Squire (J.C Squire) (1884-1958) was a British poet‚ writer‚ historian‚ influential literary critic and editor of the post WW1 period. He was also a leading poet of the Georgian period. The poem is a simple sonnet; made up of two quatrains and a sestet. The rhyme scheme is abab‚ cdcd‚ efegfg. The rhyme creates a steady‚ forward-moving motion similar to the movement of the waves and the inevitability of the oncoming Spanish vessels reaching the shore. The poet uses simple language and imagery
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Critical Response To A Creditable Review Of “Hap” By Thomas Hardy By: Vanoi Wilkinson Name: Vanoi Wilkinson Date: 06/01/2014 School: St Augustine Girls High School Topic: A Critical Response To A Creditable Review Of “Hap” By Thomas Hardy Teacher: Ms V. Ramoutar A Critical Response to a Creditable Review of “Hap” by Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was born to Thomas and Jemima Hardy in Upper Bockhampton‚ Dorset England. He was a well known notorious
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Explain how particular features of at least two of Wilfred Owen’s poems set for study interact to affect your response to them. Wilfred Owen’s war poems central features include the wastage involved with war‚ horrors of war and the physical effects of war. These features are seen in the poems "Dulce Et Decorum Est" and "Anthem for Doomed Youth" here Owen engages with the reader appealing to the readers empathy that is felt towards the soldier. These poems interact to explore the experiences of
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In the two poems‚ The Magpies by Denis Glover and Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley a common theme is that of man’s immortality. In The Magpies this theme is made especially apparent through the comparison of the immortality of Elizabeth and Tom with nature’s ability to remain constant due to its continuous regeneration. Meanwhile‚ in Ozymandias a king has a statue built however just like him the statue does not survive and is actually left abandoned and forgotten in the desert. This theme of immortality
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England. His death will bring hope and peace to the hearts of the English peoples still back in the homeland "under an English heaven". The Soldier in the traditional form of the fourteen lines of iambic pentameter divided into an octave and a sestet. Rupert
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Area of Study Essay- Journeys The Oxford Dictionary defines Journey as “an act of travelling from one place to another”; this could‚ of course‚ be taken literally. Instead‚ why not think of “places” as emotional or mental situations? So you take a journey between different emotional states. “The journey‚ not the arrival‚ matters.” This statement is correct for all four texts I will be discussing. The journey is more important than the arrival because it is the journey that makes people who they
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In constructing a poem the author must consider the way in which the message will be established‚ therefore they must make specific choices using poetic devices to convey the meaning to the reader. In poetry the author makes use of sound devices‚ rhyme‚ imagery‚ typography and language to construct the meaning of the text. Examples of the use of literary devices to construct meaning can be seen in the poem ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ by Wilfred Owen - a sonnet illustrating the horrors of war‚ and ‘Digging’
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‘God’s Grandeur’ ‘God’s Grandeur’ by Gerard Manley Hopkins is an Italian sonnet written in 1877. I feel that this poem conveys an important meaning about how God will never turn his back on mankind‚ even when they have given up on him. This message is particularly relevant because of what was happening in the world at the time it was being written- technology was advancing and people were beginning to doubt God. An Italian sonnet consists of two verses‚ the first of which being an octave which
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‘In Donne’s Poetry the religious and the erotic are dangerously confused.’ Discuss. John Donne’s Holy Sonnets were a series of metaphysical poems written during the early 17th Century while he was converting to Anglicism from Roman Catholicism. Sonnet 14‚ known as “Batter my heart‚ three person’d God”‚ documents how Donne desires God to exercise his mastery over him in order to banish his qualms from his mind‚ which are manifested in the “reason” or “enemy”. However‚ the language that Donne utilises
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The Serf – Roy Cambell His naked skin clothed in the torrid mist That puffs in smoke around the patient hooves‚ The ploughman drives‚ a slow somnambulist‚ And through the green his crimson furrow grooves His heart‚ more deeply than he wounds the plain‚ Long by the rasping share of insult torn‚ Red clod‚ to which the war-cry once was rain And tribal spears the fatal sheaves of corn‚ Lies fallow now. But as the turf divides I see in the slow progress of his strides Over the toppled clods
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