Introduction The Dover Castle is often referred to as the “key of England” because it has been around for so long and so much of the British history relates to this gigantic fortress. It is the largest castle in England and it is located on the coastal portion of the island on a high cliff at the closest point to mainland Europe. Even before the creation of the castle‚ the location has always been popular for building forts for defensive purposes. There is evidence that clans in the Iron Age were
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Peaceful Dover beach‚ which was calm the night when Arnold was there‚ showed us the difficulty of accomplishing something. By using ideational structure full of metaphors and making each stanza to have its own characteristic‚ Arnold effectively transferred the theme of the poem. The poetry starts with the description of Dover beach at a moment‚ which would not last forever‚ directed us to the sadness or disappointment that he would reveal later in poetry. The first stanza is very much about
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CRITICAL APPRECIATION OF ELIOT’S WASTELAND T.S.Eliot was born in the United States in 1888 and was educated there and in France before settling down in England and at length adopting British citizenship. He published his first poems Prufrock and other Observations in 1917 and all his work is strongly individual and creatively personal. With The Wasteland(1922) he established the reputation which made him the leading living poet of the English speaking world‚ though his output for some years was extremely
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Appreciation When someone brings up the word appreciation‚ one may have many stories to tell about whom they appreciate and why they appreciate them. Having appreciation shows how much one truly cares about something and their attitude towards different people and things. Some people need to realize that what they have compared to others is a gift that was given and need to appreciate that‚ whereas some unfortunate people are struggling to make ends meet with what was given to them. A prime example
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Dover Lights Introduction 1) Have you ever been sitting at home bored looking for something to do? Have you ever wanted to see some paranormal activity that is close to home? 2) Good Morning my name is Micah Thomas 3) Some of you may know the place a) Dover Lights b) I will tell you about i) The history ii) About the spot iii) Encounters 4) I have even had a couple of personal experiences Body 1. History 1) Spanish Conquistadors
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every time the land floods. The civilians try to go about their daily lives while dealing with irregular circumstances‚ difficult for all to continue to handle. In “The Siege of Miami”‚ Kolbert documents a scene where she began chatting with a Miami Beach Public Works Department official and was interrupted by an elderly women with a walker who saw the floods and exclaimed “What am I supposed to do?” In response the men in the pickup truck hoisted her and her walker into the truck (Kolbert 3). This
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John Betjeman‚ an English poet‚ broadcaster and writer on architecture was born on 6th April 1906. One is tempted to say of Betjeman that he is an architect masque’ and a poet by accident‚ for architecture has always been his chief preoccupation. He wrote many poems to do with Christianity. His poems were often humorous and this unusual quality was accepted and eventually became popular. One characteristic of Betjeman’s poems was satire. With his use of satire‚ Betjeman communicates his views on
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John Keats‚ a poet of the romantic era‚ composed this poem in the spring of 1819. Being a poet of the Romantic era‚ he was a Nature lover‚ but instead of looking at Nature as a guide or teacher‚ he was in pursuit of beauty within Nature. The romantic poets emphasized on emotions‚ they believed in the power of imagination and experimented with new ideas and concepts. Keats is generally considered the most tragic of the Romantic poets as he was faced by a series of sad experiences in his life. The
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Critical Appreciation The poem analysed is "The Zebras" by Roy Campbell. It is a beautiful poem that uses vivid imagery to convey the theme. The theme being the beauty of nature and creation and also the freedom and zest for life that we as humans don’t have due confinement of our lives. In the poem Roy Campbell pays tribute to nature and he emphasizes this by its structure. The poem has no stanzas therefore represents freedom and adds a natural flow of the poem. However he does use some punctuation
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Write a critical appreciation of Barbara Kingsolver’s “The Lacuna”. Barbara Kingsolver’s extract demonstrates a key number of themes relating to the divide between the land and the sea‚ personifying the fish in the sea and dehumanising the people on land‚ pushing the boundaries between both worlds. The comparisons between the fish and the humans reflect society as a whole and the problems that plague us. The underlining theme that essentially becomes the most important in the given extract is that
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