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    INTRODUCTION… In this research paper I will seek to comparatively analyze two distinct works of art – the 1892 painting entitled Jeunes Filles Au Piano (Young Girls At The Piano) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir‚ and Henri Matisse’s The Piano Lesson‚ painted in 1916. In seeking out works as potential prospects to analyze‚ my decision process became a matter of immediate response – pieces that made me pause and linger while flipping through the pages were jotted down and included for consideration. Matisse

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    opening stanza of “The Wild Swans at Coole”‚ Yeats contrasts the environment which surrounds him with the brimming water of the lake. He describes the setting as being late autumn‚ a period where natural things are in the process of dying and notes that “the woodland paths are dry”‚ perhaps symbolic for how Yeats felt about this stage in his life. On the other hand‚ the lake is the complete opposite: full of life and movement. Where the environment symbolizes Yeats growing old and weary‚ the lake and its

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    "Sailing to Byzantium": Appreciation of Life and the Struggle Between the Ages In W.B. Yeats‚ "Sailing to Byzantium" the narrator is an older man looking at his life with detest as the way it appears now. He is holding resent for the way the young get to live their lives and how he lives his now. The narrator is dealing with the issue of being older and his sadness of worth in this life‚ and who is later able to come to terms and accept his life. In "Sailing to Byzantium" the poem is broken

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    I believe that Yeats’s is the older man that is in “Sailing to Byzantium”. In a way he was writing this poem to reflect his own life. He wanted to take the reader on a journey through the process of life and death. Yeats lived from 1865 to 1939 and this poem was written in 1926. Yeats has an obsession with the past both the distant past and that of his personal life and these things are symbolic of his fear of growing old or aging and a persistent fear of death. He uses imagery‚ symbolism‚ and figurative

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    [pic] ANALYSIS OF “FUNERAL BLUES” And “IN MEMORY OF W.B YEATS” BY W.H AUDEEN   SUBMITTED BY 1620624 ŞÜKRÜ ÖZ 1620251 AHMET OKKAN FUNERAL BLUES BY AUDEN Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone‚ Prevent the dog from barking with the juicy bone. Silence the pianos and‚ with muffled drum‚ Bring out the coffin. Let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling in the sky the message: “He is dead!” Put crepe bows around the white necks of the public doves

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    Compare and Contrast the the poems “An Irish Airman Foresees his death”- W.B Yeats and “The Death Bed”- Siegfried Sasson. Compare the poems to the critical analysis‚ “Trauma Theory.” The poems‚ “An Irish Airman Foresees his death”- W.B Yeats and “The Death Bed”- Siegfried Sasson share various qualities and differences. The similar qualities that the poems share includes a complementary theme of war‚ thoughts of a comrade in the war and the thoughts that run through the soldiers mind before

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    WWI The Origins of War – September 9‚ 2012 Alliances - Germany‚ Austria-Hungary‚ Italy (AXIS POWERS) - Great Britain‚ France‚ (pre-revolutionary Russia) (TRIPLE ENTENTE) - Alliances are put in place to act as guarantors of peace - At the end of the 19th c.‚ (Edwardian period in BR history) despite the alliance systems‚ much talk about impending war o Everyone saying war is inevitable o Lots of war talk - Nature of a European war not understood at all - Colonial wars seen‚ which were quick

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    success came expansion‚ and in 1910 he established another assembly plant in Highland Park‚ Michigan. Through interchangeable parts‚ standard manufacturing‚ and a division labor‚ the demand greatly increased for the Model T. It was at this time in 1913 that Ford introduced the assembly line and forever changed our economy‚ our industry‚ and our culture. Ford’s concept of an assembly line sprang from the thought that a car could be produced much quicker if each person did one‚ single task. He

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    In 1919‚ real income was only 2/3s of what it was in 1913‚ war financed by printing money and borrowing led to massive inflation and between 1913 and 1918 the mark lost 75% of its value. Major food and fuel shortages were occurring‚ costs out stripped wage increases‚ disease was rife‚ and thousands were dying from major flu epidemic‚ plus starvation for many thousands of people. Deaths from starvation and hypothermia were at 121‚000 in 1916 and an astonishing 293‚000 in 1918. 2 million Germans had

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    During 1900-1916 was a period known as The Progressive Era. An era of progressive reforms and expansion. The Progressive Era is also called as a Progressive Movement‚ a movement that changed America and cured the American society. “The word “Progressive” came into common use around 1910 as a way of describing a broad‚ loosely defined political movement of individuals and groups who hoped to bring about significant change in American social and political life.” (Page 683”) Progressive Era can be labeled

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