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    The Tempest is the last play Shakespeare wrote. The play is about Prospero who has been overthrown from his dukedom in a very unfair and ruthless faction by his brother Antonio. Prospero has magical powers. I try to show the relationship between Prospero‚ Miranda‚ Ariel‚ Caliban and Ferdinand. Prospero is a controlling person‚ he controls and dominates his daughter Miranda. This is highlighted by when he told Miranda “obey and be attentive”. On the other hand when he wants to tell his story‚ Prospero

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    You should be here‚ Nature has need of you. She has been laid waste. Smothered by the smog‚ the flowers are mute‚ and the birds are few in a sky slowing like a dying clock. All hopes of Proteus rising from the sea have sunk; he is entombed in the waste we dump. Triton’s notes struggle to be free‚ his famous horns are choked‚ his eyes are dazed‚ and Neptune lies helpless as beached as a whale‚ while insatiate man moves in for the kill. Poetry and piety have begun to fail‚ As Nature’s mighty

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    Catrin Essay Example

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    Explore how Gillian Clarke and Charles Causley present the relationship between a parent and child in ‘Catrin’ and ‘What has happened to Lulu?’ Gillian Clarke was born in Cardiff in 1937 she often writes poems about nature and her observations of people. One of the poems she wrote was ’Catrin.’ This poem in particular portrays the theme of a parent and child relationship and how they battle as the chills grows up. ’Catrin’ starts off with the birth of the child and how it was a struggle. It later

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    Imagery in the Poem

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    2) and sterile‚ which seems at odds with the intimate event that is about to occur. Further on it is seen as ’a square / Environmental blank ’ (line 9) and a ’glass tank ’ (line 19). Why do you think Clarke places so much emphasis on the hospital building? | | Before the actual birth‚ Clarke looks out of the window at ’The people and cars ’ (line 4) going about their every day business; she‚ in contrast‚ is about to experience one of the most momentous events of her life. Why do you think she

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    to be quite remote and distanced and are more interested in controlling her. However‚ we see their genuine affection for her when they are grief-stricken after they discover Juliet’s death. In Catrin‚ like the Capulet’s‚ we can see the mother‚ Gillian Clarke attempting to control her daughter. But this is not a significant confrontation just a petty dispute in which the mother recognises that conflict will always be a part of mother/daughter relationships. This can be seen in What has Happened to

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    Compare the ways poets show the relationship between people and places in “Neighbours” and in one other poem from place. In the poem neighbours by Gillian Clarke‚ the narrator reflects on the effects of the Chernobyl disaster. At first she begins pessimistically describing the widespread damage‚ but then goes on to say how it made people come together to become “neighbours” ‚ending the poem in a more hopeful note. In “Price we pay for the sun” by Grace Nichols‚ the narrator also starts pessimistically

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    The Field Mouse

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    Gillian Clarke- The Field Mouse In the first verse‚ the hay cutting is depicted in a positive light: the hay is cut "Down at the end of the meadow‚ / far from the radio’s terrible news". The distance from the "terrible news" leads us to expect a peaceful description of a harmless farming activity exempt from the violence happening in the outside world. The opening line of the poem sets up this expectation: "Summer‚ and the long grass is a snare drum". There are some images inserted into the scene

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    Presentation of Love

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    The Presentation of love in The Duchess of Malfi The Duchess of Malfi has a whole host of characters showing love in very different ways‚ some traditional and some controversial. Literature through the ages has presented love in many different forms; from friendship to lust or platonic love to romance. Be it love for another person‚ love for pleasure or love for power; love can be seen as an origin for a multitude of emotions and motivations. It is not uncommon in literature to show how love can

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    Mid Term Break Essay

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    Mid-Term Break Mid-Term Break is a depressing poem because it’s about the death of a child; the poets brother. Heaney emphasises the sadness of the occasion by describing the coffin surrounded with snowdrops and candles ‚ which he says “soothe the bedside”. The fact that he hasn’t seen his brother for six weeks makes it seem somehow worse. The response of the rest of his family also highlights how sad it is: his father crying must have been such a shock to Heaney‚ we don’t expect grown men to

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    IGCSE Songs of Ourselves Poetry anthology 2009-2011 The Grange School English Department The Voice Thomas Hardy Woman much missed‚ how you call to me‚ call to me‚ Saying that now you are not as you were When you had changed

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