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    Compare The Poets Attitude To World War One in ‘The Soldier’ And ‘Dulce ET Decorum Est.’ In this essay I will be comparing the two poems. One of these poems is known as ‘the soldier’ and the other is ‘Dulce et decorum est.’ ‘the soldier’ poem was written by Rupert Brooke and ‘Dulce’ by Wilfred Owen. Rupert Brooke uses language in The Soldier‚ to give the reader the impression that dying in war for one’s country is very honourable‚ and glorious. Wilfred Owen uses language in Dulce ET Decorum Est

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    movie Dead Poets Society‚ the literary philosophy of Transcendentalism is portrayed through the teachings of Mr. Keating‚ a transcendentalist‚ at Welton‚ a private school grounded on conformity and institution. The movie does not look at the school as a whole‚ but one can recognize the engagement concerning the transcendentalists and conformists in the movie when observing the fluctuations and activities taken by the group of boys who call themselves the Dead Poets Society. The Dead Poets Society is

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    Sylvia Plath was an American poet‚ novelist‚ and short story writer. She was born in Boston Massachusetts on October 27th 1932. She struggled deeply with depression much of her adult life‚ stemming from the death of her father at age eight. Aside from her depression‚ Sylvia excelled academically at Smith College‚ and because of that went on to receive a Fulbright scholarship to the highly competitive Newham College in Cambridge. She continued actively writing poetry and publishing her work in the

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    "YEATS CAN CERTAINLY BE CALLED A GREAT IRISH POET." DISCUSS. Introduction I certainly agree with this statement. (Tip: state broadly your attitude to the subject of the question).The work of W.B. Yeats is saturated with evocative‚ descriptive imagery‚ deeply explored personal feelings‚ universal‚ but profound‚ subject matter and strong political opinions. He isn’t just a great figure in world literature but he is a very patriotic poet who truly loved Ireland. I would like to further explore this

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    Knowledge and Power

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    Knowledge and Individual Power With the use of the words knowledge and individual power being employed together‚ there is a definite encouraging position to be seen As the emergent ideas inundated my mind to express my point of view and approaches in reference to these words I consistently discovered myself reverting back to independence‚ strong self-esteem and acquiescent. During my evaluating and revision of the stories and poems that were assigned and in conjunction with my reviewed analysis of

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    Texts reflect the culture and values of their eras by presenting and addressing perspectives of the composers on the issues of the context. The poem The End and the Beginning by Wislawa Szymborska and the Austrian film 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance by Michael Haneke accomplish this by exemplifying issues in 1990s society such as the increasing influence of media and the breakdown of interpersonal communication. The End and the Beginning is a Polish poem by Wislawa Szymborska which captures

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    Lord Byron ’s "When we two parted" and Thomas Hardy ’s "A Trampwoman ’s Tragedy" have in common a lover ’s regret for love lost. However‚ the main narrators in these poems are very different and the circumstances in their poems show a lot about the difference that social class and gender make in the love lives seen in "When we two parted" and "A Trampwoman ’s Tragedy". Looking at the tone‚ narrator gender‚ and setting of these poems the reader can see how a single general theme‚ regret over a lost

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    "The Whipping‚" by Robert Hayden This poem is about Hayden who hears a boy being beaten‚ recalls his childhood when he too was subjected to the same and notices that this form of punishment has been handed down from generation to generation. He uses visual and auditory imagery together to take the reader to different moments in time‚ where the same event is being played over and is put in six quatrains to add emphasis. In the first quatrain‚ Hayden hears a woman "shouting to the neighborhood

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    Ideas and themes change according to the different times and the historical‚ social‚ cultural and personal context of the time they are written in‚ with the texts either reflecting or contrasting the ideas of that time. Death and mortality and the spiritual and emotional connections are themes that have evolved over time due to the different contexts. These themes are thematically central to John Donne’s poetry written in the 17th century and Margaret Edson’s 20th century play W;t. During the 17th

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    ASSIGNMENT#1 USE OF MOTIFS IN JOHN DONNE’S POETRY John Donne uses a number of motifs‚ geographical and geometrical shapes‚ and discoveries etc. as metaphysical conceits in his poetry. Sometimes these are used to express his intensity of love‚ while sometimes these are used to compare and ultimately prove the superiority of his love. The different motifs used by John Donne are discussed below with references from his various poems. Donne’s fascination with spheres can be understood by reading

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