Although many great names are associated with Romantic literature, two poets who stand out as immensely influential figures are William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. ... Coleridges dual definition of the Imagination, combined with Wordsworths comments on Romantic literature, is conveniently divided into three simple functions. ... Another way in which "Tintern Abbey" constitutes Romantic lyrics is by portraying the ability of the imagination to perceive without "external excitement." ... The sounding cataract / Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock / The mountain, and the deep and...

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The dynamics of "being in love" are complex and multifaceted. While a full review of the nuances of such pairings is beyond the scope of this paper, my purpose here is to highlight some of the basic processes and communication behaviors relevant to falling in love, dating and romantic relationships. ... In romantic relationships, falling in loveis mainly a Western concept of moving from a feeling of neutrality towards a person to one of love. ... "These results confirm love has a scientific basis," says Ortigue. ... By identifying the parts of the brain stimulated by love, doctors and therapi...

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Soon Schumann and Ernestine were engaged, but alas, she left town and the love ended (however, in just a few months Schumann replaced her with a new love interest, Clara Wieck, Friedrich Wieck's own daughter). ... All seemed well for Schumann, but soon he was to face even more struggles; this one a fight to marry the woman he loved, Clara Wieck. ... When she was sixteen and he twenty-five, they realized that they were in love. ... "Someday my turn will come,"" wrote Schumann, "then you will see how much I love you!- Clara would reply, "I say to you again that my love knows no bounds. ...

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Soon Schumann and Ernestine were engaged, but alas, she left town and the love ended (however, in just a few months Schumann replaced her with a new love interest, Clara Wieck, Friedrich Wieck's own daughter). ... All seemed well for Schumann, but soon he was to face even more struggles; this one a fight to marry the woman he loved, Clara Wieck. ... When she was sixteen and he twenty-five, they realized that they were in love. ... "Someday my turn will come,"" wrote Schumann, "then you will see how much I love you!- Clara would reply, "I say to you again that my love knows no bounds. ...

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Despite the differences in time, familial love is still presented in a similar way. ... Nevertheless this investment in her son does result in the destruction of his attempts at romantic relationships with Clara and Miriam. ... Laertes on the surface is protecting his sister from a romantic relationship with a brooding prince, however some modern audiences have interpreted this dialogue as Laertes not wanting his sister Ophelia to fall into the arms of Hamlet so he can have her to himself. ... Paul's love for his mother and Gertrude's love for him are fairly unspoken yet mutual. ....

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He was a man of many paradoxes and with a flamboyant and outrageous lifestyle; he shone new light on the Romantic Movement. ... He was not only an English Romantic poet but also presented historical tragedy, romantic narrative, ode and especially epic satire to Romanticism. ... During his years at Harrow, Byron fell madly for his cousin, Mary Chaworth, who later turned him down and became his muse; Mary became the symbol of idealized and unattainable love in Byron's poetry (West 12). ... Like other romantic poets, Byron often used highly structured and rigid traditional forms to craft hi...

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Many writers from this time completely changed these expectations society had from romantic literature figures preceding them and took on entirely new perspective in their writing. ... Reading is a muse and escape for many just like many other forms of the arts; modern writers strived to outvie the romantic perspective from literature by conquering fictional literature with modern influence. ... The protagonist, Emma Bovary is a naive romantic, constantly searching for someone in her life to provide her what she has limited herself to believe is an ideal love life and lifestyle. Her ignoran...

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Sex and nudity is a concept that is not new to films and movies, especially in teenage romantic comedies or "coming of age" comedies. In these teen comedies, the ideas of sex and sexuality in teens is usually a main subject, and in the three examples I will be looking at, the ideas of teen sex and s...

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Barnard (1999) asserts that Keats is one of the great English romantic poets, whose prime belief was in art and beauty. ... These short romantic poems can be seen to be linked both structurally and thematically by a sequence of closely related problems and, as an effect, show Keats both at his most vulnerable and possessing the literary genius he has subsequently been accredited with. ... Keats has been "half in love with easeful death", and even through his rapturous praise of the Nightingale shows that this death would be seemingly more welcome than ever. ... The poem allows Keats to "transc...

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One can constantly spot his eyes wandering to a woman's breasts or rear, he spends a whole scene staring at scantily clad women by a pool and talking about their bodies, and he even perverts the baptism of his attractive maid into a romantic sexual fantasy. ...

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After the death of the two pigeons, Rosetti ends the second four-line quatrain with a mournful, prayer-like statement: "So farewell life and love and pleasures new." ... Because of their love and care for each other, they cannot be forced to part from each other even to save themselves. ... Never having married and enduring several failed relationships, it is not presumptive to assume that this poem stems from Rosetti's reflections upon her own love life. In line 11, the speaker makes the connection between their dream and reality by saying "I thought I turned towards you to weep; but yo...

