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Meaning. The rule of three can refer to a collection of three words, phrases, sentences, lines, paragraphs/stanzas, chapters/sections of writing and even whole books. [ 2][ 4] The three elements together are known as a triad. [ 5] The technique is used not just in prose, but also in poetry, oral storytelling, films, and advertising.
Antithesis ( pl.: antitheses; Greek for "setting opposite", from ἀντι- "against" and θέσις "placing") is used in writing or speech either as a proposition that contrasts with or reverses some previously mentioned proposition, or when two opposites are introduced together for contrasting effect. [ 1][ 2] Antithesis can be defined as "a ...
These range from cultural or religious issues and historical precedents, through interplay with existing conditions, to the secondary or tertiary effects in a cascade of interactions that we are not aware of. [12] On the subject of art history, McLuhan interpreted Cubism as announcing clearly that the medium is the message. For him, Cubist art ...
Ode to a Nightingale. " Ode to a Nightingale " is a poem by John Keats written either in the garden of the Spaniards Inn, Hampstead, London or, according to Keats' friend Charles Armitage Brown, under a plum tree in the garden of Keats' house at Wentworth Place, also in Hampstead. According to Brown, a nightingale had built its nest near the ...
The poem was written in 1919 in the aftermath of the First World War [ 4] and the beginning of the Irish War of Independence in January 1919, which followed the Easter Rising in April 1916, and before the British government had decided to send in the Black and Tans to Ireland. Yeats used the phrase "the second birth" instead of "the Second ...
John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25. They were indifferently received in his lifetime, but his fame grew rapidly ...
Lacan uses his concept of the letter to distance himself from the Jungian approach to symbols and the unconscious.Whereas Jung believes that there is a collective unconscious which works with symbolic archetypes, Lacan insists that we must read the productions of the unconscious à la lettre - in other words, literally to the letter (or, more specifically, the concept of the letter which Lacan ...
Faunus. Inuus. In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Pan ( / pæn /; [ 2] Ancient Greek: Πάν, romanized : Pán) is the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, rustic music and impromptus, and companion of the nymphs. [ 3] He has the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goat, in the same manner as a faun or satyr.