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Icarus has many possible reasons why he might be “sorry”. If he let himself burn up and fall on purpose, more of a suicide, he may want to ask forgiveness from his father for leaving him. If he flew too close to the sun because he just couldn’t help it, but knew that he shouldn’t go so close, he could be sorry for not obeying ( Read more... )

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Both Rita Dove’s “Persephone, Falling” and “The Pomegranate” by Eavan Boland make reference to the myth of Demeter and Persephone. Both poems address the myth, then switch and draw parallels from the myth’s messages to daily life. Boland describes the myth in the first stanza of her poem. Then in the second ( Read more... )

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When I read “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” for the first time, I actually laughed. It is not the definition of a love song, or a proclamation of love by any means. What it sounds like to me, is an ode to his life. He doesn’t seem to like himself all that much, or be very proud of his life or ( Read more... )

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Richard Wilbur, Harry Thurston, and Lorna Crozier all use the extended metaphor to create strong connections to growing up, and getting through life. In Richard Wilbur’s “The Writer” the extended metaphor is achieved by using words and phrases associated with ships, such as “prow” (1), “chain hauled over a ( Read more... )

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My fellow Thespians, it is today with a grave heart that we bid farewell to our once mighty King Oedipus. His life was riddled with tragedy, his situation bleak, but today we will not look back on his misfortune or his mistakes. No, we will look back at his reign over Thebes, and rejoice that we had the privilege ( Read more... )

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My experience in ENG 160 so far has been a good one. It is my first time doing a class online, as well as my first time doing a literature class, so it’s been a learning experience for sure. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed reading the stories that we’ve been assigned and it’s been refreshing to be able to read other ( Read more... )

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Three important things alluded to in “The Boat” by Alistair MacLeod are the character Eustacia Vye, the character of Ham Peggoty, and the story of Moby Dick. If you delve into these characters and take a close look at the stories you can see a connection between each of them, and the story of “The Boat.” Eustacia Vye has a ( Read more... )

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In Alice Munro’s “Boys and Girls”, her main character has very strong opinions of certain places in her house. The different descriptions of where the children sleep, where the father works, and where the mother works, provide the reader deep insight into the daughter’s life and also illustrate some of the many ( Read more... )

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Philip Larkin's "This Be the Verse" should indeed be considered "great literature”. He has written this piece not for himself but for his readers. More so than that, he has written it for all readers. Larkin suggests that human beings “fuck” up their children, and have been “fucked up” by their parents before them.  The fact ( Read more... )