theme of loveliness

THEME OF LOVELINESS: John Keats is one of the prominent Romantic poets. His life encapsulates a lot of pain and suffering due to the loss of his family members and also his unrequited love for Fanny Browne. Anything in its authentic and original form can be regarded as beauty. Similarly, for Keats beauty is synonymous with Truth. It is in this pursuit of beauty that he completely forgets his pains and sufferings and also the world around him. Thus, he transcends into an imaginary world. Keats saw beauty in truth and truth in beauty. He never escaped the realities of life in pursuit of the beautiful visions of his imagination. Infact his imaginary visions are based on reality. In one of the sonnets, "When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be", John Keats has explored the theme of loveliness and love. In this sonnet, the poet has explored his fatal love besides the mortal beauty of his beloved Fanny. The poet proclaims: "When I behold upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance, And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, That I shall never look upon thee more". In these lines the poet takes the "Huge cloudy symbols" as a threat to his clear love, which is connoted by the phrase, "night's starr'd face". A clear reference to the poet's beloved is witnessed as the

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'From our study in the "Clearances" collection, what is revealed about Seamus Heaney and his relationship with his mother, and his thoughts and feelings about other members of his family'

'From our study in the "Clearances" collection, what is revealed about Seamus Heaney and his relationship with his mother, and his thoughts and feelings about other members of his family' One of the most moving and emotional of Heaney's works is his collection of sonnets called 'Clearances'. These sonnets were written in dedication and memoriam to his mother Margaret Kathleen Heaney, who died in 1984. The eight sonnets are filled with lively, detailed and vivid memories, but the strong and loving relationship between Heaney and his mother is constantly referred to also. Heaney has no difficulty in expressing openly the love felt for his mother, both by him and his family, as we see in the invocation at the beginning of the collection; 'She taught me what her uncle once taught her'. Here we immediately see how his mother has taught him simple but great life wisdom, how to live and deal with problems in everyday life. This immediately identifies a clear picture of love and devotion towards her son, illuminating right from the beginning their strong mother/son relationship. This life wisdom is reflected again in sonnet 2, whereby she commands him on various rules before entering the house she grew up in; 'And don't be dropping crumbs. Don't tilt your chair'. This yet again shows the close bond Heaney and his mother share, as she warns him in order to avoid him getting into

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We have been studying many poems written by various poets during the 1914-18 war. In this analysis I will explain how the poets express their differing views on the war.

Poem analysis We have been studying many poems written by various poets during the 1914-18 war. In this analysis I will explain how the poets express their differing views on the war. Whether it is for or against war, I will explain how their opinions are brought to the reader in their poems. I shall start with how poets express their opinions "for" the war. Jessie Pope was a pro-war poet living in England. Her poem "Who's for the Game," describes the war as a 'game' that everyone should play. She writes it in a simple way and highlights the cowardice of all those who, "Wants a seat in the stand" She also expresses the vulnerability of the country and making it sound feminine. "Your countries up to her neck in a fight" "She's looking and calling for you" Any man reading this would feel that he had a duty to go out and protect his country. "Peace" by Robert Brooke is also pro-war but his feelings are expressed in a much more complex, descriptive way. He says that war has, 'Wakened us from sleeping" He thinks it will be an adventure, the highlight of his life. He then says to conclude his poem, "But only agony and that has ending," And the worst friend and enemy is but Death." This convinces himself and the readers that he has nothing to fear apart from that of Death, which can also be a friend. Moving on to the other side of the argument, Arthur Graeme West not

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Explore the portrayal of war in the poetry of William Shakespeare and Wilfred Owen

Explore the portrayal of war in the poetry of William Shakespeare and Wilfred Owen. 'Dulce et Decorum est', or it 'It is sweet and right' is a post traumatic experience of war written to not only shock but haunt a readers conscience or perception of war, the old lie, 'Dulce et Decorum est'. 'Before Agincourt' by William Shakespeare is a poem so far away from Owen's 'Dulce et Decorum est' in meaning, context and time that the two portrayals of war are hard to compare. To make the comparison successful it is important to establish that Wilfred Owen is responding to direct experience and Shakespeare is merely guessing at words possibly spoken by King Henry V before the 'Battle of Agincourt'. The Battle of Agincourt, 1415 was led by King Henry V. The aim being to seize the French throne. Henry's army succeeded, an amazing 19,000 men down. Shakespeare's poem reflects this victory through the continuous use of blank verse and never changing optimistic approach. The initial reading of the poem is motionless; it appears that men are simply talking (possibly because the Middle English used is somewhat irrelevant to me now) however subsequent reading reveals that the poem is in fact extremely spiritual. King Henry V believes that honour is actually worth dying for, he 'is not covetous for gold' 'such outward things dwell not in my desire'. The descriptions depicted by

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A poem by Robert Frost called,

Jeff Dorschner English 235 Response #1 9-11-03 For my first response of the semester, I was quite intrigued with a poem by Robert Frost called, "Mending Wall." In this poem, the author tells a story about the relationship between him and his neighbor. He seems to be questioning the thought of a fence between their property line. What catches my attention right away in this poem is that the author sees the fence that is between the two of them to be dividing not only their land or property, but dividing a possible friendship. In the poem it says, "And on a day we meet to walk the line, and set the wall between us once again." It seems to me that the neighbor and the author tend to have a yearly routine come spring. The neighbors have a stone wall that separates their land. Each year, the wall needs to be fixed because boulders have fallen from the wall. So the two neighbors go and meet sometime in the spring and fix the wall together. In the poem, the neighbor says to the author, "Good fences make good neighbors." This confuses the author because throughout the duration of fixing the wall, he can't help but think why there has to be a wall between the two of them. Although the neighbor has pine trees in his yard and the author has apples in his yard, he tends to feel like they aren't suppose to share the apples or share the pine cones or even visit each

