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    John Milton Research Paper

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    Introduction A young adult sits on a chair where his thoughts inevitably force him to inscribe down the true feelings within his mind. As the time passes, he becomes more famous and well-known. John Milton is an influential English poetry writer resembling many other prosperous authors around the world. Milton is mainly distinguished for his hard work of the poem called “Paradise Lost.” He is unquestionably famous for the achievements of being literate in various types of languages during his…

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    of The Study Poetry is one of genres in literature. When we try to define it, we will find out that poetry, just like love, is not something easy to be defined. Laurence Perrine in “Sounds and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry” (1969:3) defines poetry as a kind of language that says more and says it more intensely than does ordinary language. From that definition, we can say that poetry contains a complexity of human’s feeling and mind. In order to understand the meaning of a poetry, analyzing…

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    poem provide a powerful metaphor in its final scene of ladies in (red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple) -the colors of the rainbow symbolically represent women and children who have suffered at the hand of an offender. Through the art form of poetry…

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    William Blake’s ‘London’ and Charles Martin’s ‘Easter Sunday’ are two pieces of poetry that reflect opposing perspectives of power. ‘London’ is sharp and seminal text that has been written in order to draw the reader’s attention to the persona’s observations and encounters of the conditions of London and the communal experience of its residents. The poem is a damning condemnation of a very corrupted society dominated by the power of materialism and the hypocritical paradigm that legitimates such…

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    Jacob Bronowski was a distinguished scientist who spoke at the Blashfield Address for the American Academy of Art and Letters in 1966. He gave the speech “The Reach of Imagination” to an audience of top class artists and poets. The speech covered the subject of imagination within the human mind. Bronowski opens his speech with,“imagination is a specifically human gift” (193). Not only does this gift belong to artists, poets, and scientists, but to all walks of humankind. Bronowski draws his…

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    In the 1920s and mid 1930s the Harlem Renaissance was a cultural, artistic, and social movement that gave a new light to black cultural identity. At the heart of Harlem Renaissance were black authors/writers, scholars, and musicians. Many of the people involved in the Harlem Renaissance were artistic and literary leaders that later influenced African American culture. This coming together of people created a sense of racial pride for people in the African- American community. Many African…

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    Mahmoud Darwish Analysis

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    1 Abstract: This paper seeks to explore the function of interdisciplinarity between Poetry and Mythology in the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’ “The Phases of Anat” and how myth is employed to serve cultural and resistance purposes by means of creating and ascertaining identity through proposing and documenting a new version of the subaltern history that have been marginalized for decades in view of the capabilities of their powerful occupiers at all levels. to serve supporting his…

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    Romantic-era, among which is William Wordsworth and William Blake. They were the oldest pioneering figures who were leading the literary movement. The younger pioneering figures of poets include Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. During the early nineteenth century, Lord Byron was a so popular poet who had a distinguishing style in writing his poems that were mainly connected to the concept of Romanticism in this era; consequently, he was a prominent romantic poet whose poetry was…

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    does his sense of competition. He expects the his repulsive soul to overcome his physically beautiful body and sees this as a form of murder. However, there is no true separation between body and soul, because, as foremost Romantic philosopher William Blake states, the body is merely the outward circumference of the soul. Dorian 's portrait thus becomes a reflection not just of his soul, but of his entire being. Wilde plays with a paradox of life and "[fatality]" in Dorian 's words to express…

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    economic order of liberal-capitalism is the best option for this country. Karl Marx and the Romantic poets are all opposed to this type of society. As outlined in this essay, these figures, respectively, in The Communist Manifesto and English Romantic Poetry an Anthology, explain their critiques of liberal-capitalism and then proceed to contrast those ideas of a perfect society with their own. I believe that Marx and the Romantic poets make very strong points against liberal-capitalism but I…

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