In this presentation, I outline the 5 elements of a powerful story, and how we can make an impact on those around us. The presentation was given to a group of staff at Camp Rockmont for Boys.
WW1 poetry analysis. Ted Hughes.
English GCSE and IGCSE component for English Literature
Details of Ted Hughes poems and comparison between his poems and others.
Prof. OP Budholia and Dr Naveen K Mehta's Compilation of the Study Stuff in the larger benefit and interest of student community .
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Prof. OP Budholia and Dr Naveen K Mehta's Compilation of the Study Stuff in the larger benefit and interest of student community .
Greatly acknowledge all the sources......
These are some poems by Philip Hughes and also some influences on his poetry. These make for some interesting reading.These have been compiled by Proff Mc Kenzie from the University of Johannesburg.
In this presentation, I outline the 5 elements of a powerful story, and how we can make an impact on those around us. The presentation was given to a group of staff at Camp Rockmont for Boys.
WW1 poetry analysis. Ted Hughes.
English GCSE and IGCSE component for English Literature
Details of Ted Hughes poems and comparison between his poems and others.
Prof. OP Budholia and Dr Naveen K Mehta's Compilation of the Study Stuff in the larger benefit and interest of student community .
Greatly acknowledge all the sources......
Prof. OP Budholia and Dr Naveen K Mehta's Compilation of the Study Stuff in the larger benefit and interest of student community .
Greatly acknowledge all the sources......
These are some poems by Philip Hughes and also some influences on his poetry. These make for some interesting reading.These have been compiled by Proff Mc Kenzie from the University of Johannesburg.
This presentation is prepared to assist students to understand American Poet's Robert Frost's famous sonnet Design.
This presentation is not a mere creation of the author, as it is based on various sources and purely designed to assist students in their examination. Quality of this presentation cannot be compared with original text and genuine resources. Students are advised to prefer the authentic texts and resources for better results.
An e-book review copy of BARROW, a volume of Lao American speculative poetry that examines what would happen if a word had an entire book to explore its definition of what it does and does not mean.
INTRODUCTION Hans Ckristian Andersen Cruelty and violen.docxnormanibarber20063
INTRODUCTION:
Hans Ckristian Andersen
Cruelty and violence have often been seen as the signature of German
fairy tales, but P. L. Travers, the British writer who created Mary Pop-
pins, found the Grimms' tales downright tame by comparison to the
stories composed by Hans Christian Andersen:
How much rather would I see wicked stepmothers boiled in o i l -
all over in half a second—than bear the protracted agony of the
Little Mermaid or the girl who wore the Red Shoes. There, if you
like, is cruelty, sustained, deliberate, contrived. Hans Andersen lets
no blood. But his tortures, disguised as piety, are subtle, often
demoralizing.1
Travers's objection, framed as a protest against the duration and func-
tion of the punishment, fails to make a more important point about
the target of torture. While the Grimms may boil stepmothers in oil or
send them down hills in barrels studded with nails, they rarely allow
children to endure torture. Andersen, by contrast, promotes what many
readers might perceive as a cult of suffering, death, and transcendence
for children rivaled only by what passed for the spiritual edification of
children in Puritan cultures.
Nowhere is the effort to celebrate the virtues of physical distress and
spiritual anguish more pronounced than in " T h e Little Match Girl," a
story with remarkable staying power. Hardly a year goes by without a
new American edition, in large format, with lavish illustrations, clearly
intended to appeal to children and often issued in the holiday season.
Yet this is a tale hardly designed to buoy spirits. T o the contrary, An-
dersen strains his verbal resources to construct a scene of abject suffer-
ing. T h e "hungry and shivering" [233] heroine in the story's title is not
only subjected to freezing temperatures, she must also witness the gay
festivities around her (lights shine through the windows). Although she
has a home (wind whistles through its cracks), she dares not return to
it, for she has not earned a single penny and her father is sure to beat
Bracketed page numbers refer to this Norton Critical Edition.
1. P. L. Travers, "The Black Sheep," in What the Bee Knows: Reflections on Myth, Symbol and
Story (Wellingborough, Northamptonshire: Aquarium, 1989) 2 2 9 - 3 4 .
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her. Punctuated with increasingly urgent reports of the dropping tem-
perature, Andersen's narrative builds to a climactic finale in which the
little match girl is embraced by her dead grandmother ("the only one
who had been kind to her" [234]).
Just what is it that compels us to read to children a story that cul-
minates in a "little dead body" [ 2 3 4 ], a girl "frozen to death" [234]?
William Bennett gives us one answer in the caption that introduces the
story in his best-selling Book of Virtues: " T o feel another's anguish—
this is the essence of compassion. Here is a Hans Christian Andersen
masterpiece, a simple, tragic story that stirs pity in every c.
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