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William Blake anthlogy
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Seamus Heaney poetry comparison
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Each of the six poems has a different approach towards death. Just as people do, each one of us beholds a different emotion
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GCSE Essay Cultural Poems
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Songs of Innocence and Song of Experience appears to be very simplistic on first reading. Explain how the poems are in fact a much more complex exploration of Blake(TM)s beliefs and times.
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How does seamus heaney reveal his culture in poems "Digging" and "follower"
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Poetry often has an underlying social and moral message. How are the social issues of conflict, inequality and difference represented through the three poems Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People In a Mercedes(TM),
Poetry often has an underlying social and moral message. How are the social issues of conflict, inequality and difference represented through the three poems 'Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People In a Mercedes', 'Vultures' and 'Nothing's changed'. Throughout these three poems a sense of conflict, inequality and difference is created. All three represent one form of these emotions in ways that are similar to each other and others that are different to each other. The first poem, Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes' is about the social and political issues that face society, as four people, two bin men and a rich couple, are held together by a red light, which is probably the only time they would ever be connected because of the social and economical differences that divide the two classes. It also makes a clear point to question whether the politics and democracy has failed as they still live with a huge gap between classes. The second poem 'Vultures' is about how love can be found and flourish in some of the deepest depths of evil and vice versa, how evil can still live in some of the strongest love. The story opens with the two birds of prey feasting off death's remains yet feeling the strongest emotions of love towards each other in a situation that we would find disturbing and bleak. Then it goes on to use the same comparison but in a
