Insightful Prose?? - Page 2

Lady Blue03 · 06-10-2002, 07:54 PM

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Originally posted by Madman-Rogovich:
okay.... got any Peter Straub ?? wait who have you got what are your options

Ive never heard of him

Anything and anyone are options, i was thinking of taking something out of Margaret Georges 'Memoirs of Cleopatra', but its like friggin 1000 pages long and dont know what part to do

Lady Blue03 · 06-10-2002, 07:56 PM

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Originally posted by Sir Goulum:
Lord of the Rings has LOTS of stuff like that. Why don't you root around in there? If you have the books, of course!

I know LotR has that stuff! I analyzed that book front to back! But thats exactly why im not doing LotR, i already have

Madman-Rogovich · 06-10-2002, 07:58 PM

can you do poetry some of wilfred owen's war poetry is really good for what your looking for.. and you can find that online

06-10-2002, 08:04 PM

I bet you can find something Here!

Below the big red box are links to drama and war poems...they have wilfred owen's stuff there too.

How about Emily Dickenson's Death Sets

[ 06-10-2002, 08:09 PM: Message edited by: Moni ]

Madman-Rogovich · 06-10-2002, 08:12 PM

I hope Moni's links are helpful as im goin to bed!

GOOD LUCK IN YOUR EXAM TOMORROW!

Lady Blue03 · 06-10-2002, 08:20 PM

Thank you Margovich(hope i spelled it right!)
Im not aloud to do poetry, i think ive found an xerpt from Cleopatra that could work, tell me what you think:

The sun had crept up in the sky, and the marvelous shadows of the Sphinx were disappearing. I stared at the melancholy face of the creature. Had we been here at dawn, we would have seen his face bathed in those first rays that are pink and soft, for he faces east. He has greeted the rising of Re for-how many years? No one knows. We believe he is the oldest thing on earth. Who built him? We do not know. Why? We do not know. Is he to guard the pyrmaids? Were they built to lie under his protection? A mystery. Sand covers his paws, and every few hundered years it is dug away. The desert blows it in again, and he settles down in his soft, golden bed. He rests, but does not sleep.

Now thats good

. I think i even see some irony in those last sentences there. Not to much Figuritive Langy though...

Attalus · 06-10-2002, 08:28 PM

How about Dante? Oops, you said no poetry. The first paragraph in Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities is pretty famous for it, the one that begins, "It was the best of times,it was the worst of times."

06-10-2002, 08:30 PM

Doh!! I don't know how I missed your post clearly stating No Poetry!
[img]graemlins/1dizzy.gif[/img]
My apologies!
Good Luck on the exam!

Lady Blue03 · 06-10-2002, 08:31 PM

I dont have any of that either. I think i might go with my exerpt, just gotta analyze it now [img]tongue.gif[/img]

DeSoya · 06-10-2002, 08:45 PM

I've heard the last page of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" termed as "The most poetic representation of the failiure of the American Dream". It's prose.
If it's metaphors that you want try looking at K.C. Cole's "First You Build A Cloud" or any book by Lawrence Krauss (The physics of Star Trek is one of his). The idea being that they are well spoken, easy to understand authors that use an incredible amount of metaphor and smilie because the subject they cover (physics) demands it. And some of the writing is quite funny too. Big plus.

DeSoya

06-10-2002, 07:58 PM	#13
Madman-Rogovich Lord Soth Join Date: October 23, 2001 Location: Edinburgh Age: 38 Posts: 1,918	can you do poetry some of wilfred owen's war poetry is really good for what your looking for.. and you can find that online __________________ One room, one axe, one outcome.

06-10-2002, 08:12 PM	#15
Madman-Rogovich Lord Soth Join Date: October 23, 2001 Location: Edinburgh Age: 38 Posts: 1,918	I hope Moni's links are helpful as im goin to bed! GOOD LUCK IN YOUR EXAM TOMORROW! __________________ One room, one axe, one outcome.

06-10-2002, 08:20 PM	#16
Lady Blue03 Xanathar Thieves Guild Join Date: January 18, 2002 Age: 38 Posts: 4,557	Thank you Margovich(hope i spelled it right!) Im not aloud to do poetry, i think ive found an xerpt from Cleopatra that could work, tell me what you think: The sun had crept up in the sky, and the marvelous shadows of the Sphinx were disappearing. I stared at the melancholy face of the creature. Had we been here at dawn, we would have seen his face bathed in those first rays that are pink and soft, for he faces east. He has greeted the rising of Re for-how many years? No one knows. We believe he is the oldest thing on earth. Who built him? We do not know. Why? We do not know. Is he to guard the pyrmaids? Were they built to lie under his protection? A mystery. Sand covers his paws, and every few hundered years it is dug away. The desert blows it in again, and he settles down in his soft, golden bed. He rests, but does not sleep. Now thats good . I think i even see some irony in those last sentences there. Not to much Figuritive Langy though... __________________ Yep I'm still lurking!

06-10-2002, 08:31 PM	#19
Lady Blue03 Xanathar Thieves Guild Join Date: January 18, 2002 Age: 38 Posts: 4,557	I dont have any of that either. I think i might go with my exerpt, just gotta analyze it now [img]tongue.gif[/img] __________________ Yep I'm still lurking!

06-10-2002, 08:45 PM	#20
DeSoya Manshoon Join Date: March 27, 2002 Location: Boulder, CO Age: 45 Posts: 199	I've heard the last page of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" termed as "The most poetic representation of the failiure of the American Dream". It's prose. If it's metaphors that you want try looking at K.C. Cole's "First You Build A Cloud" or any book by Lawrence Krauss (The physics of Star Trek is one of his). The idea being that they are well spoken, easy to understand authors that use an incredible amount of metaphor and smilie because the subject they cover (physics) demands it. And some of the writing is quite funny too. Big plus. DeSoya __________________ \"We all enter this world in the same way: naked; screaming; soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn\'t have to stop there.\" <br />Dana Gould

06-10-2002, 08:04 PM	#14
Moni Guest Posts: n/a	I bet you can find something Here! Below the big red box are links to drama and war poems...they have wilfred owen's stuff there too. How about Emily Dickenson's Death Sets [ 06-10-2002, 08:09 PM: Message edited by: Moni ]

06-10-2002, 08:28 PM	#17
Attalus Symbol of Bane Join Date: November 26, 2001 Location: Texas Age: 75 Posts: 8,167	How about Dante? Oops, you said no poetry. The first paragraph in Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities is pretty famous for it, the one that begins, "It was the best of times,it was the worst of times."

06-10-2002, 08:30 PM	#18
Moni Guest Posts: n/a	Doh!! I don't know how I missed your post clearly stating No Poetry! [img]graemlins/1dizzy.gif[/img] My apologies! Good Luck on the exam!

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