1974 voluntary members of the IRA planted bombs in two Guildford pubs; the Horse and Groom and the Seven Stars.2 The bombs went off at 8:30pm and 9:00pm respectively causing a total of five casualties and profuse amount of injuries.3 The IRA was aware that the two pubs were popular with the English militia and purposely‚ four out of the five casualties were army recruits. Luckily‚ the manager at the Seven Stars was able to clear out his bar before anyone could get hurt4‚ but it was only one month later
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she wrote this wonderful poem‚ to inspire those without hope to give them a perspective from a beautiful bird that hope can change your life in any way you dream it. I choose to analyze the famous poem “hope” by Emily Dickinson‚ Such an interesting and mysterious poet she lived her entire life in Amherst‚ Massachusetts‚ only two of her poems where published in her life time‚ she died in 1886‚ she was never married and live most of her life as a recluse. In this poem Dickinson uses imagery and
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the throne‚ but also the year that a new literary age was coined. The Victorian Age‚ more formally known‚ was a time of great prosperity in Great Britain’s literature. The Victorian Age produced a variety of changes. Political and social reform produced a variety of reading among all classes. The lower-class became more self-conscious‚ the middle class more powerful and the rich became more vulnerable. The novels of Charles Dickens‚ the poems of Alfred‚ Lord Tennyson and Robert Browning‚ the
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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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known for his honest and accessible writing. Kooser’s poem “A Spiral Notebook” was published in 2004‚ in the book Good Poems for Hard Times‚ depicting a spiral notebook as something that represents more than its appearance. Through the use of imagery‚ diction‚ and structure‚ Ted Kooser reveals the reality of a spiral notebook to be a canvas of possibilities and goes deeper to portray the increasing complexities in life as we age. This poem opens with an extreme and vivid simile‚ “The bright wire
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Compare how poets present the effects of war in ‘Mametz Wood’ (page 36) and in one other poem from Conflict. In Mametz Wood‚ by Owen Sheers and Futility‚ by Wilfred Owen‚ their separate perspectives of conflict and war are shown throughout‚ with the use of imagery‚ and personification to show the poets’ changes in emotion. Owen Sheers wrote his poem in the perspective of what happened in the past‚ with the poem being influenced by Sheers seeing a picture of a mass grave‚ provoking gruesome images
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In The Mind Of A Seven Year Old P. 2 Isaiah is a delightful seven year old boy who lives with his family in Chino. In his family are parents‚ Esther‚ Cesar and sisters; Sylvia and Samantha. Isaiah’s sisters are ten and eighteen months and his parents are in their forty’s. Upon entering their home‚ Isaiah had just come home from school and was like a tornado flowing through the house. He was quite indeed a rambonxious noisy seven year old who couldn’t stay
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adhere to manhood in this poem If‚ wherein he identifies certain specific criteria as metaphors for achieving things desired in life. The poem consists of four verses‚ each eight lines long. Each specific verse held in it a very different interpretation in responsibility‚ and each prose deals with a separate yet equally important detail that one would need to encounter. Seeing that Kupling was a writer in the late Nineteenth and Twentieth century‚ it is likely that the poem was meant to be a general
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never change.” Although the list of the Seven Deadly Sins is never mentioned in the Bible‚ the concept has existed since before the Middle Ages. Anger‚ envy‚ gluttony‚ greed‚ lust‚ pride‚ and sloth are present throughout human civilization even when they are not named as such or displayed as a set of seven. William Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello is a literary example of how these vices slip into our daily behaviors and‚ ultimately‚ ruin our lives. Each of the Seven Deadly Sins is displayed in this classic
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Any reader would thoroughly enjoy The Girl with Seven Names‚ as the storyline is truly eye-opening. As an American‚ we have never been forced to look at the freedoms we take for granted in such a light. One would be flabbergasted at the violent execution described‚ as well as the brainwashing that begins at such an early age. As Hyeonseo describes the horrors and joys of living in “the greatest country on Earth” it is impossible to process. The patriotism that comes from living in a country that
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