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    Poetry Question: “His work reveals that he is unmistakably a product of his age and time.” Discuss this view of Hardy’s poetry with reference to any 3 poems. A writer’s work is a ‘nurtured reflective’ of his society. This was no different for Victorian Britain. Britain during the reign of Queen Victoria underwent evolutionary changes that did not only change the lifestyle of a people but the culture of the people. With Britain gaining mass economical wealth through the colonization of other

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    Derek Mahon

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    Throughout my study of Mahon’s poetry‚ I was struck by how important explorations of people and places were to him. His poetic style can be considered quite detached as he rarely divulges personal details or experiences. Instead‚ his poetry focuses on detailed portraits of memorable characters and insightful analyses of a wide variety of landscapes. “After the Titanic” is another of Mahon’s poems that paints a portrait of an unexpected figure. Here‚ Mahon adopts the persona of Bruce Ismay‚ President

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                    The original Sonnet and the translation both are different grammatically.  The second stanza in the original sonnet ends with a period‚ while the translation ends with a comma. I think the period was the better choice because the sestets start next‚ which is something new.  Lastly‚ I think that the original sonnet captures the concept of love rather than the

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    The Academic Arab College for Education ==================================================== INTRODUCTION TO POETRY EXAMINATION A (4) AND A (14) / SEMESTER A 2014 ================================================== Name of Student (1) _______________________________________ ID Number: ______________________________________________ Class : A ( ) Name of Student (2) _______________________________________ ID Number: ______________________________________________ ID :

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    Petrarchan sonnet (puh TRAHR kun) a fourteen line sonnet consisting of two parts: the octave‚ eight lines with the rhyme scheme abbaabba‚ and the sestet‚ six lines usually with the rhyme scheme cdecde the octave often poses a question or dilemma that the sestet answers or resolves‚ beginning with a turn‚ also known as a volta also referred to as an Italian sonnet Example: Whoso list to hunt‚ I know where is an hind! But as for me‚ alas‚ I may no more; The vain travail hath

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    The poem of Wyatt was patterned after the Petrarchan sonnet‚ which has 14 lines. The rhyme scheme of the poem is divided in two groups‚ the first 8 lines are called the octave; and the second group is called the sestet or composed of 6 lines (Abrahams and Harpham 53). The poet used Petrarchan conceit in the opening lines of the poem. This is the type of figure of speech that was used in love poems that had been novel and effective in the Italian poetry of Petrarch. Wyatt begins the poem with “I find

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    In this poem‚ Donne stresses man’s superior over death in particular by using a series of poetic elements. The sonnet is written in Petrarchan sonnet form with fourteen lines iambic pentameter; the first eight lines are octave‚ while others are sestet. It has an ABBA ABBA CDDC AA rhyme scheme (with a Scottish accent‚ the word “die” is pronounced / dee /‚ so it rhymes with thee‚ me and eternally.) The poem is composed of three quatrains and one couplet. The main characteristics of this poem are

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    Rueben Bright's Dark Days

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    Bright’s beloved wife is an unbearable pain that ultimately changes him and his life drastically. Robinson creates this poem as a traditional fourteen-line sonnet separated into three stanzas. The first two stanzas are quatrains‚ and the last stanza is a sestet. The poem uses iambic pentameter rhythm. This rhythm puts stress on the second syllable; each line has ten syllables and five iambic feet. In the opening stanza‚ the reader is informed of Reuben Bright’s occupation as a butcher (line 1). Butchers

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    William Blake’s (1757-1827) "London" written in 1792 is a devastating portrait of a society in which all souls and bodies were trapped‚ exploited and infected.The poem is a devastating and concise political analysis‚ delivered with passionate anger‚ revealing the complex connections between patterns of ownership and the ruling ideology‚ the way all human relations are inescapably bound together within a single destructive society. William Wordsworth’s (1770-1850) sonnet "Composed upon Westminster

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    The poem ‘Waking with Russell’ is written by the poet‚ Don Paterson. Paterson depicts a relationship between a father and his new born son from his point of view. The poem is written in the form of a sonnet‚ however it is split into a sestet and an octet respectively. In the first six lines the speaker‚ Paterson‚ talks about the beginning of fatherhood and in the next eight lines he describes how it has impacted his life. Paterson speaks in first person throughout the poem‚ he addresses it to the

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