"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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Thomas Hardy as a War Poet Thomas Hardy is one of the most famous and prolific British writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Most people recognize Hardy as an author of novels‚ but he preferred to write poetry. Both his novels and his poetry give a pessimistic view of the world. Subjects for his poetry include nature‚ love‚ and war. Most of his poems on war have tragic themes and present humans as having little control over their destinies. A major theme of Thomas Hardy’s tragic
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John Donne (1572-1631) is considered the most prominent of all metaphysical poets‚ especially in the seventeenth century. Donne also spent some years as a lawyer‚ and as a preacher‚ earned a reputation for delivering enchanting sermons. Donne‚ as a love poet‚ wrote from personal experience‚ which fact made his poetry more accessible and compelling. His independent spirit was evident in his poems‚ to the point of him being called rebellious. His love poems were a remarkable conglomerate of divinity
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In Brave New World‚ there is an ongoing conflict between John and society‚ specifically with the people who believe in the status quo. John begins to disgust the “civilized” society as Bernard shows him around London and he sees it as an unnatural place and a world of false happiness. He also despises how addicted his mother becomes to soma‚ taking so much soma that it deteriorates her health and‚ eventually‚ she dies in a state of delusion. At the point of his mother’s death John begins to further
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practice‚ Lebanon does not create scientific minds in both the physical and social sciences. Its academic curricula shun all creative elements. And if a Lebanese manages to distinguish themselves in any way‚ he or she is picked up by any country in the world‚ except their own. Not only is Lebanon unable to produce scientific minds‚ it is always keen to cast them outside its geographic borders on the rare occasion of something like this happening. Once distinguished Lebanese scientists and thinkers are
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The Dead by James Joyce is a short story of a nephew named Gabriel Conroy attending a party that his aunts are hosting. Through the night he is faced with confrontational and questions that attack his identity. As he goes about offending people by accident he then meets Miss. ivors. She attacks him by calling him out on being a “West Briton” someone that denies their Irish nationality. As Miss continues to ask him a question after another‚ Gabriel explodes by saying “ O‚ to tell you the truth...I’m
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Anne Bradstreet: The Heretical Poet Greg Saxon The purpose of this research is to discuss heretical elements in the poetry of Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672). This is not to imply that Bradstreet was a heretic in the sense that American religious reformer Anne Hutchinson was. Hutchinson (1591-1643) emigrated to Boston in 1634 and preached a doctrine of salvation through intuitive apprehension of grace rather than by works‚ and attacked the rigid moral and legal codes of New England Puritanism.
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Nature was William Wordsworth’s favourite subject for poetry. That is why he is called ’the’ Nature poet. He produced Nature poems in such abundance that a reader will be lost among them. Not all of them are superior. As a fact‚ some famous critics have commented that the pathway to his superior poems are obscuPoems on Nature were a rarity in William Wordsworth’s time in England. Almost all wrote about Kings‚ Knights‚ Heroes and their mighty deeds. A few were called Cockneys who wrote about the life
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power of natureon the spirit of man. William Wordsworth as a Poet of Nature: As a poet of Nature‚ Wordsworth stands supreme. He is a worshipper of Nature‚ Nature’s devotee or high-priest. His love of Nature was probably truer‚ and tenderer‚ than that of any other English poet‚ before or since. Nature comes to occupy in his poem a separate or independent status and is not treated in a casual or passing manner as by poets before him. Wordsworth had a full-fledged philosophy‚ a new and original
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Literature- classified according to historical periods‚ genres‚ and political influences. Importance of literature * Enjoyment of and enthusiasm for literature. * Appreciation for specific selections. * Love for nature‚ for fellowmen‚ for refinement‚ for virtue ‚ and for good thing in life. * Better understanding of other peoples and nations. * Ability to react‚ make inferences ‚use imaginations‚ think clearly and critically‚ express well‚ comprehend what is read‚ make interpretations
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