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. ... 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. ... He and Oliver have just seen the thousands of pagans that intend to swarm their army and Oliver, being the practical companion urges Roland to sound the Oliphant, "a form of elephant, which means 'ivory' or 'a horn made of ivory'" (1357) to inform Charlemagne the King that ...

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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". ... Leading us to assume that even the title alone was influenced by his trip. ... Without Conrad's influence, these images would no...

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In his poem "The Man and the Echo", Yeats worryingly mused: Did that play of mine send out Certain men the English shot? ... In his poem, "No Second Troy" he bitterly described her political influence as destructive: Why should I blame her that she filled my days With misery, or that she would of late Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways, Or hurled the little streets upon the great, Had they but courage equal to desire? ... When Roland and Maud picnicked at Boggle Hole, Roland asked Maud to undo her plaits. ""Life is so short" said Roland. ... Yeats as a student wa...

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The actions and lives of Randolph Henry Ash and Christabel LaMotte become so integral that without their relationship Maud and Roland's could not exist. "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. ... The novel does have a beginning, middle and end. ...

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He makes the injustice for women apparent in the poem in line 329, "That saints will aid if men will call-. ... The poem was stormed with abused when published, however. ... An unidentified narrator They lament fallen condition of Christabel " And both blue eyes .about to have a tear. ... Christabel is a savior in the story constantly making the right choices and having love in her heart. ... It is odd that a young girl does not have a mentor, and is not even noticed leaving the castle, or fearing the wilderness alone. ...

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Paying to hear music would have seemed ridiculous to medieval people. ... Now however, many believe that this standardization took place about two centuries later. ... Minstrels made their living by chanting long poems about heroic deeds, such as "Song of Roland", and playing dance music on harps, bagpipes, bowed stringed instruments, and recorders. ... Therefore, a few dances and songs of the 13th and 14th centuries have lasted until today. ... This shows that music was truly an important part of the Middle Ages, affecting our music until now. ...

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The Song of Songs is a lyrical poem that celebrates erotic love. ... Similarly, Roland Murphy's The Jerome Biblical Commentary stresses the basic goodness that is found in sexual desire. ... Its many natures have been manipulated to fit the interests of anything you can possibly imagine. ... In my experiences with women, I have also taken similar steps in realizing that either our relationship is a dead-end, or can lead to something more meaningful than casual sex. When one of my relationships reaches the point where a hug can erase a nagging worry I might have...

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-keep her happy by writing poems to her. ... ***Despite the fact that all of the fact that all of the following were forbidden in the code of chivalry, knights were rarely punished for brutality to the weak. -The word chivalry comes from 2 French words, both having to do with horses. ... The Song of Roland is an epic poem about a battle between French knights and Muslim invaders. ... ~Church reformers felt that bishops should not be under the power of any king....

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He states this here "That a poem may have varying interpretations is a critical commonplace. ... This quote is essentially saying that the idea of having infinite interpretations is wrong. This example is exactly what Perrine is arguing throughout his paper, he is disagreeing with the argument that poems have a vast amount of interpretations, which is the exact argument that T.S. ... By the time I read this quote my view on the essay changed I realized that fictional stories and some non-fictional have metaphors and symbols that they have a specific meaning. ... The allows readers to tru...

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Here Foucault is building on and adapting Roland Barthes's seminal work on the "death of the author" in Barthes's essay of the same name. ... Finally, there is Kip, who does not "yet have a faith in books," the Sikh sapper who remains "an anonymous member of another race" (197), whose work defusing bombs depends on locating the mind that created it. ... One begins to see how Foucault's theory of unconfined discourse might have its harbinger in this text which has swollen to "almost twice its original thickness" (94) with the various additions of the English patient. ... ...

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Both priests have dedicated themselves to altruism and both show evidence of remarkable inner strength. ... He will have to deal with savagery and ignorance, with dissolute priests and political intrigue. ... This plain might once have been an enormous city, all the smaller quarters destroyed by time, only the public buildings left,""piles of architecture that were like mountains. ... 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 Ro...

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