An Essay on Glorification of Childhood in Immortality Ode: ‘Immortality Ode’ by William Wordsworth deals with the immortal memoirs of childhood. The gentle melancholy on the past days leaves a pleasing pain of nostalgia in our heart. On running after the lines‚ we reach somewhere in past; holding the hands of memories‚ we go back to the innocence and each mind would say ‘we had a nice time’ In this poem‚ there was a time in speaker’s child hood when to him every ordinary object of nature appeared
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“Keats yearned to transcend the human condition but could only find a temporary respite from mortality.” Discuss. Keats‚ through his poetry‚ has in effect risen above the mortality which was so prominent in his psyche both temporarily and permanently. Much of Keats’s poetry can be seen as an attempt to explore Keats’ acute awareness and musings on the transience of human life. Coloured by his experiences of life and death‚ and ironically captured in his own sickness and early demise‚ there is
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English Project A Written Report of Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” I. The Author Percy Bysshe Shelley‚ the author of “Ode to the West Wind”‚ was a significant part of the English literary period we now refer to as the Romantic Age which ran from 1798 to 1832. The most prominent features of the Romantic period were the reflected effects of the American and French Revolutions‚ as well as the growth of a new romantic stream in poetry‚ and the development of a strong sense of delight
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Poetry (1) Hameed Khan Topic: Comparison between ‘Christabel’ from S.T.Coleridge’s Christabel and Madeline in John Keats ‘The eve of St. Agnes’ Christabel from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ‘Christabel’ and Madeline from John Keats ‘The Eve of St. Agnes’ have many striking similarities. Throughout both poems‚ the two women are constantly referred to as pure‚ innocent‚ generally good girls. They are praised by the other characters and by the narrators
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distance which is now between them Why does the text always tell from autumn and falling leaves? It’s a metaphor for their relationship which can’t flourish anymore He thinks that she’s old; she thinks that he’s young She wants him back‚ but he won’t her back She looks old “She looks old”‚ that means that she is not happy anymore with her life. She did wrong things in the past and she can’t correct them. The title “Early autumn” applies to her life. Her spring is definitely over‚ the chances (of
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Critical Reading Log #1 John Lennon vs. A Perfect Circle “Imagine” by John Lennon and “Imagine” by A Perfect Circle are both powerful songs with powerful videos. However‚ even though they are the same song I feel as though the two contradict each other in many ways. I feel as though in Lennon’s song‚ he is trying to convey a message of peace‚ and say that if people want to get through dark times‚ if they try hard enough they can. In contrast‚ I feel as though A Perfect Circle’s version is
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Time‚ as exemplified by “Ode on a Grecian Urn‚” by Jon Keats and “The Day Lady Died‚” by Frank O’Hara‚ both explore the value of using time to leave a mark and allow generations to relive it through out‚ however Keats poem represents images of stillness and of silence versus O’Hara’s poem which fixates on the rush of time. It no longer exists in the original circumstance in which it was creating‚ by some artist because it is made of stone‚ the urn is essentially an eternal piece of art‚ exempt from
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Dear John; Book vs. Movie Author Nicholas Sparks added to his list of best sellers with the novel Dear John. Dear John is a love story‚ love stories make big money in movie form‚ so the novels are popular to make into a movie. Books and movies are two forms of entertainment that are closely related and we overlook the differences among them. There are many similarities between the two‚ but there are also major differences. If one has never read a novel and then watched the movie version of
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John Proctor vs. Arthur Dimmesdale The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible both have main characters that can relate to each other even though they are in two different stories. Arthur Dimmesdale‚ one of the main characters of The Scarlet Letter‚ is a respected reverend in society that commits a horrendous and sinful act‚ adultery‚ with a woman named Hester Prynne. John Proctor‚ a main character from The Crucible‚ commits adultery as well with his servant‚ Abigail Williams. These two characters‚ aside
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John Keats’ sonnet On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again: Discussing aspects of form. In good poetry‚ nothing is by chance. Every technical gesture justifies itself thematically. Any technicality that one can detect in good poetry is occurring exactly when something thematic is very important. It can occur in a new direction in the theme‚ in the introduction of the solution‚ or in the introduction of a character that is going to resolve the problem. That is where invariably the poet produces
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