Poetic Justice One of the big challenges in life is taking the right choice. Everybody comes up against it‚ and it always ends in a good or a bad way. Some of them are quickly forgotten‚ while other stick in our minds for years. You can’t always make the choices that lead to what you always have been dreaming about. Sometimes dreams comes true and other times you have to fight for your dreams‚ before they just let go. But in the end everything moves on and other things gets better or more exiting
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grown cold‚” and wherever they go they are attended by “passion or conquest.” But now‚ as they drift over the still water‚ they are “Mysterious‚ beautiful‚” and the speaker wonders where they will build their nests‚ and by what lake’s edge or pool they will “delight men’s eyes‚” when he awakes one morning to find that they have flown away. Form “The Wild Swans at Coole” is written in a very regular stanza form: five six-line stanzas‚ each written in a roughly iambic meter‚ with the first and
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The Style and Content of William Butler Yeats William Butler Yeats was a man who is known for his extraordinary writings of the nineteenth century‚ and is considered to be one of the greatest poets of the English language. Yeats was a poet with extensive knowledge and was thought to have been born ahead of his time. Throughout his poetry and literary works he uses a combination of technique and style to express his meaningful ideas. Yeats became a pioneering poet who had a revolutionary type of
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these devices with text messages as well as trying establish whether there is a link between the way people text and they way they speak. Finally‚ I will also explore some of the public attitudes to texting. The first thing I established when investigating text messages was that the brevity techniques varied depending on the purpose of the message and the relationship between sender and recipient. It also became clear that different age groups and genders text differently. Text 1 is a thank you sent
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He was a talented child. When he was thirteen‚ he won a prize for scientific knowledge competing against eighteen year olds. While he did good in school was never very good at Mathematics (Foster‚ 25). During high school‚ between the age of 15 and 16‚ was when he started writing poetry (Foster‚ 27). In eighteen eighty-five‚ his first poems and an essay called "The Poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson" were published in the Dublin University Reviews. One of his friends at this time said that he would discipline
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raped‚ and on top of that having to come back to school with everyone hating you and treating you like an outcast. Overall I think that the plot progresses at a decent pace throughout the book‚ and you can really see throughout the book that Melinda starts to come out of her shell a little bit‚ and really bonds with Mr. Freeman‚ the art Teacher. I like the way the book is laid out‚ by marking period‚ because it really helps you really
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combat. In the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est”‚ Wilfred Owen uses a variety of literary devices to tell a sickening sight which he encountered in World War 1. He discusses a side of war no one wants to talk about and challenges the reader’s thinking. Owen uses the literary devices of tone‚ figurative language‚ and imagery to showcase the actuality of what soldiers faced and encountered while both on and off the battlefield. The first literary device used throughout
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The poems‚ "The Wild Swans at Coole" and "The Great Scarf of Birds‚" unconsciously play off one another. Yeats and Updike paint similar pictures about similar topics. Although these poems consist of similar subjects‚ the authors’ diction and details are at completely different ends of the poetry spectrum. William Butler Yeats’ poem "The Wild Swans at Coole" tells of a man who‚ in the autumn‚ would visit this pool of water that was a resting place for a flock of swans. He visits them one
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‘In Paris with You’ by James Fenton Learning objectives: - AO1: respond to texts critically and imaginatively‚ select and evaluate textual detail to illustrate and support interpretations. - AO2: explain how language‚ structure and form contribute to writers’ presentation of ideas‚ themes and settings. Pre-reading activity: 1. What do you associate with Paris? For example‚ you might think of the Eiffel Tower‚ fancy restaurants‚ or the Stade de France. Try to
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When Old Technologies Were New Carolyn Marvin Ch 2: community and class order p62 two narratives: electric promise vs electric threat ’electrician’s: the IT professionals of the 90s hype: Telephones make life easier and better. electricity as transformative agent of social possibility electricity: a natural force under control p64 electrical communication makes interaction ‘strange’ p68 protected areas of family life...secrets laid open... listening in on secrets (via switchboard..) boundaries
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