...Sonnet 73 In William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 73” the speaker employs a series of images to express his feelings about growing old. The central images in the first, second and third quatrains are “yellow leaves”, “twilight”, and “the glowing of such fire”, respectively. These images all deal with gradual decay into death. The images are arranged in an order that suggests increasing finality, since, while the seasons change and night turns into day, the death of a fire is final. This organization contributes to the speaker’s perception of his foreboding death. At the end of the first quatrain the speaker includes the image “bare ruin’d choirs” in reference to the barren branches where birds once sang. This image represents the passing from the past to the present. The birds are no longer on the branches, signifying the transition into winter, which symbolizes death. The word “bare” connotes isolation and loneliness, two emotions the speaker alludes to throughout the sonnet. In addition to imagery, the speaker uses metaphors to convey his theme. In the sonnet “night” is compared to death and “ashes” are compared to a “death-bed.” These metaphors serve to take an abstract and hard to face idea, death, and relate it to something tangible. The speaker is trying to prepare his loved one for his imminent death and can only explain how he is feeling through metaphors. Although the speaker does not explicitly mention whom he is addressing the sonnet to, it is obvious that it is...
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...``Shakespeare Was Not OF An Age But For All Time`` I agree with the statement ``Shakespeare was not for an age but for all time. `` The words of praise probably the most famous ever written about Shakespeare , were penned by Shakespeare`s good friend and follow writer `Ben Johnson`. For the poet and playwright generally considered the greatest ever is also one of the least known of all literary figures. And his works were indeed created for the popular entertainment of his day with little thought to their immortality. Shakespeare did not take any steps to preserve his writings past their immediate use. (Fortunately his friends did.) With all the academic study of Shakespeare and the trappings of fine culture that have been wrapped around productions of his dramas over the centuries, we often forget what a rollicking, bawdy and entertaining spectacle his plays presented to their original audience — and still can to a modern audience, in the right hands. The timelessness of Shakespeare's themes continue to keep his plays fresh. He dramatized basic issues: love, marriage, familial relationships, gender roles, race, age, class, humor, illness, deception, betrayal, evil, revenge, murder, and death. The essential question that Shakespeare explored in his plays is, "what does it mean to be a human being?" The genius of Shakespeare is that he manged to show us ourselves in every conceivable light. It really doesn't matter when the plays were written since they are about the...
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...Chapter 60 was about the beautiful scenery at night on the Pacific Ocean. It literally said “For the first time, I noticed-as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next-that my suffering was taking place in a grand setting.” (196), showing that even in all of his struggles, Pi found the ocean to be beautiful. The chapter describes a starry night with a perfect crescent moon, all of which seems timeless. The timelessness is important in the story because it represents the way that anyone, no matter how civilized or animalistic they might be, no matter what era they live in, would be facing the same struggles as Pi because he is just existing in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, with an animal who cannot...
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...Miscommunication In The Tragedy of Romeo And Juliet And How It Causes Tragedy In life, there is one primary reason why bad things happen, and that reason is lack of communication between people. As Joseph Fink puts it, “…miscommunication leads to everything that has ever happened in the whole of the world.”. Essentially, any time there is something left unsaid or a lie is told, more and more events result from it, leading to a tragedy. This is evident in The Tragedy of Romeo And Juliet. It may be better known as a love story, but the true tale is that of two teen’s demise due to misconceptions that are perpetrated by themselves and their confidants. These miscommunications occur due to the generation gap, masculine peer pressure, and fate....
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...This was something I wrote for a group of high school students. I'll start by telling you something that we are always asked by everyone else: what you want to do with your life. People are always asking you this, so you think you're supposed to have an answer. But adults ask this mainly as a conversation starter. They want to know what sort of person you are, and this question is just to get you talking. What people will not tell you - Fact 1: IT and medicine are not the only fields! It might seem that nothing would be easier than deciding what you like, but it turns out to be hard, partly because it's hard to get an accurate picture of most jobs. Being an engineer or a doctor are probably the most popular and easiest careers many of us choose to reply with, but there are other jobs that we haven't learned about yet, haven't had exposure to. In fact, I believe that there are some jobs we are not aware of because no one is doing them yet! What people will not tell you - Fact 2: Explore, imagine and think beyond. Do not underestimate your potentials. I am sure if a 15 year old Einstien or Gandhi was sitting around us, he would not be very much different from the way we are today. People always say, "if he can do it, you can". Let me modify that a bit. We don't have to do what every other person can do. It would be stupid for a four feet guy to make it into a basket ball team, but I would definitely stress that what someone else with your abilities can do, you...
