Abstract This paper describes the meaning and construction of John Keats' sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" and explains that it was written as an immediate response to the revelation experienced by Keats on first reading George Chapman's classic translation of Homer's epic the "Odyssey". The paper further relates that Keats' poem expresses his excitement about what he has just discovered in reading Chapman's work, which leads him to want to make more discoveries about himself and about the world, especially the world of ancient times.
From the Paper "As is the case with the sonnet form, this sonnet is in fourteen lines. The rhyme scheme may vary in different types of sonnet, and Keats her uses a scheme of ABBA ABBA CDCDCD. The Shakespearian sonnet would normally end with a couplet, but Keats does not do that, effectively using two quatrains followed by a six-line conclusion. The meter for the sonnet is iambic pentameter, with variations that emphasize words and thoughts. for instance, line 10 is ... a line that is hard to read in strict iambic pentameter and that begins with a trochee, an accented followed by an unaccented syllable, followed by a spondee, with two accented syllables."
Tags: romanticism travel discovery, rhyme scheme, meter
Abstract This paper looks at the personal life and professional achievements of Mercer. It tells how he was founder of the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works (1912), where he was the chief designer for many years. This paper discusses his interests, how they ranged from architecture to archeology and how his work was influenced by various architectural schools, especially the Art and Crafts Movement.
From the Paper "Mercer was heavily influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement and became an important proponent of its style and ideas in America. The pottery works flourished and Mercer's designs for decorative tiles became popular. They were featured in a number of public buildings but the most notable installations of his tiles are to be found in his castle-like home, Fonthill, in Doylestown in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. This home, Mercer's museum, and his tile works all reflect the eclectic 'medievalism' that characterized much of Arts and Crafts architecture in England and the United States. And, although he drew on many sources of inspiration, his tiles often display themes and stylistic features similar to those of the movement's designers. Mercer's accomplishments in design have never earned him wide fame, yet the work is very fine and an excellent example of how the influence of the Arts and Crafts movement flourished in America."
A comparison of their poems - John Keats's poem, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" with Samuel T. Coleridge's poem, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 2 sources, 2002, $ 26.95
Abstract This paper compares and contrasts John Keats's poem, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" with Samuel T. Coleridge's poem, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." The author focuses on detailed close reading of the poems and detailed commentary.
Abstract This paper analyses the satirical play "Eastward Ho", written early in 1605- the joint creation of Ben Jonson, George Chapman and John Marston. It discusses the underlying themes throughout the play and examines their dramatic effectiveness. In particular, it reviews the Royal Shakespeare Company's (RSC) dramatisation.
From the Paper "The final two scenes of the play take place in a prison. The prisoners are chained to the central balcony; sitting with their legs hanging through the bars leaving the audience with the definite impression these people aren?t going anywhere anytime soon. This particular piece of staging was effective as the theme of imprisonment (both physical and social) runs through the play, example including a Goldsmith's daughter trying unsuccessfully to wed a knight in an attempt to raise her social class and the physical imprisonment of that same knight due to his poverty- another form of incarceration."
Abstract Tracy Chapman's song, "Fast Car", tells the story of lovers who desperately want to escape poverty, but can?t find a way out. Neal Bower's poem, "Driving Lessons", discusses a son who is in the middle of his parents? unhappy marriage. This paper explains that, while they tell very different stories on the surface, the two are similar in theme and the type of imagery used. Both use driving as a metaphor, questioning the traditional idea of driving as freedom, instead seeing driving as a symbol of being trapped. Both ?Fast Car and "Driving Lessons" deal with the inevitability of family obligation, and loneliness is a theme throughout the song and the poem.
From the Paper "Unlike the traditional idea of the car as a means to freedom, both "Fast Car" and ?Driving Lessons prove that one cannot drive away from problems. In ?Fast Car,? Chapman's protagonist initially sees the car as a means of escape from her dreary, everyday life, but she soon realizes that her problems go deeper than immediate location. At first her lover's fast car seem like the way to freedom, but she eventually realizes that this freedom is an illusion: "You got a fast car/And we go cruising to entertain ourselves/You still ain't got a job/And I work in a market as a checkout girl" (Chapman). Despite the fast car and the physical ability to escape, she and lover remain mired in their poverty and cannot escape. In the end, the song's protagonist gives up on the idea of driving to freedom: "I'd always hoped for better/Thought maybe together you and me would find it/I got no plans/I ain't going nowhere/So take your fast car and keep on driving" (Chapman)."
