The above statement that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world" has been taken from his essay ’A Defence of Poetry’ in which he discusses the role of the poet in society and asserts that he is the moderator of the society. In the essay he mentions that the ancient poets were "magi" or wise men whose poetry was magical. According to him poets are "the instituitions of laws‚ and the founders of civil society‚ and the inventors of the arts of life." This statement is well appropriated
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Compare how the poets present love in “Nettles” and in one other poem from the Relationships cluster. In ‘Nettles’‚ Vernon the relationship shown is the relationship that is shared between a father and his young 3 year old son who had fallen into a bed of stinging nettles. In ‘The Manhunt’‚ the poem Simon Armitage writes about the relationship that is shared between a wife and her husband who is an injured soldier who has just returned home from war. Both of these poets write about and explore
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How does the poet use language and form to give readers an insight into the thoughts and feelings of the speaker? Poems are a way of expressing yourself. To some people poems may seem like a bunch of meaning less words‚ however if you analyze each line you will find a great story behind it. In this essay I will be writing about two initially diverse poems‚ ‘Flag’ by John Agard and ‘Out of the Blue’ written by Simon Armitage. Agard is originally from Guyana in the Caribbean and is known
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Examine the ways in which poets portray the experience of love in 2 poems that you have read. You may wish to explore the types of love‚ the effects of love and how the poets use language and structure. In Havisham and Sonnet 43 we are given a good idea of how two poets can have different opinions on the experience of love. Havishams experience of love is violent with dark implications of death “Beloved sweetheart bastard.” The plosive alliteration of B emphasises her hatred towards her ex and
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Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen are poets who fought for England in the First World War. Both poets depict the same topic of war‚ but through different views and opinions. Despite them pertaining to the similarly themed subject‚ their language and tone invoke contrasting feelings in readers and affects their impression of war in opposite ways. Examples of these differences can be seen in the two poems by Rupert Brook ’The Dead (iii) and ’The Soldier’ and two by Wilfred Owen ’Anthem for Doomed Youth’
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and contrast the presentation of the poets’ attitudes to progress in Unknown Girl and Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom. People have been thinking about what ‘progress’ means for hundreds of years. We normally associate it with positive impacts and things changing for the better‚ which the majority of the time is correct. Edward E Cummings once said ‘Nothing recedes like progress.’ and in the poems ‘Unknown Girl’ and ‘Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom’ the poets agree with this statement. Alvi and
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Compare how poets use language to present feelings in “The Manhunt” and one other poem (Nettles) In ‘Manhunt’‚ Simon Armitage uses rhyme to reflect the togetherness of a relationship. He says “After the first phase‚ after passionate nights and intimate days.” As the poem goes on‚ the reader can start to recognise that the un-rhymed cuplets show how fragmented their relationship has become. In ‘Nettles’ Vernon Scannell uses elements of nature‚ the nettles‚ to portray his keen anger towards the
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Compare the methods poets use to explore ideas about time in ‘hour’ and on other poem from relationship? Poets often use their work to express their thoughts‚ this is what the writers of ‘hour’ and ‘to his coy mistress’ have done to express their thoughts on time and love. In hour the poem is about time and how it is short lived when you are in love‚ whereas ’To His Coy Mistress’ is a poem where the man is trying to convince the woman to sleep with him and exploring the idea of living and enjoying
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Unchartered Territory: A Discussion of Originality in the Works of 17th Century Poets John Donne and John Milton In a century that produced some of the English language’s greatest authors‚ poets John Donne and John Milton have emerged as two of the most significant. They both possess a deep intelligence and Orthodox Christianity from which flows their poetry of 17th century England. Little else‚ however‚ marks their work as similar. Milton’s use of ancient form and method associates him with
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Year 10 English Studies Essay: How does the poet use techniques to engage the reader? ‘War Without End’ and ‘Description of an Idea’ Bruce Dawe is a famous poet born in 1930. He incorporated similar techniques in his poems ‘War Without End’ and ‘Description of an Idea’. In the ‘War Without End’ the war is metaphorical and represented as the never ending car crashes and accidents on our roads every year whereas in ‘Description of an Idea’ the war is represented as a historical past event that was
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