bold poets in the 17th Century who took their words to a rather analytical side of the abstracts aspects of life. John Donne‚ one of Metaphysical Poetry’s main figures‚ stands out for his choice of simple words to approach more complex themes of life. In ‘‘Holy Sonnet 10’’‚ Donne brings Death to human level in which he strongly criticizes it for being inferior to other mortal pleasures. Donne’s boldness is emphasized as he alters the English sonnet’s structure to fit his own theme. The poet combines
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T. S. Eliot – Imagery of Preludes In T. S. Eliot’s poem Preludes he portrays the alienation of the individual from society. His imagery is sharp and clear and he uses many techniques to achieve this. A clear description of what something is‚ can be pictured in the mind by his precise use of imagery. For example‚ the words‚ “…withered leaves”(7) gives a clear image‚ as does‚ ”…dingy shades”(22). The effect is achieved through descriptions of the human influence‚ word choice‚ syntax‚ and rhythm. Eliot
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WHITMAN‚ THE DEMOCRATIC POET When the first edition of Leaves of Grass was originally published in 1855‚ Walt Whitman ’s collection of poems was a slender yet ideologically rich book. Although only fully recognized after his death‚ Whitman ’s body of work has become the emblem of American democracy. If in the beginning he had been scorned‚ ignored‚ or misunderstood‚ slowly and steadily Whitman achieved international fame‚ and is now arguably one of the most
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When the novel opens‚ Adam Bede is introduced to us as a carpenter and foreman in Burger’s shop. George Eliot describes Adam as “not average man yet such men as he is reared here and there in every generation of our peasant artisan”. Thus‚ Adam resembles Robert Evans in his “severity”‚ uprightness‚ and ambition. Adam’s appearance shows that he is strong and attractive man. George Eliot describes him at the very beginning of the novel to be “long-boned muscular man‚ nearly six feet high”.
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Auden: A Modern Poet To justify Auden as a great modern poet it can be said that Auden stands out among modern poets by his earnest effort to be great modern thinker. He was well versed in history‚ philosophy and theology and had a remarkable grip on contemporary currents of thought in political theory‚ science and psychology. Auden extraordinary style and diction make his poetry strikingly obscure. Sometimes the style makes his poem difficult to understand. This difficulty and obscurity arises
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Dead Poet Society Speech Is living a crime? Is choice unacceptable? Is suicide typical? Reading this is so simple but going through it is much harder than we think. Forgetting your best friend who suicided‚ having your close relative killed and been alone was Charlie’s life. “The perk of being a wallflower” directed by Stephen Chbosky is an astonishing film which involves youngster entering the world of adulthood. Beginning a new year of high school here Charlie finally befriends Sam and Patrick
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Modern day poet In spite of the Pastoral element that was predominant in all of Robert Frost’s poems‚ he was still considered a modern poet because the poetry that he wrote was well endowed with the many problems that men who lived in the modern world faced with Science and Technology. He was a contemporary and great friend to such modernist greats as Ezra Pound and Wallace Stevens. Although he resembled these modernist poets‚ Frost was quite different from the rest of the modern poets of his time
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In the Dead Poet Society‚ Robin Williams is one of the main characters‚ he is the English teacher Mr. Keating. Mr. Keating attended the Welton academy boarding school as a teeneage‚ when the boys find this out after his first class he teaches they immediately go to find him in a yearbook from the past. In the yearbook they see that he was part of the Dead Poet Society. When the boys ask him what the Dead Poet Society is‚ he responds by saying it’s a group of guys who go to a cave and recite poems
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impact on the poets mind. His love for Maud Gonne‚ Maud Gonne’s marriage to Macbride‚ his marriage to George Hyde Lees and his realization of desolation madu ep his mine to write poetry concerning love. The theme of love appears with different twist and turns in his poems. A lot of Yeats lyric poem delas with love. However‚ in his early love lyrics‚ love was vague. Fleeting emotion. It was his meeting with Maud Gonne at the age of twenty three‚ that transformed yeats into a great love poet. Henceforth
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Dead Poets Society by Lipatova‚ group 505 Dead Poets Society is a great film about a perfect teacher with unusual methods of teaching to a strict conservative and aristocratic Welton Academy in Vermont in 1959‚ where he once studied‚ and it is not difficult to guess‚ that it was he who created that very society at the time of his youth. The other characters are the boys‚ Neil Perry‚ Todd Anderson‚ Knox Overstreet‚ Charlie Dalton‚ Richard Cameron‚ Steven Meeks‚ and Gerard Pitts ‚ who study
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