In Ovid's collection of poems Amores, he also writes of his erotic adventures with his mistress, among other women. ... In this poem, Ovid is at the circus watching the horse races, sitting next to a girl that becomes the fixation of his physical desires. Ovid begins the poem with the confession, "You watch the races, I watch you" (line 7). ... Ovid concludes the poem by telling the audience that he received a smile from the woman of his admiration. ... Donne concludes the poem in saying, "To teach thee I am naked first; why then/What need more covering than a man" ...

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The opening images of the poem are drawn from accounts of the Mau Mau Uprising, an extended and bloody battle during the 1950s between European settlers and the native Kikuyu tribe in what is now the republic of Kenya. ... In addition, at the time the poem was written, the poet's country of birth, the island of St. ... As Walcott is divided in two, so too is the poem. ... Just as the uprising was never cleanly resolved, Walcott, at least within the poem, never resolves his conflict about whose side to take. Poem Summary The first three lines depict the poem's setting on the African...

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The most famous of Keats's poems, the Odes, can be seen to reflect the notion that he was a poet preoccupied by the nature of imagination and that these Odes are the "product of the reaction of his poetic faculties to the facts of his experience" (Finney 1936:3). ... The power of this poem lies in Keats's persuasive vigour in alternate states of being. ... What becomes obvious in reading these poems is Keats's exploration of creative expression and morality within human life. Life and tragedy are set against the Nightingale's music; and as a result is comparable to the in...

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There was a famous renaissance in Europe during the transition from medieval times to modern times that is still taught today. ... With this medal, he joined the ranks of famous African-Americans who spoke out or showed that racism was wrong such as Dr. ...

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You miss one hundred percent of the shots that you don't take" (Gretskey, 2008). These words stated by famous athlete, Wayne Gretzky, depict how we shouldn't be afraid to take risks because we are afraid of the outcome of those risks. These words delineate apprehension prior to entering fieldwork ex...

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Ingolstadt was famous as the home of the Illuminati, a secret revolutionary society founded by Ingolstadt's Professor of Law, Adam Weishaupt. ... In Earl Wasserman's work, "Shelley's Prometheus Unbound: A Critical Reading," written in 1965, Wasserman writes, "During the summer in which Shelley began writing Frankenstein, Byron composed his poem "Prometheus," a celebration of the god's defiance of Jupiter which emphasizes Prometheus" unyielding will, noble suffering, and concern for mankind" (71). ... Wasserman declares, "Later, Hunt commented after the publication of Fran...

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Like other romantic poets, Byron often used highly structured and rigid traditional forms to craft his poems (Knight 208). ... By writing, he also encouraged people to pay attention to the Edinburgh Reviewer's--an influential Whig Journal--actions of crucial criticism and strictness about expressing feeling sincerely in poems (MacCarthy 82). ... Lord Byron's first publicized work was Fugitive Pieces, a series of poems that he, himself paid to print (Slovey and Haerens 67). This work was criticized by Byron's close contemporaries for its eroticism and because of this he suppres...

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It also in a specific manner tries to make parallels between Poe's own character and his projections onto his tales and poems, in here "The Oval Portrait". ... Sigmund Freud Psychology's most famous figure is also one of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. ...

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Music from the Renaissance and Baroque period in many ways reflect the mentality and setting of their times, each birthed upon the evolution and changes of profound ideas that became signature motifs of their place in history. From politics and economics to religion/patronage and technology like the...

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Njáls saga provides a famous example, where despite the mutual goodwill of Njáll and his dashing friend Gunnarr, their wives instigate an escalating series of revenge killings in which the victim is each time of higher status and more closely related to the leading characters. ... He had a brother called Thorodd and nicknamed drapustuf ( 'Poem-stump'). ...

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In New York, British director Peter Brook's nine-hour production of an ancient Hindu epic poem, The Mahabharata, has lately been playing to packed houses and considerable critical praise. ... Though ruthless, the Moguls had cultivated tastes, especially for Persianstyle gardens, poems and miniatures. ...

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"The fact is that the automobile has become hypnotic...the opium of the American people." - Fortune Magazine Table of Contents Introduction The Rise of the Automobile The Styling Redesign The Role of Attainable Pricing for the Masses The Emerging American Obsession The Impact on the Nuclear Fami...

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The installation features the work's title spelled backward, yet reflected forward into a pool of water, an aesthetic statement meant to represent a three-dimensional poem emphasizing 7"words and the directionality and weight of reading.... This memorial, described as 13"a rift in the Earth-a long polished black stone wall, emerging from and receding into the Earth," is a prime example of the famous notion that less is more. ...

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However, the usage of female workers, due to necessity, not equality, together with the recruitment figures already mentioned above, help to prove more or less that source D, whatever its providence, (which is not at all clear) generally recruitment posters were fairly effective, the most famous being left out, Kitchner's finger insisting that "THE COUNTRY NEEDS YOU." ... The war suddenly seeming ironically similar to the soldier in Disabled, (who) liked "a smear of blood down his leg to please his Meg" the poem showing at a stroke how effective the recruiting offices were in their quest...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate