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Final Paper: The Space Between The Man and The Mask
The Space Between The Man and The Mask At first when entertaining the metaphorical space between the man and the mask I found it difficult to understand the complexities involved. Shakespeare, on the other hand, understood this space as an … Continue reading
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The short, but sweet evening with Frederick Turner was a combination of intellectual poetics and accessible images that perhaps may be the finest reading I will encounter in my lifetime. Much of his poetry leant itself to a theme of … Continue reading
Sylvia Plath’s poem Ariel may seem at first glance to be inspired by her horse, but may it be her horse was named after the fairy character Ariel in The Tempest. Regardless, Plath was inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest, especially … Continue reading
Signs of Youth
After reading Signs and Symbols, I was mildly confused as to what the deeper meaning was. We discussed in class the idea of a child returning to his parents as a main theme of the story but I was totally … Continue reading
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Light Sonnet
Dawns light batter my eyes, cold air despair, … Continue reading
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Hamlet in Purgatory
Purgatory, the state of being in a state or place of purification or temporary punishment by which those who die in a state of grace. Hamlet, in the thrones of powerless medium, is much like youthful beings of today. A state of … Continue reading
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Sabrina’s blog “Engagement and Detachment” raises the idea that the two exist as separate and unequal positions of a whole. This may seem to hold some truth, but when one looks deeper, the act of engaging or detaching from something … Continue reading
In Hughes’s essay, his exploration of Shakespeare’s language leads to the conclusion, “he (Shakespeare) invented a language that is somehow closer to the vital, expressive life of English, still, than anything set down since”(46). The quality of his language combined … Continue reading
The high and low, the feather and the weight, the elite and the lowly, all of which create boundaries, which in turn create space. This space allows for the mind to wander, to fixate upon the possibilities of joining the … Continue reading
If we are to think life is a stage and incorporate Marlowe’s ” idea of men as gods” then the actor/characters of Shakespeare are the representation of all and nothing. According to Turner, Shakespeare “grounds his new ethics on neither … Continue reading
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