In the Name of God

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Q1/ A paradox is an obvious contradiction this is nonetheless someway actual. It

can be both a state of affairs or a statement. In a paradoxical statement, the
contradiction normally stems from one of the phrases getting used figuratively or
with a couple of denotation. The cost of paradox is in its surprise cost. Its seeming
impossibility startles the reader into interest and, through the truth of its obvious
absurdity, underscores the reality of what's being said.
Q2/ Overstatement, or hyperbole, is without a doubt exaggeration, however
exaggeration in carrier of the reality. Like all figures of speech, overstatement can
be used with a whole lot of effects. It can be funny or grave, fanciful or restrained,
convincing or unconvincing. When Tennyson says of his eagle "near the solar in
lonely lands," he says what seems to be actually actual, aleven though we realize
from our have a look at of astronomy it's far not. When Frost says, at the belief of
"The Road Not Taken," "I will be telling this with a sigh someplace a while and a
while hence," we're scarcely privy to the overstatement, so quietly is the
announcement made. Unskillfully used, however, overstatement can also
additionally appear strained and ridiculous.
It is paradoxical that you will emphasize a reality both through overstating it or
through understating it. Understatement, or pronouncing much less than one
means, can also additionally exist in what one says or simply in how one says it. If,
for instance, upon sitting right all the way down to a loaded dinner plate, you say,
"This looks as if a pleasant snack," you're honestly declaring much less than the
reality; however in case you say, with the stand-up comedian Atrium’s Ward, that
a person who holds his hand for 1/2 of an hour in a lighted hearthplace will
experience "a sensation of immoderate and unpleasant warmth," you're declaring
what's actually actual however with a bargain much less pressure than the state of
affairs warrants. Understatement is used on occasion due to the fact a poet cannot
locate the proper phrases to explain the state of affairs. Trying to explain the state
of affairs does not paintings as it does not suit the depth of the incident.
Q3/ Sarcasm and satire each suggest ridicule, one at the colloquial level, the
alternative at the literary level. Sarcasm is without a doubt sour or slicing speech,
supposed to wound the feelings (it comes from a Greek phrase which means to rip
flesh). Satire is a greater formal term, normally carried out to written literature in
place of to speech and mainly implying a better motive: it's miles ridicule (both
sour or gentle) of human folly or vice, with the motive of bringing approximately
reform or as a minimum of preserve different humans from falling into comparable
folly or vice.
Satire example - "Barbie Doll" - Marge Piercy (!!!! additionally verbal irony !!!!)
— satire (critique) towards society's norms. The female did now no longer die
society's unrealistic requirements for women. She turned into glad till center
college while a person judged her. She turned into sturdy and smart, however she
turned into rejected and taken into consideration inferior and those most effective
noticed her as a fats nostril and thick legs. She had a lot of these excellent qualities,
however she apologized to humans for her nostril and legs. She misplaced her self
esteem and it drove her to dedicate suicide. Barbie doll represents some thing
perfect, an "ideal" body. Irony withinside the first stanza: "magic of puberty." It is
commonly some thing positive, like a fairytale, however while her and the others
hit puberty, they commenced judging her. She felt uglier in place of prettier.
“The Sun Rising” by John Donne (p. 816)
1. Offices means a duty or responsibly and alchemy was a method for supposedly
turning metals into gold which in Donne’s time had been debunked by science as a
scam.
2. There is no specific time or location other than perhaps the morning since the
sun is disrupting them and according to speaker the bedroom in which him and his
lover are in. Otherwise, the speaker explicitly says that he and his lover are outside
of time “Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime, Nor hours, days, months,
which are the rags of time.” The three “persons” in the poem are the speaker, his
lover, and the sun
3. In stanzas 1 and 2 the speaker is irritated with the sun because of it interrupting
his lazy morning with his lover. This is shown when he calls the sun a “Busy old
fool”, “unruly”, a “Saucy pedantic wretch” and so on. He finds the sun to be
annoying and unimportant in comparison to him and his lover. In the last stanza
the speaker pities the sun, and thus the initial attitude, chasing away the powerful
sun, changes to welcoming his warmth and attention.

4.The overstatements are

9-10: Lovers, he says, are not governed by the sun with his "rags of time"--seasons,
hours, days, months

13: he can shut them out merely by blinking, though he won't do so because that
would mean not looking at his love.

15: With a traditional overstated metaphor, he suggests that his love's eyes are so
bright that they might blind the sun himself;

16-20:but if they have not, then the sun should go off on his daily inspection of the
world, and return--tomorrow (as he inevitably will)--to report whether the East and
West Indies, sources of spices and gold, haven't left their accustomed places to
gather into the person of his love, here in the bed. And if the sun in his journey
should ask for all the kings of the world, he will be told that they too have left their
kingdoms, and are gathered into the person of the speaker.

