He recommends speeches which the character chooses or avoids nothing at all in conveying character. ... With poetry, it surrounds universals--the kind of speech which best suits a particular character. ... The "middle man,"" I would say, or a character that falls between the extremes that has shortcomings in any way is the character with the most dramatic drive. ... Aristotle puts forth several requirements that revolve around ethical choices of characters, the appropriateness of characters, if a character is "likeable,"" and consistent. ... Aristotle believed in the complex, not the si...

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As these two main characters begin to further develop, Shakespeare introduces more characters into the storyline. ... In the same way that Shakespeare uses complex roles to define the Twelfth Night theme, he uses symbols to make the theme more prominent. ... Several major characters exist in Twelfth Night, and Shakespeare uses another character to counteract them. ... Out of every character that suffers because of love, Viola is the only character that chooses not to take a dramatic approach. ... (Bloom, 238) Malvolio as a character seems worthy of high praise in all aspects, especially ...

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The theme of love appears to be simple, but is actually complex in Browning's poem. ... This element is used to indirectly show the speaker's character. ... Browning uses this parallel to the character of the speaker and the storyline. ...

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According to McKenna, "My Papa's Waltz" is not a complex or long poem, but it has "intriguing ambiguity that elicits starling different interpretations" (1). ... Although Roethke's poem "My Papa's Waltz" can be interpreted as positive or negative, his word choice, imagery, and characters strongly portray this scene as a happy family moment. ... The iconic characters of the loving son, the caring father, and mother in the poem support the idea of a happy family having a good time with each other. ...

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Aristotle meant that through imitation and metaphorical portrayal, poetry makes clear the factualism, reality and correctness of the inimitable attributes of being a human, principally the ultimate question of human existence, whilst informing the reader about the realistic human character. ... Many poets try to make sense of the complex and intimidating subject of humanity but most fail and those that do may not capture the entirety of it. ...

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Finally, Plath uses aggressive diction to analogise Hughes to 'a vampire', a fairy tale character likely familiar to her audience. ... In this way, Plath makes significant use of familiar images such as the shoe, a white foot and the father figure to explore the far more complex and unfamiliar notion of patriarchal society and its effect on the women it is structured to oppress. ... Plath's repetitive use of the accusative possessive pronoun 'your' in this stanza further contributes to a sense of masculine ownership, the infantilising diction of 'baby' ad...

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He provides us with much evidence in analyzing complex questions from various perspectives which usually lead to a diversity of solutions. ... He utilized a spider, a moth and heal-alls as three different characters in depicting the scene. ... On the other hand, with narratives such as "like a white piece of rigid satin cloth" and "assorted characters of death and blight"(Line 3-4), the author makes a sudden transition from the extraction of beauty and innocence to tone of death and affliction. ... He applies the beauty of using the ambiguity and paradox to articulate the complex ideals within...

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The character in the monologue tells his or her story in a subjective manner, while allowing the distanced poet and reader to remain objective. ... However Browning's characters are not famous personages but minor players. ... In Porphyria's Lover the world is restricted to a single point of view, to the words of the character who is speaking. ... Once our imagination is engaged by these ambiguities, each line becomes an index to the complex human mind Browning has portrayed. ... Sensual, vain, capable of bribery, threats even anger but also appreciative of beauty, the bishop has...

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The term originated in Italy (Italian villanella from villano: "peasant"); and later used in France to designate a short poem of popular character favored by poets in the late 16th century. ... The villanelle seems like a very regimented and difficult form; this paper is copied; the effortless ease with which Thomas makes it appear adds clarity to the complex emotions describes in the poem. ... In conclusion, the events surrounding Thomas at the time do not make up all the character of this poem. ...

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A winged chariot is assumed to move quickly, so here the character unveils his natural attitude of being hasty and concerned about time. ... " Obviously, the character was not born during Noah's time. ... " In this case, the character uses hyperbole to exaggerate the beauty of his mistress and to flatter her. The character is fully committed to the conquest of satisfying her. ... I consider the diction to be romantic and mild; however, its archaic words and punctuations make its sentences fairly complex. ...

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In this sense, readers can realise that characters are described as different type of universal human characteristics along the poem. ... Another character "Shaftesbury- is told to behave in bad manners: -In friendship false,"resolved to ruin or to rule the state-. ... The portrait of Shaftesbury as Achitopel is a picture of a complex and tortured character. ... In conclusion, there's a certain ironic humour in the parallels themselves and the development of the story in biblical terms but with a strict eye on contemporary events and characters in England gave Dryden abundant scope for ...

