the ground. Instead she just fell short, and they laughed. He laughed. And she laughed. And they were enjoying their first taste of summer. He submerged himself again, and this time grabbed her around her waist. His hands on her hips, he prepared to dunk her once more. She cringed in fear, closing her eyes. He paused to looked at her. She had such innocence. It teemed out of her with
In this piece of coursework I am going to compare the presentation of love in three pre-twentieth centaury poems. The three poems I am going to look at are 'A Woman to Her Lover', 'Porphyrias Lover' and 'To His Coy Mistress'.
Pre-twentieth centaury coursework Introduction In this piece of coursework I am going to compare the presentation of love in three pre-twentieth centaury poems. The three poems I am going to look at are 'A Woman to Her Lover', 'Porphyrias Lover' and 'To His Coy Mistress'. I chose these three poems because they where the ones I have the most knowledge of. Main body The poem 'A Woman to Her Lover' is a poem by "Christina Walsh" who is presenting her views on a relationship. The poem is written from a woman's perspective and is presenting her views on how a relationship should be and how she will not become the stereotypical wife that most women are. She is presenting her idea f love which is that you should have an even well balanced relationship and that love is a two way game. 'Porphyrias Lover' is written by a man who is talking about one with his lover, Porphyria. The poem is set in a cottage where it is presumed that Porphyrias lover lives and he is going over the events of the night. Porphyria also has another man who he doesn't know but we presume that he is her husband. I think that this other man fuels his possessiveness over porphyria and makes his love very controlling because of this. 'To His Coy Mistress' is a poem written by "Andrew Marvel". This poem is written in a very persuasive text by a man who is trying to convince his lover to have sex with him. His
Compare the different ways in which love and loss are presented in at least 3 of the poems you have studied.
Compare the different ways in which love and loss are presented in at least 3 of the poems you have studied. The poem "How I Love thee?", written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning breaks the stereotypical view of women in this famous poem. Which explores a woman who shares her passion for her lover, which is deflected from straight Religious belief to love this man. The poem is a very unique question and we can understand as readers that this poem has a wonderful positive rhythm, which underpins the personal, and heart felt emotion despite the logical almost detached exact way of how she describes her love by account. Immediately, we are alerted by the probing title, which Browning cleverly uses to illustrate the ways in what she loves about this man and also this is repeated in the first line. In this we realise that the poem is literally a list of positive things, which is presented in the traditional form of classic love poetry, the Shakespearean sonnet. This consists of an octave (eight lines) and six lines. In the octave, she explores her love life as an adult, her love life now and in the 2nd part, the six lines she refers back to her childhood and shares her opinions on love as a child, which shows how her opinions differ from then and now and show the changes in her idea of love. Also, the regular rhyme scheme explains the solidity of this love and echoes the natural
The Apparition
The Apparition The apparition is a seventeen-line poem by John Donne; this makes it a poem and not a sonnet, which consists of fourteen lines. The poem is a rather simple and straight forward witty poem that I interpret to be about a man who has clearly been wronged or pushed aside by a woman for the love of another man, or if not for the love of another man she will later or has replaced him with another man. The first line "when by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead, and thou that thinkst thee free from all solicitation from me," I understand this to mean that when she wishes he was dead and says bad things about him it almost kills him as though she has murdered him, and when he dies or goes away she will feel free from them their relationship and any interference from him. Donne then goes on to say this "then shall my ghost come to thy bed" I believe here he has come up with quite a clever idea, when he says ghost this can be taken of one of two ways, either that his actual ghostly presence, if there is such a thing will come and haunt her or the thoughts and feelings and memories they once shared will come flooding back to her. However, the clever part is in that ghosts are supposed to be really frightening things and almost like the worst kind of punishment you can suffer to be haunted by a loved one, and ghosts are supposed to only be around to resolve unfinished
The Count of Monte Cristo: Edmond Dantes' Positive Relationships.