21-24: The woman is all the nations, the speaker all their rulers--and there is
nothing left out there for the sun to shine upon. All those who call themselves
prince are imitations, as are their honor and their wealth.

29-30: Having reduced the world to that point, the speaker then pityingly tells the
weary old sun that he can do his job of warming the world merely by shining on
the two lovers, as he invites him to do.

5. If the sun should go off on his daily inspection of the world, and return--
tomorrow (as he inevitably will)--to report whether the East and West Indies,
sources of spices and gold, haven't left their accustomed places to gather into the
person of his love, here in the bed. And if the sun in his journey should ask for all
the kings of the world, he will be told that they too have left their kingdoms, and
are gathered into the person of the speaker.
 6- Thus the preliminary attitude, chasing away the effective solar, modifications
to welcoming his warm temperature and attention. What does the speaker
genuinely want, then? (And does he, literally, have any desire withinside the
matter?) Most of all he needs his female to overhear the extravagance of his reward
for her ant his claims of the significance in their love. The modifications in
attitude, from chiding the solar to denigrating his electricity to welcoming him into
the chamber, even as they may be inconsistent, have in not unusualplace the
subject matter that he and his love are advanced to the entire world, to the solar
itself. The highbrow playfulness of his dialogue, the wide-ranging references, even
the inconsistencies, mean "this female approach extra to me than the entire world."
The sprightliness of this "overheard" speech may have his female guffawing at his
outrageousness, however she couldn't assist being flattered via way of means of it.

The 1/3 stanza extends the metaphor of the sector shrunk into the only bed-
chamber.
Like "Batter my coronary heart, three-personed God" (web page 629), "The Flea"
(web page 674), and "Song: Go and capture a falling star" (web page 800), the
poem has a experience of immediacy bobbing up from the speaker's obvious
extrade of coronary heart or thoughts as he's speaking, in order that those poems
have the impact of motivating their very own conclusions out of the thoughts with
which they begin.
In the impertinent and colloquial starting lines, the speaker angrily chides the
busybody solar for interrupting the lovers. Let him pass elsewhere, remind
different humans for whom punctuality is a necessity (schoolboys, apprentices,
courtiers, farmers) that it's time for them to be up and busy; his peeping via their
curtains is mistaken and impolite (as impolite as is the speaker in addressing the
interloper) there may be neither the time nor the location for the solar to intrude, it
does renowned the solar's electricity in retaining the sector on time. But withinside
the 2d stanza the speaker denies that the solar's beams do have the electricity to
govern mankind.
“The Chimney Sweeper” through William Blake (p820)
1. The boy appears to have universal his lot in life. He would not recognise
something else, that is what he is been doing his complete life. In line 3 ("Could
scarcely cry 'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!") the boy is truly mentioning that he
became a tiny baby while he became offered to his master. The poet is sarcastic--
the boy became made right into a chimney sweep earlier than his tongue may want
to even shape the word.
Lines 7-8, ""Hush, Tom! in no way thoughts it, for while your head's bare, You
recognise that the soot can't smash your white hair."--at the same time as the boy
talking seems to be attempting the make the fine of his and his friend's situation,
the poet is mimicking the mind-set of folks who allow those boy be made into
sweepers. Complaints are met with "oh, it is now no longer so bad" and a cautious
does of spin.
Line 24, "So if all do their responsibility they want now no longer worry harm."--
again, the boy is making the fine of his situation, and imagining a glad destiny for
himself if he continues operating hard. The poet, on the alternative hand, is hinting
on the remedy of the boys. Obedient, hardworking boys do now no longer get
punished.
2. The black coffins are a traditional sign for death, and the black connects back to
chimney soot, thus Tom's dream is intended to represent a look into the afterlife of
the chimney sweepers. It's conceivable that the word was adopted because a
chimney, like a coffin, is gloomy and confining on the inside. The poem's
symbolism is as follows: the chimney sweepers represent life and its travails, while
the soot represents sin. This is why the poem contrasts black and soot with white
and cleanliness ("in soot I sleep," "soot cannot stain your white hair," "coffins of
black," "bright key," "shine in the light," "naked and white," "rose in the dark")
White is used as a traditional emblem for celestial purity by Blake. The Angel in
the poem appears to be cosmic irony; while the hereafter is meant to be happy, it
doesn't seem to enhance the sweepers' current existence in any manner.