W. Hugh Missildine calls the book I have chosen to review "Your Inner Child of the Past". This is a very interesting book in which Missildine attempts to solve adult problems by understanding the inner child. W. Hugh Missildine is an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Ohio State University of medicine. Through his knowledge of both psychiatry and psychology‚ Missildine explores factors in childhood that affect adulthood. He implements the view that "children learn what they live". He was the
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’As I Walked Out One Evening’‚ Auden utilise techniques such as the personfication of time to suggest to the reader that life is a journey and it waits for no one. The use of the first person singular in As Iwalked suggests that it is quite a personal experience‚ however‚ in Victor‚ third person is used to distance the narrator for tge events. W.H. Auden’s ’Victor’ includes three different voice through out the poem‚ his dad‚ the narrator and Victor himself. Auden uses Victor’s dad‚ who has direct
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first time I read the poem "Musee des Beaux Arts"‚ by W.H. Auden‚ I was under the impression that the poem was a simple interpretation of a painting. In order to fully grasp the significance of the poem‚ I suggest that one become familiar with the history behind not only the myth of Icarus‚ but also Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s painting‚ "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus". A thorough background allowed me to make a more skilled analysis of the painting-poem relationship and how it affected me. In
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FUNERAL BLUES by W. H. Auden Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone‚ Prevent the dogs from barking with a juicy bone‚ Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin‚ let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead‚ Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves‚ Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. He was my North‚ My South‚ my East and West‚ My working week and my Sunday rest
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The Shield of Achilles W. H. Auden Analysis of the poem: The Shield of Achilles is a poem of nine stanzas where the author W.H.Auden has used an episode from the famous Homeric epic ‘Iliad’‚ as the name suggests. Achilles as we know was the greatest hero of the Trojan War and his shield as mentioned here has its reference in the book eighteen of the Iliad. There Thetis‚ the sea goddess and Achilles’ mother requests Hephaestus the divine blacksmith to make a shield for Achilles whose armor has
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Unknown Citizen Analysis "The Unknown Citizen" seems to describe story about the Unknown Soldier‚ a term used to recognize people whose bodies are found after a battle but cannot be identified. This poem begins by the word “He was found by the Bureau of Statistics...” It is describing a person referred to as‚ simply‚ "He." We take this to be "The Unknown Citizen‚" which makes sense because his name isn’t known‚ the ordinary average citizen in the modern industrialized urban society who has no individuality
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achieve this so called perfection‚ others ridicule them for succumbing to peer pressure. In “The Unknown Citizen” by W. H. Auden‚ the speaker‚ a government bureaucrat‚ also takes on this two-faced attitude towards a man identified as the unknown citizen. At first glance‚ this poem seems like the well-deserved tribute to a man who lived the perfect life‚ but after a more detailed analysis‚ the speaker reveals his attitude towards his subject. The speaker uses diction and irony to criticize the citizen for
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The Revenant is set around the middle of the United States‚ near the Mississippi River. Michael Punke wrote this novel as a tale of Hugh Glass’s quest for revenge after being robbed and abandoned to die. Hugh Glass was a member of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company‚ but is separated from them for most of the story as he tries to relocate the company and his robbers. Hugh Glass had a background as a sailor and was forced to become a pirate before he joined the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. The story begins
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‘They were a weird mob‚ the Australians of 2013’ is written by Hugh Mackay and is an opinion piece that appeared in The Saturday Age on the 26th of January‚ 2013. It discusses the issues that are currently facing Australia and how as a nation these problems are still left unaddressed. Hugh Mackay believes that addressing these issues will improve our Australian identity and bring us closer together as a nation. He attempts to communicate with as many Australians as he can with these various issues
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Refugee Blues analysis The poem laments about the poor conditions the narrator‚ a German Jew‚ and his wife has to go through in order to survive from Hitler’s anti-semitic policy. This poem is about how everyone denied to help the refugees. Refugee is a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war‚ or persecution. Whereas blues means a song which laments an event that is depressing. Combined together the title talks about the state of sorrow in which a German Jew‚ who
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