The poem “Lament”‚ written by Gillian Clarke‚ is an elegy‚ an expression of grief that appeals to the reader for them to react to human mistakes which are damaging our planet. The poem is lay out in seven stanzas of 3-line each (triplets)‚ each of them very well defined and concentrated in a different complaint. The rhyme is quick due to the constant repetition of the word ‘for’ in the beginning of each stanza. The sentences in the poem lack of subject‚ so we can consider that these are written
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Anne Robert Jacques Turgot contributed an important economics idea which is the law of diminishing returns. In the Observations sur le mémoire de M. De Saint-Péravy which is written in 1767 by Turgot‚ mentioned about the law. Law of diminishing returns can be defined as the property whereby the benefit from an extra unit of an input declines as the quantity of the input increases (Mankiw‚ 2013). In other words‚ when workers already have a large quantity of capital to use in producing goods and services
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lit·er·a·ture (ltr--chr‚ -chr) noun. 1. The body of written works of a language‚ period‚ or culture. 2. Imaginative or creative writing‚ especially of recognized artistic value:"Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity" (Rebecca West). 3. The art or occupation of a literary writer. 4. The body of written work produced by scholars or researchers in a given field:medical literature. 5. Printed material: collected all the available literature on
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"Two men I honour"‚ said Carlyle‚ "and no third. First‚ the toil-worn Craftsman that with earth-made implements laboriously conquers the earth and makes it men. Venerable to me is the rugged face‚ all weather-tanned." When Carlyle said this‚ few people had any thought for the labourer or manual labour as particularly dignified. Well-to-do and educated people are so-called gentlemen‚ since they would avoid all contact with the toilers. To be able to get one’s work done by others was counted as the
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In “Spring” by Chloe Honum written in 2009‚ the speaker discusses her life and how she handles it. The poem is written in the style of elegy. This means that it “most frequently used to morn a death‚ concluding in consolation‚ and composed in ABAB quatrain in iambic pentameter”(confound). In the first set of 4 lines she describes how her mother’s attempted suicide changed the way she lived. The second set takes on how things change and get better. Then she talks how things stay the same for a while
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Reflection on “Dover Beach” Human interpretation and comprehension of faith and religion have undergone constant change over the course of time. I feel that “Dover Beach” was written as an elegy to convey the author’s‚ Matthew Arnold‚ somber feelings regarding how man’s abandonment of the doctrine of religion‚ with the help of Victorianism and the Industrial Revolution‚ is only a vain act against an all-powerful nature. Arnold’s overall theme of how religion and faith should remain in humanity
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Tennyson as a Victorian The Victorian age was an age where many changes occurred socially‚ economically‚ and industrially. People began to explore into areas such as the earth‚ the human body‚ and how to benefit the daily lives of individuals. English literature was also something that was beginning to be developed. People’s thoughts and ideas also changed with the development of the country. The peoples’ ideas became more free and they accepted change more easily‚ yet not everybody wanted to
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The elegy “To an Athlete Dying Young” by A. E. Housman follows the speaker as he mourns the death of a highly celebrated‚ young athlete. Housman asserts for one to achieve eternal greatness in the minds of his admirers he must die closely after reaching his peak performance or face the prospect of having is glory fade. Housman employs a distant‚ observant tone almost as if the poem’s speaker is a close friend or confidant of the athlete. The speaker chooses to glorify the young athlete’s death‚ focusing
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Homecoming by Bruce Dawe exemplifies and recounts the calamities of the Vietnam War in a dehumanising‚ confronting tone. The anti-war elegy was written in 1968 as a tribute to the return of the Australian veterans who died fighting in the Vietnam War. While protesting about Australia’s participation in the War‚ the poem also demonstrates the lack of identity and deference that was attached to the soldiers. The 25 line broken verse poem presented in a single stanza‚ speaks on behalf of the disrespected
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Comparing and contrasting essay of Dylan Thomas and A.E. Housman poems Both of the poems‚ “ To an Athlete dying young” and “ Do not go gentle into the night” are referring to the subject of death but show different outlooks and seem to explore the helplessness with growing old and the progress towards death. Although the poems are against death each have a different way of how it should be approached. Both poems show views on how people should deal with death while one sees death as a misfortune
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