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    The Gettysburg Address is one of the most famous speeches in American history, yet it was extremely short - just 268 words, or less than a page of text - and Abraham Lincoln, who gave the address, wasn't even the top billing. The US President Abraham Lincoln gave this short address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on 19 November 1863.
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    Everett gave a long - many would say overlong - speech, which lasted two hours. Everett's speech was packed full of literary and historical allusions which were, one feels, there to remind his listeners how learned Everett was. When he'd finished, his exhausted audience of some 15,000 people waited for their President to address them.
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    The sixteenth century was the great century for the sonnet sequence in English literature; Anne Locke's A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner from the 1560s was the first English sonnet sequence, but it was relatively short. Lady Mary Wroth (1587-c.1652) was the first Englishwoman to write a substantial sonnet sequence.
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    By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Mark Antony's 'Friends, Romans, countrymen' speech from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is a masterclass of irony and the way rhetoric can be used to say one thing but imply something quite different without ever naming it.Mark Antony delivers a funeral speech for Julius Caesar following Caesar's assassination at the hands of Brutus and the ...
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    Coleridge's 1798 narrative poem, which appeared in the first edition of Coleridge and Wordsworth's joint-authored collection Lyrical Ballads (but was nearly removed from the second edition because Wordsworth wasn't sure about it), is a long poem to read aloud in its entirety, but if you want a poem to regale your friends and family with by the fireside one winter evening, this tale of a ...
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    By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The plays of William Shakespeare are crammed full of memorable lines, influential phrases, and striking images. There are dozens of classic speeches, soliloquies, addresses and the like. In this post, we've aimed to pick the seven greatest speeches from Shakespeare's plays, although there were many we had to leave…
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    The text of Sojourner Truth's speech is given below in italics, followed by our commentary. One of the most unique and interesting speeches of the convention was made by Sojourner Truth, an emancipated slave. It is impossible to transfer it to paper, or convey any adequate idea of the effect it produced upon the audience.
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    (This is the sort of thing a Metaphysical Poet like John Donne had done in his poetry in the early seventeenth century.) 7. ... in order to capture human speech more faithfully. This means that his sonnets, although they comprise the standard fourteen lines, often have many more than ten syllables in a line - as is the case in this classic ...
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    By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Although it is not his most famous soliloquy from the play, Hamlet's ''Tis now the very witching time of night' speech, which brings Act 3 Scene 2 to a close, is notable for the imagery Hamlet uses as he prepares to go and speak to his mother, Gertrude. Indeed,…
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    Many of the greatest examples of dramatic monologues in the twentieth century were written by women. Although this is a dramatic monologue spoken by the wife of Orpheus - the musician from Greek mythology - like many of the poems of Hilda Doolittle or H. D. (1886-1961), the poem clearly had its origins in Doolittle's own life.
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