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    life. In Percy Bysshe Shelly’s “England in 1819‚” the dying king compares to Briony in that they both live in shame‚ constantly seeking atonement. In Atonement‚ Ian McEwan creates themes that coincide with Tennyson’s “Ulysses‚” and Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” According to Barbara Davis’ untitled review of Ian McEwan’s Atonement‚ “Robbie is a pivotal figure in this story‚ not only because of his destiny‚ so full of possibilities‚ will have changed dramatically by the day’s end. He is also Jack

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    There are a multitude of techniques used by poets to make their poetry both pithy and complex. Due to the limitations of certain poetic forms‚ poets may be forced to use the devices of meter and blunt diction to accurately express their sentiments. Some poets may choose to use allusions to relate a number of scenarios to a certain theme‚ utilizing the historical context of these scenarios as further material for interpretation. Other poets may choose to the opposite approach to economy‚ intentionally

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    1712 - Birth of philosopher‚ writer Jean Jacques Rousseau. Some of his works marked the beginnings of the Romantic Movement. 1764 - The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole published 1775 - American war of Independence 1787 - Society for the abolition of slavery founded 1789 - Fall of Bastille - the storming of the fortress that represented authority in France; began the French Revolution 1793 - Execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. France declares war against Britain (and then Britain

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    Love‚ Death‚ Beauty & Fame : Life experiences and feelings of John Keats as they influenced his writing. John Keats was born in 1979‚ the son of Horse-stable keeper. Keats was an orphan by the age of fourteen; he was an apprentice of a surgeon for certain time but decided to move on to poetry instead. His early works were famously savaged by the critics‚ but Keats remained assured in "drive" that eventually be "among the English poets". Keats ’s longed for marriage to Fanny Brawne was prevented

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    Josephine Hong 031 Term Paper June 6‚ 2011 Two Generations Apart Throughout time‚ literature has always been used as an outlet for debate and discussion of structural flaws. Thus‚ the poets of the Romantic period sought to change society’s neoclassic state of mind by breaking away from reliance on reasoning and instead encouraging individualism‚ using imagination and emotion as inspiration. Initially‚ Romantic poetry became the antithesis of classical poety as the poets soley challenged the

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    `A thing of beauty is a joy forever`. How far and in what ways does Keats communicate this belief in his odes. Emotion was the key element of any Romantic poet‚ the intensity of which is present in all of Keats poems. Keats openly expressed feelings ignoring stylistic rules which suppressed other poets. Keat’s poems display a therapeutic experience‚ as many of his Odes show a sense of struggle to accept‚ and a longing to search for an emotion which he could feed off for his eternity.

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    sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration‚ or rather obliterates all consideration". Keats knew the only way that could write is to have imagination and art to be greater than reality. Another piece showing that Keats saw beauty in all. "Ode to Nightingale" was written to show that beauty and ugliness must be one to truly thrive (Krueger 2). Keats uses the view of a mortal seeing immortality to create an ideology. Keats was sympathetic to mankind‚ but his sympathy was filled with pain

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    about nature in itself‚ Shelley tends to invoke nature as a sort of supreme metaphor for beauty‚ creativity‚ and expression. This means that most of Shelley’s poems about art rely on metaphors of nature as their means of expression: the West Wind in "Ode to the West Wind" becomes a symbol of the poetic faculty spreading Shelley’s words like leaves among mankind‚ and the skylark in "To a Skylark" becomes a symbol of the purest‚ most joyful‚ and most inspired creative impulse. The skylark is not a bird

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    202 Supplement Dr. Kelly DeLong Office: 115 Haven-Warren Office phone: 404-880-8171‚ cell 678-977-7353 Office hours: MWF 12-1‚3-4 Email: kdelong@cau.edu Texts: The Norton Anthology of World Literature Vols D-F Sherman Alexie The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven Grade Distribution: There will three tests worth thirty points each and an oral presentation worth ten points‚ for a total of one hundred points. The final is the third test. However‚ the final will be split into

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    JOHN KEATS‚ A THINKER IN RELATION TO THE CRITICAL APPRECIATION OF HIS VERSE ‘ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE’. THE WAY I HAVE TAKEN THIS ANSWER: Ans. “Here are sweet peas‚ on tip-toe for a flight With wings of gentle flush o’er delicate white‚ And taper finger catching at all things To bind them all with tiny rings;” Keats’s attitude towards nature developed as he grew up. In the early poems‚ it was a temper of merely sensuous delight‚ an unanalyzed pleasure in the beauty of nature. “He had away”‚ says

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