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Use source G, and your own knowledge, to explain why some men opposed the employment of women in industry during the first world war

4. Use source G, and your own knowledge, to explain why some men opposed the employment of women in industry during the first world war Source G is a personal account written by a woman worker, which demonstrates the prejudice that women were shown in the workplace during the First World War. It describes scenes of extreme resentment from the woman's male colleagues- "Over and over again the foreman gave me the wrong or incomplete directions" which meant the job took so much longer to do without any extra pay; she didn't have the necessary tools and "it was out of the question to borrow anything off the other men". In this source the men ignored her, refused to speak to her and on one occasion her "drawer was nailed up by the men, and oil was poured over everything in it through a crack". Significantly, this source implies that women received the same pay as men which created much tension as the women had little training in industry and were perceived to have far less ability for this type of work. The men believed they were physically stronger and that women didn't have the necessary skills to cope- although women proved them wrong! Men began to feel threatened by the mass employment of women in industry during the First World War, as until then women were employed mainly in the domestic service. It was completely new to men that women could do the same jobs and be on the

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How does Chaucers prologue prepare us for the millers tale?

'How does Chaucer's Prologue prepare us for 'The Miller's tale'?' Chaucer introduces us to the Miller in the prologue, who appears to personify his own story. By introducing the Miller as a crude ruthless man Chaucer prepares for what is to come in the tale, we see his personality and which becomes the basis for the themes which run through the Miller's tale. In the prologue we are introduced to the Miller's views of women, his frustration with the Reeve and his insult to the church and they are all then continued through the tale. The prologue is a conversation between The Miller and Harry Bailey, who as well as being the landlord is also the man who created the story telling contest and therefore would be seen as the authoritative figure in the novel. When the Miller interrupts to give his story we see him challenging the authority of Harry for it is not his turn to speak, this is an insight into his personality and that of the story which he is to tell. We see him challenging those whom have power during the tale by striking out against The Church. We see the preparation for this disregard of The Church's authority in the prologue for it is in front of the monk, a member of the group, that the Miller speaks. This is showing great disrespect for as a religious figure the monk would be seen as the Miler's superior. This can relate to how the only member of the clergy in the

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"Poets in all ages have written about the destructive, Horrifying nature of war."

"Poets in all ages have written about the destructive, Horrifying nature of war." In this essay I will examine and explain two anti war poems and explain how each of them has made me feel about war. The two poems I have chosen to analyse are "The Drum" by John Scott of Amwell and "Dulce at Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen. I have chosen two poems that are against war as I hold the view that war is wrong and immoral and they express my views on the inhumane subject that is war. "I hate that drum's discordant sound." This is the first line of "The Drum" by John Scott. It is an extremely powerful statement and it lets the reader know how the writer feels from the very first line. Throughout Scott's poem he uses first person narrative, which allows the reader to connect with his views about war on a personal level. The first two lines in each verse unite them: "I hate that drum's discordant sound, parading round, and round, and round." Scott's poem is very dark as it is filled with hatred, death and destruction. These are amply mentioned in the second stanza, which talks of "burning towns" and "dying groans." Scott uses these, as imagery to portray his disgust and revolt. In my opinion this is excellent. It does not "sugar coat" war as being patriotic, but rather as a blood-curdling manifestation of total destruction, which is my own personal view of war. The first stanza

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Representative Gases & Properties of Gases - State the five assumptions of the Kinetic-Molecular Theory of gases.

Representative Gases & Properties of Gases . State the five assumptions of the Kinetic-Molecular Theory of gases. a) Gases consist of large numbers of tiny particles. These particles, usually molecules or atoms, typically occupy a volume about 1000 times larger than occupied by the same number of particles in the liquid or solid state. Thus molecules of gases are much further apart than those of liquids or solids. Most of the volume occupied by a gas is empty space. This accounts for the lower density of gases compared to liquids and solids, and the fact that gases are easily compressible. b) The particles of a gas are in constant motion, moving rapidly in straight lines in all directions, and thus passes kinetic energy. The kinetic energy of particles overcomes the attractive forces between them except near the temperature at which the gas condenses and becomes a liquid. Gas particles travel in random directions at high speeds. c) The collisions between particles of a gas and between particles and container walls are elastic collisions. An elastic collision is one in which there is no net loss of kinetic energy. Kinetic energy is transferred between two particles during collisions, but the total kinetic energy of the two particles remains the same, at constant temperature and volume. d) There are no forces of attraction or repulsion between the particles of a gas. You

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'Shakespeare has not single attitude to war in this play' - Henry V - Discuss

'Shakespeare has not single attitude to war in this play' - Discuss In Shakespeare's play, 'Henry V', war is presented in two ways, firstly it is presented as a very noble enterprise, but on the other side of things it is presented as a destructive and terrifying thing. The first view that the play takes is the view that war is a very noble enterprise. The chorus talks about how 'All the youth of England are on fire' This shows how all of the young men are preparing for war as they gather their equipment and prepare mentally and physically for the war. This line shows how much they are eager to go to war. 'Now thrive the armourers, and honour's thought/ reigns solely in the breast of every man.' This line shows that the armourers are getting the soldiers ready to fight and it also shows how the soldiers are proud to be going to war because they have 'honour in their breast'. The picture that war is a very noble thing becomes clearer as the play infolds. The Chorus, again, talks of the 'brave fleet' and the 'silken streamers' on the boats as they head for the enemy. All of the Chorus's speeches give a very powerful and good impression of war, as it shows how the English soldiers are proud to be fighting and that they don't mind that they may be dying for their country. 'Once more unto the breach, dear friends,/Once more , or close the wall up with our English dead!' says

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