Dickinson's BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH

Dickinson's BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH It has been the general difficulty with critical exegeses of Emily Dickinson's "Because I could not stop for Death-" that (1) "Death" and "Immortality" in the first stanza seem unaccountably syncopated, and (2) the "I first surmised the Horses' Heads/Were toward Eternity-" of the end of the poem remains equally enigmatically without derivation. I offer the following interpretive possibility. The crux of the poem's meanings, I suggest, is in the first two lines, "Because I could not stop for Death-/He kindly stopped for me-". We have tended mechanically to read this to mean that since the narrative subject of the poem finds herself rather too involved in the humdrum of living, with no thought of death, Death like a civil gentleman-suitor stops by in his chaise and four to take the busy -11- persona out for the final ride, paradoxically, to the accompaniment of "Immortality." I think the lines lead us into a simplistic literalness because of the deceptive surface. Read them as you would a prototypical "romantic" utterance and the problem begins to solve itself. To wit, translate the persona's not stopping for death into an imaginative perception of the nonreality of death. Death is death only to those who live within the time-bound finite world outside of the imaginative infinity of consciousness. That being so, the

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Hearts and Partners.

GCSE English Year 10/11 Hearts and Partners Introduction. The hearts and partners theme contains the following poems: 'The Beggar Woman' by William King (Pre 1900) 'Our Love Now' by Martyn Lowery 'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell (Pre 1900) 'Rapunzstiltskin' by Liz Lochhead 'i wanna be yours' by John Cooper Clarke 'One Flesh' by Elizabeth Jennings As the title suggests, hearts and partners deals with love and relationships. In your exam you will be expected to make comparisons between the different poems and this lesson will help you to make the connections you need to do this. Poetic techniques The hearts and partners selection features an impressive range of poetic forms from the pop lyric derived 'i wanna be yours' to the formal rhyming couplets and elaborate arguments of 'To His Coy Mistress'. 'The Beggar Woman' is a simple narrative told in rhyming couples, 'Our Love Now' is a free verse dialogue and 'Rapunzstiltskin' also uses free verse to achieve its effects. 'One Flesh', in contrast is a formal, rhymed meditation. The most obvious poetic technique that these poems have in common is their use of imagery. Love and Sex Surprisingly, perhaps, the most sexually explicit poems in this collection are the two older ones: 'The Beggar Woman' and 'To His Coy Mistress'. Of the modern poems, none of them deal with the sexual side of a relationship. Three

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Presentation of Marriage in"Tony Kytes the Arch-Deceiver" and "The Half Brothers".

Discuss The Writers Presentation of Marriage in "Tony Kytes the Arch-Deceiver and "The Half Brothers These short stories were both written in the same period of time and are based around the same topic. Both of the stories were written in the Victorian Times and are set in small, village communities where everyone would know one another and any news, whether good or bad, would be quickly spread. The storylines are both based around marriage and how it would not be seen upon in these times. Marriage in the Victorian Times was not as it is today and this is why these stories would be of great interest to readers or listeners both now and then. A marriage in the Victorian Times was true to the vows spoken upon the Wedding Day and expected to last a lifetime, no matter what. A divorce would not even be heard of, let alone spoken about. This would be the case for nearly every married couple of that time, but even still, there would be the extreme happening were this would not be the case. Someone would leave their partner and form a new relationship with a new partner elsewhere, despite the fact that they were still married or currently in a relationship. Victorian marriages were very unbalanced. The husband would be very submissive, and whether she wanted to or not, the wife had to oblige. Once they were married, every one of the woman's possessions became her husbands.

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The company I have chosen to investigate is Jaguar.

Aims and Objectives The company I have chosen to investigate is Jaguar. Like every business Jaguar's aims and objective is to achieve a working environment capable of providing for continuous improvements in Quality and Cost. The aims of Jaguar are to also continue with the excellent quality in their cars. What Jaguar really wants like every business are profitability, company security, and job security. Like every business these are the aims that Jaguar include * Make a profit * Provide goods or services to the local or wider community * Survive as a business or expand * Maximise sales or improve the quality of a product or service * Provide a highly competitive service * Provide charitable or voluntary services * Be environmentally friendly Profitability Profit is the difference between what a business has earned and what it has spent over a given period. The profit is the amount you would be able to keep, or re-invest in the business. E.g. when Jaguar wanted to bring out a new car they carried out market research to see what kind of car the public wanted and from what they found out was that the public wanted a nice new cheap, affordable car. So now the had a rough idea on what the car was going to be like so then they decided to design this car that they new they from the market research they would make a lot of profit on. And now that they have bought

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A comparison between Jean Rhys and Una Marson

Voyage into the Metropolis: Exile in the Works of Jean Rhys and Una Marson. In Jonathan Miller's 1970 production of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" the character of Caliban was cast as black, therefore reigniting the link between the Prospero/Caliban paradigm as the colonizer/colonized. It was not a new idea, indeed Shakespeare himself envisaged the play set on an island in the Antilles and the play would have had great appeal at the time when new territories were being discovered, conquered, plundered and providing seemingly inexhaustible revenue for the colonisers. What is particularly interesting, however, is how powerful the play later becomes for discourse on colonialism. This trope of Caliban is used by George Lamming in "The Pleasures of Exile" where he likens Prospero in his relationship with Caliban, to the first slave-traders who used physical force and then their culture to subjugate the African and the Carib, overcoming any rebellion with a self righteous determinism. In "The Pleasures of Exile" Lamming sees Caliban as: "Man and other than man. Caliban is his convert, colonized by language, and excluded by language. It is precisely this gift of language, this attempt at transformation which has brought about the pleasure and the paradox of Caliban's exile. Exiled from his gods, exiled from his nature, exiled from his own name! Yet Prospero is afraid of Caliban. He

