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    Modernism

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    MODERNISM Even if under the term “Modernism” there are different movements including Symbolism‚ Post-Impressionism‚ Cubism‚ Futurism and so on‚ common features were the awareness of the sperimental studies that had developed in other disciplines and the loss of faith in the traditional vision of reality and art. As a consequence “modernism” became synonymous with reaction and opposition to the traditional expressive form‚ mainly to representational art. It was persistently experimental and gave

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    Easter 1916

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    William Butler Yeats‚ (June 13‚ 1865 d. June 28‚ 1939) is known today as one of the greatest poets of the English language from the 20th century. He was born in Dublin and raised as an Anglo-Irish Protestant. Yeats’s father attended Trinity College providing young William with an intellectual heritage. This aristocratic position‚ combined with his mother’s emotional heritage‚ which encompassed rural culture in the trade of ship-builders‚ gave Yeats a different perspective from many of his contemporaries

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    G. Rudzewicz June‚ 2013 A SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE USING PUBLIC DOMAIN E-TEXTS I. The Anglo-Saxon Period A. Beowulf Gutenberg Project‚ e-text #981 B. The Seafarer C. Supplementary links a. suttonhoo.org b. staffordshirehoard.org.uk c. labyrinth.georgetown.edu II. The Middle Ages A. The Canterbury Tales‚ GP etext#2383 1. General Prologue 2. “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” 3. “The Pardoner’s Tale” B. Popular Lyrics and Ballads C. Everyman GP etext#19481‚ Ernest Phelps‚ ed

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    A Terrible Beauty Is Born

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    A Terrible Beauty Is Born “A terrible beauty is born“‚ this line is taken from the excellent poem “Easter 1916” by William Butler Yeats. W.B Yeats uses these words to describe the Easter Rising which resulted in the death of fifteen republican leaders along with their comrades. These events in Irish history have brought celebration but also a great deal of sorrow which Yeats describes perfectly with this clever oxymoron – A terrible beauty. A lot has changed since “Easter 1916” was written‚ yet

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    Who Is Ophelia Innocent

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    “The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time‚” (William Butler Yeats). Ophelia‚ a character in Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ was shown as being innocent. Most of the things she has done she was told to do it. She was doing her best to please her father even if that meant breaking the one she love’s heart. She was still showed innocent when she went mentally insane after the death of her father. No one really knows if her death in the play was suicide or not. W.G. Simmonds’ “The Drowning of Ophelia”

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    Body and Soul

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    a material thing. Over time it becomes incapable to continue in the physical world. The soul is trapped within the body‚ and when the body can no longer continue in the physical world the soul wants to transcend to an otherworldly plane. In William Butler Yeats’s poem “Sailing to Byzantium” the speaker describes the journey to release the soul from his ageing body. The poet uses imagery of life such as birds‚ trees‚ salmon‚ and mackerel crowded seas. These images of life are “The dying generations”

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    Who Goes with Fergus

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    Who Goes With Fergus This poem is about the dichotomy of the thinker and the actor. Yeats‚ in love with Maud Gonne‚ was the thinker‚ the courtly lover -- the one who would "brood upon love’s bitter mystery." Yeats was Mr. Nice Guy. Yet Yeats wanted to be the actor - the alpha male - the Fergus. Note the sexualized subtext that permeates the poem‚ who will "pierce the deep wood’s woven shade"? Who will "drive" with Fergus. Finally‚ we get the reasons to be the alpha male - the man of action‚ in the

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    In both pieces it explores the concept of loosing someone in somebody’s life. Specifically Yeats states " Come away o human child: to the waters and the wild." In other words the "faery’s" are seducing the child to follow them. Alike Chapin he conveys " But we’ll get together then‚ you know we’ll have a good time then. This interprets that the dad does not have time for his son and time seems to pass. Yeats and Chapin both share the story of someone loosing somebody. Even though they both share

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    Easter 1916 by Wiliam Butler Yeats I HAVE met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses. I have passed with a nod of the head Or polite meaningless words‚ Or have lingered awhile and said Polite meaningless words‚ And thought before I had done Of a mocking tale or a gibe To please a companion Around the fire at the club‚ Being certain that they and I But lived where motley is worn: All changed‚ changed utterly: A terrible

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    Wings of Fire From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (April 2008) WINGS OF FIRE Wings of Fire by A P J Abdul Kalam Book Cover.jpg Book cover for A P J Abdul Kalam’s Wings of Fire. Author A P J Abdul Kalam with arun tiwari Cover artist Photograph courtesy: The Week Subject India journey to self-reliance in technology

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