Customer objectives for its three strategic themes
Develop loyal and generous supporters
There are two major elements to this goal of the opera company -- that of building customer loyalty and generosity. Funds from tickets are not enough alone, so the opera must solicit donations. Keeping track of donations is an essential metric to using a Balanced Scorecard approach. But there is another component of this metric -- determining the demographics from whom the donations are solicited. The BLO wishes to build its young, professional donor segment to ensure that the opera has a long, steady source of revenue from a growing rather than shrinking consumer base. Lowering the demographic age of the donors and also measuring the extent to which attendees at specific types of fundraisers become regular patrons is also required.
Build reputation on the national and international opera scene
Ultimately, an opera company's objective is to produce…...
John Keats: A lyric Poem compared to a narrative one
The poetry of John Keats:
Common themes in "La Belle Dame sans Merci" and "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
Both poems by John Keats "La Belle Dame sans Merci" and "Ode on a Grecian Urn" have a common theme: the transient nature of human desire. The poems reflect common Romantic preoccupations: exotic settings, art, and mysterious powers that serve to underline the limited nature of human love and desire. The ballad romance "La Belle Dame sans Merci" tells the story of a knight who is miserable after being abandoned by his lover, the fabled woman of the title. The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is written in the poet's own voice as he gazes on the work of classical Greek sculpture. The poet compares how reality is always changing and imperfect while art is eternal, including the static, artistic portrayals of the two…...
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Works Cited
Keats, John. "La Belle Dame Sans Merci." Poetry Foundation. 29 Nov 2014. Web.
Keats, John. "Ode to a Grecian Urn." Poetry Foundation. 29 Nov 2014. Web.
Debussy repeats this flute melody throughout the piece at different paces against a variety of chords. hile the overall form of the piece is considered to ABA, it is important to note how one section of the piece blends beautifully with the next. The piece has a continuous flow and it is so subtle that listeners are not tempted at any point to beat time to any rhythms.
The typical feeling of weightlessness that is associated with Impressionistic music and the simple act of repetition are what make this piece a success. e should also consider that "Prelude de L'apres Midi d'un Faune" was composed with the stage in mind. The intention of the piece was to leave listeners with something profound to think about long after the sound of the music stopped. Debussy was successful in that the piece had an effect that reached farther than any other French…...
Christopher Marlowe's short lyric "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" has exercised an influence on English verse which hardly seems indicated by the limpid faux-naif quality of the poem itself, written in simple four-line stanzas, each composed of a pair of simple rhymed octosyllablic couplets. R.S. Forsythe traces a whole host of imitations in English and in Continental verse of Marlowe's pastoral song, and concludes that
"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" has exercised, for over three hundred and thirty years, upon English poetry an influence, direct or indirect, which is equalled by that of few poems; second, that, probably because of the popularity of these verses, a literary device was created -- the invitation to love -- which, in one form or another, adapted in this way or that, has persisted down into our own days. (742)
But I would propose that an examination of the metaphor and simile in this…...
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Works Cited
Cheney, Patrick. "Career Rivalry and the Writing of Counter-Nationhood: Ovid, Spenser and Philomela in Marlowe's 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love'." English Literary History 65.3 (Fall 1998): 523-55. Print.
Forsythe, R.S. "The Passionate Shepherd and English Poetry." Proceedings of the Modern Language Assocation 40.3 (September 1925): 692-742. Print.
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Poetry has existed as a popular art form for many years. The following discussion will focus on what poetry, poets, and the lyric mean to illiam ordsworth as related in his PREFACE to Lyrical Ballads. The research will also connect John Stuart Mills and Roman Jakobson's definitions of poetry to that of ordsworth.
Poetry Poets and Lyric according to ordsworth
illiam ordsworth was one of the preeminent poets of the 20th century. He possessed powerful beliefs about the meaning of poetry poets and lyric which he expressed through his Preface to Lyrical Ballads. The initial paragraphs of the preface acknowledge that the type of poetry presented in the book differs greatly from the type of poetry that the general public, at the time had become familiar with reading. For this reason ordsworth felt the need to explain the poetry. ordsworth then goes on to explain that authors of the past made a…...
Beyonce Lyrics
The author of this brief report has been asked to analyze the lyrics of the song Formation by Beyonce, the pop and &B artist who is widely known to the American public. ather than just summarize and print out the lyrics, the author of this report will instead analyze and assess what they lyrics are saying. The contexts, backstory and societal implications behind what is being said will be analyzed along the way. The song will be broken down into snippets based on each point being made and what is being said. The size of the snippets will vary a little bit but will all be fairly self-contained on their own so that a full point can be made for each portion. While many songs out there in the pop music sphere are vague and leave some interpretation to the listeners, much of what is being said in Beyonce's…...
