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    Poetry Comparative Essay

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    Daniella Pashuk January 23‚ 2015 Whyte and Keats Comparison Essay Poetry has a very large border of rules‚ making many completely different yet amazing poems like these two. “When I Have Fears” and “I’ve Always Lived Across the Street” are perfect examples of two quite different poems that share small‚ and slightly hard to notice similarities. Although both poems are in majority different‚ further inspection revealed some interesting similarities. Both pieces

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    Modernist Poetry: Effectiveness When it comes to opinions everyone has one. Saying that Modernist poetry has no specific structure or form and therefore means it is not as ‘effective’‚ is like myself saying curry is spicy‚ sweet and doesn’t fit in with my taste buds and therefore curry is the worst seasoning. Poetry is far too complex to reduce to a simple “effective” or “not effective” dichotomy. To object to an opinion maybe you need to understand where they are coming from. Taking a look

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    Judith Wright’s poetry reflects her unique vision of Australia To what extent does this statement reflect your understanding of Judith Wright’s poetry? Discuss this question with detailed reference to two poems from the BOS prescribed text list. Judith wright is an Australian poet who has a distinctive way of capturing her unique vision of Australia throughout her poems. Good morning teachers and students‚ Judith wright is a well-known Australian poet who was born in Armiadale‚ Australia

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    Lyrical Ballads‚ and the objects originally proposed--Preface to the second edition--The ensuing controversy‚ its causes and acrimony--Philosophic definitions of a Poem and Poetry with scholia. During the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours‚ our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry‚ the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature‚ and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours

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    Anne Bradstreet Poetry

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    Anne Bradstreet’s Poetry Anne Bradstreet was the Danica Patrick of poetry in the mid 1600’s‚ except she went unknown. She drove into the male-dominant field of poetry. In her time it was frowned upon for women to race in such an intellectual track. Bradstreet does not let the wall between the drivers and the spectators stop her‚ she pulls right up to the starting line with them. In fact‚ she uses this barrier of sexes to fuel her ideas. Anne Bradstreet writes using many different forms of figurative

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    "Endangered Masculinities in Irish Poetry" examines the dynamic response of early modern Ireland’s hereditary bardic professional poets to impinging colonial change. Having for generations validated the power of their patrons‚ policed communal norms and acted as self-conscious cultural custodians‚ these elite master-poets were both professionally obligated and personally motivated to defend both their community and their own way of life from renewed English aggression in the sixteenth century. Endangered

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    Feminism in Poetry

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    Feminism in poetry All women have a place. That is barefoot‚ pregnant‚ and chained to the stove. Ideas like this are what started the feminist movement. Women desired to be judged by their worth as a person rather than their physical appearance or biological factors. Women sought out social‚ economic‚ and political equality. Many women wanted to do their part to support the cause. Some of the most notable influences of the feminist movement were poets such as Sylvia Plath‚ Lucille Clifton and Anne

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    Poetry and Ann Bradstreet

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    Puritans upbringing and they had hard lives. The Differences is Taylor had college experiences and politics and he saw his personal poetry as worship. Rather than Bradstreet she had a hard life she did experience politics but wasn’t as many as Taylor. She also wrote for herself in her poetry. 3) What two literary techniques are included in most of Edward Taylor’s poetry‚ and what are characteristics of these techniques? His literacy techniques where Conceit and Apostrophe‚ Conceit is an extended

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    A Study of Wordsworth’s Poetry Wordsworth poetry derives its strength from the passion with which he views nature. Wordsworth has grown tired of the world mankind has created‚ and turns to nature for contentment. In his poems‚ Wordsworth associates freedom of emotions with natural things. Each aspect of nature holds a different meaning for Wordsworth. ’The beauty of morning; silent‚ bare’ (5:WB*) A main source of interest for Wordsworth is the absence of an unnatural presence‚ such as a city

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    committed because it gave them kleos. Whether it be the stabbing of Polyphemus’s eye in the Odyssey‚ or the killing of the Bull of Heaven in The Epic of Gilgamesh‚ these violent actions proved the man is a hero by his ability to accomplish them. In ancient Hebrew and Greek literature‚ heroism was measured by the amount of violent acts committed by a hero. In The Epic of Gilgamesh‚ the heroes “Gilgamesh and Enkidu mount an armed expedition against the monster Humbaba because of Gilgamesh’s belief that he

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