simply‚ Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience juxtapose the innocent pastoral world of childhood against an adult world of corruption and repression. The collection as a whole‚ by means of paired poems in Innocence and Experience (The Lamb‚ The Tyger; The Ecchoing Green‚ The Garden of Love/London; The Nurse’s Song (I and E); Introduction (I and E); The Chimney sweeper (I and E)‚ etc) explores the value and limitations of two different perspectives of the world. The same situation or problem is
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I Had a Job I liked. Once. Guy Vanderhaegh takes us back a few decades in the retelling of a court case in small town‚ Saskatchewan in the play‚ “I Had a Job I liked. Once.” Using elements of style‚ staging and developing characters throughout the play Vanderhaegh portrays to the audience the theme of the biases and prejudices that come with living in a small town. The story is set in small town Saskatchewan in a police station office‚ on the night of August of 1957. Corporal Heasman has brought
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In Alan Moore’s The Watchmen‚ Moore presents the reader with two drastically different characters who have one strikingly similar trait. Ozymandias is a handsome‚ rich‚ public‚ and powerful man. Rorschach is an ugly‚ poor‚ private‚ and almost worthless man. Despite all of these contrasts‚ they share a common philosophy: they believe that the ends justify the means. This is a major theme of the story‚ and through it Moore causes the reader the ask themselves the question - do the ends justify the
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thing Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King. 2.Tercet-a stanza of three lines Ex: When as in silks my Julia goes‚ Then‚then‚methinks‚how sweetly flows. The liquefaction of her clothes. 3.Quatrain-a stanza of four lines. Ex: T yger‚Tyger‚burning bright In the forest of the night‚ What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? Genres of Poetry *Narrative Poetry- a narrative poem is one that tells a story.Types of narrative poetry include ballads and epics. *Lyric
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city by the end of 1592. In this year came the first reference to Shakespeare in the world of the theatre. The dramatist Robert Greene declared in his death-bed autobiography that "There is an upstart crow‚ beautified with our feathers‚ that with his Tygers heart wrapt in a Players hide supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and‚ being an absolute Johannes Factotum‚ is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country." After Green’s death‚ his
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is where his loss of innocence begins‚ but at a much of a different variety that Kamara does. The president’s army penetrated his defenses‚ forcing him into a robot of sorts‚ programmed to stay in line against the revolt. As referenced in the poem‚ Tyger The by Michael Siedel‚ Ishmael’s brain is molded into what the president needed it to be. “In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? What dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp”(Siedel 4). Those deadly terrors are constantly shifting his mindset
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makes the reader connect cruelty with terror and jealousy with secrecy automatically. We can notice that the stress of the lines in this first stanza falls onto the main word‚ giving an emphasizing effect. Unlike many other Blake poems‚ such as "The Tyger" or "The Lamb" we cannot find rhyming couplets in this stanza‚ but the rhyming and stressing effect is enough for the reader to tie the ideas together. This effect is strengthened by the repetition of the word "human" in every line and the repetition
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Romantic period? -William Blake Nowadays when people talked about “romantic” or “romance”‚ usually indicated that of the opposite of ration and reason. Rousseau pointed out that romance is to go back to nature‚ However‚ Heine in the other way thought that romance is to go back to the life style of middle age‚ while Hugo considered romance as the combination of tragedy and quaintness. Romance to me‚ is the opposite of civilization‚ ration‚ and reality‚ just like the typical tension between
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However‚ some women did indeed fight alongside the men in the battlefield. The most famous example would be the “Molly Pitcher” women‚ women who delivered water to soldiers in the war (Timmons). One of them was a woman named Margaret Cochran Corbin‚ who took over her husband’s cannon in battle after her husband was killed and after the war‚ received half a soldier’s pension for her services (Timmons). Another example would be Deborah Sampson‚ a woman who disguised herself as a man named Robert Shurtlieff
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When‚ in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes‚ When I’ve fallen out of favor with fortune and men‚ I all alone beweep my outcast state All alone I weep over my position as a social outcast‚ And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries And pray to heaven‚ but my cries go unheard‚ And look upon myself and curse my fate‚ And I look at myself‚ cursing my fate‚ Wishing me like to one more rich in hope‚ Wishing I were like one who had more hope‚ Featured like him‚ like him with friends possess’d
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