Citizen -- A Review & Analysis
It is without question that race relations and the treatment of minorities, black people in particular, has progressed and advanced significantly over the existence of the United States. Slavery was abolished nearly a century into the existence of the United States in 1865 and the Jim Crow era came to a halt in light of events like Brown v. Board of Education in the 1950's and the Civil Rights laws being passed in the 1960's. However, even though many to most of the abhorrent and soulless behaviors that typified the years before those events came to pass are now outlawed, what has instead emerged is a rather underground yet not impossible to notice pattern of black people being treated in a way that is clearly different, more negative and more violent than is the case with whites or even other classes of minorities. hile some…...
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Works Cited
Amazon. "Amazon.Com: Citizen: An American Lyric (9781555976903): Claudia Rankine:
Indeed, this is also clear in his occupation with both scientific, philosophical, and literary things. Being human in a well-rounded and complete way, despite the conflict he experiences regarding this, is the poet's triumph.
The conflict indicated in the poem is one that Lord Tennyson has experienced throughout his life, according to authors such as Andrew Lang. Indeed, as a boy he was continually investigating even early theories of evolution, long before it became socially fashionable to consider such issues. The poem is therefore the culmination of long years, not only of writing the poem itself, but also of deeply philosophical thought about scientific and biological issues.
Viewed in connection with the rest of the poem, Lyric CXX can then be seen as representing Tennyson's philosophical thought about death as representing hope within despair, loss, and sorrow. The loss of faith does not necessarily need to mean loss as a whole.…...
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References
Tennyson, Lord Alfred. "In Memoriam" Lyric CXX.
Secondary Texts:
Jacobs, Joseph. Tennyson and "in Memoriam": An Appreciation and a Study. BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2009.
The "blueblack cold" of a winter morning suggests the touch of cold and the sight of blue frost in the darkness. The "cracked hands" of the father who labors for his living appeals to a sense of cold, harsh touch. The son can "hear the cold splintering" and feel the "banked fires blaze," a contrast of the cold sound of ice and the warm crackling fire, and the contrasting sensations of cold and warmth.
The contrast between the physical, particularly the tactile sense of warm and cold, intensifies the sense of thwarted love the father feels for the boy, but cannot really show, except in rising early to make a fire and polish the boy's good shoes.
Figures of speech
Synecdoche: (a single thing that stands for larger meaning) Lighting a fire becomes a synecdoche or stand-in for the man's entire relationship with his son.
Hyperbole: The suggestion "No one ever thanked him"…...
Billy Collins' poem is a lyric poem because mainly it expresses highly personal emotions and feelings. Many lyric poems involve musical themes or tones, and in fact in Shakespeare's era the word "lyric" meant that the poem was accompanied by a musical instrument (a lyre). But while Collins' poem doesn't give off a musical idea or theme (unless the sound of a fork scratching across a granite table is music), it does use metaphor and achieves a dramatic impact.
The metaphor has two people, presumably married and in a love partnership who have divorced. (It is known that although un-married couples who have been together for a long time and break up are also involved essentially in a "divorce" of their partnership.) The metaphor of "two spoons" shows two people locked together, snuggling would be a good word, in a warm bed. "Tined" means prongs on a fork -- or it…...
La Boheme
Giaccomo Puccini's opera La Boheme is a mature work in the verismo mode in which the early aria "Che gelida manina" creates a dramatic situation that colors all that follows even as fragments from the aria appear again and again, tying together the lives of the common people portrayed in the opera. As E. Thomas Glasow writes, "In verismo scores, such motivic recall is common, putting greater emphasis on the dramatic effect of certain key situations" (Glasow 70). These fragments imitate the idea of the leitmotiv from agner, a theme that carries thematic weight and that reappears in different places in the opera to extend the deeper meaning of the action.
The poem itself has the simplicity of conversation, conveying the situation as Rodolfo holds Mimi's hand and reacts to her plight in a real and direct manner. One critic cites the lyrical elements in the poem and writes,
Rodolfo's first…...
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Works Cited
Carner, Mosco. Puccini: A Critical Biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959.
Glasow, Thomas E. Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera: From Rossini to Puccini. Portland, Oregon, 1995.
Pinda's Olympian
Histoy tells us that at the coe of the ideal citizen in Ancient Geece was a combination of intellectual undestanding (philosophy, science, etc.) and the manne in which the individual could bette his mind and body though athletic competition. In some city-states the intellectual was pedominant (Athens), in othes the physical natue of enduance, stength and competition (Spata). Contests in spot wee not just oganized to impove the health of the body, howeve, and athe than team spots it was moe the idea of the individual against his own ecod and othe individuals. In fact, the Geeks believed that thei passion fo athletics was one of the distinguishing factos that made them unique and special, and non-Geeks wee aely if eve allowed to compete in fomal games.
In Geek society, lyic poety seved many diffeent needs. Of couse it was to extol the vitue of heoes, to use language…...
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references to other times, places and stories, one feels that to really understand what is happening in the poem, one must look up terms, place names and stories continually. Yet there are also phrases that resonate with the professional athlete of modern times: Great danger does not come upon the spineless man, and yet, if we must die, why squat in the shadows…. As for me, I will undertake this exploit, and I beseech you: let me achieve it (Stand 3, Lines 81-4).
