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John Greenleaf Whittier's "Skipper Ireson's Ride" The Women of Marblehead In the opening stanza of John Greenleaf Whittier's poem, "Skipper Ireson's Ride," we learn of the "strangest ride that was ever sped." The ride was taken by Floyd Ireson, we are told, and it was not a pleasant one, for he was "Tarred and feathered and carried in a cart." The people who were in charge of the cart, we learn at the end of the first stanza, are "the women of Marblehead." The women of Marblehead in Whittier's

What makes an epic? Is Beowulf an epic?    What is an epic poem, and how does it differ from other kinds of poetry or storytelling? How have epic poems traditionally been transmitted from generation to generation? How do tellers remember these long and complicated stories? According to Robert Harris’s Glossary of Literary Terms, he defines an epic as the following: Epic. An extended narrative poem recounting actions, travels, adventures, and heroic episodes and written in a high style (with

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poets including Veronica Franco, who masterly transforms the clichés’ of courtly love into bluntly sexual analogy in her poems. In addition, the same cynical approach to chivalry and courtly love is used by Ludovico Ariosto in his poem “Orlando Furioso,”

the from Canada just because he wanted to kayak the El Furioso. Rex’s passion is what made him go there, he wanted to start his legacy to start where his grandfathers ended. What better place to start your career than the same river that everyone thinks is impossible to kayak and coincidentally the same exact place your grandfather’s career ended. Throughout the book the author kept on throwing challenges at the main character via El Furioso, she even she made the circumstances at Colombia with the

The Social Contract. The Wealth of Nations. A Brief History of Time. The Bell Jar. The Count of Monte Cristo. Islam: A Short History. The Portable Nietzche. Orlando Furioso. Gray's Anatomy. These are just a few of the many titles that occupy my shelves, spanning multiple shelves and multiple categories of interest. This is not the typical reading load of a high-schooler. The various categories upon categories of interest, however, do not seem to be that of one with Asperger's Syndrome, where one

traditional forms and themes of lyrical and narrative poetry offered sufficient foundations for the formulation of his own highly original compositions. Without the study of the Roman epic poet Virgil’s Aeneid, the 15th century Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando furioso, and, later, Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberate, Spenser would not of been able to create his heroic, or epic, poem The Faerie Queene. Without Virgil’s Bucolics, and the later tradition of pastoral poetry in Italy and France, Spenser would not

The piece from my final recital programme that I chose to evaluate in this essay is ‘Verdi Prati’ from Handel’s opera Alcina. Alcina was inspired by a story from an epic poem called “Orlando Furioso”, however, Handel's libretto is a very free adaption. This particular aria is of great importance in the opera as we see the character Ruggerio predicting what is to come for Alcina and her magical island. The historical elements of this opera are extremely important in understanding the true meaning

Attitudes of Undergraduate Music Therapy Students Regarding Master’s Level Entry Bryan L. Hawk MMT Candidate Drury University Review of Literature To date there is a significant lack of research regarding the opinions of Undergraduate Music Therapy students concerning the requirements of a Master’s Degree for entry-level positions. When the Certification Board for Music Therapist (CBMT) was established in the 1980’s, this provided employers with assurance that we are qualified professionals

Spenser also wrote the famous wedding hymns Prothalmion and Epithalmion. The Faerie Queene is the masterpiece of Spenser. He modeled it on Ariosto's Orlando Furioso. It contains six books each of which describes the adventure and triumph of a knight who represents a moral virtue. It is a didactic romance. For this he invented a poetic form known as Spenserian stanza. Spenser's idealism, his love of beauty and