Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden to train and recruit an army for overseas service. At the time‚ Canada had a regular army of only 3‚112 men and a fledgling navy.[1] However‚ within a mere two months‚ Canada could boast of an army of over 32‚000 men as men flocked to recruiting stations. Most of the militia trained at CFB Valcartier‚ just north of Quebec City and within two months the First Contingent‚ Canadian Expeditionary Force‚ was on its way to England in the largest convoy ever to cross the
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“When You Are Old” The poem “When You Are Old” written by William Butler Yeats is a poem spoken by an anonymous narrator. The narrator seems to be talking to a woman and refers to her youth and his love for her throughout the poem. In the first stanza‚ the narrator speaks about the woman being “old and gray and full of sleep”‚ this line is telling the reader that the woman is of older age. When the narrator says “take down this book‚ and slowly read‚ and dream of the soft look your eyes had once
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William Butler Yeats The Lake Isle of Innisfree “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” is a modernist poem published in Yeats’s second volume of poetry‚ entitled “The Rose” (1893) and‚ although simple in form and imagery‚ it has managed to earn its place as one of his great literary achievements and one of his most enduring. The poem represents a nostalgic description of a concrete‚ geographical place‚ the lake isle of Innisfree‚ which the poet
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Summary W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) is an Irish poet and dramatist. He was a leader of the Irish Renaissance and one of the foremost writers of the 20th century. Yeats is the greatest versatile poet of the century. Yeats was at heart a dreamer‚ a visionary fascinated by folk-lore‚ and the superstitions of the Irish peasantry. He was a symbolist poet. His best known collections from the latter period are: ‘The Tower’ (1928)‚ including the poems ‘Sailing to Byzantium ’and ‘Leda and Swan’ and ‘The Winding
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Achebe communicates his personal beliefs on the way Western civilization studies the culture of those thought to be more primitive than their own when he closes his novel with the District Commissioner’s thoughts and book title: The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger. Despite giving the book’s title “much thought‚” the District Commissioner ends up highlighting the insensitivity and ignorance commonly used by the District Commissioner as well as by the Western civilizations when
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whatever innocence this society had no longer exists because it "drowned". Usually when something or someone drowns‚ the hope that you had for them drowns too which goes back to the theme of lost hope. Another figurative language William Butler Yeats used is symbolism. Such as when he said‚ "The falcon cannot hear the falconer" (2). I don’t believe that he is actually talking about the animal or the falconer‚ a person who trains with falcons. I think that he means that God is not being heard by
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whether the public abandoned it because it had become esoteric." But in spite of all this experimentation‚ many old and some new poets of the period were broadly traditional in thqir craft.-When the First World. War ended in 19:18‚ Hardy‚ Bridges‚ and Yeats were yet active. According to Grierson and~Srmth"‚ the most important poetic works of the first decade of the period under review are Hardy’s Late Lyrics‚ Yeafs Tower‚ Bridges’ Testament of Beauty‚ and Laurence Binyon’s "greatest poems" The Sirens
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Kevin Gerard Barry (Irish: Caoimhín de Barra ) (20 January 1902 – 1 November 1920) was the first Irish republican to be executed by the British since the leaders of the Easter Rising.[1] Barry was sentenced to death for his part in an IRA operation which resulted in the deaths of three British soldiers.[2] Barry’s death is considered a watershed moment in the Irish conflict. His execution outraged public opinion in Ireland and throughout the world‚ because of his youth. The timing of his death was
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Comprehensive Notes for BA & MA Courses‚ UGC-NET / JRF‚ SET‚ SLET‚ MPhil & PhD Entrance Tests‚ and PSC and UPSC Exams in English Literature SAMPLE BOOKLET Co-ordinated by Kalyani Vallath 67 Vrindavan Gardens Pattom Palace PO Trivandrum—4‚ Kerala Ph: 0471-2444402 ; 9387839871 1Foreword This Sample Booklet offers a glimpse into Vallaths TES notes on English Literature that helps students excel in a variety of examinations-- BA & MA‚ UGC-NET / JRF‚ SET‚ SLET‚ MPhil &
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Literature: Reading‚ Reacting‚ Writing‚ 5th Edition Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell Table of Contents Preface 1. Understanding Literature Imaginative Literature Conventional Themes The Literary Canon Luisa Valenzuela‚ “All about Suicide” Wole Soyinka‚ “Telephone Conversation” Thinking Critically Interpreting Literature Evaluating Literature The Function of Literary Criticism Checklist: Evaluating Literary Criticism 2. Reading and Writing About Literature
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