Masculine rhyme Essays

  • Rhyming Words: A Poem With Dog

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    Such words are also used in the music industry with lots of songs, particularly raps, having words that rhyme in them. Just because we love our dogs too much, we also want to know what rhyming words we should use if ever we write something about them. This is a list of some of the words that rhyme with dog and their corresponding meanings. Classification of words that rhyme with dog End rhyme. It means that the rhyming words featured here have the same final sound as dog. However, it does not necessarily

  • Masculine Identity in Hardy's Novels

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    Masculine Identity in Hardy's Novels In Hardy's novels, masculine identity is explored, evolving from the solid, monolithic, patriarchal role of the mid-1800s, to less typical, nearly feminine styles of manhood. With the increasing power of women during the Victorian Era, Hardy creates men who are in a state of ambivalence about their sexuality; they either reach for the well-worn stereotype of the "manly" man, or they attempt to explore their own complicated emotions, sensitive to the needs

  • Gender Roles in Macbeth

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    here on only a few brief moments from act one. However, I encourage you to note the further development of these points as the drama unfolds in subsequent scenes. In the very first scene of Macbeth we learn what Duncan and his people value in masculine identity. When the sergeant staggers in to report what he has seen of Macbeth in battle, we are given an image of a thane who is steeped in gore: For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name), Disdaining Fortune, with his brandish'd steel,

  • Masculine Identity in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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    Masculine Identity in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Vern L. Bullough's article, "On Being a Male in the Middle Ages," addresses how vital it was for a man living in the middle ages to be sexually active in order to maintain a masculine identity by explaining: Quite clearly, male sexual performance was a major key to being male. It was a man's sexual organs that made him different and superior to the woman. But maleness was somewhat fragile, and it was important for a man to keep demonstrating

  • A Psychoanalytic Approach to Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

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    evokes an absent presence, or the absent center of the novel, as André Bleikasten and John T. Matthews have observed.  The "absent center" is a key term in Lacanian theory, and in order to understand how Caddy's absence, or repression, supports the masculine identity, we'll have to review some Lacanian theory. According to Lacan, at first all children are engaged in an imaginary dyadic relation with the   mother in which they find themselves whole.  During this period, no clear boundaries exist

  • Psychoanalytic Approach to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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    associate Sir Gawain and the Green Knight with one of Jung’s archetypal motif patterns: the hero and the quest.  Through lots of difficulties or challenges, Sir Gawain reaches the higher ground of knighthood, and also proves himself worthy of a courtly masculine identity.  It still seems quite daring and risky to apply psychoanalytic approach into the text itself, especially it comes with the Oedipus complex.  But if we put Freud’s three psychic zones and Sir Gawain’s conflict together, or related his fear

  • Essay on Women in the Plays of William Shakespeare

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    many studies. In "Shakespeare: on Love and Lust", Charney explains the stance taken by critics such as Janet Adelman in "Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare's Plays, Hamlet to The Tempest", and Kahn's "Man's Estate: Masculine Identity in Shakespeare". He claims that these two authors, as many others do, view Sh... ... middle of paper ... ... mother, wife, nor England's queen" The Roles of Women in Richard III". The Woman's Part: Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare.

  • Maternity and Masculinity in Macbeth and Coriolanus

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    Maternity and Masculinity in Macbeth and Coriolanus The power of womanhood is linked with both maternity and masculinity in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Coriolanus; one might say that they are interchangeable. Lady Macbeth becomes the psychologically masculine force over her husband, essentially assuming a maternal role, in order to inspire the aggression needed to fulfill their ambitions. Similarly, in Coriolanus, Volumnia maintains a clear, overtly maternal position over Coriolanus, molding him to be

  • Critique on “Sonnet 138”

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    Critique on “Sonnet 138” In the sonnet “Sonnet 138” or “When My love Swears that She is Made of Truth” by William Shakespeare, he uses many types of rhyme. Written in iambic pentameter, with a rhyme scheme of ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG, Shakespeare includes examples of rhyme, alliteration, and personification. In “Sonnet 138,” an elderly gentleman is in a relationship with a young woman. The woman thinks the man is young although she knows he is not. Connotation changes the plot of the sonnet

  • Critique of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 138

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    138” also known as “When My Love Swears that she is Made of Truth” is a sonnet written by William Shakespeare, has many examples of literary elements such as personification and various types of rhyme. In “Sonnet 138” the author writes the sonnet in iambic pentameter and writes in an ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG rhyme scheme. The narrator also includes examples of connotation and denotation to help change the meaning of the poem. Throughout the sonnet the author obviously is an older man than the younger woman

