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          The poem "The Ecstasy" is one of John Donne’s most popular poems‚ which expresses his unique and unconventional ideas about love. It expounds the theme that pure‚ spiritual or real love can exist only in the bond of souls established by the bodies. For Donne‚ true love only exists when both bodies and souls are inextricably united. Donne criticizes the platonic lover who excludes the body and emphasizes the soul. The fusion of body and soul strengthens spiritual love. Donne compares bodies to

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    often she was forced to share the master’s bed other times she became the object of the mistress’ frustration; the men were mere studs and the women were bred like horses; this was not the life she wanted for her child. “Perhaps my birth will bring about a change.” “A change? Seeing that we are one body and mind you know my thoughts you share my dreams now you will share my geheue” At once her memories came flooding through its mind; every secret‚ every volatile act committed against her and

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    Immortality Through Words The two sonnets “One Day I Wrote Her Name” written by Edmund Spencer and “Sonnet 63” written by William Shakespeare both instill a figurative idea of immortality throughout the course of time long after the writers have passed on. Shakespeare plants his beauty within the lines of the poem after his lover’s physical beauty deteriorates with time. Spencer‚ however‚ keeps the memory and love for a woman. Although both poems are about two different subjects‚ the main theme

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    The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History. First Edition. Robert Darnton. New York: Basic Books‚ 1999 XIII + 298. The Great Cat Massacre with out a doubt has one of the most unusual titles ever created especially for a book about history. Now this unusual title perhaps fits this book better than any other straight - forward title Mr. Darnton could have conjured. You see the text contained in the book isn’t just your standardized‚ boring‚ and redundant view of history

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    Abc poem Flowers Lily is the purity of heart Mellow delicate beauty and sweetness Nasturtium represents a conquest or a victory in a battle Olive is so peaceful Poppy is inspiring and majestic. Diamante poem Puppy Playful‚ silly Barking‚ fetching‚ eating Ball‚ leash ‚ free‚ wool Sleeping‚ running‚ playing Sweet‚ young Kitten Sun Hot‚ warm Boiling‚ burning‚ heating Summer‚ Sunshine ‚ winter‚ thunderstorm Splashing‚ sliding‚ slipping Chilly

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    Lady Feeding The Cats

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    Feeding the Cats follows a two-sonnet structure consisting of 14 lines. Stewart utilises varied rhyming schemes and poetic techniques euphony‚ personification‚ descriptive language‚ rhyme and romanticism. The structure of the poem is a sonnet with no fixed rhyming scheme. The title of the poem is often a significant guide to its meaning and here the contrast between ‘lady’ and ‘cats’. Lady alludes to upper class‚ posh and beauty. The irony being displayed is that she shouldn’t be feeding the cats. The vivid

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    Throughout both Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories‚ The Tell Tale Heart and The Black Cat‚ he uses symbols. The symbols in both stories relate to each other and can also be compared and contrasted. The similar symbols such as the sound of the beating heart and the sound of the cat meowing are similar symbols‚ showing guilt and paranoia. Both their guilt and paranoia end up getting the best of them‚ as in the end‚ their guilt and paranoia get them caught for their killings. On the contrary‚ the sound

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    Half Past Two I will use the method of explaining every stanza to write about this poem in detail. ’Half Past Two’ is a poem in which Fanthorpe describes how a young child is given a detention for an unspecified misdemeanour and is forgotten by his teacher. Fanthorpe draws on her experience as a teacher to describe the scene as seen through the child’s eyes. The Title of the poem tells me a lot of information even before I read the poem. The information it puts across is that: A boy is told to

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    Some poems might have stories of suffering or abuse‚ while others contain happy times and great joy. Regardless of what the poems contains‚ all poems display an expression. That very moment when the writer begins his mental journey with that pen and paper is where all feelings are let out. As poetry is continues to be written‚ the reader begins to see patterns within each poem. On the other hand‚ poems have nothing at all in common with one another. A good example of this is in two poems by a famous

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    Compare how poets present idea about leaders of conflict in The Charge of the Light Brigade and one other poem from the cluster of poems. Leaders of conflict guide others into battle showing them that their best ideas may result in disastrous actions being made. In The Charge of the Light Brigade Alfred Tennyson reflects on the consequences of war for the whole of the British cavalry who were killed in the Crimean war. In Mametz Wood‚ Owen Sheers describes the rediscovery of lost World War 1

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