Unlike in traditional fairy tales, there is no happy ending. ... Unlike in traditional fairy tales, there is no happy ending to this tale. ... The language combines the traditional old-fashioned fairy tales with modern language (example soap operas and TV Quizzes). This blend of two types of language forces the reader to compare the stereotypical ideas of fairy tales with today's society. ... The re-working of the fairy tale genre is significant due to the stereotypical characters contained in them - reinforcing the idea of stereotypes and expectations of how men and women behave in soc...

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It could be considered a dramatic fairy tale that was written about the love he shared with his wife, Virginia (http://www.cswnet.com/~erin/eapbio.htm). ... Although it may have been a small house, "kingdom" is used to give the poem a fairy tale feel to it. ... The word "kinsmen" was used to give the poem a more dramatic and fairy tale "feel". ...

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His use of soft romantic language gives the poem a distinctive fairy-tale like quality but Yeats contrasts these images with the underlying theme of conflict to present his strong view that Ireland is in turmoil. ... Also the striking sibilance provides a sense of stillness and mischief as the fairies begin to set their trap. When Yeats describes the "streams" as "young," he reminds us of the ageless nature of fairies as well as children. ... When Yeats refers to the "solemn-eyed" child, Yeats suggests that the child is now lost in a dreamlike hypnotic trance and is destined to follow the fair...

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William Wordsworth In William Wordsworth's poems, "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" and "She Was a Phantom of Delight," the theme of memory is used as a powerful and creative force. In "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey," Wordsworth recalls a time five years ago when...

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Poems are a particular way an author shows to the reader of what he feels and thinks about the actions of the world. In the poems "The World is Too Much With us" and "The Chimney Sweeper" both poets make the reader feel piety and disgust of human Nature. They both tell how society uses too much mate...

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Sonnets traditionally were happy and about love or an epic tale. ... In the title are the words, 'Doomed Youth' which immediately informs the reader that this sonnet isn't a fairy tale or a happy tale of love but is a distressing poem about the boys who went to war 'doomed' never to return. ...

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Edgar Allan Poe in his poem, "Annabelle Lee" (869) uses various techniques to reveal his theme. It is largely his interest in examining a "spiritual passion that transcends human limits" which inspired Poe to write his poem (Johnson pg. 2). He does this by the use of persona, imagery, settings, rhy...

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Comparing poems Different poems appeal in different ways and some are not really comparable. I wouldn't attempt to compare The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot - a poem I enjoyed at the age of seventeen - with Milton's Lycidas, which I had to study (and also enjoyed) when I was sixte...

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'You do not do, you do not do/ Any more, black shoe/ In which I have lived like a foot/ For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring to breath or Achoo', is the opening description provided by Plath of her circumstances in 'Daddy'. In this opening stanza, the familiar image of a foot ...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

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