With World War I raging in Europe, he volunteered for the French-based Norton-Harjes Ambulance Service. ... The collection No Thanks (1935), written in response to his trip to the Soviet Union, treats thetheme of artistic freedom in an especially powerful manner. 50 Poems (1940) contains such popular pieces as "anyone lived in a pretty how town" and an elegy to his father, "my father moved through dooms of love." 1 x 1 (1944) solidified Cummings's reputation as one of America's premier poets. ... Structured in a pattern of darkness moving toward light, 1 x 1 begins with poems that de...

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Different authors use various figures of speech to present their characters in plays or poems. For actors, figures of speech usually help to determine the most prominent traits of characters. The first part one of this paper analyzes the character of Doctor Faustus who is the protagonist of Marlowe's play who was overwhelmed with the desire to possess power and the presentation of the character as a pure villain in the play. This will be compared with the character and the figure of Richard III in the eponymous play by William Shakespeare, while identifying the significance of his figure...

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Emily Dickinson 1. ... The word 'Vase' from the letter (note capitalization)as "an open container, often used to hold cut flowers " (www.websters-online-dictionary.org/ ) can be interpreted, according to the metaphor meaning explained above, as a request for Eudocia to open herself to a new poem, a new 'flower'. ... Walt Whitman 1. ...

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