expected to conform to; subservience‚ piety and beauty. This domineering state of inferiority experienced by these women is expressed and challenged by both Mary Elizabeth Coleridge and Amy Lowell through their exploration of the victimisation of women in a patriarchal society.. The underlying desire for freedom‚ which the poets Coleridge and Lowell illustrate in their respective poems The Other Side of the Mirror and Patterns‚ brings awareness to the repressive and harsh environment women have previously
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Why all women got the right to vote by 1928. In 1928‚ all women finally got the right to vote. It took them 78 years to do it‚ but all their hard work had paid off. The women campaigning tried everything‚ for example‚ they got themselves arrested‚ they went on hunger strikes while in prison‚ they tried to get noticed by the media and many more. Some of the main things that really helped women get the vote were The Suffragists‚ The Suffragettes‚ Legislation and War Effort. The suffragists used
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Alice went and talked to the girl. The girl was Christabel Pankhurst. She had been taught her actions by her mother‚ Emmeline Pankhurst. Emmeline was England’s most effective suffragette. They were a team in England‚ doing anything they could to get equal rights. Christabel and her mom were the co-founders of WSPU( Women’s Social and Political Union) They were leading this suffragette party and making a big bang
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner a Spiritual Voyage Samuel Taylor Coleridge journeys through all things that are between reality and fantasy in his epic poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner‚ Coleridge utilizes the concepts of symbols and supernatural elements to illustrate the rise and redemption of the ancient Mariner. This literary work is the tale of a sailor who embarks on a journey that would eventually change his life forever. The Mariner receives a spiritual
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God and many were also followers of Christianity. Although many authors believed in God and were Christians‚ some of the authors from this era were atheists or had differing opinions about religion and the way God should be worshipped. Samuel Coleridge was a firm believer in God and he was a follower of Christianity. His strong Christian beliefs are most apparent in his famous poem‚ Fears In Solitude; in this poem he talks about how his beliefs affect his everyday
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Samuel Coleridge dedicates his poem‚ The Eolian Harp‚ to his lover‚ and future wife‚ Sara Fricker. One theme I noticed throughout this poem was this childhood like behaviors that romantic poets seem to favor. Coleridge uses words like “innocence‚” “Fairy-Land‚” “phantasies‚” and “wild.” He really goes into fantasyland and describes it. One part of the poem I found confusing‚ however‚ is how “the eolian harp” responds to an “intellectual breeze.” In Coleridge’s‚ This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison‚ he
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Notes: • The French Revolution and Industrial Revolution had an important influence on the fictional and nonfictional writing of the Romantic period‚ inspiring writers to address themes of democracy and human rights and to consider the function of revolution as apocalyptic change. • Romantic poets presented a theory of poetry in direct opposition to representative eighteenth-century theories of poetry as imitative of human life and nature by suggesting that poetic inspiration was located
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women’s suffrage. Emmeline‚ after studying in Paris‚ met Dr. Richard Pankhurst who was a layer and supporter of many racial issues including women suffrage. They were married December 1879. Over ten years later she had five children‚ Christabel‚ Sylvia‚ Adela‚ Frank (who died in childhood) and Harry. Since the age of fourteen Emmeline has always been involved in politics and in 1889‚ she became a supporter of the Women’s Franchise League. After her husband died in 1898‚
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Part a) Study Sources 10‚ 11 and 12. How far do the sources suggest that the actions of Emily Davison at the Derby in 1913 helped to advance the cause of women’s suffrage? (20 marks) Explain your answer‚ using the evidence of Sources 10‚ 11 and 12. SOURCE 10 (From The Times newspaper‚ published on 5 June 1913) The desperate act of a woman who rushed from the rails on to the course as the horses swept round Tattenham Corner‚ apparently from some mad notion that she could spoil the race
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travel/travail is what evolves them to better understanding of themselves and the world‚ inspires them to spiritual reform‚ which constitutes the educative and/or therapeutic qualities of the imaginative journey. While the philanthropic vision of Coleridge‚ in This Lime Tree Bower My Prison‚ and John Lennon‚ with his gentle utopianism in the song Imagine‚ articulate a milder‚ positive philosophy of such experiences‚ the murky and subterranean landscape of the human psyche painted by Atwood in "Journey
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