The Quartets, thus, display none of the fragmentation or collage-like qualities of Eliot's earlier poetry. ... "East Coker" is earth, "The Dry Salvages" water, "Little Gidding" fire, and "Burnt Norton" air, the world of thoughts, words, philosophy and poetry. ... The next two lines are also important because they deal with the same problem: If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable. ( Eliot 13) Eliot does not hide the ideas behind the poetry in this first section.. ... The wreck of the garden brings to mind the ruins so prominent in Eliot's earlier poetry, exce...

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For Woodworth, the stifling of the intellect is the most horrific casualty: And now, become oppressors in their turn, Frenchmen had changed a war of self-defence For one of conquest and thus in heat Of contest did opinions every day Grow into consequence, till round my mind They clung, as if they were the life of it (Wordsworth 199). ... Philosophically, his poetry ring with Neo-Platonic thought. ...

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They include a wide variety of genres ranging from poetry analysis essays of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and abstracts on epilepsy research projects to my own Shakespearean (or should I say, Santamarian) sonnets and elegant e-mails to a girlfriend. ... I entered my first writing contest in the second grade. The elementary school sponsored a children's book contest every year, in which teachers encouraged students from second grade and up to write, illustrate and bind a children's book. Three students from each entering grade could win, and all books wer...

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As ancient Greek history has played such a pivotal role in subsequent cultures throughout time, that to learn about women in this society enhances our understanding of western civilization. Ancient Greece was not a united nation, but a collection of individual sovereign communities with a common lan...

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He wrote plays, novels, poetry, criticism, and fiction, including Grendel in 1971. ... Suddenly, Gawain jumps into the picture and makes a respectful speech to take the place of Authur in the contest with the Green Knight. ...

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Aristophanes, Four Comedies Four Comedies, written by Aristophanes, is a book composed of the following four plays: "Lysistrata", "The Congresswomen", "The Acharnians" and "The Frogs". A common theme in the four plays is conflict and how they deal with it, through forming coalitions or favoring peace. Another common thread written in the plays deals with aliens, defined as people who are not citizens. Ideas are given showing how the government can fix the problem. Aristophanes uses comedy in these plays in order to portray his views and make his point. ...

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By isolating poetry, novels, and other forms of literature and media, the censorship under the control of president Marcos have removed inspiring works of art in an effort to renovate the people of the Philippines into a drone-like population under his command. ...

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