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Christmas Eve First Chapter
1,218 wordsThe epic tradition in Gsta Berling's Saga. Having been born and bred in Vrmland, Selma Lagerlf is conversant with the peasant culture and its folklore. In Gsta Berling's Saga, she is primary occupied with a provincial type and investigates deeply into the spirit of the folk-life of Vrmland. It took her ten years before her work was achieved. There were circumstances, which motivated its conception; the sale of her childhoods home Mr backa emphasized her will to preserve the tales she was told ab...
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Gift Of Writing Carpe Diem Poem
372 wordsThe poem On his Blindness, written by John Milton is considered, aside from Paradise Lost, one of his best works. The way the poem was written did not appeal to me, as it was somewhat hard to read. Although I was not intrigued by the style of the sonnet, I greatly enjoyed the meaning and substance of the poem. It is easy to see why this poem would be placed amongst the greatest of all times, because of the way Milton expresses his thoughts on him becoming entirely blind. The sonnet was written i...
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N 1 1 N
1,887 words... or a phrase, first used in the British television programme Monty Python's Flying Circus, used when suggesting that there may be a sexual meaning to something that someone has just said -nudge n latent adj usu. fml present but not yet noticeable, active, or fully developed: a latent infection | latent aggression | These aggressive tendencies remained latent. -- tech n [U] freak 1 /fri 8 k/ n 1 a living creature of unnatural form: One of the new lambs is a freak; it was born with two tails. |...
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Similar In Many Ways Similarities And Differences
464 wordsCavalier And Metaphysical Poetry? s Similarities And Differences Cavalier And Metaphysical Poetry? s Similarities And Differences The seventeenth century lyric poems, such as Robert Herrick? s Cavalier poem? Counsel to Girls, ? and Andrew Marvell? s metaphysical poem? To His Coy Mistress? are similar in many ways; yet also contrast in some aspects. These poems of love and life can be summarized in the quote, ? Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still ailing? ? from? Counsel to Girls. ?...
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Good Time Cavalier Tonight
303 wordsCole Herman 2 / 21 / 00 Per. 2 This song emirates the feelings of the modern cavalier, even its title is exemplary of the idea of fleeting opportunity. There Will Never be Another Tonight is an echo of the poet Robert Herricks statement this same flower that smiles today, tommorow will be dying. Bryan Adams was definately focusing on seizing the day when he wrote this song, put on your best dress darlin, cant you see the time is right. In other words, we have only right now, so lets make the mos...
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Coy Mistress John Donne
1,241 wordsCharles Simic An interpretation of Charles Simic's poem Cabbage is as a parody of Andrew Marvells To My Coy Mistress and John Donne's The Flea. These are two well-known seventeenth-century carpe diem love poems (The Explicator). I choose this poem because it is one of his most famous. Some of Simic's best known works challenge the dividing line between ordinary and extraordinary. He gives substance and even life to inanimate objects to such ordinary objects like a knife or spoon (CAO). Or in thi...
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Birds Of Prey Life And Death
893 wordsMarvell's Mistress Andrew Marvell is considered a cavalier poet. He writes seduction poems that represent characteristics of cavalier poets through use of clever, witty, and developed lyrics. Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is a seduction poem that contains these elements along with the use of rhyme, meter, imagery, and tone Marvell creates a seduction poem that argues the desire for sexual gratification with a distinct aggressive tone. To begin with the speaker in the poem is trying to convince h...
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