COURSEWORK - WAR POEMS The first poem is a pre-1900 poem written by Walt Whitman. It is called "Come Up From The Fields Father". This poem tells the story of how a family hear the news that their son has been wounded in battle. Firstly it describes his sister receiving the letter and calling for her father and mother. The poet then goes on to describe the settings of the farm and the background to it. "Where apples ripe in the orchards hang and grapes on the trellis’d vines." "The sky so calm......below
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also key to remember that of the two texts I will be interrogating Fathers and Sons’ is a novel‚ where Three Sisters’ is a play‚ which will affect character portrayal. This essay will examine the stimulus behind the portrayal of Turgenev’s Anna Sergeyevna‚ and Chekhov’s Natasha Ivanova‚ and the way in which these characters are presented. Richard Gilman’s critique of Three Sisters’ claimed it to be animated‚ often exhilarating‚ funny and deeply sad by turns‚ but never dull; far from being
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Compare how women are presented in 4 of the poems you have studied. To do this compare “Mother...” by Simon Armitage and 3 other poems‚ one by Duffy and two from the pre 1914 bank. All 4 poems ( Mother‚ Anne Hathaway‚ Sonnet 130 and song of the old mother) are all linked to each other all by using different techniques of language to present women and to create some story in there poem. Mother (written by Simon Armitage)‚ the woman (the mother) in the poem is presented in a form of imagery. Armitage
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“Before You Were Mine” by Carol Ann Duffy and “Mother Any Distance” by Simon Armitage focus on the role of being a mother and having to give up something. In “Before You Were Mine” its Carol Ann Duffy’s mother letting go and giving up her carefree lifestyle‚ to take up the important role of a mother. Whereas in “Mother Any Distance” its Simon Armitage’s mother realising she has to let her son grow up and leave her grasps. The poem “Before You Were Mine” by Carol Ann Duffy‚ focuses on the fact that 10
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Both films‚ ‘The Magdalene Sisters’ (Peter Mullan‚ 2002) and ‘The Lives of Others’ (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck‚ 2006)‚ perform a public function of enabling their viewers to work through the legacy of traumatic Irish/ German history. Critically discuss the statement. As with much of national cinema and national culture both The Magdalene Sisters and The Lives of Others may act as a means of coming to terms with each respective country’s traumatic past. Ruth Barton’s comment “We may argue
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Kray 1 Rashell Kray Mrs. Altiero English II CPE 12 April 2011 Realism Essay Irony is all around in everyday‚ daily‚ lives. Sometimes people don’t notice it‚ but if they would take a step back and really look‚ irony would be right there. In “The Story of an Hour” and “Richard Cory” irony takes place quite a bit. The irony in “The Story of an Hour” is that Mrs. Mallard’s husband dies‚ and as soon as she hears of this news‚ she starts feeling relieved‚ free‚ and happy. In “Richard Cory”
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the time. James Joyce used his book Dubliners to express the rituals and cultural ceremonies of the time in Ireland. One major theme that is present in his book is death and how people act and treat death. In Dubliners‚ Joyce uses the stories “The Sisters”‚ “A Painful Case” and “The Dead” to show how death is viewed and treated within Irish Society. Throughout these stories‚ he shows how Dubliners act once people are gone‚ how it makes them question their
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underworld of London and was frequently associated with the Kray twins. Shaw is best remembered today for his career as a fighter on the unlicensed boxing scene‚ becoming an arch-rival with Lenny McLean.[1] Shaw was born in Stepney‚ London‚ to a working class family and from an early age was involved in illegal activities. He was acquainted with the Kray twins since at least the very early 1960s; Shaw attended the funeral of Reggie Kray in 2000‚ and was quoted as having said: "We grew up in the same
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Matilda Tan (29) 2E3 Word Count: 1‚699 Explain how conflict is portrayed in Sorry‚ Wrong Number and another drama you have studied this semester. Which one has a greater impact on and why? In Sorry‚ Wrong Number and A Thing of Beauty‚ there are four conflicts that can be seen‚ internal‚ how a character struggles with himself or herself‚ relational‚ between two peoples‚ societal‚ between a character and a group and situational‚ conflict with a certain situation. Internal conflict is portrayed when
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Named Desire’ by Tennessee Williams; and ‘The World’s Wife’ by Carol Ann Duffy. Both texts denote women as somewhat weak and incompetent and as having a predatory attitude towards the mainly dominant male characters. A Streetcar Named Desire was written in 1945 and it initially connected with America’s new found taste for realism following the Great Depression and World War II. William’s based the character of Blanche on his sister who was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Williams himself was homosexual
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