Like many poems, Pindar's Olympians seems meant to give advice to others on how to be great. Certainly, the idea of winning a victory sets one apart from his peers in that he has shown to both the Gods and others that he can conquer fear and adversity in the name of glory to both Greece and his city, but to elevate this victory into something that future generations will revere with great pride; much as they do modern Olympiads, the World Cup in Soccer, or the Super Bowl in American Football. Being a victor puts one in a special category: Peer no further into the beyond. For the time we have, may you continue to walk on high, and may I for as long consort with victors, conspicuous for my skill among Greeks everywhere (Stand 4, lines 114-16). Even though not everyone can win at individual competitions, participants were celebrated. However, it was the victor that remained the upmost hero of the story: He spoke, and his words found fulfillment: the god made him glow with gifts -- a golden chariot and winged horses never weary (Stand 3, lines 86-7). Special to the Greeks though, and bestowed upon only the best of the best in modern sports, the winner enjoyed a lifetime of awe, achievement and reverence from a grateful public.
In other words, the simile is more concrete and memorable than the green hill it is supposed to describe. The lack of 'realism' of the poem becomes even more evident through the use of such strange language: the use of language is more important than describing something 'real' like a hill.
If this were not extravagant enough, Coleridge piles yet another image on top of this one that asks the reader to imagine in terms of 'as if': "A mighty fountain momently was forced: / Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst/Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, / or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail." Again, the image of the fountain is actually less striking than the simile, the grain being threshed and the fierce hail.
Images piles on top of images, similes upon similes to the point that by the time the reader arrives in Kubla's palace, he or she has forgotten…...
Short story -- A brief story where the plot drives the narrative, substantially shorter than a novel. Example: "Hills like White Elephants," by Ernest Hemingway.
Allusion -- A casual reference in one literary work to a person, place, event, or another piece of literature, often without explicit identification. It is used to establish a tone, create an indirect association, create contrast, make an unusual juxtaposition, or bring the reader into a world of references outside the limitations of the story itself. Example: "The Wasteland" by T.S. Eliot alludes to "Paradise Lost" by John Milton.
epetition -- The repeating of a word or phrase or rhythm within a piece of literature to add emphasis. Example: The story of Agamemnon in The Odyssey by Homer.
Blank verse -- Unrhymed lines of ten syllables each with the even-numbered syllables bearing the accents, most closing resembling the natural rhythms of English speech. Example: "The Princess" by Alfred…...
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References:
Wheeler, Dr. L. Kip. "Literary Terms and Definitions." Web.
Florence + the Machine -- "Kiss With a Fist"
Florence + The Machine's "Kiss With a Fist" is a ballad that describes the volatile relationship that the singer had with a former boyfriend. In the song, the singer contends that any sort of emotional response is better than none. Florence sings, "A kick in the teeth is good for some/A kiss with a fist is better than none." In the song, violence is not limited to one party, but rather is reciprocated by both people in the relationship. The song describes all the terrible things that the couple do to each other from hitting, kicking, slapping, and smashing plates over the head. Despite the violent tendencies of both parties, the singer contends that they can force their relationship to work. This idea is expressed through the lyric "break the lock if it don't fit."
You can find great information on Scene 3 of A Streetcar Named Desire here: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/streetcar/section3.rhtml
The use of language varies a lot between Stanley (very coarse) and Blanche (full of lyric and emotion when she speaks about her husband). Symbolism is particularly important, because Tennessee Williams was very focused on more than just what was said by the characters. He wanted the people who read his work to experience more than just the words of the people in the story.
It's also possible to find the scene on YouTube so you can watch it and understand more about the motifs and....
1. Emotional expression - Music allows us to express our emotions, whether it be happiness, sadness, excitement, or anger. It can help us cope with difficult times and enhance our positive experiences.
2. Cultural significance - Music is an integral part of many cultures around the world. It reflects the history, traditions, and values of a society and can bring people together in a shared experience.
3. Cognitive development - Listening to and playing music can improve cognitive skills such as memory, attention, and problem-solving. It can also stimulate creativity and critical thinking.
Compare and contrast the themes and motifs in two works of literature. Analyze the use of symbolism and imagery in two different poems. Explore the development of a character in two different novels. Examine the differences in narrative structure between two short stories. Compare the perspectives of two narrators in a novel.
Historical Events
Compare and contrast the causes and consequences of two major historical events. Analyze the similarities and differences in the strategies used by two different leaders during wartime. Explore the impact of two different technological advancements on society. Examine the ways in....
1. The Impact of Musical Theatre on Society 2. The Evolution of Musical Genres 3. The Psychology of Musical Preference 4. The Influence of Technology on the Music Industry 5. The Role of Music in Film 6. The Importance of Music Education in Schools 7. The Representation of Gender and Race in Popular Music 8. The Power of Lyrics in Music 9. The Connection Between Music and Emotions 10. The Role of Musicals in Preserving Cultural Heritage
11. The Rise of Music Streaming Platforms and Their Impact on the Music Industry 12. The Relationship Between Music and Memory 13. The Effect....
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