Q1. Discuss Gray as a transitional poet with special reference to ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’. The period 1730-1770 marks the beginning from a movement from one distinct phase of English poetry towards another .The poets were getting gradually exhausted with the neoclassical ethics of clarity‚ reason‚ sophistication‚ and etiquette‚ its economic wording‚ ‚rationale and wit. In the literary circle can be perceived the advent of The Romanticism which however customarily began with the publication
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Johnathan Witherspoon was born in Scotland in 1723 and was later sent to attend the preparatory school in Haddington. After completing his years in Haddington Johnathan Witherspoon found himself at the University of Edinburgh pursuing his Masters of Arts degree as well as terms in a local divinity school. All of his years in education was completed at the age of nineteen. Johnathan Witherspoon soon found himself as a community minister at the church of Beith. He was promoted the role of pastor
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Swift was born on December 13‚ 1989 in Reading‚ Pennsylvania and raised in Wyomissing‚ Pennsylvania. She is the daughter of Andrea Gardner (née Finlay)‚ a homemaker who previously worked in finance‚ and Scott Kingsley Swift‚ a stockbroker. Her maternal grandmother‚ Marjorie Finlay (née Moehlenkamp)‚ was an opera singer. Swift has a younger brother‚ Austin. She grew up on a Christmas-tree farm. When Swift was in fourth grade‚ she won a national poetry contest with a three-page poem‚ "Monster in My
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Dear Facebook users‚ well…mostly just great grandma’s with consistent comments and likes on everything you post. Also‚ to the stalker ex-boyfriends and ex-girlfriends who always‚ and I mean always come up on your top 10 fans. This letter was presented before you today to inform you on the potential switch that you may be making in your future…the switch from Facebook to Twitter! You may have been one of those Facebook users taunting us tweeters for the multiple posts in a row that rivalry social
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Dear State of Connecticut‚ I would like to tell you how pleased I am with your school system. I am the parent of Anita Vacation‚ a Junior at ------- High School in ------port. She comes home every day with a smile on her face‚ which I can only assume is from her wonderful experience at school. Anita wakes up at three o’clock every morning to go to school. I can only thank you for making the wake up time so early. The dark bags under her eyes allow me to save money in this horrible recession
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Today’s society greatly impacts the way our children learn. The main reasons behind this is State Standards‚ Unfocused Children‚ and School Boards. In this satirical cartoon‚ the author Horsey uses a serious tone. This can be seen by looking at the unhappy children and how the teacher has a conversation with the student. The target in this cartoon is American Schooling and how they are teaching our children. The purpose of this cartoon is to show people how we are learning in schools and why students
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LYRIC AND THE INNER LIFE COURSEWORK ‘Elegy is about mourning for one’s own condition’ Stuart Curran‚ ‘Romantic Elegiac Hybridity’‚ in The Oxford Handbook to Elegy (Oxford‚ 2010)‚ ed. Karen Weisman‚ p. 249 Discuss Curran’s comment in relation to the work of Thomas Gray and Percy Bysshe Shelley. ’One of the major tasks of the work of mourning and of the work of the elegy is to repair the mourner ’s damaged narcissism ’[1]. This quote by literary critic Peter Sacks‚ flourishes from
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Thomas Gray wrote “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” in 1742‚ shortly after the death of his close friend Richard West who died from tuberculosis (“Gray‚ Thomas”). The death of his dear friend influenced him to write an elegy‚ which is a poem expressing sorrow or lamentation‚ especially towards one who has died (“Poetry for Students”). An elegy is usually a pensive or reflective poem that can be nostalgic or melancholy (“Elegy”). Gray uses figurative language and detailed description to get
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12-13-12 Jonathan swift Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin‚ Ireland on November 30‚ 1667. His father‚ an attorney‚ also named Jonathan Swift‚ died before he was born. To ensure her son the best upbringing possible‚ Swift’s mother gave him over to Godwin Swift‚ her late husband’s brother. Godwin Swift enrolled young Swift in the Kilkenny Grammar School. At age 14‚ Swift achieved his undergraduate studies at Trinity College in Dublin. The Glorious Revolution of 1688 urged Swift to move to England
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Jonathan Swift was a talented author of his time who wrote intelligent and influential poetry in order to share his values. He was well educated and worked alongside various other distinguished authors and was the founder of a respected writers group which even included Alexander Pope. Swift had strong beliefs and tried to influence others through is writing‚ similar to Alexander Pope’s poetry. One of Pope’s most well known poems is “The Rape of the Lock” which is a well known mock heroic poem that
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