both Sheers and Tennyson present similar ideas about war. The reader is given the distinct impression from both poems that the authors think that war is a waste of time‚ unnecessary and pointless. In Mametz Wood Sheers talks about "the wasted young" suggesting that these soldiers that have been found in the farmers field died before their time because of war and that they shouldn’t have‚ that maybe their deaths were pointless. Similarly in The Charge of The Light Brigade‚ Tennyson says "someone had
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Notes The “Lady of Shalott" is a Victorian ballad by the English poet Alfred‚ Lord Tennyson (1809– 1892). Like his other early poems – "Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere" and "Galahad" – the poem recasts Arthurian subject matter loosely based on medieval sources. Tennyson wrote two versions of the poem‚ one published in 1833‚ of twenty stanzas‚ the other in 1842 of nineteen stanzas. Modern critics consider The Lady of Shalott to be representative of the dilemma that faces artists‚ writers‚ and musicians:
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British Literature II March 2‚ 2012 Final Paper Romantic and Victorian Literature and writers have an endless about of similarities that make both of them the overall most influential eras of literature. It is in following paragraphs I will attempt to bring together the most fascinating points and authors that built the road on which future writers try to compare their works to these masterminds. It is in the social issues‚ religious doubts and social prosecutions that have previously withheld
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a Victorian lens. The Victorian Era was a romanticized time period with strict moral and social codes of conduct. This is clearly portrayed in Tennyson’s work Idylls of the King – a Victorian rendition of the legend of King Arthur. Lord Alfred Tennyson is known as one of the “Victorians” due to his poetry that so greatly accepted and promoted the Victorian culture. William Morris‚ on the other hand‚ was more ahead of his time. His works often included a resistance to the conventional assumptions
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in front of him. Mariana‚ who was the other main character in “Love in L.A.” short story‚ was the driver of the Toyota. After crashing the car‚ instead of finding out what had happened to the driver of the car Jack was looking at his car to realize if everything is good with it. Once he saw that the Toyota’s driver was a pretty woman started flirting with her; he was trying to get out of the situation in this way. However‚ when he realized that the plan didn’t work he gave Mariana false information
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There have been times in my life where I have partnered or befriended someone for my own benefit while bringing little if anything to the table for the other person. As a result‚ I am similar with a few characters from Neal Shusterman’s Bruiser. The reasons‚ while sometimes different‚ the end result was the same. Someone else ended up being taken advantage of. The main idea to take away from this book‚ is to realize that taking advantage of others and letting others take advantage of you is a short-term
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blank verse‚ or unrhymed iambic pentameter. It consists of four five-line stanzas‚ each of which closes with the words “the days that are no more.” Commentary “Tears‚ Idle Tears” is part of a larger poem called “The Princess‚” published in 1847. Tennyson wrote “The Princess” to discuss the relationship between the sexes and to provide an argument for women’s rights in higher education. However‚ the work as a whole does not present a single argument or tell a coherent story. Rather‚ like so much of
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999681704 Book Review: An African Slaving Port on the Atlantic‚ by Mariana Candido The impact of the trans-Atlantic slave trade on the people living in Angola during the seventeenth century onwards was monumental. The Portuguese presence in the Benguelan harbour caused disorder‚ social strain‚ and sociocultural transformation for the people specifically residing in Benguela. In the study An African Slaving Port on the Atlantic‚ Mariana Candido outlines the progression of Benguela starting from the primary
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Analysis of Poems by Tennyson and Wilfred Owen ’The Charge of the Light Brigade’ by Tennyson provides a description of a large group of soldiers that were en route to an unknown fate. The first paragraph of this poem is worth a detailed examination‚ as it is intended to describe the opening scene in the poem‚ leading to a series of events as the poem unfolds. The opening words describe the ’heroes’ of the poem‚ as they seem so far away from their desired objective‚ which is towards the battle that
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Compare the ways in which Rossetti and Tennyson employ and adapt aspects of the fairy and folk tale genres in their poems Goblin Market and The Lady of Shalott Although “Goblin Market” and “The Lady of Shalott” differ in several aspects‚ they are the poems on which Rossetti and Tennyson’s careers were established. Rossetti claims “Goblin Market” was a children’s poem‚ however‚ many of the themes within the poem make such a claim seem dubious at best. The poem is comprised of twenty seven stanzas
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