the most powerful forces in British life‚ it is somewhat surprising that he should choose death as a subject‚ as opposed to his rough contemporary‚ the Jesuit Geard Manley Hopkins‚ who devoted the bulk of his work to the praise of God and all his creations (although this was also a highly radical theme in its own way). Turner lacks Hopkins’ linguistic inventiveness‚ but his poem is finely crafted and certainly decidedly unchurchlike in its approach. The poem’s beginning belies its deeper character
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The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period‚ English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture‚ and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently‚ the term English poetry is unavoidably ambiguous. It can mean poetry written in England‚ or poetry written in the English language. The earliest surviving poetry was likely transmitted orally and then written down in versions that do
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to murder someone? And how does it happen that after the torture‚ after the soul has been cropped with a long scythe swooping out of the conqueror’s face- the unborn grandchildren grow to love that strange language. Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins Glory be to God for dappled things – For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscape plotted and pieced – fold‚ fallow
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TEXTS ON THE C.X.C. SYLLABUS A World of Poetry edited by: Mark McWatt & Hazel Simmons-McDonald A World of Prose edited by: David Williams & Hazel Simmons-McDonald A Mid-Summer Nights Dream edited by: William Shakespeare Old Story Time edited by: Trevor Rhone Wine Of Astonishment edited by:
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Fasting‚ Feasting Style Point of View The novel is written in the third person limited point of view. This means that the author tells the story from an objective position‚ as if viewing the story ’s events without benefit of any thoughts or feelings coming directly from the individual characters. The author presents the chain of events in the story and then interjects what the characters may be thinking or experiencing based on their reactions‚ facial expression‚ and tone of voice. This point
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Joan Gardona Andrada II-BSE English Creative Writing (POETRY) Forms Specific poetic forms have been developed by many cultures. In more developed‚ closed or "received" poetic forms‚ the rhyming scheme‚ meter and other elements of a poem are based on sets of rules‚ ranging from the relatively loose rules that govern the construction of an elegy to the highly formalized structure of the ghazal or villanelle. Described below are some common forms of poetry widely used across a number of languages
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Alex Malecki PHIL 221 Midterm Exam Question 1: The Milesian Pre-Socratics were among the first philosophers to construct naturalistic accounts of the universe as a single‚ unified‚ self-ordering system that did not require the intervention of deities‚ or anything else outside the natural world‚ to call it into existence. The three philosophers associated with this tradition are Thales‚ Anaximander‚ and Anaximenes. All three have a similar conception of the universe‚ at least in the sense that each
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English poetry in between two wars Introduction: The years between the two world wars (1919-1939) witnessed prolific poetic activity. It was a period when tradition and innovation went side by side. In the direction of innovation we can find such groups as the Imagists‚ Symbolists‚ and Surrealists working‚ whereas we also find some traditionalists fighting a last-ditch battle against the forces of change. However‚ most of the poets of the age combined tradition and innovation; and even the most
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Pied Beauty -Gerard Hopkins The title of the poem itself is a clear indication of what follows (“pied” meaning ‘of more than one colour’)‚ a celebration of imperfection; of diversity. The poem opens with the poet praising and thanking God for spotted or dappled (imperfect) things‚ “Glory be to God for dappled things”. This one line alone sends the reader into contemplation—having always associated beauty with perfection‚ this makes one look at things from a whole
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Hulga and Manley Pointer Was there ever a plan in your head that you were so confident in‚ yet it backfired on you? Hulga from “Good Country People” plans to destroy Manley Pointer’s emotions‚ but he ended up stealing her leg. Hulga deserves what she had gotten‚ because karma is out there‚ and even though Hulga did not destroy Manley Pointers faith her intentions were to destroy him‚ and that was bad enough. Hulga’s thoughts and steps towards destroying Manley Pointer ended up in a tragedy Hulga
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