Robert Downey

“There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue” ― Elizabeth I Tudor (goodreads.com). However, Queen Elizabeth I never held her tongue when she could have a say in matters. In many ways, Queen Elizabeth was one of the very first women in the 1500s to dominate her own era. Queen Elizabeth l controlled part of the government and provided suitable leadership for her army when the Spanish Armada tried to challenge England. With her…

Samuel Coleridge used figurative language and unorthodox verse structure to describe the tragic, lesson-filled past of a sailor and portray literary elements of Romanticism and its ideals. By using a non-traditional approach to verse structure, it shows Coleridge's choice to not compromise the meaning and thought process of each stanza by following a set pattern. This demonstrates the versatility and story-like dynamic of the poem making it all the more captivating to the reader. Through his use…

In the poem Marrysong, Dennis Scott presents an unconventional relationship between the speaker and his wife, a woman so complicated and fluctuating that he has to persevere hard in order to “learn” her constantly changing moods, something that he inevitably cannot do. However, in Sonnet 18, William Shakespeare successfully presents a conventional love between the speaker and his partner, who’s beauty and love from the speaker is endless and timeless. In Marrysong, Scott compares the speaker’s…

Brontë has an interesting look on hope. In her poem called “life” she explains some days you might have rough cloudy days, causing you to trudge but hope will pick you up and your despair will vanish. On the other hand, Emily Dickinson has a slightly different look comparing hope to an undefeatable bird. The theme they have in common is hope, though it is described In different ways it has similar qualities. In Charlotte Bronte’s poem, “Life” she explains life will not be perfect, you will wake…

Ascham Analysis The observations of the sixteenth century scholar Roger Ascham examine the strangeness of winds that Ascham was able to observe through a snowfall. The purpose behind Toxophilus, the book in which this appears in is archery, which was a very important subject back in the ages of hunting for food. Ascham likely wrote about this experience in the snow to examine the intricacies of wind and how it can affect arrow accuracy, because arrow accuracy could’ve meant the difference…

Imagine being born an outcast and forced to end a war. That’s what life is like for Ender Wiggin, the protagonist in the novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. Ender is a third child in a world where having more than two children is obscure. The only reason he was ever born was to become a commander and defeat the alien threat known as the buggers. To do this Ender is conscripted to Battle School, a place where kids are put against each other in null gravity to learn about the tactics of war.…

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic The Scarlet Letter, there are lots of symbols with multiple meanings. One such object with multiple meanings is the forest. The forest has multiple meanings because it represents evil and danger to some, but to others it is freedom and a happy place. The multiple meanings of the forest shows how Hawthorne feels about many of his characters and even the world around them. Hawthorne feels that people and the world, much like the forest, has many sides and can be…

Robert Frost had a political reference in the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay". He wrote about the ending of the world. That could have been one of the reasons he decided to title it that. He wrote about how when the end comes, that the Earth won't stay. He also could have been talking about childhood in his poem. When you are little, everything is new to you, and when it's not new anymore, it can be sad. The poem is a descriptive poem that could also be confessional because of his reference about…

Movie Project: Forrest Gump Forrest Gump, a southerner who suffers from an Intellectual Disability, is an excellent example of how perceptions do matter. Gump himself is actually telling his own story in this film. For over half of the movie, he is reflecting on the events of his life to strangers on a bus bench before he reunites with his childhood friend, Jenny. Throughout the film, Forrest Gump talked to four different strangers at this bus stop and he explained his life story to them all.…

Loneliness is not the same thing as being alone, you can be surrounded by people but still be lonely. Loneliness is a state of mind while aloneness is a state of being. In John steinbeck’s book Of Mice and Men the theme of loneliness is shown throughout the book and with various characters. These characters include Crooks, Curley’s wife, and Candy. John Steinbeck demonstrates this loneliness by how desperate these characters are to have someone to speak with. He also shows how the loneliness…