Mistress

The source is reliable because Angelina Grimké Weld witnessed some of the wrongdoings single handedly and knew the slave owner personally. However, the source is not reliable because Weld might have lied to make slaveholders look bad. A “Cruel Mistress” started by Angelina Grimké Weld stating why she was speaking out against slavery. Her reason was to testify the truth and for the righteous of humanity. Therefore, Weld expressed that her mother was a slave owner and that being a owner of slaves…

Question 1 Explain the ways in which the title of this poem is unusual, and comment on whether or not it is effective in relation to the poem’s contents. The title of the poem by Finuala Dowling, to the doctor who treated the raped baby and felt such despair, gives an indication of the subject, tone and contents of the poem. It also suggests to whom the poem is addressed, “to the doctor…” The title is unusual because it refers to the doctor, “… who treated the raped baby.” In other words, it…

resist all planning may be better than its opposite, but it belongs to the same style of politics” (Oakeshott, 26). This is an accurate assessment of anti-planning politics, and its legitimacy can be observed in Robert Heinlein’s The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, where the revolutionaries in the novel implement a noticeably oppressive government in an attempt to do away with such oppression. Heinlein’s novel is a narrative on how a revolution may come about from this anti-government political…

quick in accordance to the certain situation a person experienced. After all, every individual has perceived and experienced time in a distinct manner. Some have treasured time while others have detested how time passed. In the poems, “To His Coy Mistress”, “To the Virgins to Make Much of Time”, and “Sonnet 60”, the speakers made it evident that they are fond of time. With a deep realization, the speakers spoke on behalf of time and how one must treasure every moment. Time does not stand still…

Andrew Marvell and Description of Garden of Earthy Delights in his Poems Andrew Marvell is a British poet who lived in 17th century. His poems cover a wide variety of themes: from the love to politics and nature’s role in people’s lives. Marvell often used exalted topics/ However, he chooses different approaches compared to other famous poets like William Wordsworth who was born and worked hundred years after Marvell’s death. The last author often covered metaphysical motifs like his experience…

The aim of this assignment is to depict the various differences and similarities in Donne’s courtly sonnets and holy sonnet sequence, with reference to “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning” and “Holy Sonnet XIV”. “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning” depicts through various conceits and metaphors the theme of the bond between two lovers who are separated physically, but are not ready to sacrifice their relationship and passion due to the mere fact that they are separated by distance. This poem…

The final stanza draws down from the compression and peak feeling of the previous stanza, keeping the sense of the old woman’s liveliness, however in the kinaesthetic verbs “drawing,”, “opening.” “grow”, “puts on,” “arranges” and “places.” The juxtaposition of the actual and active of the first line and the abstract “years,” or “time” as a burden and measurable, maintains blood-heat for the poem while the placing of opposites : “Grow less and less” quickens the pulse a little, as the reader…

From what I understand, the poem trying to say that the speaker is eloquent, he uses words are easy to understand and it helps us to see the images clearly, unconfident, he does not be courageous to confess that he loves her, and daydreaming, it was his subconscious told him that he was falling in love with her at first sight. Next, the rhyme scheme of this poem is ABABCDCD from the first stanza, EFEFGHGH from the second stanza, and IJIJKLKL from the last stanza. Then, the setting of this poem…

Rumi and Love Rumi illustrates the different ways that we should love in each of his poetry. In "A King Dressed as a Servant", Rumi says that we need to wait for love to come to us, and that there is more than meets the eye when it comes to love. In "Any Sprig of an Herb", he tells us to be appreciative, to tame our ego, and that we should not be afraid to blunder in love. In "Split the Shack", Rumi says to surmount the sense of self-preservation, to give our entirety and not fragments, and…

“Just because we don’t say certain things, doesn’t mean we don’t feel them”. This quote is especially relevant to the love affair that takes place in W. D. Snodgrass’s poem “Leaving the Motel”. The poem entails of the requirements that two surreptitious lovers must carry out after their secret rendezvous to sure that their relations stay hidden. As the narrator of the poem methodically runs through their responsibilities like a checklist, they establish a detached and matter-of-fact tone, which…