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Question: TMA 02 Part 2 Literature Read John Keat’s Sonnet, “When I have fears that I may cease to be” ( resource book 1, A39). In not more than 300 words, write an analysis of the sonnet basing your response on the questions below. 1. Comment on the use of repetition. (e.g. “when”, “before”, “never”.) 2. What is the relationship between the octave and the sestet? 3. What part do the different rhymes, including the final couplet, play in conveying the meaning of the sonnet?

Answer: Keats begins by setting the tone for the sonnet, “When I have fears…”, indicating the major theme that is to run throughout. In the first two quatrains he writes about the fear of dying young, fearing he will not have the time he needs to fulfil himself as a writer and the third quatrain fearing that he will lose his beloved. Farming metaphors, “rich garners the full-ripen’d grain”, em......(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

Question: With careful reference to two of the works studied in Block 5, show how attributes traditionally associated with masculinity and femininity are contrasted.

Answer: As one might expect, there are many contrasts between the characteristics credited to the characters of an ancient Greek tragedy and a Victorian play renowned for exposing Shaw’s feminist views. However there are many similarities to be found also, regarding the attributes traditionally associated with masculinity and femininity. There are several strong, well-developed characters in both Pygmal......(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

Question: With careful reference to two of the works studied in Block 5, show how attributes traditionally associated with masculinity and femininity are contrasted.

Answer: As one might expect, there are many contrasts between the characteristics credited to the characters of an ancient Greek tragedy and a Victorian play renowned for exposing Shaw’s feminist views. However there are many similarities to be found also, regarding the attributes traditionally associated with masculinity and femininity. There are several strong, well-developed characters in both Pygmal......(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

Question: In what ways does the writer’s use of language convey the different moods she describes?

Answer: In this extract from her autobiographical novel “Hidden Lives”, Margaret Forster uses a variety of language devices to convey the changing mood as she realises that her education is to continue at the High School. The mood changes can be separated into two main categories, which happen to be divided by the two paragraphs. These feelings are initially conveyed by Forsters’ word choice. W......(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

Question: Read “To My Books”, a sonnet by Caroline Norton (1808-77). Write a critical analysis of the poem in 300-400 words, paying particular attention to form, imagery and voice.

Answer: The sonnet is an extremely powerful and well-constructed form of poetry with several defining features: a strong rhyme scheme, the progression of ideas through its fourteen lines and the appealing voice of a dramatised speaker. Caroline Norton’s poem, “To My Books”, exemplifies the major attributes of the sonnet form. In poetry ‘form’ is the structure and arrangement of words, and in......(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

Question: Answer one of the following questions with reference to two, (or, at the most, three) novels, one of which must be Dracula, The Awakening or Heart of Darkness. Question 3 Simon Eliot Claims that ‘the world of books and publishing was revolutionized by the end of the nineteenth century’ (Identities, p331). How far has your understanding of your chosen novels been enhanced by study of the material factors affecting novels and their publication?

Answer: It is important when trying fully understand and appreciate a novel, to take account of the context in which it was written – both historically and culturally – and the nineteenth century was a period of great change in the literary and publishing worlds. At the beginning of the century the publishing world remained much as it had done since Gutenberg’s printing revolution four centuries bef......(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

Question: Action is portrayed in different ways in different genres. Discuss the way in which action is portrayed in the texts you have studied in Block 5.

Answer: Action is the driving force at the heart of any text, whether it takes on the form of a poem, a play, a novel or even an opera. Obviously there are limitations which authors put on themselves by choosing to write in a particular genre and this affects the final presentation of action in their piece. The play and the novel are two such genres and George Bernard Shaw’s play “Pygmalion” and J......(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

Question: In an essay of 1500 words, explore the theme of the creation of women’s identities in The Color Purple and one other prose text from Literature and Gender, with a detailed examination of how the form of each fiction contributes to the impact of the narratives.

Answer: The female identity is an important theme in Alice Walker’s, The Color Purple and Jamaica Kincaid’s short story, ‘Girl’. These texts explore the way women are regarded by society and their individual responses to these expectations which are forced on them. The fictions’ differ greatly, however, in their presentation of the theme, which goes beyond just the differing genres into a vari......(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

Question: Option B: ‘All art is quite useless’ (Oscar Wilde, A Twentieth Century Literature Reader, p 8). Debate this proposition in relation to Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song.

Answer: Sunset Song has recently been voted Scotland’s favourite book at a poll announced at last years Edinburgh International Book Festival. One university professor, although agreeing with the result, called it an “uncontroversial, so-what choice” (Professor Maley, Sunday Herald, 28 August 2005). Of course, at the time of its publication in 1932 the novel was anything but uncontroversial.......(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

Question: Write an essay of 1500 words, in which you compare and contrast the following Romantic poem and an extract from a Romantic poem: Blake’s ‘The Schoolboy’ from Songs of Innocence and Byron’s Don Juan, canto 1, stanzas 37-48.

Answer: Byron’s Don Juan and Blake’s ‘The Schoolboy’ are both examples of poems from the Romantic era written by two of the most famous and admired Romantic poets. They share a number of common poetic devices, however, it is apparent they handle their subject matter through differing poetic form and language which creates unique final works. William Blake’s poem ‘The Schoolboy’, taken fr......(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

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