Kenneth Slessor was a well known Australian poet whom was also an official correspondent during the second World War. Slessor was born on the 27th of March 1901 in Orange‚ New South Wales. Kenneth Slessor was one of Australia’s leading poets. He was notable particularly for the absorption of modernist influences into the Australian poetry. William Street and Beach Burial are the two poems that contain such techniques which shape significant ideas in Slessor’s poetry. William Street is a poem
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Death is a very serious topic something we all must deal with. People all choose to deal with it in the different ways. Poets like to tackle this subject in their own unique ways. The two contrasting portrayals of death could not be further on further realms from the spectrum. “The Vacuum” by Howard Nemerov is based around a vacuum the speaker’s wife owned. The speaker is an old widower‚ who has an empty place in his heart where his wife once was‚ symbolized by the vacuum. The account of the poem
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"My Papa’s Waltz" is one of most popular contemporary poems written by Theodore Roethke. The poem was first published in 1942 by Heast Magazines‚ Inc. from The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke. It is a poem about a boy recalling a time with his father while they share a dance of waltz. This poem consists of four quatrains written in iambic trimeter with a simple rhyme scheme. It uses imagery‚ metaphors‚ and simile to invoke a strong impression. Each image captures an emotional richness all told
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The film‚ “Dead Poets Society‚” directed by Peter Weir‚ is a classic example of conformity versus nonconformity. Its main appeal is in the passionate acting of Robin Williams‚ who plays John Keating‚ an inspiring teacher with unusual methods. Inspiring co-stars Robert Sean Leonard and Ethan Hawke play Neil and Todd‚ students enrolled in the school Keating teaches at. The film is set in a very strict all boys school that has many rules and guidelines‚ yet undoubtedly the boys‚ inspired by Mr. Keating
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Waste Land is a documentary about finding beauty in things that people discard. Directed by Lucy Walker‚ the film follows Brazilian artist Vik Muniz who travels back to his home country from New York City to create artistic photographs shaped by using garbage that depicts the lives of the pickers who live in the largest landfill in the world. Located in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro‚ Jardim Gramacho is a landfill that holds 3‚000 garbage pickers‚ also knowns as catadores‚ who pick out recyclable
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Cavalier poetry is centered on carefree pleasure and living in the moment whereas roundhead poetry is more centered on religion and eternal life. Andrew Marvell‚ as well as other cavaliers‚ often spent their time indulging in worldly pleasures. John Donne was a clergymen‚ so he spent most of his time in the church and with other clergymen‚ meaning how he spends his time is different from how Andrew Marvell and the cavaliers spend theirs. In John Donne’s “Holy Sonnet 10” and Andrew Marvell’s “To His
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The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock In the poem‚ The Love song‚ written by T.S. Elliot‚ J Alfred Prufrock is a man who is very lonely and insecure. He goes throughout his life wishing for a change‚ but never stepping up to the plate and actually making a change. The title of the poem portrays to the reader that the poem is going to be full of love and romance. The reader soon found out later that the poem is just the opposite from the title‚ a sad‚ lonesome man who is not only lacking love‚ but
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John Donne is one of the most famous metaphysical poets of the seventeenth-century versifiers. In fact‚ historians of literature consider him the father of metaphysical poetry. He wrote many wonderful and great holy poems. An example of his religious poems is sonnet number ten‚ “Death‚ be not proud”. In this sonnet he speaks about death and how it should not be proud because it is neither mighty nor fearful. To prove his point of view‚ he uses an argumentative tone and logical elements taken from
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W.H. Auden in his prose book “The Dyers Hand and Other Essays” suggests “What makes it difficult for a poet not to tell lies is that‚ in poetry‚ all facts and all beliefs cease to be true or false and become interesting possibilities…It may not‚ perhaps‚ be absolutely necessary that he believe it‚ but it is certainly necessary that his emotions be deeply involved‚ and this they can never be unless‚ as a man‚ he takes it more seriously than as a mere poetic convenience.” It is Donne’s sensibility
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Death of a Naturalist: A study of Seamus Heaney’s first book of poems. Seamus Heaney‚ the famed Irish poet‚ was the product of two completely different social and psychological orders. Living on "a small farm of some fifty acres in County Derry in Northern Ireland" (Nobel eMuseum)‚ Seamus Heaney’s childhood was spent primarily in the company of nature and the local wildlife. His father‚ a man by the name of Patrick Heaney‚ had a penchant for farming and working the land. Seamus’ mother Margaret
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