“Love is a serious mental disease,” proclaimed Plato, a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens; the characters of Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet could relate because of the conflicts they faced. Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is quite similar to William Shakespeare’s, Romeo and Juliet. The story tells how the protagonist, Henry, meets with the first love of his life, then, loses her to a World War II internment camp. The parallelism between William Shakespeare’s, Romeo and Juliet, and Jamie Ford’s, Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, are known during sequences between both stories.…
Bruce Dawe’s 20th Century texts Televistas and Enter Without So Much as Knocking concern themselves with thought-provoking themes that continue to be relevant in the present time. The philosophical themes presented in Dawe’s works are significantly imperative within human experience. These themes include the brevity of happiness, the certainty in specific life patterns and the influence of the media. The use of various language techniques in both of Dawe’s works result in the emphasis of the thought-provoking themes that are effectively utilised to highlight the relevancy of the thought-provoking concepts and its significance in the present time.…
Have you ever been so in love you forget about everything and move at a rapid pace? Well in the book The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare two of the main characters are madly in love. Some of the main people in the book are Romeo and his parents the Montagues, Juliet and her parents the Capulets, next you have Paris and Friar Lawrence. Two families are fighting and arguing when the two lovers end up getting married and then die. Friar Lawrence Romeo, and Juliet are the reasons why Romeo and Juliet died because all three of them didn't think before they did.…
In his poem, “For That He Looked Not upon Her”, George Gascoigne shows the reader of the speakers complex attitude of being attracted but doubtful towards his ex lover. Gascoigne uses many poetic devices, such as metaphors and first person point of view to show this complex attitude of the speaker. George Gascoigne uses different poetic devices to show the speaker’s tempted yet repulsive attitude towards his lover, such as metaphors, in “For That He Looked Not Upon Her.” An example of one of the many metaphors used is “The mouse which once hath broken out of a trap is seldom ‘ticéd with the trustless bait.” This metaphor shows the difference between a mouse hardly going back to trap that once caught him and the speaker rarely going back…
Although the American Civil War abolished slavery, it did not put an end to the growing racial divide between black and white citizens. Many Americans, such as civil rights leaders and protesters, have fought valiantly to lessen this gap, but none have been able to completely eradicate it. The racism which comes with a this oppressive system gives people of color great disadvantages in their lives. In his novel Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates writes to his son about this growing racial divide within America. Coates discusses the pains and liabilities he faces as a black man in a white dominated society.…
The True Love Have you ever had a true love in your life? Love without benefits, pure love. In the story “The Cranes” by Peter Meinke described the true love between two couples lived their life together and died together, two people who faced all the problems together by their love. The whooping cranes are rare birds. We see the writer comparing the similarity between these two birds and the couple (husband and wife).…
W.D. Snodgrass wrote many love poems. His breaking of three marriages did not make for a very good love story though. This is why there seems to be a bit of personal experience in “Leaving the Motel” (Rosenheim). This poem is the actions of two people at a motel after an afternoon of sexual encounters. These two people are trying to keep their affair a secret and the use of tone, symbolism, and rhyme help express the way they go about it.…
AWAY TEXT RESPONSE ‘While we unburdened crawl towards death’ says tom in the final page of Michael Gow’s play Away. This reference from Shakespeare’s King Lear is one of the many techniques that Gow uses to express the theme of reconciliation, the quotation from King Lear shows that Tom has reconciled with his fate and learns to continue through his life ‘unburdened’ towards his inevitable fate. Like Tom, the rest of the characters must deal with the same theme of reconciliation throughout the play, although not to the same extent of accepting their death. So in this essay the theme of reconciliation within Away will be explored in terms of how Gow uses techniques such as Characterisation, symbolism and production elements to express the theme of reconciliation within the play.…
Young love is a beautiful thing until a mistake makes it lethal. Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare. In the play two feuding families, the Capulets and the Montagues, live in the city of Verona, Italy. The only daughter of Capulet and the only son of Montague fell in love at a party. They knew they couldn’t be together after they found out who their parents were.…
Compare and Contrast Essay A tragic love story went wrong where both lovers die. Romeo and Juliet married, but apart by many miles and Thisbe and Pyramus separated by just a thin wall. Each man dies because of a misconception, but how they die is entirely different. The reason the pairs are separated is because their parents do not agree with their love for each other. Despite the circumstances of each short story, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet and Pyramus and Thisbe have many similarities and few differences.…
The first poem is “Rhapsody on a Windy Night by C.S. Lewis. The second poem is “After” by Robert Browning. The poem “Rhapsody on a Windy Night” has the setting of a long windy night. There isn’t anyone on the street except for the main person in the poem. Who is walking down a street where the street lamps are so distracting they give him strange images and he starts to see things.…
Harwood’s poems are as much about love and life as they are about death and loss. Gwen Harwood once wrote that one must immerse themselves in the shades by confronting harrowing truisms, namely an awareness of life’s brevity and death’s inevitability, in order to find solace in difficult times. While Harwood’s poems consider death as a plaguing concern, she does not remain morbidly transfixed on grief and loss. A celebration of significant relationships with loved ones and reflecting upon fond experiences allow the persona to transcend the fleeting nature of life’s cycle. Harwood utilises the raw and confronting concern of death and loss to emphasise the importance of living expressively and relishing the moment.…
Love is surely a treasure everybody longs for. The subject of love is discussed in countless modern day films literature, and poetry. Many times the story ends with the man getting the girl of his dreams, or the woman finding her prince charming. There is no doubt that a fairy tale ending is what most people desire. Relationships are significantly more complicated than this.…
The short story “Federigo's Falcon” by Giovanni Boccaccio and the poem “How Do I Love Thee” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning both develop the theme of love in their own ways. “Federigo's Falcon” develops the theme of love by telling the story of a man who gave up his most prized possessions twice for the woman he loves. “How Do I Love Thee” develops the theme of love by having the narrator detail how much they love their partner and by describing their unconditional love. Both pieces of writing develop the theme of love in different ways, but there are some similarities between the two. “Federigo’s Falcon” develops the theme of love by detailing the sacrifices Federigo made for the woman he loved, Monna Giovanna.…
Family Tragedy “Mid- Term Break” is a poem written by Seamus Heaney. This poem concerns a mournful young man grieving a death in the family, which is believed to be a possible younger brother. “I saw him for the first time in six weeks. Paler now (line 18).” Heaney uses language throughout the poem to show that something bad has happened and the cruel reality of a death in the family.…