Theorist William Rathbone Greg best summaries the feelings of the Victorian age towards fallen women: "If the passions of woman were ready, strong, and spontaneous, in a degree even remotely approaching the form they assume in the coarser sex, there can belittle doubt that sexual irregularities would reach a height, of which, at present, we have happily no conception" (Greg 10). ... In my paper, I will use these two poems to explain a number of strategies that had utilization by the Victorians to treat women and their sexuality. ... In the poem, Tennyson utilizes both the exterior an...

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The opening images of the poem are drawn from accounts of the Mau Mau Uprising, an extended and bloody battle during the 1950s between European settlers and the native Kikuyu tribe in what is now the republic of Kenya. ... In addition, at the time the poem was written, the poet's country of birth, the island of St. ... As Walcott is divided in two, so too is the poem. ... Just as the uprising was never cleanly resolved, Walcott, at least within the poem, never resolves his conflict about whose side to take. Poem Summary The first three lines depict the poem's setting on the African...

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Different authors use various figures of speech to present their characters in plays or poems. ... Finally, this section will also compare the two characters with that of Satan, the major character in the poem "Paradise Lost" by John Milton. ... Satan: Milton's Paradise Lost In the epic poem of Paradise Lost by John Milton, Satan who is one of the characters is also depicted as a villainous character that is up to causing rifts and disturbance due to his quest for power and authority (Milton 58). He is the main villain of the great heroic poem presented as the epitome of evil incarnate....

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It also in a specific manner tries to make parallels between Poe's own character and his projections onto his tales and poems, in here "The Oval Portrait". ... Discussion At First, when Poe wrote this short tale he called it "Life in Death" but later he changed its title to "The Oval Portrait" .As an overall picture or a summary for the plot of the story, the setting is in an abandoned chateau in Apennines, Italy. ...

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Part 1 – Summary The Psychopathology of Everyday Life is Sigmund Freud's sixteenth work published, and the title is quite fitting for the context of the book. ... He continues to apply his methods to the order of words we remember, describing a woman who botches a poem during her recital of it. But Freud considers the botching to be more of a retelling of the poem based on the woman's repression of the details associated with the specific descriptions. ...

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In New York, British director Peter Brook's nine-hour production of an ancient Hindu epic poem, The Mahabharata, has lately been playing to packed houses and considerable critical praise. ... Though ruthless, the Moguls had cultivated tastes, especially for Persianstyle gardens, poems and miniatures. ...

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