William B Yeats (1865-1939) From The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) Men improve with the Years I am worn out with dreams; A weather-worn‚ marble triton Among the streams; And all day long I look Upon this lady’s beauty As though I had found in book A pictured beauty‚ Pleased to have filled the eyes Or the discerning ears‚ Delighted to be but wise‚ For men improve with the years; And yet and yet Is this my dream‚ or the truth? O would that we had met When I had my burning youth; But
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Wilfred Owens’s poetry evokes the obscene horrors of war. Discuss with close reference to Mental Cases and at least one other poem studied. War is brutal and impersonal. It mocks the fantasy of individual heroism and the absurdity of utopian goals like democracy. The horrific post traumatic stresses are graphically exposed. In Mental Cases and Disabled by Wilfred Owen. They both expose a chronicle of the debilitating stages of post war traumatism; this is achieved through the employment of various
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The poem opens up with the sense of a lost love. At first glance‚ the structure appears to be regular with six stanzas‚ each stanza consisting of four lines. However‚ on closer reading the structure seemed a bit unique as the first letter in every line is capitalized. This makes each line significant and becomes worthy of greater attention‚ so that the audience could understand each line clearly. One of the main stylistic aspect that is used by the poet is the rhyme scheme. Throughout the poem the
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Not So Wonderful Wonderland. Mad·ness/ˈmadnəs/ noun:1.The state of being mentally ill. 2.Extremely foolish behavior‚ this is the theme of many classic novels. The theme of madness can be found everywhere you look‚ at work‚ school but most importantly in yourself. Although everyone thinks they have made foolish decisions at one point in their life‚ nothing is comparable to the madness in Lewis Carrolls most well known series. Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass have a strong
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to get the reader to feels the emotions they feel while writing the poem‚ and allow the reader to connect with their poem. In this poem‚ Pastan explores the feelings of a parent’s passion and happiness but also sadness of one’s child growing up. The poem “To a Daughter Leaving Home”‚ by Linda Pastan is a very emotional poem‚ you can assume that the poem is about their child leaving home. You can assume that the voice in this poem is a parent that is seeking to share their special time with their
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The sadness moment in life It all started two years ago‚ at the time of the Vietnamese New Year. I never knew that meeting this person that would change my life. From the moment I met him‚ he changed my whole world. We began dating and falling in love several months after we met. I never thought that I would date an older man like him; a man whom is very different in personality from me. Loving him changed my life because I have found out more characteristics in me that I never knew I had. I get
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THE HOME AND THE WORLD The Home and the World 1916 (in the original Bengali‚ ঘরে বাইরে Ghôre Baire‚ lit. "At home [and] outside") is a 1916 novel by Rabindranath Tagore. The book illustrates the battle Tagore had with himself‚ between the ideas of Western culture and revolution against the Western culture. These two ideas are portrayed in two of the main characters‚ Nikhil‚ who is rational and opposes violence‚ and Sandip‚ who will let nothing stand in his way from reaching his goals. These two
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Both the poems start with ’suddenly’ which makes the poem sound explosive and means that it has impact right from the very beginning. As well as this‚ in each poem a change in stanza shows a change in the poem - in ‘Belfast Confetti’ it goes from past to present tense and in ‘Bayonet Charge‚ it goes from action to inaction and allows us time to reflect. Both poems also use lists; in ‘Belfast Confetti’‚ the use of the list ‘Balaklava‚ Raglan...’ show how the conflict has affected everywhere. The list
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By analyzing poems you can understand the author and connect ideas of expierences and the future. Looking at Robert Frost’s Fire & Ice‚ and Richard Brautigan’s "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace"‚ they both show the theme of past or present with the future. While Frost’s shows his past expierences of desire with how it will effect his future‚ and death‚ Brautigan’s show how today technology is taking over‚ computers are everywhere and one day in the future they will replace our class
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innate need to explain their lives‚ to tell their stories and to do so in a creative way. These poems were chosen as they exhibit the theme of the Home as well as Journeys and other things that relate which revolve around those two main words. Covering four parts that include Home‚ Going or Being away from home‚ The Journey‚ and The Return. They do not connect directly but all revolve around any of the four categories. The home is a sanctuary of love and peace. It is the place where one feels rooted
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