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Mary-Lou Galician has researched much on mass media and the romantic relationships that are illustrated. In her book "Sex, Love, & Romance in the Mass Media" she discusses how media creates myths and stereotypes of sex, love, and romance and shows her readers how to recognize unhealthy media fantasies that can be hurtful to real world relationships (Galician). ... In this script, teens use contraception, communicate with adults about their experiences, do it within a monogamous romantic relationship, and are 'old enough' (484). ...

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Amy is now in hysterics, struggling to breath and speak simultaneously, "Daddy, I love you so much and I have always taken for granted the fact that you've been around and now you're gone and it's so hard without you. ... My sister remembers a time when my parents were in love, but I never had that opportunity. All I saw was an industrious, self-employed architect, lacking the ability to express his emotions while demonstrating his love indirectly through money, food, and other material objects, and an overly-involved mother who lacked a romantic partner and who sought remedy by...

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Victor's conscious behavior is clouded by his unconscious repressed desires, as he struggles with the Oedipus complex, defined as subconscious feelings in children of intense competition and even hatred toward the parent of the same sex, and feelings of romantic love toward the parent of the opposite sex, if these conflicting feelings are not successfully resolved, they contribute to neuroses in later life. Victor finds himself rejecting his obvious mate, Elizabeth, in pursuit of his deep seeded desire for his mother as his only partner in love and sexual pleasure; his father and Elizabet...

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This novel is divided into two broad sections: "The Ebb:Bhata" and "The Tide:Jowar." The Hungry Tide is set in the Sundarbans, an archipelago of hundreds of scattered islands, some densely populated while others completely uninhabited, at the mohona of several rivers in the Bay of Bengal. Here the...

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He is also one of the foremost pioneers of detective fiction and is generally considered part of the American Romantic Movement especially Dark Romanticism. ... "Eros", whose name comes from the Greek god of love, is the principle of life; it binds together and is most clearly seen in love. ... And evil was the hour when she saw, and loved, and wedded the painter.... She immediately obeys out of love for her husband. ... It is written right before the death of his wife Virginia with whom Poe was deeply in love and she was dying month after their marriage because of consumption. ...

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For Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the motivation behind creating films, as he did so prolifically between 1966 and 1982 , was essentially political. It was through this medium that he felt most able to contribute to the debate over the ever-changing internal politics of his nation, Germany, and to the universal debate over sexuality and gender roles that was emerging as laws and taboos on these subjects began to be reassessed and liberalised. Never opting for simplicity over controversy, it comes as no surprise, therefore, that Fassbinder should choose to explore the issue of racism in Fear Eats...

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Although Eva was not a great actress she loved the movies and quickly learned that making friends with the director was the best way to get a good part. ... They fell in love and Eva began living with him shortly after they met. ...

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Rover Through the prism of Restoration Period. If drama is an imaginative interchange between its participants on stage and off, a true extension of homo ludens, then the Restoration offers an example of one of the most rare games in the theatrical history. Played first in a theatre that was lit...

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For the last twenty years or so, the issue of sexual harassment has received considerable attention especially since the inception of the feminist movement and the glaring examples of the Impeachment of President Clinton, the Senate's confirmation hearings for Anita Hill's charges against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, among others, has heightened nearly everyone's interest in the topic (Mcafee1). Despite, widespread publicity about the perils of sexual harassment, surveys demonstrates that many businesses operating in the United States have yet to address the problem a...

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In volume 1, Heathcliff's love for Catherine is deemed impossible by the Lintons and the Earnshaws, and thwarted by Catherine's perverse decision to marry Edgar Linton in order to enrich Heathcliff. ...

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Although Asians and Asian Americans have been present on American television screens for decades, [1] few television series have featured Asian or Asian Americans in starring roles. Kung Fu (Warner Bros, ABC, 1972-1975), starring David Carradine as Kwai-Chang Caine, featured a white American actor as a bi-racial Shaolin priest in the Old West. Originally conceived as a vehicle for martial arts adept Bruce Lee, the series went to an actor with little physical ability, but with a knack for embodying a Hippie pacifism along with a reluctant, but devastating aggression On the lam from the la...

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The filmmakers utilize CGI to expose the entrance to imaginary lands and breath the life on fictional characters, from the female ghost in romantic drama Just Like Heaven (Waters 2005) to the blue Navi on Pandora planet, the boy with magic wand, the super Hero in the iron suit, and the wizard and Gollum in the Middle Earth are portrayed convincingly. ...

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In a 2010 interview with the Academy of Achievement, Lin recollects her passion for academics. 1"I loved getting A's . . . ... " Lin's love of logic and problem solving combined with her passion for art, mixed with her tenacious work ethic, paved the way for her success in Yale's architecture program, which was highlighted by her winning the Vietnam Veterans Memorial design competition during her senior year. ...

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Neither man is concerned with family life nor with romantic relationships with women, such things have no place in the epic hero's life. ... Enkidu becomes the protector and hero subservient to Gilgamesh, and Gilgamesh gains a friend whom he loves like a brother. ... So both epics share a similarly semi-divine central hero who is preeminent in battle who has a subservient comrade in arms whom he respects and loves dearly. ...

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