We used the stopwatch to find the time taken from one end to the other end. The last equipment we used for this investigation was the measuring tape, to find 10 metres of a distance in the beach. Two people from our team were holding the edges of the measuring tape; one person was holding the stopwatch, one person was holding the bottle (ready to release the bottle into the sea) and the last person was holding the compass to find which direction the fetch is coming
The notion of passing time, evident in the physical darkening of the sky from 'sunset' to 'twilight' to 'dark' is echoed in the rhythm of the poem. Clearly, the poem speaks about the sea, about a tide which 'turns again home'. The tide, we are reminded, has done this before; its rhythm will not be interrupted by the death of the poet. The lengths of the lines alternate between 10, six and four syllables with no fixed rotation: The differing lengths of lines evoke the movement of a tide washing upon a beach, something which we all recognise to be cyclical. In considering how the poet has constructed the 'bar' between life and death, we must look at the specifics of his
I have attempted to describe the physical landscape of the coast using metaphor and personification similar to the descriptive techniques used by Macleod. I also intend to use flashback in order to contrast the different feelings experienced in different places that have ultimately provided pieces of my own psychological and emotional landscape. My story is set in Samoa in the south pacific and describes the experiences surfing waves I was not used to and linking them to other surfing experiences at home. My audience includes my peers and anybody else who is a
This was the same time period in which he had penned many of his successful tragedies including Othello, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and King Lear. Many believe that Shakespeare’s one and only son Hamnet Shakespeare’s death in 1596 was the source of his non-stop series of tragedies, but no one knows for sure. To recognize Shakespeare’s exceptional skill of targeting his audience, this essay will focus on the specific soliloquy in Hamlet found in act four, scene four. This final soliloquy commonly known as “How all occasions do inform against me,” can be found from lines 35 to 68 in the specified act and scene. Shakespeare wrote from what he knew, and what he knew came from where he lived and what he witnessed.
Each poem I have chosen reflects aspects of contemplation, sadness or regret. Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" examines feelings of regret and choices in time, Sir Walter Raleigh's "Life" is a poem of contemplation; of existence and time before its end. Finally, John Milton's "Of Time", a typically dramatic piece by the 16th century master of 'epic' poetry. "Of Time" is written of the bittersweet relationship between mortal lives and the aching shortness of said lives. The chosen image of an hourglass is a typical, although, undeniably apt choice of symbolism wherever time is involved.
Like most Italian sonnets, its 14 lines are written in iambic pentameter. Theme In the early 1800s, Wordsworth wrote several sonnets blasting what he perceived as "the decadent material cynicism of the time." [1] "The world is too much with us" is one of those works. It reflects his philosophy that humanity must get in touch with nature in order to progress spiritually. [2] The rhyme scheme of this poem is abbaabbacdcdcd.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), `The Bard of Avon', English poet and playwright wrote the famous 154 Sonnets and numerous highly successful oft quoted dramatic works including the tragedy of the Prince of Denmark, Hamlet; "Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine ownself be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!" --Lord Polonius, Hamlet Act I, Scene 3 While Shakespeare caused much controversy, he also earned lavish praise and has profoundly impacted the world over in areas of literature, culture, art, theatre, and film and is considered
Cameron M. J. Webb Mr. Macdonald EENG3U1-02 8 January 2013 Macbeth Macbeth, a play by William Shakespeare, is a Shakespearean tragedy. This play was written in 1606 A.C.E.. Macbeth displays many of the required traits of a Shakespearean tragedy, in particular it has very good examples of anagnorisis, peripeteia and tragic hero. Anagnorisis is the part of the play when the protagonist recognizes who and what the root of his downfall is. Peripeteia is the ironic point of the play where there is a massive turn in the plot. The element ofP the tragic hero is that the protagonist must be a likable character or else the reader or viewer will not feel empathetic towards the hero of the story.
Sonnet 130 Shakespeare is very famous for his tragedies, but he is also much known for his hundreds of sonnets he has written. In this essay I will analyze and interpret the Shakespearean “Sonnet 130” and focus on the humorous devices in the poem. The humorous devices in the sonnet makes us laugh, but why? A Shakespearean sonnet has its own special structure. The Shakespearean sonnet is also called an English sonnet.
The rhyme scheme in a Shakespearean sonnet is a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g; the last two lines are a rhyming couplet. The style of sonnet written in the Elizabethan era were all essentially inspired by the Petrarchan tradition, and generally of the poet's love for some woman; with the exception of Shakespeare's sequence. The form is often named after Shakespeare, not because he was the first to write in this form but because he became its most famous practitioner. I will read to aloud to you sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.