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    In Digging the author shows a lot more admiration than in Mid Term Brake in digging the author says ‘by god that man could handle a spade.’ He shows his admiration by using the phrase ‘by god’ this phrase is used to emphasise being really good at something‚ for example ‘by god football was his sport’ it would mean he was very good at football. To take the words very literally it would mean ‘they were level with god’ in the speaker’s perspective. Where as in Mid Term Brake Seamus only shows admiration

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    12/7/10 “Ah‚ Are You Digging On My Grave?” “Ah‚ Are You Digging on My Grave?” was first published in the Saturday Review on September 27‚ 1913‚ then in Thomas Hardy’s 1914 collection‚ satires of Circumstance: Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces. The poem reflects Hardy’s interest in death and events beyond everyday reality‚ but these subjects are presented humorously‚ with a strong dose of irony and satire. This treatment is somewhat unusual for Hardy‚ who also produced a number

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    September 9th Storm poems ( Re-draft ). Compare the ways in which Heaney and Hughes describe their storms. “Storm on the Island” starts in a very dramatic way by setting the scene of the poem on a lonely‚ deserted island. Firstly‚ Seamus Heaney describes the surroundings in a way‚ to make the readers assume that the storm is set on a very bare waste land with a handful of residents on it that preparing for a storm that turns out to be more severe than they expected. Seamus Heaney then goes on

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    Thomas Hardy’s poem Ah‚ Are You Digging on My Grave is a humorous and mildly cynical reminder that‚ once we are dead and buriied‚ life goes on. It invites comparison to E. A. Robinson’s Is My Team Ploughing. There is little that calls for explanation once the reader understands that the questioning voice is that of a woman who has shuffled off her mortal coil. In the first stanza she asks if it is her male loved one who is doing the digging with the intention of planting rue. We are reminded that

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    To Celia is a love poem with a simple four line rhyme scheme (abcbabcb)‚ written in first person. The over all tone of the poem is dreamy‚ optimistic‚ persistent‚ and gullibly innocent. The rhythm is smooth‚ and pensive‚ and seems to fall into an iambic pentameter. The poem gives the reader an intimate sense of this man’s love‚ and obsession for the woman of his desire‚ Celia. I interpreted this poem as having a theme of lost love. I imagined that Celia is his ex-lover‚ he still is in love with her

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    How does Heaney evocatively and memorably convey childhood experience in “Death of a Naturalist” This poem is composed of two stanzas. The first‚ longer one describes pleasant memories while the second recounts a particular unpleasant experience that changes the protagonist’s outlook on nature. Heaney uses childish language to tell us this is a young boy. “The daddy frog… the mammy frog” are juvenile words. “On shelves at school” tells us he is at an age when that is encouraged. “Best of all

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    ’Follower’ Heaney presents us with a very vivid picture of his father as he appeared to the poet as a young boy. We learn a lot about both the relationship that existed between them and the way Heaney saw his family. The father is‚ more than anything else‚ an energetic and skilled farmer. He is ’An expert’ with the horse-plough and Heaney as a little boy would simply get in his father’s way. The poem is full of admiration for his father’s strength and skill with horses. At the end of the poem‚ however

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    In “Digging up the Roots”‚ Jane Goodall (1994) argues that people should stop destroying the world and start caring about nature. She also talks about how love and care should not be for humans only‚ but also for anything that lives around you such as nature. Goodall then sadly mentions how people are killing the living things around them including themselves without feeling guilty or responsible for it. Goodall describes her relation toward nature with passionate feelings joined with a sound of

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    Culture-Relationship Paper Having outlined the nature of leisure in general‚ the more specific definition of leisure can be described with some exactitude how the concept may and may not be applied. In the first place‚ leisure should be distinguished from free time‚ that is‚ time left free not only from regular employment but also from overtime and from time spent in travel to and from the work place. Free time includes leisure‚ as well as all the other activities that take place outside

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    Teds Hughes and mark doty poems are written in animals point of view ‚ Showing each unique animal character and their point of view about this world from their perspective. The poet uses literary devices in their poems using tones‚ personification ‚ and visual imagery to evoke the reader’s emotions and to make the poems more comprehensible. In this two poems the poets made a unique quality of personifying the hawk and the dog because they cannot articulate their thoughts and emotions into

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