English Literature (Paper 1) Candice Giselle Cutinha #313 Question2 ‘He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven’ by W.B. Yeats deals with the theme of unrequited love and the poet has been able to bring out this aspect in such a vivid manner. He expresses his love by saying that if he had all the riches in the world‚ he would give them to the one he loved in order to show her how much she meant to him and since he isn’t rich‚ he gives her his dreams instead. The poem ends with some kind of a word of
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William Butler Yeats poem “The Second Coming” is a referring poem to Things Fall Apart a story by Chinua Achebe Published in 1958‚ because it is showing the things that happen. “Turning and turning in the widening gyre‚ the falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world‚ The blood-dimmed tide is loosed‚ and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction‚ while the worst Are full of passionate intensity
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The Dream of Humanity ”But I‚ being poor have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly‚ because you tread on my dreams” quotes the senior Grammaton Cleric Errol Partridge from W.B. Yeats book titled “The Wind Among the Reed‚” moments before his death. The idea of dreaming is having the ability to set goals or plans for your future. Without dreams and aspirations we as a society would have no emotion or feeling and would be in a state of lifelessness
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Easter As with almost all "Christian" holidays‚ Easter has a secular side as well. The dichotomous nature of Easter and its symbols‚ however‚ is not necessarily a modern fabrication. Easter has always had its non-religious side. In fact‚ Easter was originally a pagan festival. It was co-opted by Christian missionaries starting in the second century CE. Easter must be celebrated on a Sunday between the dates of March 22 and April 25. The Lenten Season Lent is the forty-six day period just prior
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Friday or Saturday before Easter and sometimes on Easter Sunday. Many churches have special statues of the Virgin and Jesus that play a big part in the processions. The statues may be paraded through the city or displayed in the main square. Parade participants are often dressed in traditional ancient costumes. Olive branches are often used instead of or along with palm fronds in the processions and to decorate churches. This was a period of spiritual preparation for Easter which typically involves
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of that year‚ and had been reprinted ten times by November‚ when the award was announced. But he is not much read now in the West‚ and already by 1937‚ Graham Greene was able to say: "As for Rabindranath Tagore‚ I cannot believe that anyone but Mr. Yeats can still take his poems very seriously." The Mystic The contrast between Tagore’s commanding presence in Bengali literature and culture‚ and his near-total eclipse in the rest of the world‚ is perhaps less interesting than the distinction between
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"Two gentlemen of Verona" & "An Irish Rose" are the two heart touching stories written by A.J. Cronin. In an Irish Rose‚ the 14 year old Rose plays the central character of the story. She sacrifices her life to look after her baby brother who lost his mother when he was just one month old. In the "Two gentlemen of Verona " we find the touching story of Jacopo & Nicola ‚two brothers aged 12 & 13 who do odd jobs and live a hard life themselves to sustain and treat their elder sister Lucia
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On December 6 1921 the Anglo-Irish treaty was drafted and signed by representatives of both the Irish and British Governments. After centuries of bitter feuding involving both sides the British Government was for the first time to offer the Irish independence. In this essay I seek to outline how the Irish revolution of 1919 and 1921 was successful in achieving Irish independence. Richard English says‚ “There had never been any chance of a formal military victory… nor in practice of the British recognising
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He was tended to be considered as more of a soldier and less of a politician. His first real experience with violence was in 1916 when he participated in the Easter Rising. This rebellion (explain ER. 4‚7‚37 and aftermath=8). Collins freed many of the captured in 1919. He also worked for the Irish Republican Brothers (IRB)‚ an extreme political club fighting for independence. He worked on the
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would be Flowers they symbolize the universal of young life. Authors use Symbols to covey important ideas to readers. In story “Zero Hour” by Ray Bradburry‚ and the poems “Outside History” by Eavan Boland‚ and “When You Are Old” by William Butler Yeats all show human experience symbols. In the story “Zero Hour” by Ray Bradburry uses one of the characters named mink to symbolize sneakiness. In the story‚ a loud Seven-year-old named Mink was the leader of a game called Invasion‚ where in every yard
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