Abstract This paper examines how the Romantic poets, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and John Keats all used poetry to chronicle visionary moments, or moments of clarity inspired by dreams or by nature, which reveal truths that would remain hidden in everyday life. It looks at how illustrations of such experiences can be seen in much of these poets' work, but is especially notable in Wordsworth's "Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known," Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," and Keats's "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer."
From the Paper "While "Strange fits of passion have I known," with its pseudo-supernatural subject of a full moon foretelling ominous events, arguably contains a hint of the paranormal; Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is fairly drenched with matters of the supernatural, chronicling a voyage fraught with spiritual intervention of all types. Let us concern ourselves, however, with the first spirit that comes to visit the doomed ship's crew; which arrives in the form of an albatross. Arriving with a wind propelling them north after a storm sends the ship southward, the crew welcomes the sight of this bird as a benevolent spirit, which then continues to follow the ship."
Abstract The paper begins with a description of the abolitionist movement. The role of white women in the movement is then discussed, including motivations for involvement, such as empathy with others considered second-class citizens, and personal relationships with slaves.
From the Paper "During the 1800's when the anti-slave movement began the main champions for the ending of slavery other than slaves themselves were white women. White women sympathized and even helped slaves; one notable example was the Underground Railroad, where some white women risked their homes and possibly even their lives to help slaves escape to the North. Some white women stood side by side in full public view with slaves proudly demonstrating their support for the anti slavery movement. On the surface it would seem that white women and slaves would have very little if anything at all in common. However, such an assumption would be far from the truth. The abolitionist movement was about human suffering and human rights, the quest for justice, liberty, equality and freedom resounded within the hearts and minds of women who silently longed to be free themselves. While it was whites that enslaved Blacks, it was primarily white men who involved themselves in the business of buying and selling slaves, it was white men who owned the property and the land that the slaves toiled on day and night. At the same time, white women had few if any rights. White women felt as if the same shackles that bound the slaves bound them as well. The words orated by slaves who spoke of the yearning to be free also struck a cord among women. Women begin to take issue with slavery and later as history revealed women began to fight for freedom for themselves. It was the above-mentioned reasons that women were so attracted to the anti slavery movement, and pursued the cause with a vengeance."
Examines the views on education put forth in black literature, including Haley's "The Autobiography of Malcolm X", Aidoo's "No Sweetmess Here", Chapman's "Black Voices" and Oyono's "Houseboy".
2,925 words (approx. 11.7 pages), 4 sources, 1990, $ 103.95
From the Paper " The position of blacks in America today remains an issue that is much argued. After almost four decades of the Civil Rights movement, the degree of change in the black community, while real and noticeable, also remains inadequate. Blacks have achieved positions of power, are less subject to institutional racism than in the past, and have redress in the courts and even in the court of public opinion that was once denied them. Yet, the black community remains disproportionately poor, uneducated or undereducated, and unemployed. Education is seen as the key to success in America, and every immigrant and ethnic group has eventually come to the conclusion that education for the next generation will give that generation a leg up on the ladder of success in American life. We still believe this today, even in an era of diminished expectations, but blacks seem to have been..."
Abstract Women in the Australian workplace are still earning just 83% of a man's wages for the same work, 32 years after a decision to grant equal pay to all Australians. This paper examines the issue of discrimination against women in Australia. It includes legislation, precedents, status under the law, historical and current positions, women's role in society, United Nations statements and media reports.
From the Paper "WOMEN hold a 1.3 per cent of executive positions in Australia, a new United Nations report has revealed. The report also found Australian women in management jobs were paid 12 per cent less than their male counterparts, despite often being more qualified. Titled Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling: Women in Management, the report was done by UN agency the International Labour Organisation. Its Australian author, Ms Linda Wirth, said women were being discriminated against as soon as they entered the work force. "You don't tend to get outright discrimination as in different pay for the same work - the problem is women are not doing the same work as men," she said."
