The writers of “Valentine and “My last duchess” have very contrasting and different ways of explaining their feelings on love. The structure of the first poem “Valentine” is simply not present. It has a very irregular structure, which symbolises the idea of an unconventional relationship and the opposite of what some may believe to be love. All the stanzas in this poem are different lengths, which means that she is simply speaking as she feels. There is no rhyme pattern that could mean that there is no flow or ease in this relationship.
In the novel The Scarlet Letter there are many examples of verbal, situational, and dramatic irony. (96) The first type of irony is verbal irony, in which the speaker says one thing but means another, or says something without realizing its significance. The first example of verbal irony takes place when Hester stands on the scaffold and Dimmesdale makes a plea for her to voice her fellow sinner. Dimmesdale informs her that her silence would only "add hypocrisy to sin." This is particularly ironic because Dimmesdale does not yet know the life of hypocrisy he will live as a result of the sin.
Explore the ways disturbed characters are presented in Shakeapeare’s Macbeth and Browning’s My Last Duchess, The Laboratory and Porphyria’s Lover. This is essentially a “use of language” essay, you need to show HOW the disturbed natures of the characters are conveyed, not just say how they show themselves. The essential point of this essay is to demonstrate what Shakespeare and Browning DO to convey the disturbed nature of the characters – not just saying what disturbed things the characters say or do, but what poetic and dramatic techniques the authors use to show their distrurbed natures. You MUST use quotations to back up every point you make. If you are hoping for the highest grades (B and above) you must make comparisons between the characters in the poems and Lady Macbeth.
This formation works particularly well for “Oh, think not I am faithful to a vow!” because she presents her problem in the first eight lines by giving two examples back to back of reasons that would cause her to leave. Since the first eight lines all connect a central idea they would not work as well if they formed two quatrains. The sestet is formed beginning with “But” in line nine. The last six lines resolve the problem by the (4+2) method, because lines nine through twelve answer the problem and then the heroic couplet accentuates the resolution in elevated diction. [10 points] The poem, however, deviates from the standard structure of the Shakespearean sonnet in the following ways.
The sooner people accept that we are all human, the better. Moving on, the author’s style was unusual, criticizing, and degrading, and the tone was less than likeable. However, it was a direct approach to displaying human faults and how people turn the other way rather than acknowledge them. Lady Montagu, clearly took offense to Swift’s poem and so, wrote her own riposte to put him down for writing such an unflattering poem. She certainly did not “pass in silence without matching wits”(292) with Swift.
Admittedly, the reference to Stotch’s The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs was purely for shock value, and alas, is not a real piece of literature. And though it would be fun, it cannot be analyzed by either of these critical theories. However, what can be, and is a prime example of how both these theories could be applied is The Mother, a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks. In it, we can see that although New Criticism provides
Consequently there are many weaknesses of virtue ethics that do not outweigh its strengths. One of the main weaknesses on the theory of virtue ethics is the criticism laid out by Susan Wolf was in her article of “Moral Saints” in which she claimed that if everyone is cultivating virtues they are likely to become boring people and therefore there is no excitement in this world. Another weakness of virtue ethics is the criticism of Aristotle’s concept on the Golden Mean made by Maclntyre. This is the idea that all virtues lies between two vices is wrong. The golden mean does not work for every virtue for example compassion or loyalty.
He uses numerous words to express ideas and emotions instead of quickly being straight forward and conclusive. He uses diction in almost every sentence to boost our intellect; make it seem more real. In the passage Hawthorne writes “Although she hid the secret from herself, and grew pale whenever it struggled out of her heart, like a serpent from its hole,” instead of simply writing a conclusive passage such as “She hid the secret from her mind and grew sick to herself whenever she thought of her committed sin.” Hawthorne also uses devices such as syntax in his writing of The Scarlet Letter; his sentence structure is often very weighty. Hawthorne’s paragraph includes one-two drawn out sentences. With an abundance of asides, which the whole passage is, and bits of detail that create and amazingly complex set of ideas, Hawthorne manages to successfully conjure his image of Puritan society and how they treat Hester.
People are uncomfortable with stating a truth, even if it is true, because one’s senses can be misleading or inaccurate. One’s beliefs, however, can never be incorrect because who is one to say what a person should or should not believe in? Belief acts as a pillow or a safe haven in which truth is thus thrown into and loses credibility and becomes less a truth and more of a theory. Same thing applies to Wittgenstein’s pictorial references; one either initially sees something or they don’t. Saying “now I see so-and-so” does not truly validate that what one is saying is what one actually sees.
Evaluation of “The Jabberwocky” “The Jabberwocky” is a nonsense verse poem written by Lewis Carroll in his 1872 novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Lewis Carroll is famous for writing Alice in Wonderland and many nonsense poems. Carroll also makes up words or combines known words. People must understand this to realize why his poems are very strange. The first line is “Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did Gyre and gimble in the wabe.”(Carroll, line 1-2) This gives the reader an image of the setting.