The Song of Roland, an epic poem based on the Battle of Roncevaux in 778, during the reign of Charlemagne, portrays a hero named Roland. ... " Throughout the reading we see Roland's appetite for a fight constantly. ... Clearly, as shown throughout almost the entire epic poem, Roland's greatest strength is his abilities as a fighter, and his crave for a fight. ... But Roland being proud and a bit big-headed refuses the offer immensely. ... In the poem, when he is finally in his element, on the brink of war commanding the rear-guard there comes a moment when he is faced with a ...

• Word Count: 884
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• Grade Level: High School

The concept of the author within a text is a complex one, and has been interpreted in many ways by various critics, including Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault in their workings "Death Of The Author" and "What is an Author?" ... However, Roland Barthes' essay, "The Death of Author," regarded as a landmark in critical analysis, proposes that an author is not simply a "person" as often suggested, but a "socially and historically constituted subject". ... Nearly all of Plath's poems are emotive, allowing us to appreciate the poems not just from our perspective but the author's...

• Word Count: 1035
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• Has Bibliography

Later in his poems, Yeats began referring to Maud as Helen of Troy. ... When Roland and Maud picnicked at Boggle Hole, Roland asked Maud to undo her plaits. ""Life is so short" said Roland. ... Like Yeats, only Roland truly appreciated Maud beyond her frightening physical beauty. ... Yeats as a student was very similar to Roland. ...

• Word Count: 1560
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The concept of simulacra is implored by Maud, Roland and Val. ... "Roland thought that he and Maud were being driven by a plot or fate not their own fate or plot but that of those other"p421. ... Possession contains many different literary exserts including letters, poems, fairytales and short stories. ... The realisation that Maud and Roland have discovered love, an idealistic notion that holds modern ideals and challenges postmodernism. Both Maud and Roland do believe in structure and absolute truths. ...

• Word Count: 1541
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A religion aspect is applied to the poem for reasons of religious sensibility. ... The poem was stormed with abused when published, however. ... The first thirteen lines of the poem serve to set the place and dark attitude. ... A maternal tenor is present in other aspects of the poem as well. ... At the beginning of the poem, she is in the woods, late at night, alone. ...

• Word Count: 2551
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

The Song of Songs is a lyrical poem that celebrates erotic love. ... The poem, on the surface, may at first be seen as a pornographic image, but when examined further, is actually a story of pure and innocent devotion. Similarly, Roland Murphy's The Jerome Biblical Commentary stresses the basic goodness that is found in sexual desire. ... (p. 25) The poem further justifies the beneficial qualities of sex by linking human passion with the "flame of God's creation."...

• Word Count: 1092
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• Grade Level: High School

Medieval music represents nearly up to 1,000 years of European musical development. It is the ancestor of all later Western music. In the history of music, the medieval period extends from about A.D. 500 to about 1450. However, our knowledge of medieval music is incomplete due to our loss of mediev...

• Word Count: 684
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• Grade Level: High School

~The development of Feudalism-Rome fell in A.D. 476 as a result of invasion by the Germanic tribes. Central gov't broke down and trade was disrupted. Cities were abandoned and population centers shifted to rural areas. Christianity remained a major unifying force throughout most of Western Europe...

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• Grade Level: High School

He states this here "That a poem may have varying interpretations is a critical commonplace. That all interpretations of a poem are equally valid is a critical heresy," (Perrine 1). ... "The poem is a description of a sunset. ... In this quotation Perrine is showing the correct interpretation of the poem. ... " This quote is Perrine explaining the correct way of analyzing the poem. ...

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What does it matter who speaks?" asks Samuel Beckett via Michel Foucault's essay. "What is an Author?" ". . . Am I just a book?" asks the burned Englishman in Michael Ondaatje's novel The English Patient, in response to Caravaggio's attempts to reveal his past as the cartographer/spy Alma sy. Bo...

• Word Count: 6215
• Approx Pages: 25
• Grade Level: High School

Individual chapters could almost be read as prose-poems, each succinctly capturing a moment of being or one of life's lessons for the characters involved. ... "A narrative is a long sentence," writes Roland Barthes (84). ...

• Word Count: 7335
• Approx Pages: 29
• Grade Level: Undergraduate