Abstract This essay reviews the events that followed the murder of John Lennon. There are three general areas of interest discussed. These are the facts surrounding the murder and the arrest and imprisonment of Marc David Chapman; the survivors of John Lennon (i.e., his sons and wife); and the status of the Lennon estate. This essay asserts that John Lennon has been excessively marketed and commodified since his death, and that music audiences are consumers of death as much as they are of music.
Abstract Examines the influence of the Arts and Crafts Movement and William Morris, Mercer's early life, his architectural projects, and the founding of the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works in 1912, where he was chief designer.
From the Paper "Henry Chapman Mercer (1856-1930) is best known today as the founder of the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works (1912), where he was the chief designer for many years, and as the architect and builder of several unusual structures. Mercer was heavily ..."
Abstract Discusses conceptual binary of culture and nature in the three plays: Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Eastward Ho" by George Chapman, Ben Jonson, and John Martson.
From the Paper "The purpose of this brief report is to examine three plays - Shakespeare's Measure for Measure and A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as Eastward Ho by George Chapman, Ben Jonson, and John Marston - ..."
Abstract This paper examines John Keats's "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"
and Charles Simic's "Stone". It shows that, in both of these poems, one written during the Romantic era of English letters, the other a modern expression of poetic and personal development as mirrored in the natural world, the central conflict is: how can the poet apprehend and appreciate what is beautiful outside himself? It also asks what kind of beauty enriches human life and expression and how is this achieved.
From the Paper "Keats thus adapts the Elizabethan love and faith in structured, ordered, and beautiful expressions of cerebral thought, even for romantic ideals, in his sonnet. In Keats? case, however, the subject matter is not Shakespeare's fair young man or dark lady, but the text of Homer. The choice of a romantic, rarified, logical yet passionate form is thus quite a deliberate plea, upon Keats? part, to parallel affection for a woman or beloved friend with affection for a once-inaccessible yet beautiful literary text and tradition. As sonnets were used to open the hearts of cold or chaste females, so the translation of Chapman has opened the heart of Keats to a form of poetic expression, once closed, like a stone?a stone, unlike the runes upon the inside of Simic's stone, that can be opened."
Tags: metaphor, classical, victorian, sonnet, Homer
Abstract This paper examines modern art, in particular ,that which is referred to as "apocalypse art" and examines the interactions between art and technology. Specifically, paper looks at the new dimensions that technology has contributed to the rendering of art as well as what contribution or impact that art has rendered to technology. The methodology for this study is examination of several artists and scholars who are in some way interconnected in this process of producing apocalypse art. Artists discussed include Joe-Peter Witkin, Roy Ascott, and Dinos and Jake Chapman.
From the Paper "The social impact of the new art-technology relationship is quite simply due to knowledge being more plentiful than at any other time in recorded history. To further expand on that element it must be understood that the application of knowledge, as well as man's integration with knowledge, has not at any time in history been so cohesive with each other. This is due to the global society now established in the world which is aided by the science of computing which brings all knowledge, all applications and all the minds of men together in one vast conglomerate freeway of information."
Abstract This paper explains that the history of the League of Women Voters begins with the very inception of the Women's Movement and the fight for liberation in the United States. Carrie Chapman Catt founded the League of Women Voters in 1920 during the Chicago convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. The author points out that a central characteristic of the League is its inclusive attitude and its non-partisan nature, which provides an unbiased platform for debate and decision making. The paper relates that, since its inception, the League of Women Voters, which is organized at the grassroots level, has dealt with numerous issues covering a wide range of social, political issues, environmental and conservation issues.
Table of Contents
Introduction and Overview
The League of Women Voters
The Purpose and Function
Important Events and Actions
The League Today
Conclusion
From the Paper "Not only was the League of Women Voters constituted to continue the "mighty experiment" in women's rights and continue the work that had lead to the female vote; but it was also to "help 20 million women carry out their new responsibilities as voters." An important reason for the creation of the League was that Catt and many other women in the suffrage movement realized winning suffrage was only the beginning of the struggle towards full rights and privileges for women within society. They also realized that there was a large amount of education of women voters needed if the full liberation of women was to be achieved."
