What in your view was the short-term significance of Emmeline Pankhurst 1903-1923? Emmeline Pankhurst is considered by many to be the exemplary symbol of the suffrage movement. Her followers adored her and she showed women that they did not have to be silent‚ that they could make a scene and be "unladylike" for the cause of their freedom. ‘She was one of the most fascinating‚ and indeed one of the most controversial‚ female figures of all time in British political history’1‚ yet her story is
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major English Romantic poet who‚ with Samuel Taylor Coleridge‚ helped to launch theRomantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworth’s magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude‚ a semiautobiographical poem of his early years which he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published‚ prior to which it was generally known as the poem "to Coleridge". Wordsworth was Britain’s Poet Laureate from 1843 until
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to examination by the reader. The symbolism of the Albatross in Coleridge’s poem is rather debatable. By looking at different interpretations‚ I will investigate whether Coleridge’s Albatross is significant or not. The ancient mariner represents Coleridge himself and the albatross represents the fight with himself to overcome his personal guilt. The mariner’s sufferings are an expression of Coleridge’s strong addiction with opium‚ and the moral collapse that followed. In the poem this is illustrated
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Romantic movement but we have seen many other sowing seeds of romanticism. Thomson‚ Collins‚ Gray‚ Richardson‚ and Prevost are those whose theology and art are the most marvelous romance of all. Many other includes William Wordsworth‚ Samuel Taylor Coleridge‚ Percy Bysshe Shelley‚ Lord Byron‚ and Walter Scott in Britain; and Victor Hugo‚ Alfonse de Lamar tine‚ George Sand‚ and Alexandre Dumas in France. Above all Rousseau matured the seeds of romanticism in the hothouse of his emotions and delivered
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is one of the most famous three poems of S. T. Coleridge. It was first published in Lyrical Ballads in 1798‚ a collection of poems that essentially launched the movement known as British Romanticism. The first version of the poem was entitled The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere‚ and much of the spelling was very archaic (old expression). Modern editions used today appeared in Coleridge’s collection Sibylline Leaves in 1817 that featured marginal glosses‚ explanations
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reforms‚ which established a foundation for which still exists in modern day Britain. There were six major Romantics‚ and they were split into two generations. The first generation consisted of William Blake‚ William Wordsworth‚ and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The second generation consisted of Percy Bysshe‚ John Keats‚ and George Gordon‚ Lord Byron. These poets were considered old-fashionedbecause they were the first to experiment with this style of writing. There was no one before them‚ so for influence
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women’s suffrage movement. However he died in 1898‚ leaving Emmeline a widow. In 1889‚ Emmeline founded the Women’s Franchise League‚ which fought to allow married women to vote in local elections. In October 1903‚ along with her daughters‚ Christabel and Sylvia‚ she helped found the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) - whose members were the first to be christened ’suffragettes’. The WSPU was more militant than the Women’s Franchise League and The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies
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Coleridge in 1813 had quoted : “Othello does not kill Desdemona in Jealousy‚ but in a conviction forced upon him by the almost superhuman art of Iago‚ such a conviction as any man would and must have entertained who had believed Iago’s honest as Othello did.” From this statement‚ Coleridge suggests that it is not jealousy that is the driving force for Othello’s actions‚ but rather his insecurity
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to write. During that time period more and more romantic writers began to emerge. Another writer who influenced the british romantic time period with their works was Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Samuel although he was not exactly writing in the same style as other romanticists he was a romantic writer. Samuel Coleridge helped influence English literature
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Discuss Wordsworth’s Theory of Poetry as advocated in the Preface to the Lyrical Ballads. It has been generally supposed that Wordsworth’s theory of poetic language is merely a reaction against‚ and a criticism of‚ ‘the Pseudo Classical’ theory of poetic diction. Such a view is partially true. His first impulse was less a revolt against Pseudo-classical diction‚ “than a desire to find a suitable language for the new territory of human life which he was conquering for poetic treatment”.
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