Climax is the most intense, exciting, or important point of a story.
Climax is the most intense, exciting, or important point of a story.
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The Poem The Tide Rises the Tide Falls by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was written in 1879.
The Poem The Tide Rises the Tide Falls by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was written in 1879.
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The poem describes a place that was once laden with trees but now it is barren because of deforestation. The poet memorises the bank of the Ouse River where during his childhood he played a lot. The poet talks about deforestation from the Ouse River’s bank that has led to the loss of the greenery anRead more
The poem describes a place that was once laden with trees but now it is barren because of deforestation. The poet memorises the bank of the Ouse River where during his childhood he played a lot.
The poet talks about deforestation from the Ouse River’s bank that has led to the loss of the greenery and the mesmerising tone of the trees. In addition, it has destroyed the blackbirds’ shelter that would fill the air with their sweet songs.
He regrets the fact that having no nest they are lying on the ground. The poet memorises there was a time when they used to live on the branches. A number of blackbirds have migrated to other places because deforestation has made them homeless.
Likewise flourishing songs that charmed the poet and their chirping are no more. The poet mourns the fact that the joys of living near the trees at Ouse River’s bank. He states that man’s joys aren’t eternal and everlasting. They are shorter even than life.
Before a man dies, they fade away. The poet says he used to get pleasure not from the materialistic things but by the trees but his only pleasure was snatched away from him. The poem contrasts the lifespan of life and trees. Trees grow up, have, leaves, etc., and give shades to the people; and finally, they are cut down.
According to the poet, as we grow older, we lose the sense of joy. As there is no guarantee of life, we should enjoy every moment. We can’t take these moments with us. Enjoyments and our pleasures perish before our death.
The poet offers the readers suggestion to save and protect the trees. He warns us that if the forests that are green are not protected by us we will die before age. We’re nature’s products, and we must surrender ourselves to it, one day.
The poet has contrasted life and the tree and stated our lives are more perishable than the trees. So the character should be defended by us. It reveals the poet’s love towards nature in life, which depicts nostalgic and rural tone. The poet suggests keeping balance. Deforestation is a challenge to the world. Through this poem, he wishes to give the message it is bad to chop trees down.
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Power of the king and father is portrayed through an ageing and struggling Lear. He struggles to retain his authority in regards to his ambitious daughters. The same is depicted through the betrayal of Gloucester by his bastard son Edmund. Lear’s inability to sustain the power he commanded as a kinRead more
Power of the king and father is portrayed through an ageing and struggling Lear. He struggles to retain his authority in regards to his ambitious daughters. The same is depicted through the betrayal of Gloucester by his bastard son Edmund.
Lear’s inability to sustain the power he commanded as a king led to his loss of power as the family patriarch, causing him to lose his mind, life and his one daughter who truly cared for him, Cordelia.
The lust of power drives Cordelia and Goneril to destroy their father’s life as well ruin their own marriages.They end up becoming objects of mutual hatred ending with their deaths. Similarly, Edmund meets his tragic end at the sword of Edgar, the step brother he tried to murder.
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There are 29 pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and narrator himself that become 30 in total.
See lessThere are 29 pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and narrator himself that become 30 in total.
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There are two distinct kinds of treatment that may be given to time in the dramatic structure: The first is employed to achieve vividness to achieve or intensity by compressing the action, i.e., by confining the action to event of short duration, or by accelerating the time within a speech or episodRead more
There are two distinct kinds of treatment that may be given to time in the dramatic structure:
The first is employed to achieve vividness to achieve or intensity by compressing the action, i.e., by confining the action to event of short duration, or by accelerating the time within a speech or episode.
The second kind of treatment is to extend the plot time to tell a richer, more extensive story i.e. by skipping comparatively long intervals between episodes, or by looking back and showing action at some previous time, or by using a double time which includes both a long period and a short one. Bertram Jessup has indicated the importance of achieving magnitude in a work of art. In the play form which is limited in physical size, achieving a big work of art is, therefore chiefly a matter of increasing the intensity or extensity of the plot through concentrating or extending the time structure.
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Historical interpretation means analyzing a text in context with the time, place, socio-cultural-political-economical and geographical factors which were in play at the time of writing the text or the plot of the text.
Historical interpretation means analyzing a text in context with the time, place, socio-cultural-political-economical and geographical factors which were in play at the time of writing the text or the plot of the text.
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