Shakespeare’s sonnet, My Mistress’ Eyes, explores the common and oft-heard comparisons created concerning one’s love to the material objects of beauty, and considers the value within such correlations. As the essay explores these associations, it ultimately comes to the conclusion that such com...
essay: emotional arpeggios I’ve started learning guitar after being a lifelong piano player, and while the calluses on my fingertips haven’t truly developed yet, I feel like I’m starting to make progress. Neutral Milk Hotel, PJ Harvey, Magnetic Fields, The Decemberists, Tom Waits—learning...
In a brief summary of the previous proposals and models dealing with poetry translation from a semiotic perspective, we see an overall consensus on the complexity of the process and shared uncertainties concerning the quality of the product. The many facets of poetry remain to be exposed under th...
Magda Cârneci is also an art essayist and prose writer, and currently lives between Paris and Bucharest. A member of the well-known “Generation of the ’80s” in Romanian literature, she became actively involved in the political and cultural Romanian scene after the 1989 Revolution. At pre...
CLASPis an exercise in collective remembering – with, as Lawrence Upton’s essay suggests, a consciousness of memory work as also a process of selecting, forgetting and inventing. The original plan had been to focus on the 1970s, the decade during which [Ken Edwards and I] had co-edited...
And it is with this sonnet that Shakespeare does something that no poet (with thepossibleexception of Ovid) did before him. He turns the Patrarchan expectation, that of theperfectand unattainable woman, on its head. The eyes of Shakespeare’s mistress “are nothing like the sun”. Her brea...
A: How did you do on your essay ?B: Better than I expected. I was afraid I'd used too much flowery language, but my teacher still gave me a good grade.A:你的作文得了多少分?B:还不错,比我想的好,本来还担心修饰语用的太多,不过老师还是给了我一个高分。 7. love sonnet十四行情诗A: ...
Abbott, C. 1786.An essay on the use and abuse of satire. London: No publisher. 136 Johnson, S. 1766.A dictionary of the English language. Vol. 2. London: A. Millar. 137 see footnote 133, pg. vii. 138 Anon. 1788.Royal magnificence; or the effusions of ten days; A descriptive and...
on Seeing His Works 127 Oliver Goldsmith: from The Deserted Village 128 Alexander Pope: from An Essay on Criticism 129 Robert Browning: My Last Duchess 130 Wilfred Owen: Strange Meeting 132 Thorn Gunn: The J Car 133 Close-Up o...