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How is the title of the Poem The Rape of Lock ironic?
From the poem by Alexander Pope, The Rape of Lock, how is the title ironic?
Answer:
the basic irony of the style supports the substance of the poem's satire, which attacks the misguided values of a society that takes small matters for serious ones while failing to attend to issues of genuine importance.
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Lunch Poems: Will Alexander
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
This is another cute performance by Mark Ruffalo as Stan. The movie is directed by Michel Gondry, the French director and screenwriter, who did the screenplay for this movie along with Charlie Kaufman, who previously wrote the acclaimed Adaption. with Donald Kaufman, which got an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay along with nominations for its cast. Pierre Bismuth also did the screenplay writing for this movie. It is produced by Anthony Bregman and Steve Golin. It was distributed by Focus Features and was released on March 19, 2004 in the United States. It had a budget of $20 million and earned $72,258,126 in gross revenue. It has 93% rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 217 reviews and 8.5 star rating on IMDb.
It stars Jim Carrey as Joel Barish and Kate Winslet as Clementine Kruczynski as lead characters along with Kirsten Dunst, Elijah Wood and Tom Wilkinson. The movie was nominated for many awards, including two Academy Awards, one for Best Actress in a Leading Role and the other for Best Original Screenplay, for which it won. Many of the critics term it as the best movie of the decade, and so it has a universal acclaim as well as a cult following. Roger Ebert included this movie in his "Great Movies" series. The movie has also been voted as #83 on Empire magazine's 201 Greatest Movies of All Time poll by its readers in 2006. The Time Out New York ranked the movie as the third-best of the decade in 2009. It is on "best-of" list on Entertainment Weekly's end-of-the-decade. The movie is at #87 in Slant Magazine's list of the best films of the 2000s. It is calculated to be the tied-for-second most critically acclaimed movie of the 2000s just because it has been listed a number of times on ‘films of the decade' lists. The Premiere magazine included Kate Winslet's performance at #81 as 100 Greatest Performances of All Time. Kate Winslet lost her Oscar to Hilary Swank for her performance as Maggie Fitzgerald in Million Dollar Baby.
The movie is a romantic fantasy which puts science fiction, nonlinear narration and neosurrealism to test for attempting to find the nature of memory and romantic love. The title of the movie has been taken from the poem by Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard.
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