His strict childhood and middle age life, which was largely filled with drinking, and wondering slums played some part in shaping his work, but can be overlooked if studied correctly. ... His mother, in particular lead Dylan from an early age to be a serious reader and writer of poetry. Dylan's interest in poetry and literature was sparked at an early age, and by high school Dylan was editing for his school newspaper. ... Dylan's early poetry was greatly influenced by his friend Daniel Jones. ... It was at this time that Thomas began to develop the serious drinking problem th...

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He composed a set of standards which have been applied throughout the ages to determine, in a scholarly fashion, what indeed is and what is not true drama. ... The factions of absolute good and unqualified evil square off in this early drama. ... This is most assuredly true with the entire middle part of Job. ... Section XXIII reiterates the points of section VI by declaring that the work must have a discernable beginning, middle, and end. ... Job is remarkably structured for such an early piece of literature. ...

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A couple of days ago I was cleaning out my now unused study - recently I have been finding other places to write, my bed, the bathroom, even in the bath, as the portability of the laptop proves very convenient - and I stumbled upon a book, well read, yet discarded in my 'old age'. ... Her sorrow is profound '"'I leaned my head upon my father"'"s arm, and wept owl-blind in early sun for what I had begun.'"' ... Here the persona is middle aged and is confronting her father"'"s age and mortality '"'y...

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From then on, Sexton spent most of her life in the affluent, upper-middle class suburbs of Boston (Discovering Biographies 2). ... To overcome her troubles, she married at age nineteen and attempted to settle into the role of housewife and mother (Discovering Biographies 2). ... "Poetry gave me a rebirth at age twenty-nine" (American Literature 3591), Anne quoted many times during her career. ... Sexton's early poetry, from what I have read, is very happy and hopeful. I enjoyed reading some of her earlier pieces. ...

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Stuck in the middle between wrong and right, the speaker seems empty. ... Later it reads, "Early leaf's flower," which says that childhood flowers in to youth. ... When the poem says, "So Eden sank to grief," it is symbolic of adulthood, which leads to old age, and the sunset stands for death....

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I thought I wouldn't find the words, and I'm at the middle of the other quartet, yet if I see myself in the first tercet, there is nothing in the quartets that would make my senses stir. ... Lope de Vega was a very talented writer, we see this through his life's work and story, since he was at an early age, not able to use a pen, he began to show the skills of his verse writing. At the age of ten he started to translate poems from Latin and at age 12 Lope wrote his first play. ...

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From the early 19th century, Percy Bysshe Shelley is recognized as one of the most influential writers of the Romantic Period whose work is characterized by his use of imagery and symbolism. ... Through these similes Shelley constructs an image of the power's tremendous and forceful status (Swanicke, Poets: Interpreters of Their Age 170). ... He feels that after a young adulthood, where everything is questioned, middle age and eventually old age becomes a depressing situation. ... In the end, the King's works are nothing, and the lines inscribed upon his statue are a sermon for tho...

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How far does Tennyson's "In Memoriam" reflect the spirit of the Victorian Age? ... Unlike Arnold, he expressed a compromising attitude to his age and its intricate problems. Tennyson, we find, in his Ulysses, The Lotos Eaters, The Charge of the Light Brigade, holds such a sort of view which is supposed to find a middle ground. ... Because of the quality to look for a middle ground, Tennyson is considered as a compromising craftsman who does neither yield to the crisis of his age nor possess a carefree attitude towards the problems, rather keeps compromising and finding a solution. ... ...

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Early poems such as those by Homer emphasized the sounds of words(Homer, Illiad). ... Ghazals predate both the sonnet and Haiku and originated during the 12th century in the middle east. ... The Beats were a group of artists and writers who rejected the martialism and consumerism of the age. ... At the age of three years, Ginsberg had to watch his mother be committed to a sanatarium for the first time. ... It was not until Ginsberg reached the age of thirteen that his mother illness would take hold of Ginsberg's life. ...

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At this time, in the early nineteenth century the world and America were undergoing big changes, which fueled Whitman's writings. ... The middle of the poem Whitman tells a little girl not to fear death because "there really is no death.... " The phase seems to say that any death is better than dying from old age. ...

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Early Life and Education Born in St. Louis, Missouri in the United States, he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at age 25) and was naturalized as a British subject in 1927 at age 39. Eliot was born into a middle class family originally from New England. ... Louis; his mother Charlotte Champe Stearns (1843-1929) wrote poetry and was a social worker, a new profession in the early twentieth century. ... He was aware of this even early in his career. ...

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