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Murder Mystery

Murder Mystery The cottage was always quiet; the soft blue walls made it seem bigger than it actually was. Rachel had always lived there ever since her auntie died and left it to her. It was very remote, along a heavy-hedged back country lane, miles away from anyone else. Rachel returned from work one evening late and lay back on her sofa after opening the french windows to let the warm grass scented breeze blow through the stuffy cottage. She lay back; her long brown hair was released from its clip and hung over the arm of the sofa. She kicked off her shoes and lay back picking up the stereo controller from the floor and turning on the CD player which began to play the CD she had put in the night before. A relaxed song started up; it was her Stereophonics album. The song which came on reminded her of the previous night when her new man Steve had cooked for her then by nine the next morning he'd performed a magical disappearing act. Rachel had been single for about a year and a half and now she was twenty-five and she'd decided she needed to get out and meet a new man after her and Andrew had split up. She was now working as a family law solicitor after years of training; her job had been the cause of the break up with Andrew. Doing the job she did she got involved with a lot of jealous ex wives whose husbands she'd help divorce them. This one woman called Silvia Ripley had

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Ode on Indolence

Ode on Indolence Summary In the first stanza, Keats's speaker describes a vision he had one morning of three strange figures wearing white robes and "placid sandals." The figures passed by in profile, and the speaker describes their passing by comparing them to figures carved into the side of a marble urn, or vase. When the last figure passed by, the first figure reappeared, just as would happen if one turned a vase carved with figures before one's eyes. In the second stanza, the speaker addresses the figures directly, asking them how it was that he did not recognize them and how they managed to sneak up on him. He suspects them of trying to "steal away, and leave without a task" his "idle days," and goes on to describe how he passed the morning before their arrival: by lazily enjoying the summer day in a sort of sublime numbness. He asks the figures why they did not disappear and leave him to this indolent nothingness. In the third stanza, the figures pass by for a third time. The speaker feels a powerful urge to rise up and follow them, because he now recognizes them: the first is a "fair maid," Love; the second is pale-cheeked Ambition; and the third, whom the speaker seems to love despite himself, is the unmeek maiden, the demon Poesy, or poetry. When the figures disappear in the fourth stanza, the speaker again aches to follow them, but he says that the urge is

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'Why would someone wait until marriage to have sex? What benefit is there? Why is virginity a special gift?'

'Why would someone wait until marriage to have sex? What benefit is there? Why is virginity a special gift?' I'm a virgin, and waiting to share that special gift of human sexuality with that one person I will commit the rest of my life to in marriage (when and if :) A strong foundational supports of a marriage is intended to be the exclusive physical/emotional bond of sexual union. One of the most beautiful ways I think of saving myself for my future wife is looking at it this way: I'm going to love her SOOOO much that right now, as I go through life (even though I don't know for sure who it is I may marry :) I am saving this GIFT. And I want to give this GIFT only to her, a one of a kind, the most precious person I will ever meet. And she DESERVES it. That gift I will have hopefully kept to show her that she is something REALLY, REALLY SPECIAL. And you know what, I know she will appreciate that with her whole heart. In today's society it's a rare and unique person who wishes to save that gift of sexual union for his/her lifetime marriage partner. I would encourage anyone questioning, feeling the peer pressure, the societal pressure, the boyfriend/girlfriend pressure, to wait until you both enter that lifetime covenant with each other. What could be more exciting, more special, more emotional than sharing the wonders of sex with your one true and dedicated love!?! Think

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Comparison of "Tony Kytes, the arch deceiver" by Thomas Hardy and "Tickets please" by D H Lawrence.

'Tony Kytes, the arch deceiver ' and 'Tickets please', are two short stories, which are set around the male/ female relationship of their time. Neither of the stories is written from a woman's point of view, 'Tony Kytes, the arch deceiver ' is clearly written from a mans point of view, while 'Tickets please' is written from a neutral point of view. They are both set in the past, and in both the male/female relationship differs from what we would expect today. 'Tony Kytes, the arch deceiver ' is set in a 19th century countryside village, in southern England. The narrator is local to the community, and the story begins by introducing Tony Kytes, the male character. Women in general are also introduced very early on, after which the narrator settles on one of the three female characters. The story is set around Tony Kytes, and his relationship with three different women. The setting is not very important into his story, and so not much is done to describe it. Most of the description is given through dialogue. 'Tickets please' is set in wartime England, specifically in the industrial midlands: so areas in the vicinity of Nottinghamshire. The story is set around a tram service, renown for being run entirely by 'girls'. The story begins with a very detailed description of the setting, and eventually introduces the general group of female characters, before settling down on the

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The Battle of Britain.

The Battle of Britain As the great battle for the English Channel drew nearer, the British were alone in their fight against Nazism. The French had already been forced to surrender to the Germans, however the British refused to surrender to the Nazi's after been given the chance. This meant that Hitler and his men had no choice but to begin his invasion of Britain. Most had foreseen that Britain would be the next victim of Blitzkrieg attacks and that the actual Battle would take place in the Air. Even if Britain had lost most of its equipment at Dunkirk, Hitler knew that if they tried to embark across the sea from France they would be annihilated. This meant that Luftwaffe Commander-in-Chief Hermann Göring would have to gain the vital air superiority before the Germans could continue their path of destruction. Hitler's 'Luftwaffe' was a mighty force, which had secured their victory in various other countries prior to the Battle of Britain. Luftwaffe was used to act as both scouts and weapons against anyone that may have posed a threat to the German Blitzkrieg. Germanys air force had always been one of the best in the World, and Britain losing most of its war material at Dunkirk helped nothing. However the RAF had about 850 fighters including the best Plane in the world, 'the Spitfire'. Sir Hugh Dowding encouraged the development of Britain's radar system and believed

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