Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Factory‚ Horta de Ebbo (oil on canvas‚ 1909) Philadelphia Museum of Art Cubism was a truly revolutionary style of modern art developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braques. It was the first style of abstract art which evolved at the beginning of the 20th century in response to a world that was changing with unprecedented speed. In the four decades from 1870-1910‚ western society witnessed more technological progress than in the previous four centuries. Picasso and Braque
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Introduction Poetry has been a special genre and it is one of the many genres that remain consistent (structural means) even after being exploited for years. Looking back at the British poems in the late 80s‚ the stanzas and lines have not changed much‚ at least not the structure of it. Even until today‚ these shapes remained the same‚ although altered in position such as the use of indentation or tabulation in each line‚ alternatively. Besides‚ poetry has become a medium of communication in various
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offers insight on the issue of whaling. The poem depicts the emotions of the whale as it is being slaughtered. The poem also depicts what the body of the whale is used for. This poem informs the readers that humans do not realise the importance of whales to the food chain and that whales should not be executed. The message the author is portraying is that whaling is inhumane. Various sound and poetic devices are used to enhance the meaning of the poem. Poetic techniques used include metaphors. A
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The first poem ‘Sonnet 130’ by William Shakespeare has a humorous view on the traditional ideas of beauty. The poem is a five duplet metre with the stressed sounds starting on the second word of each line. Each line has the same amount of stressed and unstressed patterns which is very common for sonnets to make it quick and easy to read. The five duplet pattern never mimics human speech in the way a four duplet pattern does. The end of each alternating line has a distinct rhyming pattern
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Saying Hughes represents animals as alien and opposed to the civilised human consciousness is not a satisfactory answer or complete analysis of the seventeen poems that have been studied. It is only a generalisation. It is true that most of the poems do have animals represented as opposed to this human outlook in that the animals are shown to display cannibalism‚ extreme brutality‚ no remorse‚ a total lack of maternal grief as in Ravens‚ and‚ as in The Hen‚ the repeated killing of weak hens by the
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POETRY – Poems about Love DIRECTIONS: Discuss the attitude/tone of the poem and the theme in your small groups. Afterward‚ write down your conclusions regarding the tone and theme of poems about a similar subject. |“The Quiet World” |“Flirtation” |“Song: To Celia |“love is more thicker than forget” |“Neutral Tones” | | |
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‘Cousin Kate’ by Christina Rossetti This Victorian poem is about the narrator (a fallen woman)‚ the Lord and Kate. It is a ballad which tells the story from the narrator’s perspective about being shunned by society after her ‘experiences’ with the lord. The poem’s female speaker recalls her contentment in her humble surroundings until the local ‘Lord of the Manor’ took her to be his lover. He discarded her when she became pregnant and his affections turned to another village girl‚ Kate‚ whom he
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Analysis by N. Mohsin Autobiography‚ by Louis MacNeice In my childhood trees were green And there was plenty to be seen. Come back early or never come. My father made the walls resound‚ He wore his collar the wrong way round. Come back early or never come. My mother wore a yellow dress; Gentle‚ gently‚ gentleness. Come back early or never come. When I was five the black dreams came; Nothing after was quite the same. Come back early or never come. The dark was talking
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protesting? Are they simply proclaiming love to the world because they feel so strongly about it? Interpreting‚ first of all‚ is that there is a whole sense of what love is‚ and what is not. Love‚ that is what the crowds are singing about. The woman in the poem yells about love and he is dissatisfied “But after she leaves/I feel odd.”(17-18) Something about this love did not feel right‚ but the gun has its own sense: “I lock the door‚/go to the desk and take the pistol/from the drawer. it has its own sense
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of how or why leaving people like artists to try to make reason of it. The poems “Thanatopsis” by Bryant‚ “Don’t Fear the Reaper” by Blue Oyster Cult‚ and “Dust in the Wind” by Kansas are three poems which speak of death; however they all have different purposes. They each explain and describe death with different points of views. Although all of the poems had different purposes‚ they also had similarities. The three poems are all about the topic of death and how scenarios may differ for different
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