  • Medusa by Carol Ann Duffy

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    To what extent does Carol Ann Duffy’s poem ‘Medusa’ challenge stereotypical masculine and feminine attributes? The World Wife anthology written by Carol Ann Duffy, challenges the established exemplification of prevailing characteristics found in both genders, in a patriarchal society. Duffy manipulates some of these characteristics in the poem through the mythological allusion of medusa. The innocence of womanhood is overshadowed by the protagonists’ related violent imageries; instead, she is seen

  • When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be By John Keats Analysis

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    John Keats is an early nineteenth century Romantic poet. In his poem “When I have Fears that I May Cease to Be,” Keats makes excellent use of a majority of poetry elements. This sonnet concentrates merely on his fear of death and his reasons for fearing it. Though Keats’ emphasizes his greatest fear of death, he offers his own resolution by asserting that love and fame lacks any importance. Keats uses articulate wording to exemplify his tone, while using images, figures of speech, symbols, and allegory

  • Poetry Analysis: "The Tyger"

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    horrifying and terrible being. The speaker addresses the question of whether or not the same God who made the lamb, a gentle creature, could have also formed the Tyger and all its darkness. This issue is addressed through many poetic devices including rhyme, repetition, allusion, and symbolism, all of which show up throughout the poem and are combined to create a strong image of the Tyger and a less than thorough interpretation of its maker. The first stanza directly addresses the Tyger, which is, according

  • The Holy Paradox in Donne's Batter My Heart

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    The Holy Paradox in Donne's Batter My Heart The great paradox of the Christian faith lies in the condition that in order to be truly free, the soul must first be rescued from the bondage of sin, then recaptured and completely conquered by God. One of the most profound expressions of this paradox is to be found in John Donne' poem, "Batter My Heart" (Meyer 882). Donne expresses this spiritual transformation in intensely passionate language, using rhythm, figures of speech, and sounds to convey

  • Analysis of The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost

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    Thesis Robert Frosts “The Road Not Taken” is more symbolic of a choice one must make in their life in attempt to foresee the outcome before reaching the end, than it is about choosing the right path in the woods. Describe the literal scene and situation. The literal scene of Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken, is described as a “yellowed wood” (Arp & Johnson, 2009). Use of this description could be that fall is upon the wood or the trees perhaps once white have yellowed with age. Before the traveler

  • The Regretful Traveler in Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken

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    Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” (rpt. In Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson, Perrine’s Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, 10th ed. [Boston: Wadsworth, 2009] 725 presents itself with a traveler that is dissatisfied with the decision that he has to make. A situation of life sometime requires a decision to be made between two things that will have a huge impact in the end. The consequences are not always what we expect. I will now explain how Frost used literal and figurative techniques to describe

  • analyzation of the poem

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    In the poem “Sea Fever”,(comma?) John Masefield writes(WC) about his obsession with the waters and illustrates his deep desire to sail the seas. The title, “Sea Fever” emphasizes his strong passion for the seas and introduces Masefield’s deepest aspiration. (Necessary or nah??) Masefield conveys his obsessive/nostalgic (right word choice for tone or should I do obsession?) yearnings through his eagerness to take his final journey on the ocean (subject clear?). Through multiple literary elements

  • She Walks In Beauty by Lord Byron and Douglas Dunn's Reincarnation

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    feels that he didn't have chance to say goodbye because he was so unprepared for it. The diction chosen by Lord Byron is very sophisticated. The words he chooses to use, such as eloquent make his poem flow with a smooth and graceful rhythm. The rhymes in "She Walks In Beauty" are monosyllabic

  • Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night By Dylan Thomas

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    Good Night” by Dylan Thomas is a nineteen-lined piece with five three-line stanzas and one four line stanza at the end. Although most of the poem consists of an A-B-A rhyme scheme, the last stanza has an A-B-A-A pattern. Additionally, each of the lines contains an end rhyme that interchanges between masculine and feminine; the masculine rhyming of “night” and “light” contrasts with the feminine rhyming of “day” and “they.” In consideration to imagery, “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” encompasses

  • Trigger Happy Fruit

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    Innocence and imagination can never be fully appreciated until that moment is relived again. John Tobias captures a specific summer of his life in “Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle Received from a Friend Called Felicity.” Tobias depicts aspects of a memorable summer through his descriptions and sensory words of his writing. Tobias’ poem reflects the innocence and imagination only a child can create and appreciate. The summer was filled with the savoring taste of juicy watermelon and the