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Personal ambition was an important value during the Renaissance time period in England. Personal ambition was also a vital part of two of the most prominent novels in england's history, “Paradise Lost” by John Milton and “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare. It In each story, both of the main female characters, Eve and Lady Macbeth, portray the idea of personal ambition at its best by their ability to manipulate. Lady Macbeth is the one who takes advantage of her husband’s, Macbeth, emotions in order

Macbeth: Verse/Prose CR During Macbeth they use blank verse throughout most the poem to show rythm and poetry. Blank verse is a type of poetry that does not rhyme. In the tragedy of Macbeth he switches his writing style to Prose which is written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure. He would do this to make the writing sound formal or like whoever the character is, is speaking. He does this to take the sing songy voice from the writing. An example from the text would

Carnival in history is a grand celebration that most normal people today in Louisiana would have called Mardi Gras. The grand festival of Carnival is famously known for critiquing numerous social, gender, political, and religious norms during the Renaissance. William Shakespeare’s play about cross dressing Twelfth Night and John Milton’s religious fictional Paradise Lost utilize the festivities and the enjoyment of traditional festivities carnival ideas like Viola’s and Satan’s disguises; role reversals

“Epic, Passionate and Poetic.” Romeo and Juliet is written in blank verse. This simply means “unrhymed iambic pentameter.” For example, Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life. It may seem “melodramatic”, but it’s perfect for the play. Shakespeare makes it work by the plot

World War or perhaps a civil war and maybe future wars as well. The manner in which the poet expresses great anguish at the fact that this anger and blind hatred has left nothing in its wake, throws light on where the world is headed. The third verse also suggests subjugation of the powerful and privileged over the Underprivileged. The “conquering hooves” show the might of the powerful class who dominate the suppressed and force them into subservience. Muir is depicting the power struggle and

Marie Howe: What the Living Do In What the Living Do, Marie Howe finds trauma and suffering rooted from an abusive childhood and the loss of her many loved ones. We follow young Marie Howe from 1950’s New York to womanhood and her journey with identity, sexuality, family dynamic, and the death of her beloved brother John in this elegiac collection. The first section explores an adolescent Marie Howe and her role as the oldest girl of a large Irish Catholic family. As the assistant mother, she

experiences and other poetic voices - those of Phoebus and St. Peter, for instance - interrupt. The ninth verse paragraph of “Lycidas” marks the poem’s return to its elegiac intent as the speaker experiences another crisis in which he laments Lycidas’ absent body, a recurring element which, when addressed by the speaker directly, allows the speaker to properly mourn and accept Lycidas’ death. The ninth verse paragraph begins with a plea, “Return, Alpheus” (132), Alpheus being a river in Arcadia whose waters

sexual referenced poems. This poem is written for his wife and is essentially saying goodbye as he is leaving her 'physically' but arguing that she mustn't be sad of his departure and instead arguing that they are not really parting and each verse is a different 'image' or argument for this. I feel that this poem

forever. The structure of the poem shows his change of opinion: the first verse uses adjectives and nice images that infer that the subject he is talking about is one that he likes; but the style of language changes in the second verse where the vocabulary used shows the reader that the poet now does not like his poem subject at all. Words like “rank”, “coarse” and “obscene” are used as negative adjectives in the second verse, so enforcing the view that he has now lost his love for nature. The

How Tenyson Describes the Eagle In verse 1, line 1 he describes the eagle as being harsh, violent and rough by using alliteration in the words 'clasps', 'crag', and 'crooked'. He uses onomatopoeia also in these words to get over the violentness of the bird and also its rough environment. When using the phrase 'crooked hands' Tenyson is describing how the shape of the claws are crooked but when he used the word 'hands' instead of claws this is implying the eagle has god