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“I have rock hands” (Coy, 1958 pg 8)The challenges you face to accomplish your goals. There are lots of challenges in life but most of them are for doing things you love. Liam is working really hard to get on varsity basketball and now all of that hard work paid off. For example, he worked really hard at the tryouts for varsity.While the author was riding the book, I think he felt that he wants people to work hard. Coach Kloss prayed in the locker rooms about Jesus before every game. Since most…

William Wordsworth was a man that was true to nature, with the revolving changes in the new world he still came back to what was true. In most of Wordsworth poems, nature is the main and predominant theme throughout. Nature seems to have the most general effect on the mind of us humans, and of the mind of Wordsworth himself. Every little thing that makes up nature from the regular trees to the mountains and even to the small lady bugs, all lead us to some form of enthusiasm for these things. "In…

There are many important side characters in the novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred R.Taylor, the one about the Logan family and racism after the Civil War. Mama, Papa, Big Ma, Mr. Morrison, Mr. Avery. But one character stands out: Stacey. Stacey is one of the most important of the minor people in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. For one, he’s very mature, and understands racism. He tries to make the best decisions for his brothers and sisters, and he knows what will get them in serious…

The novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley fulfills many elements of being both a gothic and romantic text. Romanticism is the idea that the power of one’s spirit, soul, instinct and emotion are more important and powerful than the science and limits of human nature. Victor Frankenstein himself is a highly romantic character and dreams of breaking the boundaries of rationality and using his knowledge to go beyond them. This novel is passionate and evokes the imagination, but it also focuses mainly…

Men are always represented in the relation to the divine hierarchy which is the physical world and the world of animals but they are never represented in isolation. It becomes easier to understand the actions of Lear with the almost constant references to nature, once the concept of correspondence between man’s nature and the natural world is understood in terms of legitimizing the social order. In King Lear, the tragedy shown in the play is when Lear tries attempting to overthrow the ‘natural’…

“Rime of the Ancient Mariner” a poem that describes a mariner and his crew struggling to sail through ice and other weather conditions, when they encounter an albatross which they take as a sign from god which they let lead them through the horrible conditions. But their fortune ends when the greedy mariner takes advantage of the albatross and shoots it down for him to have to himself. The crew has mixed thoughts of the killing of the albatross but the crew dies over time and they place a curse…

During the late 18th century a movement started up known as Romanticism. This movement “emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional”(Britannia). Romanticism was a major contrast from the Neoclassical era before it. Romanticism also led the way to future counterculture movements we see throughout history as the rejection of the normal first started by the Romantics. We see Romanticism at work in poetry such as William…

Tragic love stories have fascinated humans since ancient times. They conquered the hearts of many and opened the ways for more love stories. Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – to October 1400) is one of the most famous English authors of the middle ages. Chaucer is considered the father of English literature and thrilled the mass with his literary works. His most famous works include the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde. Yet, again a tragic love story that is still widely popular in the 21st…

Richard Cory is written by Edwin Arlington Robinson in 1897. Richard Cory is a narrative poem, meaning it tells a story. It was published as part of The Children of the Night, one of Robinson’s most popular anthologized poems. Edwin Arlington Robinson was supposedly destined for a career in business or in a science since his dad was a wealthy New England merchant, but was he guided towards his poetic pursuits by a neighbor. He consistently dedicated himself to his work throughout his entire life…

The power of nature; nature’s role in the Romantic’s works Throughout William Wordsworth’s poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” and Lord Byron’s work “Darkness” both human nature and the natural are explored separately and in their cohesion. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” mainly focuses on the blissful side of nature and the impact it had on the narrator in the moment and during the present when in reflection. However, Lord Byron’s “Darkness” illustrates the cold and brutal side of nature, how…