Asap. 60 pionts. a thousand martyrs by aphra behn a thousand martyrs i have made, all sacrificed to my desire; a thousand beauties have betrayed, that languish in resistless fire. the untamed heart to hand i brought, and fixed the wild and wandering thought. i never vowed nor sighed in vain but both, though false, were well received. the fair are to give us pain, and what they wish is soon believed. and though i talked of wounds and smart, love’s pleasures only touched my heart. alone the glory and the spoil i always laughing bore away; the triumphs, without pain or toil, without the hell, the heav’n of joy. and while i thus at random rove despise the fools that whine for love how does the author’s use of stanzas affect the meaning of “a thousand martyrs”? use evidence from the poem to support your response. your response should be at least one complete paragraph.

Basically, here we have a libertine speaker talking of many lovers. He suggests that, though he has spoken about the pain of love, it is only ‘Love’s pleasures’ that he cares about. As such, he has ‘betrayed’ ‘a thousand beauties’. He claims to have been a callous and deceiving lover, telling ‘the fair’ about the ‘wounds and smart’ they long to hear of, then ‘laughing’ and leaving. The poem is written in three elegant septets. Notice the iambic tetrameter and consider how important form might be to the theme of this particular kind of love and betrayal.

This speaker may not be entirely honest. The final stanza begins with ‘Alone’. Is there any sense of regret here? The speaker claims to be ‘Without the hell’ of love, yet in the same line we find reference to the ‘heaven of joy’. He  may even also sacrificed his joy with his promiscuous love

every of the four river valley civilizations, religion played an enormous role in shaping and cultivating each civilization. this essay will briefly discuss how religion formed the river valley people’s government and view on geography. religion dictated how the peoples of the river valley civilizations managed government and geography.

            religious leaders played prominent roles in every river valley civilizations form of government. from ancient egypt and mesopotamia to china’s historic empire and the indus river valley, all the river valley civilizations had significant religious figures. in ancient egypt, the pharaoh was revered as a god and therefore was given his right as supreme governing authority in the eyes of the people. the elusive emperors of china gained there governing rights by a mandate of heaven creating long lines of dynasties until the common people of china felt the dynasty had lost the favor of the gods. chinese emperors were not only governing leaders but also the spiritual leaders of ancient china. mesopotamian and indus river valley priests were referred as has head officials who had vast amounts of authority in these two civilizations primitive forms of democracy. religion shaped the structure and social caste of the four river valley civilizations.

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