Sylph

The Mighty Valkyries by Jared Seman and directed by Dennis G.W. Millegan, was performed on Friday April 1st at The Pocket Sandwich Theater. The Mighty Valkyries, set in the streets, buildings, and rooftops of present day Townopolis, USA is about three female super heroines, Tech Girl, Ninjenna, Annazon, and Serenity. The four girls are responsible for saving Townopolis from the evil Mistress Nightshade. Mistress Nightshade is trying to enslave and take away the citizens’ of Townopolis free will by controlling their minds. The theme of this show is to save the day! Annazon, played by Hailee Draughon, was excellent in this show! She played a very strong, fierce, and brave hero. Her voice was very deep, loud, and confident. She spoke slowly with great projection to show how strong she was. Her body movements showed her strength. She would never just sit around on stage and do nothing. She was always lifting weights or doing exercises to show her strength. As well, she had very mighty gestures and excellent strong confident posture. She always held her head up high and had her arms on her hips making her look like a mighty super heroine. When she would talk to others she would use big gestures with her arms. Her emotions were very true to her character! She would always act like a strong brave woman ready to fight. Her facials showed that she was never scared and she was extremely brave. Her projection really showed the strong brave motive this character had. Mistress…

The supernatural machinery developed in Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock as Sylphs, nymphs, gnomes and salamanders , which are crucial in mock-epic poetry, strongly develop the literary mockery as well as brings the fundamental action of epic to the metaphysical world. Within the poem the readers are presented with the explanation as to where the spirits originated from, in essence they were once women recognized for certain traits such as Sylphs who were once beautiful women and…

Vanity has played a part in culture forever, the way people look can determine popularity or even a potential suitor. Business and commerce has been shown to capitalize on this sense of vanity each person beholds making for a more optimized marketplace. Belinda, the protagonist in Alexander Pope’s Rape of the Lock, has completely immersed herself as well as her essence and identity in the vainness of perfect appearance whilst her sylphs continue suit. Pope’s portrayal of Belinda’s vanity is…

premier. La Sylphide, Act I- James is awaiting the marriage to Effie. Near him a winged spirit, a sylph appears, gazes at him in an expression of love, she wakes him with a kiss. As James awakes the sylph runs away. Effie, her mother, acquaintance’s, Gurn, and Madge (a witch that has James sent away) arrive. Madge stirs the situation by stating Effie is not loved by James and Effie shall marry Gurn (whom desires greatly to marry the love of his life Effie). When James is left alone he sees the…

Alexander Pope’s The rape of the Lock in its title itself implies the idea of ridiculing its heroic characters, Belinda and the Baron who in real historic context are two aristocrats: Arabella Fermor and Lord Petre. The rejection of Lord Petre’s love by Miss Fermor is said to be lead a stifle between the two families and it was thought to be corrected by exposing to the public. At the great poet’s hands the folly of these two young aristocrats became a matter to be ridiculed which is ironically…

They have a classical element of portraiture combined with the still movement of his combination of shape and line. This escape from an uncertain time runs directly parallel with Brodovitch’s photography, especially the piece “The Sylphs (Les Syphides)”. Both of these works not only share a subject matter, but a way of abstracting them and using the surrounding negative space as a large and effective part of the composition. Both photographers, Brodovitch and Trager focused greatly on freezing…

from their contemporary religions, Pope has not used inspiration from his country’s religion, nor has he used any faint morality; instead the spirits inhabit “the four elements” and have neither the omniscience or omnipotence one could expect from supernatural machinery. Consequently, it is not the sylphs that grant Belinda her famous beauty, but instead it is society which grants Belinda’s beauty the power to “eclipse the day”. Whilst this seems to amiably flatter Belinda, it illuminates the…

norms. Belinda could signify the superego. Belinda is a woman bound by the social norms that create and maintain her status as a socialite. In direct opposition of all this, causing chaos is the Baron/id. In Canto I, when Belinda wakes from her fanciful dream about the secret man, she awakes blushing. Belinda is socially programmed, so, therefore, feels immense embarrassment and sorrow when her hair (a physical monument of her social status) is taken from her. Going between both the superego and…

subject matter of the poem Mrs Arabella Fermor, in this opening letter he discusses why he wrote the poem, what inspired him to do so, why he published this piece and also his reasoning for dedicating it to Arabella. The poem is split into five canto’s. The poem begins with Belinda the heroine of this story arising from sleep. Belinda has been dreaming, and in her dream we learn that this dream has come from Ariel, her guardian sylph. This dream introduces us to gnomes and the sylphs who will be…

This poem is written in iambic pentameter with heroic couplets and is based on a real incident which occurred in the 18th Century between two aristocratic families. Pope also used supernatural elements such as the use of a “nymph” and a “sylph” , which were a quintessential feature in epic and mock-epic poetry. The poem starts with the “heroes and nymphs” gossiping about political matters and fashion, among other things. Here, Pope uses irony as he uses the phrase “in various talk the…