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In some poems the poets write about their feelings towards people. Compare 3 poems in this collection: the Laboratory, Havisham and My last Duchess
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While Huxley presents his Brave New World as a hopeless environment lacking love and real happiness, the movie offers a glimpse of hope in its ending: it shows that a young boy voluntarily disconnects his conditioning process
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Assessment of Blood Brothers.
when we first was told about the play I did not know what it was about, I had heard of it before but I had never seen or read any of the play. Then we were told the basic story of the play and the playwright's history: * The play was set in the early 1970 * It was written by the playwright Billy Russell * There have been two different versions of the play scripts that have been written by Billy Russell, one being the original and the other being a modern musical version. * The story is based on two different types of people in different types of classes and how children cannot see the differences. * The play is based in Liverpool and at this time (1970's) there was a mixture of the wealthy and working class people. * Billy Russell has based the play on his upbringing as he was brought up in a working class family in Liverpool * The story is basically about a working class woman who works for a wealthy woman, the working class woman has 7 children and she finds out she is pregnant again with twins and her husband has just left her so the wealthy woman persuades the working class woman to give her one of the twins. The two twins meet at various points in there life's, they meet as young children and become friends when young adults, when they find out that they are twins they both die because the wealthy women kills them both. To get us to understand the play
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The Sun Has Long Been Set
The sun has long been set, The stars are out by twos and threes, The little birds are piping yet Among the bushes and trees; There's a cuckoo, and one or two thrushes, And a far-off wind that rushes, And a sound of water that gushes, And the cuckoo's sovereign cry Fills all the hollow of the sky. Who would "go parading" In London, "and masquerading," On such a night of June With that beautiful soft half-moon, And all these innocent blisses? On such a night as this is! The above poem is "The sun has long been set," written by William Wordsworth, the great poet of the early 19th century or the Romantic age. The poem reflects the concept of Romanticism in several ways. First of all, it is important to account for the definition of the term "Romanticism." There seems to be about as many definitions of Romanticism as its definers. A return to nature, a return to the Middle Age, the Renaissance of wonder, liberalism in literature, emotion placed above reason, escape from actuality and so on. Since the previous age was the neoclassical period, which placed a high value upon reason and regulations. The Romantic Age emphasized the significance of intuition and emotions; therefore, it is possible to say that individualism is the keyword to understand the ideas of Romantic writers. Being one of the individualists, it is difficult to point up the specific
