Yeats explores the tension between the real world and the ideal world in many of his poems. The natural world‚ rich with the peaceful sounds of honey-bees and ‘linnet’s wings’‚ is compared to the greyness of city life. He contrasts the heroic idealism of the patriots who died for Ireland with the drab merchant class who ‘add the halfpence to the pence.’ Elsewhere his poetry is alive with the tension between the feverish mortal life of ‘fish‚ flesh and foul’ and the desire for immortality. In his
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inevitability of death.” Sailing to Byzantium confronts the problems posed by advancing age. Yeats found the idea of bodily decay and decrepitude intolerable and in this poem‚ he outlines a means to escape‚ to travel in imagination to an ideal place‚ in which he will be exempt from decay or death‚ a civilization in which he can spend his eternity as a work of art. It is a definitive statement about the agony of old age. Yeats is out of place in a world teeming with youth and vitality where “the young” are “in
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Auden was born 21 February 1907‚ in York‚ the son of a physician. At first interested in science‚ he soon turned to poetry. In 1925 he entered Christ Church College‚ University of Oxford‚ where he became the centre of a group of literary intellectuals that included Stephen Spender‚ Christopher Isherwood‚ C. Day Lewis‚ And Louis MacNeice. After graduation he was schoolmaster in Scotland and England for five years. In London‚ in the early 1930s‚ Auden belonged to a circle of promising young poets
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W.E.B. Du Bois spent most of his career focusing on race relations and he defined the problem of the color line. For most of his life he believed in integration‚ but towards the end of his life he began to focus on Black Nationalism after he became discouraged with the lack of progress in race relations (Allan‚ 2013). Du Bois was an author‚ a poet‚ civil-rights activist‚ Pan-Africanist‚ a sociologist‚ and he was known for many other trades that he spent his time doing throughout his life. He graduated
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Yeats 2014 “Yeats uses evocative language to create poetry that includes both personal reflection and public commentary.” Discuss this statement‚ supporting your answer with reference to both themes and language found in the poetry of W B Yeats on your course. “Easter 1916” is a prime example of how Yeats uses striking language to create poetry that has both personal reflection and public commentary. I was impressed by the clever structure of the poem. It has four stanzas‚ two containing sixteen
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William Butler Yeats is widely considered to be one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. He belonged to the Protestant‚ Anglo-Irish minority that had controlled the economic‚ political‚ social‚ and cultural life of Ireland since at least the end of the seventeenth century. Most members of this minority considered themselves English people who merely happened to have been born in Ireland‚ but Yeats was staunch in affirming his Irish nationality. Although he lived in London for fourteen
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W. E. B. Du Bois William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born on February 23‚ 1868‚ in Great Barrington‚ Massachusetts‚ to Alfred and Mary Silvina (née Burghardt) Du Bois. Mary Silvina Burghardt’s family was part of the very small free black population of Great Barrington‚ having long owned land in the state; she was descended from Dutch‚ African and English ancestors. William Du Bois’s maternal great-grandfather was Tom Burghardt‚ a slave (born in West Africa around 1730) who was held by the Dutch
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Diesel’s first engine in Augsburg‚ the 1912 motor vessel Selandia‚ the introduction of turbocharging on two-stroke diesels in 1954‚ and the first SCR (Selective Catalytic NOx Reduction) systems on ships in 1989. This paper will outline how MAN B&W takes advantage of this new technology in its MErange of engines by combining traditional‚ proven technologies with enhanced electronic control so as to design engines which‚ while being both production-friendly and operationally easy to handle
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Yeats and Symbolism Born in 1865‚ William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright and one of the twentieth century’s foremost literary masters. Yeats is partly credited with the Irish Literary Revival and was awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature. Even though he rejected Christianity‚ Yeats was spiritual; he developed a unique‚ philosophical belief system that emphasized fate‚ historical determinism‚ and the notion that history is cyclical; Yeats eventually began using the image of a gyre to
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Craig Cramer 8 September 2014 Eulogy of Wystan Hugh Auden Unique Achievements We have gathered here to eulogize Wystan Hugh Auden‚ a man and poet of great and beautiful works of art. While I will not be able to recite and commemorate all of his works and their deeper meanings I hope to at least give a small insight on this great mans’ life through what could be considered only small sliver of his overall works. W. H. Auden was not only a great poet during his life but an author as
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