Epigraphs Amanda Madruga "For the drift of the Maker is dark, an Isis hid by the veil ." ... The epigraph quoted from Tennyson connotes that what God intends is unknown. ... The epigraph commences the meditation of the responder's role in a novel and wanders from the plot. ... The epigraph of this chapter also directs to the ambiguous nature of the composer's intentions. ... She is portrayed as a singular figure, alone against a desolate landscape in both the contents and the epigraph. ...

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TENNYSON, Maud (1855) This particular epigraph instigates the subsequent chapter thirteen and is highly relative to its contents. ... The epigraph quoted from Tennyson connotes that what God intends is unknown. ... The epigraph commences the meditation of the responder's role in a novel and wanders from the plot. ... The epigraph of this chapter also directs to the ambiguous nature of the composer's intentions. ... She is portrayed as a singular figure, alone against a desolate landscape in both the contents and the epigraph. ...

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The epigraph in the beginning of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald refers to a "Gold-hatted high-bouncing lover" who seems to foreshadow Gatsby's relationship with the love of his life, Daisy throughout the novel. He seems to think that by metaphorically wearing his gold hat (new found weal...

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The poem begins with an epigraph from the 31st chapter of Proverbs, verses 6,7. ... If you take a closer look at the title, the epigraph was a translation of the King James Version of the Bible. ... This leads me too believe that Burns must have had the ending to this poem in mind before he wrote it, because here you see how he has managed to come full circle and end up with the same thoughts as his epigraph title. ...

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The epigraph of the poem is a passage from Dante Aligheri's Divine Comedy, more specifically the Inferno. ... Eliot brings the poem back to the epigraph in the ending lines of the poem as Prufrock seemingly falls into the eternal hell of his indecisiveness. ... The first and last ten lines seem to be the strongest references to Dante's Inferno, which make them the most appropriate since the epigraph is a direct quote from Dante. ...

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Two main themes in Brave New World are Community, Identity, Stability verses individual freedom and the cost of such a system is high. Community, Identity, Stability is the motto on the World State. The first part, Community, is in part, a result of identity and stability. Community is achieved by ...

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The opening stanza in the poem is an epigraph from Dante's Inferno. An epigraph is a quotation set at the beginning of a literacy to suggest the theme of the poem. "The epigraph to this poem describes Profrock's ideal listener: one who is as lost as the speaker and will never betray to the world the content of Profrock's present confessions. ...

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The epigraph of the poem is a passage from Dante Aligheri's Divine Comedy, more specifically the Inferno. ... Eliot brings the poem back to the epigraph in the ending lines of the poem as Prufrock seemingly falls into the eternal hell of his indecisiveness. ... The first and last ten lines seem to be the strongest references to Dante's Inferno, which make them the most appropriate since the epigraph is a direct quote from Dante. ...

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"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"" by T.S. Elliot is filled with many allusions. They help develop parts of the poem by representing the author or Prufrock's feelings or perspective. These allusions provide the readers with good comparisons and enrich the understanding of the poem's contents. ...

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The epigraph emphasizes the point:The fathers may soar And the children may know their names.? As the epigraph usually means to enlighten the reader somehow regarding the novel, I believe we are clued in here as to the value of knowledge of one's background or the family line as well as the importance of awareness, especially for the young, of family history and the pride one can find in it. ...

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This idea is initially established through the presence of an unusual epigraph. An epigraph is traditionally used as an insight into a book's general essence; a short introductory element in order to make it simpler for the reader to apprehend the author's intentions. Stoker, however, uses his epigraph as a way of creating doubt and confusion in the reader's mind before the novel has even begun; he presents his story as a serious account of real-life experience... The epigraph appears to be an assertion of the exactitude of the documents presented and is representative of the e...

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Eliot begins the poem with an epigraph from Dante's Inferno suggesting that Prufrock speaks only because he is sure no one will listen and what has or has not been done will remain in that state. ... The imagery of "a patient etherized upon a table"(3) and "half-deserted streets"(4) paints a somber picture, implying a dark soulless setting, adding to the seclusion set forth by the epigraph. ... Contrary to the endless circuitous steps taken by Prufrock in his dialogue, the epigraph from Dante's Inferno is essential for mirroring his descent without ascension. ...

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Inferno Fever: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" The very first lines of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot are inspired by Dante's "Inferno". It is these first lines that are called the epigraph. In "Inferno, the lines are translated as: If I thought that my reply would...

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This epigraph is the message of the book as a whole, and the text of the novel proves that what we are made to see as the truth might not always be the truth. ... The contrast between the two clearly show the epigraph of the novel. ... The assembly of truth helps us to see that the epigraph is the book's moral message. ...

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In John Donne's epigraph, "No Man is an Island": "No Man is an island; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of main." ... In his epigraph, he not only expresses the importance of community, but also emphasizes that all people are connected together, that one man's death can diminish him. ...

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The first epigraph, before the story starts, is taken directly from the Old Testament in the Bible, and sets the patriarchal context into which the novel is put. ... The epigraph shows that patriarchal regimes often use the differences between the sexes to secure control over women and to ensure men's exclusive hold on power. ...

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Marriage in Transition " to have been driven to be more particular would have been like trying to give a history of the lights and shadows; for that new real future which was replacing the imaginary drew its material from the endless minutae by which her view of Mr. Casaubon and her wifely relati...

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From the very beginning, the grandmother in Flannery O"Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" is foreshadowing, in her words and actions, what will become of the family. Hints of the family's tragic finale exist throughout the plot until the time of the first murder. In the very beginning before the...

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"We run, we throw, we shoot, we kill, we lie about, we are feeble, and spent..." -Paul Baumer A book of the tragedy of war expressed in sorrow by Erich Maria Remarque explains All Quiet on the Western Front to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure. Throughout t...

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War is an overpowering presence that takes total control over the lives of those fighting in it, and leaves them helpless. Private John Bartle, a character in the novel The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers, struggles with his inability to control the events in his life as he is stationed in Al Tafar, I...

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An appreciation of "The lark above the trenches" by Muriel Elsie Graham Many poems written in response to the events of the 1914-19 war are the products of direct experience of the processes of war - making weapons, nursing the wounded, the loss of brothers, sons or lovers in the trenches - b...

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. ∙ It endorses the idea presented by the epigraph, excerpted from Ibsen's play "Little Eyolf", that even when people are told the truth they still prefer ignorance and denial in order to maintain the status quo. ...

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Modernism in literature appeared at the end of the 19th century, and the beginning of the 20th one. It was a counter move against traditionalism in poetry, and modernist writers experimented with the poems style. New methods were introduced, such as "fragmenting " the poem, language-blending, use of...

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Before the story begins, O"Connor provides the reader with an epigraph. ... She then proceeds to foreshadow many upcoming events through an epigraph, characterization, attention to details, sequence of events, and dialogue. ...

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