similarities but also have quite a few differences as well. Their themes and poetic styles in their works of poetry align in some ways, yet differ in others. They both have a sense of eroticism and passion within their works of poetry as well. Love songs or love poems are found in many cultures. Most of the love poems deal with intense emotion and a lust for life. Being able to analyze the roots of their existence can help to understand the context of the poetry all together. When we look at the history
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PHILIPPINE LITERATURE Philippine literature is the body of works, both oral and written, that Filipinos, whether native, naturalized, or foreign born, have created about the experience of people living in or relating to Philippine society. It is composed or written in any of the Philippine languages, in Spanish and in English, and in Chinese as well. Philippine literature may be produced in the capital city of Manila and in the different urban centers and rural outposts, even in foreign lands where
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Summer hangs, and summer lulls. Lay in the park, smoke in the dark, as the song goes. Its lush grass and leaves and flowers and cushioning warmth brings with it particular sluggishness, a wading. The days are slower, the sun is hotter, and the air is thick and saccharine like molasses, slowing down the traffic of our thoughts and of our discourse. The season’s circular shoegaze marks for us a lens of the mind with which we are familiar; in our youth and not, between chores and shifts, our minds hang
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not my teen spirit deodorant had stuck around long enough for this moment he pulled away. At first I waited for fireworks. Then I waited for chirping birds or a nineties R&B song to play softly in the background but then I got what was really coming, absolutely nothing. From the moment a young girl sees her first romantic comedy she dreams of her first kiss. I thought of it constantly, probably more than a little girl should think of such content but I couldn’t help it. When most of my friends
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I noticed that there are four black cars parked near the Eiffel Tower, in my curiosity, I asked Theo about it. “Umm, Theo.” I shouted but not too loud. “Yes, what?” he replied raising his right eyebrow. “About the ca-r...” I pointed where the car are. “Leave it there, they’re waiting for us,” he interrupted and pat my back. “Just wait,” he added as he put his two fingers in his mouth to whistle. Everyone shut up and all of their attentions are on Theo. “Guys and ladies, hmm,” he fix his bow
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Whisps, Elves, Dwarfs, Hobbits, Drow, Dark Elf, Gobblins, Trolls, Orcs, Mermaid, Mermen, water nymphs, Dragons, Drakes, Gryphons, Centaur, Fawns, Satyrs, Unicorns, Anthromorphs and many animals; and a few humans (although these beings are rare), who were known as the Galens. Being fairly peaceful and living in harmony between themselves (after they had all combined forces to rid their lands of the dreaded Dark Force that had plagued them for decades with the Dark Wars) and with nature as they followed
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It is a tale of true selfless love and love unrequited. This story keeps the reader enthralled with the use of characters, point of view, and theme that are intended to play your heartstrings. The Student is one of the main characters. He is a romantic figure. ‘“She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,’ cried the young Student; ‘but in all my garden there is no red rose”’ (Wilde, 1888, para. 1). His heart belongs to a professor’s daughter, who has said she would dance with
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fallacious assumption that material possessions are synonymous with happiness, harmony, and beauty” (Fahey 70). His American dream has become corrupted by the culture of wealth and opulence that surrounds him. Gatsby is a “nouveau riche,” and his romantic view of wealth has not prepared him for the self-interested, snobbish, corrupt group of people with which he comes to associate. He throws lavish parties for countless people, yet he has no real friends. Gatsby buys expensive things and entertains
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believing that he had a great purpose to complete. At college he was known as the The Lady of Christ’s. he Got master’s degree at Cambridge. It’s convenient to consider his works in 3 divisions. At first he wrote his short poems at Horton. (The Passion, Song on May Morning, L’Allegro). Then he wrote mainly prose. His 3 greatest poems belong to his last group. At the age of 23 he had still done little in life&he admits this in one of his sonnets. (On his 23d B-day) In his another sonnet he wrote on
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Министерство образования и науки Республики Казахстан Кокшетауский государственный университет им. Ш. Уалиханова An Outline of British Literature (from tradition to post modernism) Кокшетау 2011 УДК 802.0 – 5:20 ББК 81:432.1-923 № 39 Рекомендовано к печати кафедрой английского языка и МП КГУ им. Ш. Уалиханова, Ученым Советом филологического факультета КГУ им. Ш. Уалиханова, УМС КГУ им. Ш. Уалиханова. Рецензенты: Баяндина С.Ж. доктор филологических
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