1. A midsummer nights dream
A mid-autumn night's dream of Love: a critical commentary on one of Carol Anne Duffy's most notable works.
William Shakespeare once wrote "The course of true love never did run smooth." (I.i. 134) Earnestly professed by Lysander in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, the character assertively articulates one of the play's most crucial themes: the complexities of love. Similarly, Carol Anne Duffy's poem Love, penned for her novel-length poem Rapture published in 2005, comments on the unpredictability of love's nature; an immortal, white-winged dove incapable of subjugation. Duffy, a poet laureate hailing from the souring and bountiful hills of Scotland, juxtaposes the paradoxical nature of love with its generic and often hetero-normative construct in the poem's colorful rhetoric. The language of love is coaxingly peppered with scintillating imagery and profound symbolism, and love's tender and heartfelt pretext, a convention of many love poems, is contrasted with its harsh and often unpredictable nature. Duffy's poetry has been described as "emotionally captivating" and "indescribably accessible" by many notable poetry critics, and this poem is certainly no exception to her many outstanding works. A formidable icon in the poetry industry, Duffy describes poetry as that which "comes from the imagination, from memories, from experience, from events both personal and public so [she] will be following the truth of that and [she] will write whatever needs to be written." .
Duffy commences the poem with quite a powerful and assertive statement: "Love is talent" The poet could be implying that love, in the greatest sense of the word, is a talent in itself. To further comment on this point, the reader could draw the inference that, in order for one to possess a "talent" as Duffy describes it, the term contentment could be somewhat further implied.
The American dream is a passion, which burns strongly inside those with desire to learn and prosper. ... What is the American Dream, and who are the people most likely to pursue its fulfillment? ... Clearly, there is no cut and dry definition of the American Dream. ... I am surrounded by examples of the American dream fulfilled in my life. ... He would have to sleep on the streets some nights and would eat grass because of his starvation. ...
It was an average night in mid-July, nothing was different, the same as many nights before. Usually I spend my summer nights drifting in and out of consciousness, but on this night, I can't sleep. ... Regrettably, it was just a dream. ... It was all a dream. ... I am a poster child for the American Dream. ...
A Midsummer Nights Dream In Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" the mortal teenage characters fall in love foolishly, and the character Bottom states, "O what fools these mortals be". ... Then let us teach or trial patience, Because it is a customary cross, As due to love, as thoughts and dreams and sighs, Wishes and tears, poor fancy's followers." ... William Shakespeare's A Midsummers Night's Dream shows how childishly foolish lovers can be....
In lucid dreaming, people become conscious enough to realize what they are dreaming, and therefore can change the dream they are having. ... In the experiment, the scientists used five subjects and studied each from two to twenty nights, depending upon how long the scientists thought they needed. All in all, they studied the subjects a total of 34 nights and came up with a total of 35 lucid dreams from various stages of sleep. ... In their experiment, the subject spent 50 non-continuous nights in the Hull University sleep lab while the experimenter monitored the polygraph. ... This is also kno...
The complex circle of love in A Midsummer Nights Dream', that Shakespeare portrays, contains both a crude and chaotic love, such as with Bottom and Titania, and a symbolic love, such as with Lysander and Hermia representing chastity. ... On the contrary Hippolyta feels the four days leading up to their wedding day is racing by, "Four will quickly steep themselves in night; four nights will quickly dream away the time."" ... In A Midsummer Night's Dream, love is a token thing dispersed by a sprite. ...
Discuss the similarities and differences in the presentation of Theseus and Oberon in a Midsummer nights dream. ... (Act 5 scene 1 lines 28-30) Oberon concludes his work with the lines "May all to Athens back again repair and think no more of this nights accidents but as the fierce vexation of a dream"....
Just like how Michael Hoffman's A Midsummer Night's Dream is based on a dream world, so are these little magical creatures named fairies. ... Fairies may not exist in reality but these magical nature spirits do exist in our childhood dreams. ... This is what makes A Midsummer Night's Dream so special because it opens up a passageway into the dream world, which allows us to enter this magical land the same way we did watching Walt Disney movies as a child. ... Peter Hall and Michael Hoffman are both very prestigious filmmakers and both of their versions tend to depict a very di...
Greek mythology, Aesop's Fables, and Arabian Nights entered my dreams at night. ... Arabian Nights introduced to me the somehow scary idea that I might not exist, and all of what I have experienced could be just a dream. ... The inland town has a dream to go somewhere big, and it makes it by teaching its sons and daughters to look up at the sky, and out to the sea....
William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play primarily on the difficulty of love. ... As the title alludes to, dreams are an important theme in A Midsummer Night's Dream; dreams are an important theme in the play. Hippolyta first words in the play show how essential dreams will be; "Four days will quickly steep themselves into night, Four nights will quickly dream away the time... "( ) The theme of dreams occurs when characters attempt to explain the strange events that happen to them. Shakespeare loves the inter-workings of dreams, how they occur, an...