The Count of Monte Cristo: Edmond Dantes' Positive Relationships The Count of Monte Cristo is ultimately a novel about vengeance. Edmond Dantes, in the prime of his life, is framed and imprisoned for treason. There are three men responsible for this: Fernand Mondego, Danglars, and Villefort. As a result of what they did to him, Dantes swears revenge. "You do not know that everyday of those fourteen years I renewed the vow of vengeance which I had made my first day..." (Dumas 699). It is his striving for retribution that sets Edmond Dantes' alias, the Count of Monte Cristo, apart from everyone else in the Parisian lifestyle. Edmond Dantes is an important figure in any relationship, whether happily in love, enacting his revenge, or teaching and learning in turn. Despite the fact that the main themes of the novel are that of vengeance and hatred there is a lot of love to be uncovered. Edmond Dantes had three loves in his life: Mercedes, the beautiful Catalan; Haidee, the Greek princess; and himself, the Count of Monte Cristo. All three of his loves were on different levels but they all played a significant role in Dantes' life. At the age of nineteen, Dantes was in love with a beautiful, young woman. He absolutely adored her above all other ladies. Though he had been through tough times, he was content with his life. He was to be married to his lover and made captain of a
Whoso list to hunt by Sir Thomas Wyatt is an extended metaphor which is all about a deer hunt in which a hind is being chased by several riders. In this the riders represent young men and the hind represents a woman
'Whoso list to hunt' by Sir Thomas Wyatt is an extended metaphor which is all about a deer hunt in which a hind is being chased by several riders. In this the riders represent young men and the hind represents a woman, probably Anne Boleyn. The title is repeated in the very first line of the sonnet, 'Whoso list to hunt,' (whoever wants to pursuit) almost to make sure that you know exactly what the sonnet is going to be about. It's a statement/question which hooks the readers mind into wanting to know what the answer is going to be. In the very first line Wyatt introduces the reader to a metaphor used for the woman and those who want her, 'Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind.' Here Wyatt is basically stating that whoever wants to hunt, I know where is an hind, (in western literature words such as hind metaphorically refer to beautiful women.) This metaphor in the first line is the main metaphor which is extended throughout the sonnet. Also in the first line Wyatt uses alliteration, 'whoso... hunt... hind,' by doing this Wyatt is already giving the reader the impression that the hunter/narrator is out of breath and tired. We then get proof of this when in line 3 the narrator is describing his efforts as hopeless and that he is exhausted, 'the vain travail hath wearied me so sore.' This line is stating how he feels so sorry, for all his attempt were in vain to win her
The philosophy I have about waiting until marriage is one that I've had on and off since about 1986.
I love physical affection. Nothing gives me as much pleasure as holding each other close and feeling each other's skin when I believe that a man loves me. I'm very affectionate. I love to cuddle. I love to kiss and hug throughout the day when possible. I love to hold hands. I love sex. I want all of these things. But, at this stage of my life, I can only enjoy romantic affection when a man does love me. The kind of love I'm talking about is the kind that lasts. It would be wonderful if romantic affection with a man led to lasting feelings of love for each other and to his wanting to spend the rest of his life with me. But that's just not the way things are. The fact is that most marriages and most relationships don't last. And it's simply another fact that, when my love relationships ended, my pain was much deeper and, by far, much more long lasting than the man's was. Mine isn't a matter of not wanting to take a chance on love for fear of getting hurt. It's a matter of no longer being able to confuse sex and love. The love I seek is of the mutual, deepest kind; and for me, sex will be an expression of that. I know now, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that I can't attain that love through a sexual dating relationship. I can attain it only by cultivating a best friendship over very adequate time until we both know that we're ready and able to commit our whole hearts and our
Pre 20th century love poetry
Pre 20th Century Love Poetry 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' by Christopher Marlowe and 'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell. Compare the ways in which the poets present the themes of time and love in these two poems. Both 'The Passionate Shepherd' and 'To His Coy Mistress' are dramatic monologues representing the voice of a gentleman and they are both arguments trying to win the favour of a lady. However, Christopher Marlowe has written his poem in a simple verse form of rhyming quatrains, where as Marvell writes in a more sophisticated form of tetrameters to quicken the pace and give a sense of urgency to the gentleman's persuasion. The gentleman's argument is then presented in the form of a syllogism. The poems both have a similar ploy; they are both trying to lure a lady into a life of love. However the speaker's about this in different ways. Marlowe's vision of love in 'A Passionate Shepherd' is very sweet, charming and delightful whereas in contrast Marvell's vision in 'To His Coy Mistress' is one of darkness, urgency and insistence. Marlowe's world is timeless; the lovers have endless leisure together in the season of May. Nothing ever changes and the seasons never move on. Love is sweet and innocent and there is no mention to the physical side of the relationship. Marlowe's poem is very idealistic and is written in the pastoral form. The scene that he has
