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in the past. Although Ms. NS’s main concern is her inability to get placed in the correct math class, she exhibited some emotional distress during the intake. Similarly, Ms. NS’s responses from the intake packet and the Rotter Incomplete Sentence Blank corresponded her current emotional struggles. In particular, Ms. NS marked off a majority of depressive symptoms such as “feeling that I am no good,” “feeling the need to get more sleep,” “often feeling restless or irritable,” “thinking about…

popular sonnet that depicts the myth of Zeus and Leda. We find the poetic form of sonnets used across languages and times. In the late 19th century, the Limerick shaped up as a popular poetic form. Limerick is a five-line poem, usually a humorous verse. The origin of the limericks links back to the French literature in the medieval time period. Often used by playwrights, Limericks existed in the English literature…

He uses very vivid imagery of water and natural elements throughout and that emphasizes his words when read aloud. It is all written in blank verse, which adds onto the effect of his words flowing out uncontrollably like the water he speaks of. Some sentences are however ending with punctuation and this creates the effect when reading of breaks and pauses as a person does when speaking emotionally…

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar No matter what the circumstances, people always look for someone to blame. Caesar’s murder results in the plebeians needing to blame someone for what happened. Despite Brutus’s honor and respect among the Romans, Antony gave the more convincing speech at Caesar’s funeral by having an emotional impact on the Romans, therefore proving to them that the conspirators committed an injustice to Rome. Brutus first speaks at Caesar’s funeral with the goal of justifying his…

Phoebe- a Shepherdess to Love or to Hate? In the play As You Like It by William Shakespeare, the character Phoebe is misunderstood and thought of as being a ‘mean girl’ who is only present for comedic purposes. However, there is more to Phoebe than people might see at first. By analysing her dialogue and her level of speech, the reader may establish that she is not a mean character. In addition, Phoebe also plays an essential role in terms of theme in this play. The first time the reader…

Out of This World. . . Forever Blood, gore, and death are not common occurrences in your everyday poems. The dominant narrative of poetry is centered on its more romantic aspects. As a prime example that not everything is sugar, spice, and everything nice, Robert Frost’s poem “Out, Out” provides us with the grim—yet refreshing—truth and reality faced by many children in the early 20th century—child labor. One of poetry’s most celebrated writers, Robert Frost was the epitome of eloquence. Frost…

John Updike Gage Ignatowitz Biography John Updike was an American poet and cartoonist who lived from 1932 to 2009; he is well known for humorous philosophy. John Updike was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on March 18th, 1932. In 1950 he graduated as valedictorian of his high school. and moved on to Harvard. There he wrote and drew for the Harvard Lampoon, and also married Mary Pennington. After graduating in 1954, he moved to England to attend Oxford. Eventually he moved back to the states to…

The works of William Shakespeare are regarded as some of the greatest English literature of all time. Writing colorful plays Shakespeare grabs the attention of anyone reading or watching. Dating back to the 17th century Shakespeare’s plays have influenced modern society in varied ways. Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is shown to have influenced society by its recent film modernized adaptation. Despite the fact that Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare has been banned it deserves to be analyzed in…

Ideas of an omniscient higher power that controls life and love manifest in Benedick’s sung verse as well as his spoken soliloquy. As depicted in Much Ado About Nothing, no amount of human interference can change the fated outcomes of love determined by a higher force. While addressing philosophical questions of fate and religious questions…

He used a metrical pattern consisting of lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter, called blank verse. His plays were composed using blank verse, although there are passages in all the plays that deviate from the norm and are composed of other forms of poetry and/or simple prose. In a Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Tom Bishop says “I want to focus here…