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Irony can be quite a complex concept to explain clearly, as part of its purpose is to be unclear. ... Verbal irony is the gap between the literal and figurative meaning of words used, situational irony uses the contradictions of a readers' expectation versus the poem's reality, and dramatic irony contrasts the knowledge of the readers' versus the main character. ... Have you ever been watching a horror movie and felt the urge to yell at a character to run away? This is considered dramatic irony and occurs when a reader is already aware of something that the main character is not...

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Different authors use various figures of speech to present their characters in plays or poems. For actors, figures of speech usually help to determine the most prominent traits of characters. The first part one of this paper analyzes the character of Doctor Faustus who is the protagonist of Marlowe's play who was overwhelmed with the desire to possess power and the presentation of the character as a pure villain in the play. ... Finally, this section will also compare the two characters with that of Satan, the major character in the poem "Paradise Lost" by John Milton. ... Throughout th...

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Songs of Innocence and Experience' juxtaposes the innocent and pastoral world of childhood against the adult world of corruption, with 'The Lamb' representing a meek virtue and 'The Tyger' showing opposing, darker forces. The lamb is the voice of a child, whilst some critics believe the Tyger is ...

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To understand John Donnes ideas on love and salvation the responder must understand the context in which Donne writes. As a 16th century poet Donne lived in a time where everyone believed in god. He lived in a society where there was a constant battle between the protestant and Catholic branches of ...

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The Flea appears deceptively casual in its composition and style but is infact a complex argument. ... The pretence of shock follows with his comparison of her act with the biblical character Herod. ... Donne indulged in quaint poetical conceits ignoring the classical conventions and classical characters (always keeping the object of affection anonymous), and the treatment of topics and objects of everyday life. ...

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I loved being able to dump all my ideas on paper and create stories with complex plotlines. ... "Writing about my own life is a waste of time, there's no way it'll be as interesting as those characters," I thought. ... I had so much enthusiasm for writing about my own life, being able to create my own characters and write about their lives was even more intriguing. ...

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In the description of fictional characters the writer may not suggest visual images at all for example. ... Literary work is not a simple object but rather a highly complex organization of a stratified character with multiple meanings and relationships. ... Plato's account of imitation would seem to be relatively simple at this stage; mimesis appears to be translatable as "representation", an expression of character whereby the poet (using dialogue) and the actor (in a dramatic presentation) imitate a character. Furthermore, where that imitated character has undesirable traits, ...

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Angelou first establishes the main theme by incorporating uses of deep allusions to the bible and also introduces a character that embodies of all mankind. ... After setting up the mood by creating a scenario where Angelou's character is first lying back and thinking about her life, she immediately goes soul searching and voices her thoughts on life. ... Ramsey states the perfect reasoning behind why Angelou is such an active contributor to society when she says "While Maya Angelou's poetry may not have taken us into every nook and cranny of her long and complex life starting ...

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On the other hand, In "Why did I laugh to-night", the tone of voice is powerful, despairing, disappointed, anguished, bitter, solitary, conflicted, complex, doubtful, cynical, calm, confident, and hopeful. ... Its thin emotion jars on our knowledge of his character until we come to the end, where a kind of premonition seizes us" (99). ...

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There may be sounds or characters on the page that cannot be verbalized or cannot convey the same message if pronounced and not read. ... blac may seem like a simple mess of words, but in reality is much more complex than that. ...

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This poem is often refered to as a dramatic poem - a monologue or dialogue written in the voice of a character assumed by the poet. ... The first syntax within this extended metaphor is "haunted apparatus sleeps"; the adjective denotes; visited by ghosts, obsessed; the noun - equipment used for a specific task, complex machine. ...

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This poem is often refered to as a dramatic poem - a monologue or dialogue written in the voice of a character assumed by the poet. ... The first syntax within this extended metaphor is "haunted apparatus sleeps"; the adjective denotes; visited by ghosts, obsessed; the noun - equipment used for a specific task, complex machine. ...

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Greenacher, author of a Psychoanalytic Study of Two Lives indicated, "Swift suffered from severe anxiety and defuse hypochondriasis of the type of which so often accompanies an unusually severe castration complex, in which pregenital determinates are strong." ... Hunting also felt that bisexuality was a major issue growing up and it showed through in his character and writings (3). ...

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Through his essays, he explained simple and complex realities about human beings. ... Swift assumes the character of an economist by making substantial computations of the gain that the Irish people would make from the trade. ...

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