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    Ode on a Grecian Urn Keats’ poetry depicts an enchanted world of beauty. It is a world of melody‚ imagination‚ sensuous delight. It also resounds with a note of melancholy and tragic sense of human suffering. He is often classed with Shakespeare and his poems attain the perfection of classic art. It has a felicity of expression‚ excellence of vision and wealth of imagery‚ which are purely Keatsian. Unlike Lord Byron or Shelley‚ he does not have an intellectual attitude towards

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    The Road is Not Taken What would be more important‚ the safety of an animal‚ or our own safety? Each day many animals cross our roads but sometimes the unfortunate happens when an animal accidently crossed the road when we are passing by. What do you do? In “Thoughts on Capital Punishment” by Rod Mckuen and “Traveling Through the Dark” by William Stafford‚ there are some similarities that help the reader compare the two poems‚ but there are also a number of differences that set them apart for

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    usually touches or approaches the back part of the palate‚ i.e. the velum as with / k ‚ g /. 5- The root /tongue back The farthest part of the tongue. It has a role in producing pharyngeal ‫ ﺑﻠﻌﻮﻣﻲ‬sound like / 9/ in Arabic but it has no role in English. Prepared by Salah A. Mohalawi Page 1 of 4 Mohalawisa@yanpet.sabic.com 0503343289 Phonetics 202 Not for Sale its Free for every body Some organs are Point of Articulator such as (the Upper lip‚ upper teeth‚ lower teeth‚ alveolus‚ alveopalate

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    During the 16th and 17th centuries‚ a group of people known as the Puritans wished to “purify” the Church of England and reform the Church from its Catholic practices. At the time‚ these people were more of an unpopular unit‚ but still persevered and grew to be a very well known religious group. The Puritans had a set of beliefs that set themselves apart from other practices‚ and these values that they had influenced their daily lives‚ their own style of writing‚ and even life today. First and foremost

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    Chapter I: literature of the middle ages A. ANGLO- Saxon period (5th - 10th centuries) During the first five centuries of our era and long before that‚ Britain was inhabited by a people called Kelts‚ who lived in tribes. Britain’s history is considered to begin in the 5th century‚ when it was invaded from the Continent by the fighting tribes of Angles‚ Saxons and Jutes. At the very end of the 5th century they settled in Britain and began to call themselves English (after the principal tribe of

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    18th Century Literature The 18th century is a period of great literary works. The styles are different throughout the period‚ but the unity of the work is still present. Much of this period focused on public and general themes‚ until the Pre- Romantic era when literary works began to focus upon personal expression. 18th century literature can be broken down into three main parts: the Restoration‚ the Age of Pope‚ and Pre-Romantics. The literature of the Restoration period covers a time span

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    Poetry Question: “His work reveals that he is unmistakably a product of his age and time.” Discuss this view of Hardy’s poetry with reference to any 3 poems. A writer’s work is a ‘nurtured reflective’ of his society. This was no different for Victorian Britain. Britain during the reign of Queen Victoria underwent evolutionary changes that did not only change the lifestyle of a people but the culture of the people. With Britain gaining mass economical wealth through the colonization of other

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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was able to by using his creativeand adventurous personality and style into the poem‚ “Daybreak”.Longfellow’s deep thinking and adventurous style creates symbolicimagery that the true understanding of poems requires. “Daybreak” hasdialogue of a lifeless‚ outside force‚ wind‚ which creates personification.Longfellow gave the wind the human ability to speak. This shows thatLongfellow thinks outside of the box. When‚ the wind spoke saying‚ “Awake!It is day.” it revealed that

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    This poem represents yet another of Browning’s dramatic monologues spoken in the voice of an historical Renaissance painter. Andrea del Sarto‚ like Fra Lippo Lippi‚ lived and worked in Florence‚ albeit a little later than Lippo‚ and was later appointed court painter by Francis‚ the King of France. Under the nagging influence of his wife Lucrezia‚ to whom he speaks in this poem‚ he left the French court for Italy but promised to return; he took with him some money that Francis had given him to purchase

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    In his Poetics‚ Aristotle set forth the characteristics of good tragedy. To him the two most important features of tragedy were plot and character. The plot should contain a change in fortune‚ preferably from good to bad‚ and should ideally hinge on a recognition or discovery. T The main character‚ the protagonist‚ should be a person in whom good and bad are mixed but in whom the good predominates. That definition is usually paraphrased as "a basically noble person with

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