Troubadour love poetry and the practice of courtly love empowered women to a certain extent. The poetry of the Goliards and the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine are two very different groups of people and yet they praised women and allowed them power over men's hearts (and loins). The poetry of Bernart de Ventadorn both praised and despised women for their beauty and power. ... For all the good troubadour poetry did for women it still kept up the misogynistic tendencies from previous centuries and courtly love did make women vulnerable to an extent. ... She has stolen my heart, and stolen my...

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While Clare struggled with issues relating to enclosure, and personal changes, in his poetry, Wollstonecraft was interested, in Maria or The Wrongs of Woman, with women's rights concerning marriage and education. ... (Tibble 25) Clare's reactions to this can be seen in much of his poetry. ... After the move Clare feels 'the loss/ From home and friends and all alone', (43-4) because although he has in effect only moved three miles, in Northborough 'every tree is strange' to him and he is surrounded by 'foreign things'. (97-8) In Clare's work m...

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Women's poetry in the late nineteenth century was very sentimental and death was a common tool in provoking pathos in the reader. ... Poetry is the expression of feeling. ... In the late 1800's, Christianity was still dominant in early America- its literature, its morals, and its poetry. ... Women's poetry in the nineteenth century wasn't just about love, death, and expression. ... All this came out in their poetry. ...

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Hamper discovers that he can write poetry pretty well. ... Ben Hamper realizes that his poetry is a great way of winning girls over. He says "I did discover that the poetry, as awkward and schmaltzy as it was, drew great favor from the girls of my sophomore class." (Hamper, 20) Hamper started writing poetry to get girls rather than writing it because he enjoyed it or writing it because he might have been able to make a career out of it. ...

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Abstract "The Book of Margery Kempe" will be discussed in such a way that the unfamiliar text will become familiar to the reader. This is an informative paper discussing the language and poetic form of the text, the author's background, and the social/historical context of the work. Further informat...

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Furthermore , Orlando , son of sir Rowland de Bois and the love interest of Rosalind , searches for his concept of the perfect woman and attempts to woo his love by poetry and confessing what to the presumed Ganymede. ...

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The poem Title Divine-is mine! by Emily Dickinson conveys the frustrations of an unmarried woman. It is concerned with the fact that women seem to have only three significant parts to their lives; birth, marriage, and death. But what if one doesn't get married? Does this mean the woman has no title?...

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As a little girl growing up, I spent a lot of time with a Hispanic lady because my mother worked all the time. She was like a grandmother to me. I loved to hear her speak of her late husband and how much she loved him. Her voice would change when she spoke of him. She described how she would sit and gaze at him when he perused the newspaper or how she would leave sweet notes in his lunch pail. ...

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Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights is known as a great love story because it is the central theme: the relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff. This love is the reason for the tragic development of the story; all the other themes like hate, revenge and death (among others) derive from this love between the two main characters. But here, we have a kind of love that is very difficult to classify. Some elements would place this kind of love within romantic tradition, like the intense involvement with nature, some mystical references, the wish of death from the lovers, and the m...

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American author Kate Chopin has written two published novels and over a hundred short stories. Most of her stories are set in her hometown of Louisiana and focus on the lives of women. Based on the literary criticisms researched, a lot Kate Chopin's works focused on female emancipation. The era she ...

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