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    I Wanna Be Yours and Stop All The Clocks I Wanna Be Yours and Stop All The Clocks are both complex love poems. John Cooper Clarke’s humorous I Wanna Be Yours was written post 1945 (sometime in the 1970’s)‚ whereas W.H. Auden’s moving tale of his brother-in-law was composed pre 1945‚ in the mid-1930’s. They are unusual romance poems because they both avoid use of clichéd styles of passion. There are no everlasting red roses or intimate images. Instead‚ the eternal heart is replaced by a dusty old

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    The Use of Icarus in Mus

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    Comparing the use of Icarus in “Musée des Beaux Arts” and This Heavy Craft” In Greek mythology‚ “Icarus” is the tale of a boy who along with his father are attempting to escape from Crete where they have been held captive. Icarus’ father constructed two sets of wings from wax and feathers. He instructed Icarus not to fly to close to the sun as the sun will melt the wax and his wings will not stay together. However; in the midst of excitement Icarus flew too close to the sun and

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    After reading Landscape With The Fall of Icarus by William Carlos Williams and Musee Des Beaux Arts by W.H. Auden‚ a clear idea is present. Both authors seem to minimize the importance of Icarus’s death‚ but with what intent? In both poems‚ self-concern outweighs any intentions to help Icarus. It is clear to me what the authors were trying to express by implying that people simply had their own things to do‚ too used to disaster to even care about anyone besides themselves. In the Landscape

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    from around the world had felt the direct impact of earth-shattering wars and went on to express their opinions through their works. It was during wartime eras that the poems "Disabled" and "Refugee Blues" were written by Wilfred Owen and W.H. Auden respectively. Both of the given war poems are considered to be some of the most significant pieces of poetry of their time and the fact that they were written during times of worldwide conflict explains their brutal honesty‚ grim atmospheres and the

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    evolutionary advantageous. Music is one of the many structures which facilitate the creation of this bond due to its communicative aspects. More specifically‚ this phenomenon occurs in both the prenatal and postnatal environment as well as within lullaby music. Considering the fact that responses of the infant in early stages of life are strictly behavioural (Holditch-Davis 1)‚ communication in this case refers to linguistic‚ behavioural‚ and emotional interactions. Music as a communicative tool

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    Musee Des Beaux Arts

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    The poem‚ "Musee des Beaux Arts" written by Auden‚ is a poem that explores how people respond to tragedy and the struggles that they go through in life experiences. The poem’s title is French for ’Museum of Fine Arts’ which is located in Brussels. The poem is written in a way that it seems that it is two separate poems. "Musee des Beaux Arts" is a poem written in free verse. This means that the poem is "free" of meter‚ regular rhythm‚ or a rhyme scheme. This poem has varying line lengths and

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    If I Could Tell You Essay

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    multi-tasking activities. All in the hopes of giving meanings to the past‚ present and future. The past is able to been seen but not changed‚ today is in the present yet still unpredictable‚ and tomorrow is not guaranteed. If I Could Tell You by W. H. Auden is a villanelle much like others using rhyme‚ repetition‚ and meter‚ that revolve around the main idea of the continuity time and its unforeseeable nature. The rhyming of the alternating ending lines‚ “Time will say nothing but I told you so” (1)

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    POETRY ANALYSIS THE UNKNOWN CITIZEN BY W. H. AUDEN PENGKAJIAN TEKS SASTRA INGGRIS Fakultas Ilmu Pengetahuan Budaya - Universitas Indonesia Kampus Baru UI‚ Depok The Unknown Citizen By W. H. Auden (To JS/07 M 378 This Marble Monument Is Erected by the State) He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be (A) One against whom there was no official complaint‚ (B) And all the reports on his conduct agree (A) That‚ in the modern sense of an

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    Cited: Auden‚ W.H. “Muse Des Beaux Arts.” english.emory.edu/classes/paintingspoems/auden.html. Web. 29. Oct. 2014. http://english.emory.edu/classes/paintings&poems/auden.html Brueghel‚ Pieter. Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. C. 1558. Muse Des Beaux Arts De

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    10. Frost’s handling of psychological tension. 2007** W H Auden 11. What picture of contemporary do you find in Auden’s poetry? 2000‚ 2005‚ 2007*** Or Auden preferred to confront modern problems directly in his poetry – Elucidate. 2009*** Or How does Auden’s social consciousness shape his poetry? 2002‚ 2008*** Or Auden is very much the poet of his times; first of the depression and then of the age of the refugee. 2005 Or How Auden combined political consciousness with personal concern? 2006

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