The Cantos

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…

Orchestration: The techniwue of setting music ofr instruments in various comninations. Romanticism: The movement emphasized intense emotion as an authentic source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as apprehension. Virtuoso: Performer of extrordinary technical ability. a charismatic figure who was technically brilliant on his or her instrument and who riveted audiences in public concerts as well as in private recitals in fashionable salons. Tempo Rubato: Perfoemer…

utilizes these Classical attributes demonstrates the poet’s views on the world of the Greeks as he both celebrates and condemns them. The first appearance of a Classical element in Dante’s magnum opus is at the beginning of the poem in the first canto when the Roman poet Virgil comes to the rescue of the protagonist. Immediately, Dante shows his admiration for the ancient poet explaining that it was from him that the Italian “took the noble style that was to bring [him] honor” (1055).…

Larkin and Eliot vary in their view on time. For Eliot, time is ceaselessly present from the spiritual point of view. Through time, time is conquered .But Larkin believes that changes are predictable in time’s domain and the past is past and is never to be regained, “time and time over. “To the constant flux of time, man is in thrall and a victim” (Larkin, CP).So time is not an abstract idea but has “eroding agents” to bring out ill-effects in life. So time conquers man in its eternal flux.…

Was she admirable? Or Dishonorable? Antigone a young women that has lost what she feels everything, and denied the right to bur her own brother, who is a traitor to the country. In attempts to make things right and follow what she knows, she voices her opinion to the king searching for justice. With good intentions, Antigone is both righteous as well as dishonorable. She is admirable for standing strong for what she believes in, and refusing to allow king Creon ,who should…

descending tetrachord ostinato.” The piece exhibits a softer style called molle that is presented with homophonic style. Basically, the piece is composed for four voices in antiphonal style; that is, the three lower voices function as accompaniment to the canto, the upper voice. Example 2: Claudio Monteverdi, Lamento della Ninfa. Measures 5 - 8. Also, the use of contrasting textures and dynamics show the characters’ dramatic emotions while they are in the battlefield. Dynamics go from…

Dante’s stance on Italian politics shifted towards a more distressed and discouraged perspective, his exile from Florence would be that moment. In his own words through the mouth-piece of Dante the pilgrim to his former teacher Brunetto Latini in Canto XV, Dante laments: “In the bright life above…I came into a valley and lost my way, before my age had reached its ripening time. I turned my back on the place but yesterday…” Through his time in the Florentine political sphere, Dante was no…

Some might think that hearing all of the torments and tortures that happen to sinners in Hell isn’t enough for them to completely change what they are doing. Dante says in Canto one of Inferno, “In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself in a dark wood where the straight way was lost” (11). In the beginning of Inferno Dante is lost in a dark forest. Some say this is a metaphor where in fact he doesn’t know which…

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born August 30, 1797 in London England. She was a english romantic writer with a hint of goth. She was the only child of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley). Mary Shelley’s parents are a strong influence in her writing as well as husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her most famous work, Frankenstein is a classic that is still read today in schools and seen in pop culture. Childhood was a little different for Mary being the only child…

who is the focal point on everything going on in the poem, even more than Horace. The main reason, his character can be consider satirical, is because he holds himself as if he is a smart person stated things like, “invideat quod et Hermogenes ego canto” (Even Hermogenes would envy what I sing), the satire in this is the fact that Hermogenes was a philosopher and would not envy someone songs, but rather just appreciate them. Another prime example of the bore stupidity as stated by Anderson,…