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    conventional Petrarchan love sonnets which are about women who have unattainable beauty. This poem is written in the Shakespearean sonnet format which consists of a total 14 lines with the first 12 lines divided into three quatrains, and the last two lines make up a couplet. The quatrains establish the motif or problem of the poem while the ending couplet explains or resolves the previous lines. Sonnet 130 is a long conceit where the speaker of the poem goes through a long list of comparisons that seem like

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    Real Life Love Throughout “Love Should Grow up Like an Wild Iris in the Fields” Susan Griffin provokes the readers to think twice about why they consistently enslave themselves with the burden of daily monotony, instead of enjoying the simplicity of love. Griffin uses two metaphors in her poem when describing love, as a flower, as well as the iris of an eye. Her comparisons are both interesting as well as accurate. Love should be born and live in fields, just like wild flowers. Love needs to be

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    Elizabethan Era is that of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130. “My Mistress’s eyes,” fails to provide an accurate portrayal of love and the unencumbered passion that is typically seen in many of the traditional sonnets of his time, such as that of Sonnet 18. Unlike Sonnet 18 which testifies a beauty which transcends the heavens, Sonnet 130 merely satirizes the unequivocal devotion to one’s love, as well as love itself, found in many traditional sonnets during the Elizabethan Era. The sharply contrasted styles of Shakespeare’s

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    Katy Perry Analyse

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    imagination in picturing the character, metaphors that give effective representations and similes that have meaningful comparisons. In song lyrics, allusions help the listeners to use their imagination and creativity to picture what the character resembles like. In the song “Dark Horse”, “Make me your Aphrodite” (13) is making a reference to Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty. Katy is being described to Aphrodite which is meaningful in the song because she will be the powerful and dominant

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    Comparison of Shakespeare's sonnet “Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds” and Sheeran's composition “Thinking Out Loud.” In the poem “Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds” also known as “Sonnet 116,” Shakespeare uses a love theme to articulate that despite obstacles, real love never expires. First, he defines love as though it obtains a decree. For example, over time, circumstances and a person may change, but Shakespeare declares that a person cannot influence love. After some explanation

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    nature is a topic that has been discussed throughout the ages. Jack London, in “To Build a Fire,” and David Hume, in Of the Dignity or Meaness of Human Nature,” explore their own interpretations of human nature. While Hume examines the methods of comparison themselves, London firmly juxtaposes man and nature. Hume ultimately concludes that humans are virtuous, whereas London believes man is inferior. However, both use similar writing styles and concur that humans are inherently selfish. Hume and London

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    Comparison of Lover and Last Duchess (A Comparison of Two Poems) Often times we wonder why people write and say things. We wonder what will happen to those around us and how they might go. There are two poems about a love that has lead to people they love dying. Rivera has done research on Browning and she discovered many things, “Finding school irritating and uninteresting, Browning left formal institutional learning behind and was educated at home by a tutor.”(Rivera) This is surprising because

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    Olivia Love Quotes

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    be the food of love, play on. / Five me excess of it, that, surfeiting, / The appetite may sicken and so die.” (3-1). Orisinos comparison of love to an appetite draws the parallel that love like an appetite is persistent. For example, “Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, /The appetite may sicken and so die.” (3-2). His love is an appetite that must constantly be replenished. This appetite is torturing him as the only way to “kill” this desire is to overload his body with love, similarly to over

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    Self Confidence Speech

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    kids to be self-confident is an important parental responsibility. Five of the best ways to do this is to let your children known its okay to make mistakes, to expose them to new activities, places and people every day, to show unconditional love, avoid comparisons to others and encourage rather than praise. Mistakes Are Okay The fastest way to decrease a child's self confidence is to make them afraid of making a mistake. You may think only a really mean parent would make their child feel bad about themselves

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    two examples of teen rebellion . “Romeo and Juliet” is a story with a lot of examples of teen rebellion. For example Romeo and Juliet fell in love with each other even though they were not supposed to because their families were enemies (Shakespeare). Even Though they knew the consequences about their actions, they both still decided to fall in love however they get married

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