strongly in the blues - a sad song. Though the poem is about 2 people at a particular time in the past the thoughts and feelings of the poem’s narrator might be similar to situations in any part of the world 2day.this poem is set in Germany in 1930’s when the Jewish ppl were being persecuted by the Nazi regime. The poem begins by introducing a city with 10 million people in it. Some have the luxury of living in a mansion; this is directly contrasted with the rest who are living in most disgusting
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As literature evolved over time‚ different styles of writing emerged in response to societal changes that occurred in each individual writer’s lifetime. One style of writing that emerged in the early 1900’s was described as Imagism. This style of writing is in which a writer writes in a specific way that evokes an image within the audience’s minds. Two writers from this time period that wrote in the Imagist style were William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound. Williams became known for his imagist works
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translating a literary text is something "totally impossible‚ from a conceptual point of view” since "it is absolutely‚ obviously‚ categorically impossible to be faithful to everything." (Blakesley 117) Novelist Adam Thirlwell goes explains that “[s]omething is still translatable‚ even if its translation is not perfect.” (Thirlwell 9) Chinese scholar Ma jianzhong (馬建忠) declared in the book《擬設翻譯書院議》that “夫而後，能使閱者所得之益，與觀原文無異。是則為善譯。[a good translation is when reading the translated text in target language
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What are the roles of artists in W.H. Auden poetry ? W.H Auden was born in 1907 in the town of York. Later he studied at Oxford University to become a literature teacher and a poet. He spent few years in Berlin but travelled also to Spain then to the USA‚ always committed politically. “Selected Poems” is published in 1930‚ after the war‚ to report people’s feelings and reality of the time. W.H. Auden’s poetry raises a wide range of issues and subjects such as love‚ war‚ relations or even
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"On his Blindness" by John Milton John Milton was a great writer and one of the few who was recognized in his own time. His name stands out in the history of English literature mainly for his two works‚ Paradise Lost and Paradise regained. In 1651 Milton became blind‚ yet he continued to write and his daughters would take dictation. The poem On his Blindness‚ by John Milton is an Italian sonnet which addresses the Christian perspective of how to accept ones disabilities. The
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Bibliography: Helen Gardner (ed.). Donne‚ John. The Divine Poems. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1978 [1633]. Print. Parish‚ John‚ E. "No. 14 of Donne ’s Holy Sonnets." College English‚ 24. 4 (1963): 299-302. Print. Cayward‚ Margaret. “Donne’s Batter My Heart‚ Three Personed God.” Explicator‚38. 3 (1980):5. Print.
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Read and Compare and Contrast the Following Poems by Wilfred Owen: [It Was a Navy Boy]‚ Anthem for Doomed Youth and Dulce et Decorum Est. <br> <br>Wilfred Owen was a poet who was widely regarded as one of the best poets of the World War one period. <br> <br>Wilfred Owen was born on the 18th of March 1893‚ at Plas Wilmot‚ Oswestry‚ on the English Welsh border; he was the son of Tom and Susan Owen. During the winter of 1897-8 Tom Owen‚ Wilfred’s father was reappointed to Birkenhead‚ and with that
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Donne’s powerful abstract conceit in “A Valediction: Forbidding mourning”‚ ‘as stiff twin compasses are two’ astonishes readers of the deep and thoughtful analysis of an everyday object which is typical of Donne’s intellectual approach to such concerns as love‚ companionship and death. The poem begins with a struggle of breath as the reader is forced to pause momentarily as commas and columns are intentionally used to draw a halt‚ ‘the breath goes now‚ and some say‚ no:’ echoing the breathing patterns
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John Donne is the name in English Literature who gave new direction to the literary activities of his age. He is in a sense founded the metaphysical lyric‚ which was practiced by scare of writers. As Dowden says‚ “We are told that in the decline of the greater poetry of the Elizabethan period‚ a metaphysical school arose and that John Donne was the founder or the first eminent member of this school.” John Donne set up a new tradition in versification by and large Donne must be regarded as an original
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Metaphysical Poets John Donne and Andrew Marvell were considered metaphysical poets based on their use of conceit and wit in depicting similar situations through different metaphors. They would use original analogies to create fitting and insightful comparisons‚ usually to persuade. John Donne and Andrew Marvell have been called metaphysical poets. This is a‚” name given to a group of English lyric poets of the 17th century” (Metaphysical poets)” The term metaphysical poets came to be used almost
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