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The Task (other)
The Task may refer to: * ''The Task'' (poem), a 1785 poem by William Cowper * ''The Task'' (film), a 2011 horror film directed by Alex Orwell * ''The Mission'' (play), a 1979 drama by Heiner Müller {{DEFAULTSORT:Task, The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Task (poem)
''The Task: A Poem, in Six Books'' is a poem in blank verse by William Cowper published in 1785, usually seen as his supreme achievement. Its six books are called "The Sofa", "The Timepiece", "The Garden", "The Winter Evening", "The Winter Morning Walk" and "The Winter Walk at Noon". Beginning with a mock-Miltonic passage on the origins of the sofa, it develops into a discursive meditation on the blessings of nature, the retired life and religious faith, with attacks on slavery, blood sports, fashionable frivolity, lukewarm clergy and French despotism among other things. Cowper's subjects are those that occur to him naturally in the course of his reflections rather than being suggested by poetic convention, and the diction throughout is, for an 18th-century poem, unusually conversational and unartificial. As the poet himself writes, Writing and publication Cowper prefaced ''The Task'' with an account of its genesis: A lady, fond of blank verse, demanded a poem of that kind f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Task (film)
''The Task'' is a 2011 British horror film directed by Alex Orwell, written by Kenny Yakkel, produced by Christopher Milburn and Courtney Solomon, and starring Alexandra Staden, Victor McGuire and Adam Rayner. The film, inspired by ''MTV's Fear'', was produced by After Dark Originals and released by Lions Gate Entertainment on 28 January 2011. Plot Six terrified people, Shoe (Ashley Mulheron), Randall (Marc Pickering), Toni (Amara Karan), Dixon (Texas Battle) and brother and sister Stanton ( Tom Payne) and Angel (Antonia Campbell-Hughes), are kidnapped to take part in a new reality show which will see them spending a night in an abandoned prison to win $20,000. Show host, Taylor (Adam Rayner) handcuffs the contestants together, removes their belongings and sends them into the prison. The contestants find their way to the Warden's office, where they unlock themselves. Soon after, a TV monitor turns on, revealing an evil clown who warns the contestants of the Warden (Valentin Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
