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    always through." - Robert Frost "how can we know the dancer from the dance" - William Butler Yeats "Wanting to be someeone else is a waste of who you are." Kurt Cobain "Long distance running is 90% mental and the other half is physical.” Rich DavisQuotes: "Pain only hurts." - Scott Jurek "The best way out is always through." - Robert Frost "how can we know the dancer from the dance" - William Butler Yeats "Wanting to be someeone else is a waste of who you are." Kurt Cobain "Long distance running

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    |SECTION B | | | |Spend about 1 hour on this section. Think carefully about the poems before you write your answer. | |In the first

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    in order not to be drifted into the strong stream of life and forget about their love. “As our creek after thaw” is a simile‚ she is comparing the defrosting creek to their lives. She is saying that problems‚ turbulences and doubts cause the life between lovers to freeze. “ carry with it … very scruple” extended metaphor where she compares the problems and arguments to twigs‚ dry leaves‚ and branches. “Swollen” is a simile she compares the over-stressed relation to something physically engorged

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    Poetry analysis of ‘Introduction to Poetry’ The Poem “Introduction to Poetry” is by Billy Collins‚ an English poet‚ and it is about how teachers often force students to over-analyze poetry and to try decipher every possible meaning portrayed throughout the poem rather than allowing the students to form their own interpretation of the poem based on their own experiences. Throughout the poem‚ a number of literary devices are used. For example: “or press an ear against its hive”. Using this metaphor

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    Compare the ways in which Eliot and Yeats write about relationships between men and women- in the response you must include detailed critical discussion of at least two Eliot poems. In T.S. Eliot’s Portrait of a Lady and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚ themes of insecurity‚ masculinity‚ propriety and theatricality are addressed. Similarly‚ W.B. Yeats also draws upon these themes in his poem He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven. Both poets successfully weave these characteristic ideas so skillfully

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    William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)‚ one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature‚ was both born and educated in Dublin Ireland; he was awarded the Noble Prize for literature in 1933. One of his most famous poems‚ “The Lake Isle of Innisfree‚” was written early in his career as a poet. In the poem‚ Yeats takes the reader to a small island away from the chaos of everyday life‚ an island where the poet imagines he will go to live independently. The reader is transported‚ with the poet‚ to a

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    Show how the playwright creates tension and how this increases your appreciation of any aspect of the play. Arthur Miller’s modern tragedy Death of a Salesman is rife with tension regarding the protagonist‚ Willy Loman‚ a salesman eluded and deluded by the American Dream. The play follows Miller’s reworking of the Aristotelian hero in the final twenty-four hours of his life. Willy’s obsession with his Dream and all associated with it – personal attractiveness‚ business success and family success

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    opposed to an offer‚ an invitation to treat is not made with the intention that it is to become binding as soon as the person to whom it is addressed simply communicates his agreement with the terms; although‚ it is not always simple to differentiate between the two. Kiyo Itakura Investments v Bentall Properties Ltd. 1993 CanLII 289 BCSC (CA)‚ Tenders are generally placed in the category of invitation to treat‚ where a party is merely being invited to make a bid which constitutes the offer and the party

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    Why was there tension between Stalin and his people between 1928-1941? After Lenin’s death in 1924‚ the two leading candidates for his successor were Stalin and Trotsky-both with opposing ideologies in the manner in which the country should be run. Despite being a brilliant speaker and writer‚ Trotsky’s policy on a ‘permanent revolution’ worried people in the fear that the USSR would get involved with more conflicts while Stalin’s proposition of ‘Socialism in One Country’ was far more comforting

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    to Hunt‚” Thomas Wyatt) plaintive poetry verse that expresses grief or sadness [see also elegy‚ eulogy] poet laureate (POH et LORE ee it) a title of distinction given to the official poet of a nation or kingdom poetaster (POH it ass turr) a label applied to a poet with little skill or literary regard from his or her peers [see also epigone] poetic diction the specific word choice and style used in poetry‚ particularly that which is not used in

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