Poetry Commentary: The Wild Swans at Coole by Yeats The Wild Swans at Coole by William Butler Yeats is‚ as the title suggests‚ a poem about a flock of Swans inhabiting the lake at Augusta Gregory ’s Coole Park residence. However‚ the theme of the poem is change and unrequited love‚ presumably inspired by the transformation Europe‚ and Yeats himself‚ underwent in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The poem is written in a consistently contemplative and plaintive tone‚ and it seems the poet is experiencing
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W.B. Yeats was born in Dublin‚ Ireland. He was a lonely and unhappy boy‚ because of which he began to day dream and write escapist poetry. Yeats grew up as a member of the former Protestant Ascendancy at the time undergoing a crisis of identity. In 1889‚ Yeats met Maud Gonne‚ then a 23-year-old heiress and ardent Nationalist. Gonne had admired "The Isle of Statues" and sought out his acquaintance. Yeats developed an obsessive infatuation with her beauty and outspoken manner‚ and she was to have a
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OUTSIDER The story I am going to tell you is about my experience when I felt like an outsider. Being isolated from others can be difficult and frustrated. Sometimes people would treat you different because you are not the same as them. In life‚ there is a point where someone would feel like an outsider. Getting used to the isolation feeling can take a while‚ but you can overcome it by getting involves. You may feel like an outsider at the beginning but then later on things will eventually change
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expected‚ even with your help. But I have been practicing‚ and my preparations go well. I am coming to save your friend’s life‚ and my own.” This is a quote from the first note Miranda receives from the anonymous person in the book When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead. A 12 year old girl named Miranda lives in New York City in the 1970’s. She gets notes from an anonymous person who can predict the future. The notes ask her to cooperate to the directions given in order to save someone’s life. She must choose
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When I was younger‚ I went to a small primary school in a minuscle village in England. It was one of the best schools I have ever gone to. All the teachers and students knew each other‚ so it was easy to make friends.Even though I loved the school very much‚ I had a couple of ecscapades. My two best friends and I thought ourselves to be rebels back then. One time‚ we were forced to stand outside the headmistress’ office for the whole day because we rebelled against the killing of moles that was happening
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To Yeats‚ his ideas of the Irish politics of his time were never far from his modernist poems. He makes the political world seem a place of passion and contradictions‚ like art‚ requiring of us not to understand history in moral terms‚ such as “good and bad” but‚ rather‚ in seemingly emotionally artistic terms‚ like “pity” or “terror.” For example‚ in the poem‚ “Easter 1916‚” Yeats fixes on the horror and captivation of the considerably devastating event of the Irish uprising. In the first stanza
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answer to be. The first statement that Butler opens with is‚ "What makes for a livable world is no idol question". This statement almost seems like a question directed to the reader. I believe that people interpret what they believe would make their lives bearable differently. What I may seem bearable for my own life may be unbearable to another’s. It is up to the individual to decide for themselves. Butler continues by saying‚ "It becomes a question of ethics when someone from a position of power decides
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negative or laughable. “Smell Like a Man‚ Man” campaign for Old Spice is an outstanding example of how a brilliant campaign can change a brand. Before the “Smell Like a Man‚ Man” campaign Old Spice was relatively unpopular‚ especially with young male consumers. The brand that was originally launched in 1937 (En.wikipedia.org‚ 2017) seemed outdated and irrelevant‚ while younger consumers were after something entirely new‚ not associated with old-fashioned generation of their parents. The “Smell Like
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Judith Butler questions the notion that certain gendered behaviors are a result of learning the performance of gender behavior‚ that which is associated with masculinity and femininity. She argues that it is a social construction that is only true to the extent of it being performed. Gender as defined in Undoing Gender is a “practice of improvisation within a scene of constraint‚” which is within a social context. The stylization of the body‚ gestures‚ movements and enactments create these
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Octavia Butler’s "Kindred" Throughout Butler Octavia’s novel Kindred‚ there are several examples of female characters who tend to challenge women’s traditional roles. Dana is the main character who should be considered a dynamo considering how independent she is during the point of time she travels to (the 1800s). Women have been seen for a long time as not being independent because they depend on their husbands to support them while they stay at home taking care of the children‚ I do not
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