“ The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make-up one’s mind about nothing- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts” – John Keats. John Keats says‚“ The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make-up one’s mind about nothing- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.” This quote is saying‚ the only way to become smarter is to listen to all opinions‚ and to be open to all ideas (although many readers have different opinions as to what this is saying)
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of as the leading poet of World War I. 2 ) Owen’s poetry was on the horrors of WWI‚ especially trench warfare and gas warfare. 3 ) Owen’s poetry dates back to 1903 when he was 10 years old. 4 ) The poetry Owen wrote was influenced by Keats and Shelley. Later on‚ his friend and fellow poet Siegfried Sassoon also had a profound effect on Owen’s poetic voice. 5 ) Owen never saw his own worked published other then two magazines. 6 ) Edmund Blunden re-introduced Owens to the public
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on their freedom from eighteenth-century poetic codes. In Germany‚ especially‚ the word was used in strong opposition to the term classical. The grouping together of the so-called Lake poets (Wordsworth‚ Coleridge‚ and Southey) with Scott‚ Byron‚ Keats‚ and Shelley as the romantic poets is late Victorian‚ apparently as late as the middle 1880s. And it should be noted that these poets did not recognize themselves as "romantic‚" although they were familiar with the word and recognized that their practice
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the poem‚ the reader now expects ominous occurrences through the rest of the reading. Therefore an atmosphere of tension has been created and the reader’s curiosity is heightened When Keats creates a setting‚ he creates the setting of a Renaissance period through religious imagery; “Virgin’s picture” (Keats). Abrams defines settings as; “The overall setting of a narrative or dramatic work is the general locale‚ historical time
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FUTURE SHOCK Chapters 1-3 INTRODUCTION This is a book about what happens to people when they are overwhelmed by change. It is about the ways in which we adapt—or fail to adapt—to the future. Much has been written about the future. Yet‚ for the most part‚ books about the world to come sound a harsh metallic note. These pages‚ by contrast‚ concern themselves with the "soft" or human side of tomorrow. Moreover‚ they concern themselves with the steps by which we are likely to reach tomorrow
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To‚ The General Manager‚ BSNL‚ Address Sir‚ I want to lodge a complaint about the unsatisfactory working of my telephone. Only last month a telephone set was installed at our residence. It has been a problem right from the day of its installation. Some times bell starts ringing and we rush to attend the call. By the time we lift the receiver‚ the telephone is dead. It is most of the time dead at the receiver’s end. When we telephone a person‚ he hears us all right but we are unable to hear
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contrast of perspectives between Clarissa and Joe is highlighted in Chapter 8‚ during their discussion about ‘the baby’s smile’. Joe‚ the rational scientist states‚ ‘That smile must be hard-wired‚ and for good evolutionary reasons’‚ whereas Clarissa‚ the Keats scholar who focuses on the arts‚ interprets the smile differently‚ saying ‘he tut of that smile was in the eye and heart of the parent and in the unfailing love which only had meaning through time’. This shows the overarching contrast between science
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Napoleon’s Mistakes The Peninsular War Up rise in Europe King Charles IV of Spain King Charles IV of Spain In the peninsular war when napoleon was fighting the Allied forces which consisted of the Spanish‚ United Kingdom‚ and Portugal. They were fighting over who would get control of the Iberian Peninsula. This first started since Napoleon crossed into Spain to invade Portugal‚ he wanted to control Portugal since it was next to the ocean and would be an important port for trade. At first the
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How DiGi Caters to the Community By Victor Siow‚ Sumitra Nair (DiGi Head of CR) and Tan Oon Keat (DiGi Head of Migrant Services) DiGi Telecommunications (DiGi) is a mobile service provider in Malaysia‚ owned in majority by Telenor ASA of Norway‚ with a 49% shareholding. DiGi provides a variety of mobile communication services‚ including postpaid and prepaid voice‚ SMS‚ international roaming‚ international calling card and mobile broadband. DiGi was a relatively late entrant into the mobile telephony
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My heart aches‚ and a drowsy numbness pains My sense‚ as though of hemlock I had drunk‚ Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past‚ and Lethe-wards had sunk: ’Tis not through envy of thy happy lot‚ But being too happy in thy happiness‚—- That thou‚ light-winged Dryad of the trees‚ In some melodious plot Of beechen green‚ and shadows numberless‚ Singest of summer in full-throated ease. O for a draught of vintage‚ that hath
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