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...Theme Love Like many of Shakespeare's sonnets, this poem is an expression of love. In order to express your love, you have to talk about it, define it, examine it. In telling his mistress that he loves her, our speaker also has to give us an idea about what his love is like. This poem is partly about where love comes from, what motivates our feelings of affection for someone else. Specifically, it's about finding love in spite of (or maybe even because of) physical flaws. Appearances "Appearances" is a major theme in Sonnet 130, since our speaker spends a lot of the poem talking about what's wrong with his mistress's looks. He does a pretty complete dissection of her face, her body, and her smell. He doesn't say anything at all about her personality, but instead sticks to his laundry list of problems with her appearance. This gives Shakespeare a chance to poke fun at our obsession with looks and to show how ridiculous it is to ask any person to live up to some ideal of perfect beauty. Women and Femininity In Sonnet 130, the theme "Women and Femininity" is connected to the idea of appearances. This poem is all about female beauty and our expectations and stereotypes about the way women ought to look. You know how in magazines women pretty much tend to look the same? They all fit into a very narrow definition of what is beautiful. Essentially, the speaker in this poem is pointing out that love poetry does the same thing. It makes women into goddesses, not real human beings...
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...Romanesque architecture and Gothic architecture styles as well as literature writings of Dante was two of many great "first" ofthe High Middle Age period that impacted the Western legacies. Romanesque and Gothic architecture is very popular styles in Christian churches and bulidings. The literary writing of Dante, the arthur of one of his most famous writings, the Divine Comedy, is known for creating a pathway for many, many poets to be creative and very detailed with writing. Both of these "first "legacies have impacted not only the western civilaiztion but artists and builings all over the word. Romanesque architecture and Gothic architecture period both occurred during the Middle Ages with the Gothic period taking place during the later half. Gothic and Romanesque architecture were related in many ways, but they also contrasted in style too. Over time, masons began to test the waters and push the limits. They thought of new ways to add lighting and ways to allow more height to the building without it being to heavy and weak. Many of the reasons for the change in styles had a lot to do with society and the changes it faced. There was a greater intensity occurring in piety and literature. The Gothic style embodied this new urban society. Romanesque and Gothic shared similar characteristics, but Gothic architecture was a greater departure from its previous predecessor. Each of these eras had their own structural innovations that changed the way architects and builders designed...
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...William Shakespeare: Love and Tragedy The Elizabethan era (1500-1600) was a great age fro poets, artists, and writers to become illustrious around the country and be fortunate enough to entertain Queen Elizabeth. A man from a family of farmers and glove makers didn’t know that his entertain plays for Elizabeth I would one day become a masterpiece in English literature. It was in the 1500 when the Renaissance was in its initiation. The entire world was going through this moment where the rebirth of cultural ideas such as the study of literature and ancient values brought interest to the people living in this era. William Shakespeare became one of the most respected playwrights for his famous plays such as Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth among other respected and famous works. (www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9376718, www.britannica.com/shakespeare) Born the 23rd of April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, Shakespeare has captivated reader’s hearts by his romantic, humerous, and historic plays. During the 1500s, the Renaissance was a massive curiosity for everyone. Renaissance era was a period where everyone was interested in the affairs of the Greek and Roman cultures and when William Shakespeare was born. Being the middle brother of the Shakespeare’s, William son of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden was interested in writing since he was a child. Baptized in the Holy Trinity Church, William was raised in a family of seven children in the town of...
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...Bloom’s Classic Critical Views W i l l ia m Sha k e Sp e a r e Bloom's Classic Critical Views alfred, lord Tennyson Benjamin Franklin The Brontës Charles Dickens edgar allan poe Geoffrey Chaucer George eliot George Gordon, lord Byron henry David Thoreau herman melville Jane austen John Donne and the metaphysical poets John milton Jonathan Swift mark Twain mary Shelley Nathaniel hawthorne Oscar Wilde percy Shelley ralph Waldo emerson robert Browning Samuel Taylor Coleridge Stephen Crane Walt Whitman William Blake William Shakespeare William Wordsworth Bloom’s Classic Critical Views W i l l ia m Sha k e Sp e a r e Edited and with an Introduction by Sterling professor of the humanities Yale University harold Bloom Bloom’s Classic Critical Views: William Shakespeare Copyright © 2010 Infobase Publishing Introduction © 2010 by Harold Bloom All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher. For more information contact: Bloom’s Literary Criticism An imprint of Infobase Publishing 132 West 31st Street New York NY 10001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data William Shakespeare / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom : Neil Heims, volume editor. p. cm. — (Bloom’s classic critical views) Includes bibliographical references...
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