HOW DOES OUR READING OF ‘RETURN TO CARDIFF’ ADD TO OUR UNDERSTANDING OF ABSE’S VIEW OF WALES IN ‘DOWN THE M4’? In ‘Down the M4’‚ Abse doesn’t portray a particular fondness of Wales or the time he spends there in the present day. And yet it is clear that this wasn’t always the case‚ from where he says “this time/ afraid”. We can infer from this that he has enjoyed these visits in the past. However this time he is a “dutiful son”‚ showing that he is not on this journey for his own pleasure but is
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sea-shore or prayed for their messiah in a darkening house. But Gods had human faces and were flawed. When prying Apion‚ with eerie conch‚ summoned Homer’s spirit to ask where he was born whose bloody head appeared above the parapet? Now at Cardiff‚ in its shut museum‚ A sculptured satyr on a sculptured sea-horse blows only silent zeros through his horn. And here in Ogmore‚ more abundant silence. Awesome over the sea‚ from which no sulking Proteus will rise‚ the candled stars‚ the unblinking
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Death in Larkin and Abse Death pervades The Whitsun Weddings and in Ambulances is reflected on in terms of the significance of our response to seeing an ambulance stop. Passers-by view them as ‘confessionals’‚ secretive‚ mysterious places where we confront our deepest nature. They are impersonal and unpredictable‚ resting ‘at any kerb’ and reminding us of our mortality because ‘All streets in time are visited’. The contrast of the mundane reality of a visit to the shops with the ‘wild white
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2009-2014 May 2009 Produced by Cardiff Council & Blue Sail S:/MARKETING & VISITOR SERVICESS:\MARKETING & VISITOR SERVICES\NEW SHARED DRIVE M&VS\Tourism Strategy\Final Docs\Tourism Strategy Final - May 2009.doc1 CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .......................................................................................3 1. THE PURPOSE OF THE TOURISM STRATEGY ..............................................5 2. SETTING THE SCENE ...................................................
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by Seamus Heaney andImitations’ by Dannie Abse The Poems Follower’ and Imitations’ are very alike in some ways but different in others. They have obvious points of comparisons and yet behind both poems is an individual story. Seamus Heaney‚ born in 1939 into a farming family‚ wrote Follower’. He is Britain’s most admired poets and won the nobel prize for literature in 1995. Dannie Abse wrote Imitations’‚ he was born in 1923 into a Jewish family in Cardiff. They each have simple reading structures
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Larkin and abse discussing relationships Philip Larkin and Dannie Abse have very different and contrating attitudes to relationships. On the whole‚ Larkin presents the concepts of love and marriage as very superficial and meaningless‚ whereas Abse appears to be less such nihilistic and more open and positive about such topics. The essay will discuss this contrast by examing Larkin’s “Whitsun Weddings”‚ “Wild Oats” and “Arundel Tomb”‚ and Dannie Abse’s “Imitations” and “Sons”.
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For other uses‚ see Cardiff (disambiguation). Cardiff Dinas a Sir Caerdydd City and County of Cardiff City & County Clockwise from top: The Senedd‚ Millennium Stadium‚ Norman keep of Cardiff Castle‚ Cardiff Bay‚ Cardiff City Centre‚ clock tower of City Hall and the Welsh National War Memorial Flag The coat of arms of Cardiff Motto: "Y ddraig goch ddyry cychwyn" ("The red dragon will lead the way") City and County of Cardiff and (inset) within Wales Coordinates: 51°29′N 3°11′WCoordinates:
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Arguably this poem is not simply a misogynistic view on woman however is in fact a satirical poem which mocks modernity through quantifying love as expressed in the use of the line ’gave a ten Guinea-ring’. Larkin was a well known hater of the modern world and to an extent the romanticised idea of ’love’ as seen in ’Self’s the man’ and ’Mr Bleaney’‚ so through the use of the conversationalist tone that the persona of the poem creates the reader is presented with the concept of this poem either expressing
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tWhat connections have you found between the ways in which Larkin and Abse write about places in their poems? In your response you must include detailed critical discussion of at least two of Larkin’s poem. In the poem Here Larkin describes the city as ‘rich industrial shadows’ this suggests Larkin sees it as dirtily rich with corruption lurking in the ‘shadows’. ‘Shadow’ suggests misery‚ a lack of hope and spiritual enlightenment. ‘Shadows’ suggests blindness‚ perhaps to clarity which Larkin is
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Assessment: Cardiff A Travelogue is a record of events a person experiences while travelling from place to place. So‚ what have I experienced while travelling through the wonders and mystery of Cardiff. Cardiff is a city of historic nature and natural wonders. From the bustling central city‚ filled with people on their way to work and many shopping arcades to the calm and beautiful in Sophia Gardens near the grounds of the Cardiff Castle. Although Cardiff has so much to offer‚ Cardiff could unquestionably
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