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Journal Entry 1 – To be graded on Act 2 is a very long act, with 9 scenes. Hence in this journal entry, I will be focusing on Act 2, Scene 1. Act 2, Scene 1 – Upon his entrance, the Prince of Morocco’s initial words to Portia are “Mislike me not for my complexion, the shadowed livery of the burnished sun”. From how he is immediate to tell her not to hold his skin color against him, we can interpret that many people have judged him harshly because of his complexion and this can be…

Essay Question: Explain significant connections across texts, using supporting evidence Several people like to believe in an almost quixotic version of love, in which love is unaffected by time or distance and persists even after death. I have chosen to explore different idealistic and realistic views on the endurance of love and how it is affected by the challenges in our relationships. Some of such views are portrayed in the poems; Sonnet 116, by William Shakespeare, Funeral Blues, by…

The transience and beauty of nature are reflected in the line “Summer’s honey breath,” illustrating that nature is what keeps “Summer” alive. However, the “wrackful siege of battering days” is what kills this beauty. Time moving forward and the progression of “battering days,” demolishes “summer’s honey breath.” There is a particular imagery used throughout the quatrain, and it is the imagery of battle and war with the author’s use of the phrases “battering days,” “wrackful siege,” “gates of…

Sonnet 18, written by William Shakespeare, is the most popular amongst his other 154 sonnets. The sonnet starts off by praising a beloved’s beauty and, as we slowly progress through the rest of the sonnet, transform this beloved’s beauty into something almost immortal. It is as if Shakespeare is describing his beloved as a perfect being. In Sonnet 18’s octave, he starts off with a question and a quick statement of his beloved “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more…

Every day, we hear the term ‘love’ in a plethora of situations. So, what is love? According to Shakespeare, in sonnet 116 - The first quatrain describes love as an unchangeable force in the lines “Love is not love / Which alters when it alteration finds, / Or bends with the remover to remove: / O no! it is an ever-fixed mark.” Shakespeare enforces the fact that true love always perseveres, no matter what it’s up against by using the metaphor, “That looks on tempests and is never shaken” in the…

Love does not need conceits to be true. Both sonnets are written by William Shakespeare. They were written on the year 1609. In many of his works the theme love seems to his favourite. “Courtly Love” In Sonnet 18, the writer describes how the person he is talking to is more temperate and fair than the beauty he sees in nature. And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; And every fair from fair sometime declines, The writer concludes that the beauty of the person he’s talking to is not so…

Often times, the smallest things can set someone off. In Poe’s poem, “The Raven,” there are many occasions where it seems that the speaker is being haunted by a supernatural being. There are many pieces of evidence to support the idea that the speaker is insane, as a result of the haunting. Given this information, it is possible to believe that the speaker was driven insane by a supernatural being, in this case, the Raven. The combination of the speaker’s sorrow and desperation for his lost love…

portrayed in ‘Romeo and Juliet’, ‘Mid Term Break’ and ‘On My First Son’? ‘Mid Term Break’ is a poem written by Seamus Heaney as an adult. It is about him looking back on the loss of his younger brother so is written retrospectively. The poem does not rhyme, this is because Heaney just sat down and wrote it in one go, and this is effective because it makes it more natural as it is just an outpouring of his grief and tells more of a story. The title of the poem suggests a half term in school when…

“Sonnet 18" by William Shakespeare it may be the best well-known of all sonnets. In "Sonnet 18", William Shakespeare offers a unique perspective on the comparisons that were popular in the sonnet times. "Sonnet 18" is committed to admire a friend or lover, usually known as the "fair youth." The sonnet itself guarantees that this person beauty will have remained sustained; even through death; the lines of verse will continue to be read by future generations; when a speaker, poet, and an admirer…

Law Over Man Ten is the number of times the word blood is written in Faulkner’s short story. Perhaps, or maybe not, blood is thicker than water. Yeah, what a cliché, right? However, what happens when being loyal to family includes breaking the law? In William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning,” through the use of Sarty’s internal conflict on betraying his father or abiding by his principles and Abner’s fixation on sticking it to the man, Faulkner portrays the conflict of Man vs Self and Man vs Society.…