Coming in the last days. Christmas At Christmas we celebrate the Word become flesh‚ coming to dwell among us as the light of the human race‚ just after the darkest point of the solar year. Christmas‚ therefore‚ is a holy day second only to Easter in the Roman calendar. The Octave of Christmas (octave means eight; hence the octave of Christmas lasts for eight days) begins with Christmas day and ends after the Solemnity of Mary‚ Mother of God. The season of Christmas ends‚ and Ordinary Time
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“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold”. This quote is used by William Butler Yeats in his poem‚ “The Second Coming.” In the books Absolutely True Diary Of A Part Time Indian and Things Fall Apart‚ this quote is referred to many times and relates to both books. Umuofia and Junior’s lives both had times when things were “falling apart”. Junior has to learn to adapt to many changes in his life while the people of Umuofia have done the same. The people of Umuofia have to learn how to cope when things
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• “It’s not their fault; they can’t help it. But sometimes I hate them. God‚ what’s it like to be free?” • “Frank: Do you know Yeats? Rita: The wine lodge? Frank: Yeats the poet. Rita: No” • “They come to the hairdreser’s cos they wanna be changed. But if you want to change y’ have to do it from the inside‚ don’t y? Know like I’m doin’.” • “I’m not‚ y’ know‚ confident like‚ but I wanna be‚ honest.” • “I think you’re marvellous. Do you know‚ I think you’re the first breath of
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copy of Roger McGough’s poems‚ he opens the book and reads the inscription aloud; Frank: I’m gonna be dead clever ear and say ‘Education is not the filling of a bucket‚ but the lighting of a fire.’ W B Yeats. You lit my fire Frank. Maybe you’ll understand this now... Rita Frank: W B Yeats‚ Thanks for reminding me Rita ‘The Wild Swans at Coole’ springs to mind again! The musings of a middle aged man like myself. I lost the appetite for being a poet long ago and now all I have left is nothing
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Fear is something that men and women everywhere are faced with; the fear of failure‚ the fear of weakness‚ and the fear of being alone. In the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe‚ fear controls not only the life of Okonkwo‚ but also the fallout of the clan. In the novel Things Fall Apart‚ Chinua Achebe uses a fearful tone toward Okonkwo and his need for power by using imagery that suggests fear is the catalyst for destruction and failure. The life of Okonkwo is driven by the need to exceed
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the topic itself; I love reading literature especially classics like Alice in Wonderland and Sherlock Holmes and this books helps to get into more details of almost hidden aspects of a book for example he discusses the poem “In Memory of W.B Yeats” and how Yeats dies in winter but that the season is not the that meets the eye; he says this about the winter “Auden‚ an accomplished ironist and realist‚ turns this pattern around in memorializing not a youngster but a man‚ born at the end of the American
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everything she did to assure that I received the best in every aspect of my life. My sister and I would go out every year and purchase beautiful gowns and suits for the joyous Easter Sunday. Being the fact my granddad was the Pastor of his own church it was tradition that we attend his church every year for Easter Sunday. On this Easter Morning‚ we get to experience the warmth and excitement of the glorious resurrection of Christ Jesus. A resurrection that changed the world brought hope to all people and
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tickle us‚ do we not laugh? If you poison us‚ do we not die?” -William Shakespeare‚ A Merchant in Venice (Act III‚ scene I) After the long barren months‚ Easter and Holi crack the lifeless grip of winter; although one is Roman Catholic (Easter) and the other Hindu (Holi) both holidays demonstrate the same delight in different manners. Easter is a Roman Catholic holiday commemorating the rising of Jesus Christ from the dead‚ proving that he is God’s son and‚ if followed‚ will lead his disciples
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The span of time from the late nineteenth and the early portion of the twentieth centuries‚ known as the Modernist period‚ saw an emergence of profound and radically different works of literature. The authors of these works (focusing specifically on ‘British’ authors featured in the textbook) utilized new forms and characteristics regarding style‚ plot‚ point of view‚ character‚ etc. They also possessed a vastly different outlook on life shaped by years of war and depression‚ scientific theories
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MY DISCOVERY OF IRELAND WHAT MAKES IRISH CULTURE POPULAR WORLDWIDE? ’I am of Ireland‚ And the Holy Land of Ireland‚ And time runs on‚’ cried she. ’Come out of charity‚ Come dance with me in Ireland.’ William Butler Yeats My first encounter with Ireland and its culture was rather trivial. I saw some Irish dancing and was fascinated by its rigor‚ energy‚ and emotional charge. I am not a dancer myself but Irish dances that I saw on TV made me want to get on my feet and start tap-dancing
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