To Yeats‚ his ideas of the Irish politics of his time were never far from his modernist poems. He makes the political world seem a place of passion and contradictions‚ like art‚ requiring of us not to understand history in moral terms‚ such as “good and bad” but‚ rather‚ in seemingly emotionally artistic terms‚ like “pity” or “terror.” For example‚ in the poem‚ “Easter 1916‚” Yeats fixes on the horror and captivation of the considerably devastating event of the Irish uprising. In the first stanza
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“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a story about a woman who had just moved into a new home with her husband. The opening paragraph of the story is the unnamed narrator describing the home that she and her husband are renting. She is clearly uneasy in it and finds it to be uncomfortable. This story puts you into the mind of a deranged woman‚ who has a nervous breakdown. She describes the house as; “A colonial mansion‚ a hereditary estate‚ I would say a haunted house‚” (Pg. 307); in the exposition. After
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scheme in each stanza is ABCBDD. Commentary One of the most unusual features of Yeats’s poetic career is the fact that the poet came into his greatest powers only as he neared old age; whereas many poets fade after the first burst of youth‚ Yeats continued to grow more confident and more innovative with his writing until almost the day he died. Though he was a famous and successful writer in his youth‚ his poetic reputation today is founded almost solely on
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“Write a personal response in relation to Dickinson’s exploration of theme” For me‚ the study of Emily Dickinson’s poetry was the most memorable part of poetry this year. The fact that all of Dickinson’s poetry is highly personal and filled with meaning and sentiment adds to the enjoyment of this renowned poets work. Dickinson is a highly elusive poet and we are given the knowledge of Dickinson’s sheltered upbringing but yet still it amazes me the fact that her poems are still around to this day
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Personal Response to Children of Men The film Children of Men made me feel a range of emotions. Fear‚ dread and shock were some of my reactions to the various scenes in the film. The whole idea of this dystopian society seemed so realistic and possible that I felt fear for the potential our society has to slowly evolve into a similar situation. Alfonso Cuaron used cinematography and sound to increase suspense and tension‚ which created fear as well. A commonly used aspect of cinematography
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Novel Response #1 A novel that i have studied is called ’A Walk To Remember’ by Nicholas Spark. I liked this novel because of the characters‚ the plot and the message "Love conquers all." In this essay I will go more into depth of these points. The main characters are Landon Carter‚ a rich‚ popular and troubled guy who falls in love with Jamie Sullivan an unpopular‚ very shy and religious girl. I like how Nicholas Spark brings two very different characters together and creates a strong bond between
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W.B. Yeats was born in Dublin‚ Ireland. He was a lonely and unhappy boy‚ because of which he began to day dream and write escapist poetry. Yeats grew up as a member of the former Protestant Ascendancy at the time undergoing a crisis of identity. In 1889‚ Yeats met Maud Gonne‚ then a 23-year-old heiress and ardent Nationalist. Gonne had admired "The Isle of Statues" and sought out his acquaintance. Yeats developed an obsessive infatuation with her beauty and outspoken manner‚ and she was to have a
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Personal Response to Texts Assignment THE RED SON I LOVE your faces I saw the many years I drank your milk and filled my mouth With your home talk‚ slept in your house And was one of you. But a fire burns in my heart. Under the ribs where pulses thud And flitting between bones of skull Is the push‚ the endless mysterious command‚ Saying: "I leave you behind-- You for the little hills and the years all alike‚ You with your patient cows and old houses Protected from
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culture.Her poetry is realistic because she elaborates and paints evocative pictures of ordinary sights like "the harsh shyness of the Atlantic light" (White Hawthorn in the West of Ireland).In the following‚I will express in more detail of my personal response to the poetry of Eavan Boland. The theme of War and Human suffering is very powerful and appealing to me.In "The War Horse"‚she shows how people living in suburbia can turn a ’blind eye’ to the war and suffering of others.The apathy of the
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poetry is driven by a tension between the real world in which he lives and an ideal world that he imagines’ The poetry of Yeats gives a deep‚ profound and though-provoking experience. His sweepingly broad thematic focus deals with issues that are timeless and universal. We realise Yeats both is a very public and a very private poet‚ his work ranging from the personal and political‚ to Irish history and his own life experiences and emotions. He grew up in a very transitional time‚ where a world
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