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Literature Poetry Rudyard Kipling

06/24/19

Did Rudyard Kipling Write "The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon"?
I came across a poem on a forum, attributed to Rudyard Kipling called "THE WRATH OF THE AWAKENED SAXON" (the title seems to be often posted in caps). A Google search indicates that where posted,... more
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06/24/19

How should I understand these lines from As You Like It?
I am currently on my second reading of *As You Like It*. I am having a really hard time comprehending lines 22-25 in Act 1, scene 2. Here are those lines as they appear in the version I am reading... more
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06/24/19

The woods as a symbol in Young Goodman Brown?
In the short story "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the main character spends a great deal of the story traveling through a "dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the... more
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Literature English Writing Poetry

06/23/19

I need to figure out a wolf metaphor for a poem.
I need to figure out a new metaphor to use. It has to describe how the wolf is a hassle to human society. My original was,” While I’m an ant- a pest to your society” I got advice told to me that... more
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06/22/19

Is Hamlet correct when he says "it is an honest ghost"?
The Ghost in *Hamlet* claims to be Hamlet's father's spirit released from Purgatory. Is it possible that the Ghost is lying? Has it been sent from Hell to stir up mischief in Elsinore? (The play... more
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Literature

06/21/19

What exactly are masques and bergamasques in Verlaine's "Claire de Lune"?
In Verlaines's ["Claire de Lune"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clair_de_Lune_(poem)) he speaks of: > Que vont charmant masques et bergamasques They play musical instruments, so one assumes... more
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06/21/19

What is the significance of the fact that the covered wagons were traveling East at the end of Atlas Shrugged?
At the very end of *Atlas Shrugged*, a group of covered wagons picks up people who were stranded by the *Comet*'s demise. Is it significant that they're heading east (e.g. that they were somehow... more
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06/21/19

What is the deeper meaning of Blake's "The Lily"?
The poem "The Lily" by William Blake must be one of the shortest of his [*Songs of Innocence and of Experience* collection](http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1934/1934-h/1934-h.htm), only four lines... more
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Literature Meaning

06/21/19

Is 'artisks' a word? (I met this word in 'The Invisible Man')?
In 'The Invisible Man' by H.G.Wells, there is a sentence;**"Wait till the summer," said Mrs. Hall sagely, "when the *artisks* are beginning to come. ..."** Mrs.Hall is the wife of Mr.Hall, who is... more
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06/21/19

In Baudelaire's "Chant d'automne", why isn't the hidden rhythm better known?
I noticed something remarkable about one of Baudelaire's poems that I can't find any mention of on the web. My question is whether anybody has noticed this before, and whether there's some reason... more
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Literature Literary Techniques

06/21/19

Is this a refrain or would i call it repetition?
In the poem Refugee Blues- https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/refugee-blues/ The word 'my dear' I would like to think that this is a refrain. Is it a repetition though?
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06/21/19

Meaning of this line in "On seeing the Elgin Marbles"?
>And each imagined pinnacle and steep >Of godlike hardship tells me I must die The "pinnacle and steep" represent the pillars of the Parthenon if I'm not mistaken. But the next line... more
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06/21/19

227 days in Life of Pi, coincidence or symbolical?
I'm wondering whether it is known whether the 227 days in Life of Pi symbolical is for pi or that the symbolism I see (as a mathematician :)) is pure coincidence. I think that it is symbolic for... more
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06/21/19

What does 'Gilead' mean in The Raven?
Poe's poem *The Raven* contains the following words in the fifteenth stanza: > [...] tell me truly, I implore— Is there—is there balm in Gilead?—tell me—tell me, I implore!" **What does... more
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Literature Meaning

06/20/19

Is the phrase "yellow card" slang for a female body part?
In Hemmingway's [**The Sun Also... more
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Literature Adverbs Word Usage

06/20/19

Is this usage of "now" correct?
Consider this piece of a poem: >Crouched at the elder's feet, the knight >Now kissed his hand in exultation. >The world before his eyes turned bright, >Forgot his spirit's sore... more
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06/20/19

Is Caliban of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" based on a real life character?
In the book **‘Over the Edge of the World’** the author Laurence Bergreen has described Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey... more
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06/19/19

Did Shakespeare consider Julius Caesar a tyrant or a martyr?
I've seen the Shakespeare play *Julius Caesar* interpreted in two different ways (by people with different social and political views, naturally): - **either** Caesar as a power-mad tyrant who got... more
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Literature Phrases

06/18/19

It was then that... vs "That was when..."?
I'm not very sure if both mean exactly the same but I've noticed that the former is more widely use in Japanese novels translated into English. Whereas the latter is more often used in English... more
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Literature English

06/18/19

which sentence describes a difference between Auden's "Mus`ee Des Beaux Arts" and Williams's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
A. Auden excludes any mention of witnesses to Icarus's fall, while Williams includes the reactions of several people. B. Auden includes Daedalus's reaction to Icarus's drowning, while Williams... more
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06/17/19

In what way is Dussel an unflattering nickname?
From 16 November 1942 onwards, Anne Frank had to share her room with the dentist [Fritz Pfeffer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Pfeffer), who had a number of habits that Anne couldn't stand.... more
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Literature Grammar Tenses Usage

06/15/19

Mark Twain and the tenses?
Maybe I'm being too pedantic for my own good, but here's the thing. There is in Mark Twain's short story titled *Journalism in Tennessee* a passage in which, if you take a good close look, the... more
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Literature Meaning Lolita

06/14/19

What is the definition of "solipsized?"?
It seems like only "Lolita" uses this word. According to Google, solipsism is "the view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist." From this definition, I conclude that for one to... more
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Literature

06/14/19

How does Wei-Chen change through the book American-Born Chinese?

I also need a thesis for how he changes due to wanting to fit in. I need to write an essay about this analysing the panels, but I need three good examples of how he changes throughout the book. My... more
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06/14/19

What a piece of work is man - echo in The Lord of the Rings?
In The Fellowship of the Ring, after Gandalf tells Frodo the story of the One Ring and challenges him to destroy it, Frodo looks at the ring and we read this description: > how rich and... more
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