Thomas Hardy as a War Poet Thomas Hardy is one of the most famous and prolific British writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Most people recognize Hardy as an author of novels‚ but he preferred to write poetry. Both his novels and his poetry give a pessimistic view of the world. Subjects for his poetry include nature‚ love‚ and war. Most of his poems on war have tragic themes and present humans as having little control over their destinies. A major theme of Thomas Hardy’s tragic
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The Elephant’s Child (an adaptation) by Rudyard Kipling Parts: (9) Narrator 1 Narrator 2 Elephant Child Kolokolo Bird Crocodile Brother 1 Brother 2 Ostrich Giraffe Narrator 1: In the high and far-off times‚ the elephant‚ O Best Beloved‚ had no trunk. He had only a blackish‚ bulgy nose‚ as big as a boot‚ that he could wriggle about from side to side--but he couldn’t pick up things with it. Narrator 2: But there was one elephant‚ a new elephant--an elephant child--who was full of ’satiable curiosity
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Anne Bradstreet: American Poet Anne Bradstreet is seen as a true poetic writer for the seventeenth century. She exhibits a strong Puritan voice and is one of the first notable poets to write English verse in the American colonies. Bradstreet’s work symbolizes both her Puritan and feminine ideals and appeals to a wide audience of readers. American Puritan culture was basically unstable‚ with various inchoate formations of social‚ political‚ and religious powers competing publicly. Her thoughts
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The Victor Poet: C.W. Longenecker If you think you are beaten‚ you are. If you think you dare not‚ you don’t If you like to win but think you can’t‚ It’s almost a cinch you won’t. If you think you’ll lose‚ you’re lost. For out in the world we find Success begins with a fellow’s will It’s all in the state of mind. If you think you are outclassed‚ you are. You’ve got to think high to rise. You’ve got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win the prize. Life’s battles don’t
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Introduction to a Poet: Billy Collins Billy Collins is one of the most credited poets of this century and last. He is a man of many talents‚ most recognized though by his provocative and riveting poetry. As John McEnroe was to the sport of tennis‚ Billy Collins has done the same for the world of poetry. Collin’s rejected the old ways of poetry‚ created his own form‚ broke all the rules‚ and still retains the love and respect of the poet community. Collins has received the title of Poet Laureate of the
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power of natureon the spirit of man. William Wordsworth as a Poet of Nature: As a poet of Nature‚ Wordsworth stands supreme. He is a worshipper of Nature‚ Nature’s devotee or high-priest. His love of Nature was probably truer‚ and tenderer‚ than that of any other English poet‚ before or since. Nature comes to occupy in his poem a separate or independent status and is not treated in a casual or passing manner as by poets before him. Wordsworth had a full-fledged philosophy‚ a new and original
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On "The Young Housewife" Peter Baker The details of this poem are so unassuming that they may easily be missed. The young woman is not in a negligee‚ she is "in negligee." One also must do a sort of double-take to figure out how the speaker could know this if she is behind the walls of a house. Though the standard line on Williams is that he freezes moments of perception (language used to render perceptive instants)‚ this poem‚ while apparently simple‚ utilizes a three-part temporal framework
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No two relationships between an authority and an individual are ever the same‚ but the relationships have a huge impact on both parties in varied ways. As seen in the film “Dead Poets Society”‚ directed by Peter Weir and the picture book “Rose Blanche” by Roberto Innocenti‚ relationships between individuals are fuelled by common interests and beliefs‚ hence‚ having the power to shape the individuals by enriching their shared interests. However‚ the conflicting values between the authority and the
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Modern day poet In spite of the Pastoral element that was predominant in all of Robert Frost’s poems‚ he was still considered a modern poet because the poetry that he wrote was well endowed with the many problems that men who lived in the modern world faced with Science and Technology. He was a contemporary and great friend to such modernist greats as Ezra Pound and Wallace Stevens. Although he resembled these modernist poets‚ Frost was quite different from the rest of the modern poets of his time
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There are Many Enemies in War World War One poets were normally split into two schools of thought; Pro war and Anti- war. The Pro war poets were often used as recruitments as they told of the glory of war and made it seem like it would be easy and pleasant to fight for the war. Anti war poets told more or less the truth about war although the authors were very angry and you can see this in a lot of their poetry. The 4 poems I’m writing about are called “Dulce et Decorum est” and “Disabled” By
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