‘How are war and Nature depicted as the antithesis of each other in the poem ‘Spring Offensive?’ Wilfred Owen was one of the many soldiers who fought for our country during WW1 in 1917. Owen left for the western front early in January 1917. Whilst at war he was diagnosed with shell shock one of the most well known effects of war for soldiers. Wilfred Owen was evacuated to the Craig Lockhart War hospital in June but despite his horrendous injury he returned to fight for his country
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LINES WRITTEN A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY William Wordsworth CONTEXT (AO1) Written in July of 1798 and published as the last poem of Lyrical Ballads. At the age of twenty-three (in August of 1793)‚ Wordsworth had visited the desolate abbey alone. In 1798 he returned to the same place with his beloved sister‚ Dorothy Wordsworth‚ who was a year younger. Dorothy is referred to as "Friend" throughout the poem. (whom he addresses warmly in the final paragraph as "thou my dearest Friend‚
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In “Spring” by Chloe Honum written in 2009‚ the speaker discusses her life and how she handles it. The poem is written in the style of elegy. This means that it “most frequently used to morn a death‚ concluding in consolation‚ and composed in ABAB quatrain in iambic pentameter”(confound). In the first set of 4 lines she describes how her mother’s attempted suicide changed the way she lived. The second set takes on how things change and get better. Then she talks how things stay the same for a while
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The Line The "line" that the film’s title refers to is the poverty line‚ or the line between "the haves and have-nots‚" as one person in the film put it. The documentary highlights the stories of four people who have found themselves on both sides of the line: a former bank vice president who lost his job‚ a Louisiana fisherman whose livelihood is threatened by environmental degradation and hurricanes‚ a former homeless man‚ and a woman that grew up in a high crime neighborhood‚ lifted herself
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Hopkins’s “Spring” and Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Spring” offer contrasting depictions of spring. Hopkins’s “Spring” is a celebration of nature and the spirituality that comes with seasonal rebirth‚ while Millay’s “Spring” is spiteful and defiant towards poetic conventions about spring. These two poems initially seem to oppose one another‚ but Hopkins’s turn in tone and Millay’s repeating form expose deeper similarities between their concepts. Hopkins’s portrayal of the season in “Spring” emphasizes
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Spring and Fall‚ written by Gerard Manley Hopkins‚ is a simple and graceful poem that has a powerful religious theme. It is about changing seasons and mankind’s mortality. The poem addresses Margaret‚ which is generally assumed to be a young girl. We assume this based on the use of the word Golden grove‚ which can mean a simple‚ dream-like‚ play-world. The narrator asks the young girl why Golden grove is "unleaving"‚ or losing its leaves. This falling of the leaves occurs in the autumn as
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Spring Festival The first day of the first month by the Chinese Lunar Calendar is Spring Festival‚ also known as Chinese New Year; it is the most important traditional holiday in China. Spring Festival dates back to four thousand years ago‚ originated in the Shang Dynasty. The year of 2011 was the Year of the Rabbit; due to my parents went to Bengal for missionary work‚ my uncle who lives in the countryside invited me to his house for Spring Festival this year. I didn’t like the idea at first because
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The Poet Gerald Manley Hopkins was a Jesuit Priest. The Poem was written in 1880.He was an English man. He was a 19th century Poet. He got Fame after his death. According to Poet Spring is a sign of fresh life or new birth and Fall means biblical fall of man from grace which led to his mortality. In “Spring and Fall‚" Hopkins explains to a child that we all age and die. That Margaret‚ like all of us‚ must deal with this fact and not let the knowledge of it hold her back from life. This is a message
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Mae Margaret M. Allam ACC08- BAC3 News Article Analysis News Article: Manufacturing Sector Seen to Post Stronger Growth Figures By Amy R. Remo Philippine Daily Inquirer 9:50 pm | Sunday‚ June 23rd‚ 2013 With conditions on both the local and regional fronts improving‚ the Philippine manufacturing sector is poised for an even stronger growth‚ once new measures and policies are put into place. In a forum titled “The Future of Manufacturing Industry in the Philippines‚” Roberto F. Batungbacal
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Name Instructor Environmental Studies and Forestry Date Silent Spring by Rachel Carson – Review Silent Spring is a widely-read environmental book published on September 27‚ 1962‚ by Houghton Mifflin. Rachel Carson‚ a renowned environmentalist‚ wrote this book to express her concerns over the human abuse of the environment. In this work‚ Carson vividly expresses and documents how the use of pesticides in agriculture indiscriminately affects the natural environment. She primarily focuses on how
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