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    Would the memory of them and their glory live on longer? In the lryic poem "To an Athlete Dying Young" by A.E. Houseman the narrator shows how dying young and at the peak of your glory is better then living to be forgotten. The setting of the poem is in a town and cemetery in nineteenth-century England during the funeral and burial of a young athlete‚ a runner. The first stanza explains the victory of a boy winning a race in his town. Neighbors and admires of the athlete were so happy for him they

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    Analysis of “Let’s get the (Birthday) party started” A short story by Dave Barry Childhood amnesia is a well known fact. Most adults are unable to remember infancy or toddlerhood. Therefore‚ one wonders whether it is even worth to celebrate a toddler’s birthday. Dave Berry’s short story “Let ’s get the (birthday) party started right” is mostly a low level comedy text that uses caricatures‚ one liners and hyperboles to communicate the idea that planning parties can be very stressful and exhausting

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    Mary Hyland  11/18/14  P.3  Poem Reaction Paragraphs    Emily Dickinson: “Success Is Counted Sweetest”­  This poem brought about a reaction in me of true success. ​ The message is  those who succeed‚ never truly appreciate success: only those who fail‚ or who lack  something‚ can truly appreciate the joy if they had succeeded.​  The poet says “those  who ne’er succeed” genuinely value success‚ or as she says‚ “They “count” it  “sweetest”. Dickinson also states the members of the victorious army

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    war poetry is the transformation that war brings about in a person. Many poems reveal boys going into war and becoming young men after the experience. Another dominant theme in war poems is about the forgotten soldiers who lost their lives and weren’t remembered. Many poems have been written about war and the feelings evoked by war. Even though a lot of war poetry was written before World War 1‚ the defining war poems were written during or about World War 1. Possibly the main reason for this

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    ------------------------------------------------- Example: ------------------------------------------------- Discuss how the theme of ‘childhood’ or ‘war’ is expressed in two of the works you have studied. (You might discuss the theme of childhood in a poem and a novel you have studied this year) 1. Think about important themes that appear in each of the texts that you have studied this year. 2. Consider significant characters and their role in the texts you have

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    throughout the poems‚ they can range from happiness to sadness and anger‚ which help set the mood of the author and how he/she is telling it. Main themes that are present are Racism‚ War‚ and Death and how they can be paired hand in hand and help reinforce the message of the Poem. Racism is a major problem that is still being tackled today‚ with the discrimination of a certain race or religion‚ it has affected many lives including Cecil Fisher‚ who is the author of the poem “Black Anzac”. The poem focuses

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    Poems of Literature The poem “Lonely Hearts” by Wendy Cope is a little too dramatic in my opinion. In the poem‚ she writes about a man who is seeking for someone to love and that will love him back because he is lonely. In the poem the lines “Executive in search of something new—Perhaps bisexual woman‚ arty‚ young‚ Do you live North London? Is it you?” (7-9) informed me that this guy is so desperate to find somebody that he would settle with pretty much anyone that came along. I believe that no

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    relationships. Robert Browining‚ a great Victorian poet‚ wrote two pre-1940 poems‚ ‘My last Duchess’ and ‘Prophyrias lover’‚ they are both examples of domineering me or individuals who end up killing their former lovers. The main theme which the poems are centred around is madness. ‘The Ballad’ on the other hand has an unknown poet‚ this could be as a result of it being passed down from one generation to another. All the three poems deal with the distorted image and status of women‚ and how this had an

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    The Great Big Book of Poems Table Of Contents So Excited………………………………..........1 Reason………………………………................2 The Room………………………………...........3 My Cat………………………………................4 I Love You………………………………..........5 Just A Kiss………………………………..........6 I Wish……………………………….................7 Moment Of Freedom…………………………..8 Nothing But The Best………………………….9 The Monster………………………………......10 The End………………………………

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    Compare how poets present the effects of war in ‘Mametz Wood’ (page 36) and in one other poem from Conflict. In Mametz Wood‚ by Owen Sheers and Futility‚ by Wilfred Owen‚ their separate perspectives of conflict and war are shown throughout‚ with the use of imagery‚ and personification to show the poets’ changes in emotion. Owen Sheers wrote his poem in the perspective of what happened in the past‚ with the poem being influenced by Sheers seeing a picture of a mass grave‚ provoking gruesome images

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