Heroic couplet

hopeless and grim showing how painful the risks of love are like climbing a mountain. The poem presents the familiar pain shared by those searching for love, like getting hurt and left behind. This hopeless tone continues through the quatrains until the couplet, “And thoughts turning of my mind back I drown/In, seeming to be such a hopeless branch.(Lines 11-12). The author creates this grim tone by explaining how people may want to give up such a seemingly hopeless pursuit. However, the tone…

The pattern of rhyming couplets continues throughout the lay maintaining the sing-song feel and allowing the reader to follow the lines easily. Furthermore, the lyrical rhyme provides a counterpoint to the horrific imagery presented in the excerpt. The author shows this in the rhyming couplet, “Sum stode withouten hade, / And sum non armes nade” (391-392). While describing people with missing heads and other…

family. Quote: "I felt myself in the presence of a superior man, one who, had he been a white man, I would have followed willingly and gladly in any honorable enterprise. Our difference of color was the only ground for difference of action." (The Heroic Slave-77) This reveals to the reader the importance to the white mans, the idea of being white and of racial purity. Although this man reveals that Madison was a smart and admirable man, he can not respect him because he is…

Grendel's self image is impacted greatly by Unferth, The Dragon and The Shaper in Grendel by John Gardner. To begin with Grendel’s image is impacted by Unferth because Unferth was the very first person that Grendel has ever talked too. Unferth begins to talk to Grendel by calling him a monster in front of all the thane’s that were around, Unferth kind of threatened Grendel because he told him that death was coming his way. In the beginning of their relationship Unferth wanted Grendel dead, even…

Unferth Episode (II. 499-606) The introductory chapter with Unferth (II. 499-606) develops the character of Beowulf in the poem. Unferth is a significant individual in King Hrothgar’s court. His name occurs four times in the poem and the episode that Beowulf’s early life introduces him to the readers. In the episode, Unferth reproaches Beowulf for losing a swimming contest although he was completely armored, fighting various sea monsters through a storm. However, Beowulf lost the match since one…

Unferth taunted Beowulf because he did not believe that he was as great as he was because no one was better than Unferth himself. He was angry that anyone could have more fame and glory than himself so he tried to prove that he wasn’t great because he lost a swimming competition to Brecca but only because Beowulf had to fight off several sea monsters, as stated in the text, “Other monsters crowded around me, Continually attacking. I treated them politely, offering the edge of my razor-sharp…

Although Beowulf always gets all the attention for being being the good guy, Unferth should have won that praise. Unferth is more noble than Grendel or Beowulf because he displays courage through chasing after Grendel to fight him and save Heorot, he displays honor by challenging Grendel to a fair fight, perseverance through his constant attempts to continue fighting Grendel, and truthfulness through admitting he isn’t strong and he is probably going to lose. To a Viking, being honorable meant…

The stories of Beowulf and Grendel are very similar in many aspects. There is only one major difference. In Beowulf, we do not know what Grendel is thinking, like we do in Grendel. Both stories portray Beowulf and Grendel as monsters, but they are both actually misunderstood humans, not monsters. Being misunderstood is one of the hardest things to be. Life is too complicated, but “so it goes” (142). The monsters in Beowulf and Grendel are both presented the same way. In both stories, the…

Although Sir Ernest Shackleton did not conquer his life dream, some still believe he is a great explorer. Ernest Shackleton was an Irish-British explorer who had attempted multiple times to accomplish his dreams, but failed. Later, after a tragic accident, he decided to become a journalist. Before he died, he set sail for one last attempt at being the first person to ever cross the whole Antarctic. When Ernest Shackleton was younger, he had gone and “joined the merchant navy at the age of 16”…

• In what context should the Endurance expedition be analyzed? As a scientific endeavor? An entrepreneurial venture? An exercise in imperial opportunity? By what criteria should the expedition be evaluated? Given your answer to the preceding question, was it a success or a failure? The Endurance expedition fits in all three contexts of imperial, scientific and entrepreneurial. Ernest Shackleton used his journalist contacts in order to promote the expedition. Shackleton was not able to…