Luhrmann’s Romeo & Juliet adaptation
Shakespeare's second tragedy, "Romeo & Juliet", was written between 1594 - 1596. The tragedy is brought about by fate and the story is based on an Italian Legend, which was well known in England at the time. Baz Luhrmann directed the modern day film. It is shot in Mexico, although it is meant to be "Verona Beach which is a sexy violent world neither set in the future, nor the past. The language is still the old Shakespearean English but…...
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Those Winter Sundays – Robert Hayden
Context Get this: Robert Hayden was the first African American to be named Poet Laureate of the ol' US of A (in 1976). Yep, it took until 1976 for an African American to be named Poet Laureate, and the office had been around since 1937. That's a pretty big deal. Despite the significance of this breakthrough, Hayden didn't want to be defined by his race. He wanted to be known as an "American poet," not a "black poet." Sound revolutionary…...
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Poem 1-A Poison Tree (Conflict Poetry)
Theme 1 that the poem uses? THEME- Anger-How we deal with angry is extremely important EVIDENCE/QUOTES- 'I was angry with my friend/I told my wrath, my wrath did not end' 'I was angry with my foe/I told it not, my wrath did grow' ANALYSIS- The first stanza deals with two different ways of dealing with anger and the two different outcomes that may occur as a result. Theme 2 that the poem uses? THEME- Deception-The speaker bottles things up and…...
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English Language Arts 11 – All Questions/Answers
What is the most important idea of the second paragraph of Of Plymouth Plantation? The Pilgrims and ship's officers discussed the damage to the ship and decided to continue the voyage. To whom would Of Plymouth Plantation be most useful? someone looking for information about how early immigrants traveled to Cape Cod Of Plymouth Plantation suggests that one of the strongest values of the Plymouth colonists was Godliness. What is the central idea of the fourth paragraph of Of Plymouth…...
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Poems “Human Interest” and “Porphyria’s Lover”
My essay will be based on these two poems about two murders. I will be discussing and comparing the differences and similarities between the murders and the murderers themselves, and also the victims, which brings me to the first and most obvious difference between the two actual poems. It is obvious from the first sentences that the two poems are told by two people from different backgrounds, and possibly different times. We can see that they are likely to be…...
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Let him have it and The Daily Mail
In November 1952 a policeman was shot dead and another left wounded in what the Daily Mail called a 'gun battle' when Christopher Craig and Derek Bentley broke into the Barlow and Parker warehouse in Croydon. I have looked at two media sources of information regarding this event. A newspaper article taken from the Daily Mail 3rd November 1952 and Peter Medak's film 'Let him have it! '. Using these sources I intend to illustrate how they manipulate the audience…...
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