MONIVAE COLLEGE UNIT 1 VCE ENGLISH TERM 2‚ 2015 OUTCOME 3 On completion of this unit the student should be able to identify and discuss‚ either in writing and/or orally‚ how language can be used to persuade readers and/or viewers. Workbook and Notes on Selected Poetry of Robert Frost CONTENTS PAGE Context and Focus 3 Assessment 3 Poems 3 - 11 Focus Questions – A Summary 12 Essays/ Commentary on Frost 13 - 20 Context and Focus: The
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“A poem begins with a lump in the throat... A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”(Robert Frost). Robert Frost became one of the most famous poets of his time and still is today. In one of his more popular pieces‚ The Road Not Taken‚ Frost uses imagery‚ tone‚ and metaphors to convey that by making certain decisions will affect you for the rest of your life. Robert Frost was born on March 26‚ 1874 in San Francisco‚ California. His interest
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Question: Part A: Analyze the social and historical context of a particular poem Poem: T. S. Eliot‚ ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock The context of any given text whether poetry‚ novels or a movie is always integral to its understanding. Social and historical context of not only the given text‚ but the writer’s context and reader’s context play an important role in the interpretation and understanding of the major ideas‚ issues‚ values and beliefs within the text. T.S (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
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career spans both the close of the romantic and the beginning of the modern eras of poetry. Yeats thus presents an interesting body of work in which he moves from an almost archaic style to one less flowery and embellished (clearly influenced by Ezra Pound). Despite the evolution of style‚ though‚ Yeats continually returns to the temporal and eternal as central contrasting themes in his work. From “To the Rose upon the Rood of Time‚” in which a young Yeats appeals to the eternal rose to save him from
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The Allusions in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land The Waste Land is an important poem. It has something important to say and it should have an important effect on the reader. But it is not easy. In Eliot’s own words: "We can say that it appears likely that poets in our civilization as it exists at present‚ must be difficult. Our civilization comprehends great variety and complexity‚ and this variety and complexity‚ playing upon a refined sensibility‚ must produce various and complex results. The
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Imagism was a movement in the 20th century that focused on having a clear message and description in poems in order to provide vivid imagery for the reader. These poems often did not rhyme‚ had irregular beat‚ and depended on the power of an image to convey an emotion. It has been described as one of the most influential movements in English poetry. Two common and popular Imagist poets at the time and even today are: William Carlos Williams and H.D. (Hilda Doolittle). Both of these writers knew each
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Walt Whitman Walter "Walt" Whitman was an American poet‚ essayist and journalist. A humanist‚ he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism‚ incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon‚ often called the father of free verse. His work was very controversial in its time‚ particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass‚ which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality. Walt was born in Westhills‚ Long
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and Dickinson are entirely opposite. Second‚ while Walt Whitman ’s voice is quite loud‚ clear‚ and boastful in “Song of myself‚” Emily Dickinson ’s voice is quiet and modest “[I’m Nobody! Who are you?].” In her poem‚ it is obviously that he is very pound of himself. One of the evidences is that he names the poem‚ “Song of Myself.” On the first sentence of the first stanza‚ he says “I celebrate myself” (Lauter 1225).From this note‚ Whitman creates his own image that he is great and he implies his life
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the final version of "The Waste Land" is significant. At the time of the poem’s composition‚ Eliot was ill‚ struggling to recover from his nervous breakdown and languishing through an unhappy marriage. Pound offered him support and friendship; his belief in and admiration for Eliot were enormous. Pound‚ like Eliot a crucible of modernism‚ called for compression‚ ellipsis‚ reduction. The poem grew yet more cryptic; references that were previously clear now became more obscure. Explanations were out the
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Bones In The Waste Land English Literature Essay In the movie Spiderman 2 (2004)‚ Peter Parker‚ aka Spiderman‚ gets in to a conversation with Dr. Otto Octavious‚ the scientist‚ who later morphs into the super villain Doc Ock. Dr. Octavious tells Peter about his fiancée‚ a literature student‚ when they met in college and how she attempted to learn science for his sake and how he tried to learn literature for hers. She was more successful and he less‚ as he explains to Peter‚ “She was studying T
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