Johnson's 250th birthday, Mary Lascelles concludes that 'London has not the brilliance of its original, because it lacks the lightening flash of its irony'.2 Lascelles is arguably right to find irony in Juvenal's 'Satire III', and in sensing none in London, she aligns herself with the vast majority of those who have published their views on the poem. ... Lascelles claims, disparagingly, that Johnson has turned 'Juvenal's acceptance of a countryman's life into a little pastoral',12 a romanticised retreat, and has therefore lost the irony in t...

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Milton's Paradise Lost Milton's Paradise Lost has been praised since its edition as being the greatest English epic of all time, most stunningly in its author's realistic depiction of the fabled parents of humanity, Adam and Eve. ... She is called "nymphlike- and this is most definitely not the first time that Milton uses allusions to Greek and Roman mythology in the poem- such as calling her a "wood-nymph light,/ Oread or Dryad, or Delia's self - (IX, 386-387). ...

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Life after death is mainly associated with the hell and paradise, as good people come to paradise, while bad persons and criminals come to the hell where they are punished for inappropriate acts and behavior during their life. ... According to this God's judgment, the soul goes either into a "hell " or into paradise. ... This is the first part of Dante's poem "Divine Comedy,"" describing nine circles of people's sufferings on the Earth. ... The sins presented in the poem are lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery. ... "The Gates of Hell" depicted i...

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It is Beatrice, a spiritual being, who guides Dante through Paradise. By turning his focus from the physical realm of Virgil to the spiritual realm of Beatrice, Dante is able to go through Paradise and ultimately see God. ... This is an extremely powerful position as it is the final thought we read, and it tends to stay in our minds longer than does the rest of the poem. ... When reading the poem, one may wonder why Chaucer even bothers putting these last six stanzas in the poem. ... So why would Chaucer include this last section of the poem? ...

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According to Marquery Durham, Coleridge did respond to their bad reviews with "I saw an old book in Coleorton in which the Paradise Lost was described as an obscene poem' so I am in good company."" ... Both of these remarks stated by Coleridge himself support his religious intent of the poem, for Paradise Lost is a story of God and Satan; and the virtuous saving the wicked is good verses evil. The poem was stormed with abused when published, however. ... Even the story of Paradise Lost would become bald and uninteresting, if stripped of these ornaments of poetry."" ... Thus another compa...

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Different authors use various figures of speech to present their characters in plays or poems. ... Finally, this section will also compare the two characters with that of Satan, the major character in the poem "Paradise Lost" by John Milton. ... Satan: Milton's Paradise Lost In the epic poem of Paradise Lost by John Milton, Satan who is one of the characters is also depicted as a villainous character that is up to causing rifts and disturbance due to his quest for power and authority (Milton 58). He is the main villain of the great heroic poem presented as the epitome of evil incarnate....

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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. ... Poem Summary The first three lines depict the poem's setting on the African plain, or veldt. ... Lines 4-6 Walcott shatters the image of a paradise that many associate with Africa by describing a landscape littered with corpses. ... The Loyalists, or Republicans, had no such backing; they fought valiantly but were outmanned, lost territory, and were eventually defeated in March of 1939. ...

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Also her husband Percy Shelley wrote a number of poems and was greatly into the Romantic Movement. Shelley includes references to Percy Shelley's poems and other Romantic poems such as the 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Milton's 'Paradise Lost', the references to these show to the reader the Romantic view of the importance of emotions and the imagination, and also the importance of the individual. ... This is a strong reference to Paradise Lost, as the creature was the first of Frankenstein's creation he should be his Adam, but f...

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It is therefore unsurprising that the Coleridge poems, Dracula and The Bloody Chamber all display this theme, a breach of the character's moral and pious integrity in their desperation to satisfy their curiosity. ... Despite this however, Coleridge continued to remain 'defiantly supportive of prayer, praising it in his notebooks and repeatedly referencing it in his poems.'13 While Angela Carter's works still retain religious motifs, unlike other Gothic novelists, the theme of religion is not explored to the same extent as in Dracula and the Coleridge poems. ... As Wade Kim...

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THE LITERATURE OF ENGLAND OUTLINE I. Characteristics of the Middle Ages A. Christian Beliefs B. Pagan Beliefs C. Adventure II. Characteristics of the Renaissance A. Teachings of Moral and Virtue B. Good vs. Evil III. Characteristics of the Resto...

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William Blake attempts to discover the very moment when evil was created in his poem "The Tyger-. ... Thus, Blake makes the poem more universal as well as to appear timeless. ... Referring directly to the Bible and, in particular, to Milton's Paradise Lost, Blake goes on to ask "On what wings dare he aspire? ... This lead to Satan's fall from Heaven into Hell and this, in turn, leads to fortify the idea that Satan's power now lies in the manipulation of those who have lost their faith in God. ... Here, the reader is lead to incorporate more Greek mythology into the analysis...

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Glicksberg and Philip Gordon wrote an essay that was also published in "The English Journal"" as well stating that "the poem is the song and the song is the poem "(Glicksberg & Gordon 550). ... Jon Stallworthy states that "A poem is a composition written for performance by the human voice. ... His main argument and thesis of his essay is that a poem is equal to song when it is read out loud or heard in your imagination. ... One thing that we worked on all year in Poetry class was learning how to translate a poem so that we could understand it better. ... By breaking down the song I used a too...

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OUTCOME Thesis Statement: A feministic approach on Wuthering Heights which displays women's rebellion against patriarchal society by showing Catherine as a rebel against her father and her husband and by creating Isabel and Catherine as two contradictory characters. I. Introduction A. Women's pos...

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