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    AS2 Assignment 1 Compare the poems Remember and Funeral Blues on the their poetic form‚ structure and language In this assignment I will be comparing the poems Remember by Christina Rossetti and the poem Funeral blues by WH Auden. I will show some intensive points of comparison in the form‚ structure and language used and how both poems deal with love‚ tranquillity‚ peace and death. Both poems are about the feelings of love and death. There is a universal feeling between love and death‚ as

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    The clocks seem to speak for time‚ but in fact they represent the human marking of time. Time exists as a continuum‚ but clocks take the concept of time and force a structure on it. In this way‚ the clocks speak for time far less than they speak for society’s rules and conventions.The formatting of the poem reinforces this notion. The rhyme scheme is an abcb defe pattern that demonstrates the dichotomy between the constant flow of time and the structure forced upon it by society. The unrhymed lines

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    How does Wilfred Owen and WH Auden communicate a feeling of despair and isolation in Disabled and Refugee Blues? By Rhys Perrin Though there are distinct differences between Disabled by Wilfred Owen and Refugee Blues By WH Auden‚ both poems can be easily be associated with despair and desolation. The first stanza of Disabled‚ is set in the present and Wilfred Owen describes the soldier’s lack of pride in his apearance in the

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    published 1990. The book is about a stubborn‚ insecure and judgemental teenager who feels like she doesn’t fit in society because of her illegitimacy‚ ethnicity‚ status and family history. We can also see this from the poem Refugee Blues written by WH Auden and Neighbours by Tim Winston which both show perception off fitting in and not fitting because of ethnicity and status. Josephine Alibrandi is the main character in looking for Alibrandi she a teenager who attends a rich school‚ she feels uncomfortable

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    interaction with others and the world around them can enrich or limit their experiences of belonging ’ This statement has two point of views in which that can relate to the novel ‘ The simple Gift’ by Steven Herrick and the poem ‘ Refugees blues’ by WH Auden. In the novel ‘ the simple gift’ conveys in the statement ‘An individual’s interaction with others and the world around them can enrich experiences of belonging’ whereas in the poem ‘ refuges blues’ conveys ‘An individual’s interaction with others

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    The span of time from the late nineteenth and the early portion of the twentieth centuries‚ known as the Modernist period‚ saw an emergence of profound and radically different works of literature. The authors of these works (focusing specifically on ‘British’ authors featured in the textbook) utilized new forms and characteristics regarding style‚ plot‚ point of view‚ character‚ etc. They also possessed a vastly different outlook on life shaped by years of war and depression‚ scientific theories

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    Poetry 1. SIEGFRIED SASSOON (Blighters; They; The Hero; The General) - Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English poet and author. He became known as a writer of satirical anti-war verse during World War I. He later won acclaim for his prose work‚ notably his three-volume fictionalised autobiography‚ collectively known as the "Sherston Trilogy". Siegfried Sassoon was born on 8th September 1886 at Weirleigh‚ near Paddock Wood in Kent. After Marlborough College

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    The Average Man W. H. Auden satirizes the United States as an entity‚ which restrains individual advancement. Through depersonalization‚ the government rewards those who actually never do anything. However‚ the "Unknown Citizen" has a monument built as a symbol of his perfection. Thus‚ Auden’s "The Unknown Citizen" shows how the government makes each individual merely a number unless they do not conform to society’s norms. The monument of the "unknown citizen" is erected not to honor the

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    W.H. Auden poem “Stop All The Clocks”‚ published in 1938‚ describes the death of a loved one and the enormous funeral which followed. The poem consists of four stanza‚ each containing four lines. Auden’s poem‚ explores the ideas of grief‚ through the first person pronoun “I”‚ in order to engage the reader into his personal tragedy. It’s almost as if each stanza expresses a new emotion‚ with the first stanza expressing grief‚ the second stanza expressing public notification‚ the third stanza expressing

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    historical date for this very reason; it is also the day in which this poem is set. It is set In a dive in New York City‚ a run down bar that is not the most appealing of places and tracks the thoughts of Auden who is sat in there alone writing this poem. The significance of the dive is that‚ Auden‚ being a British man seems to have fled from England and the recruitment and obligation to join one of the many fields of the military services that his homeland would have expected him to fulfill. The

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