As part of Yeats" obsession with history in his poetry, a common idea among many of Yeats" poems is that the ordinary and seemingly insignificant aspects of life can lead to sweeping historical changes and the ends of epochs. "Long-Legged Fly" (1939) is a poem which presents the intimate sides of great people such as "Caesar" and "Michael Angelo." ... The idea of the ordinary and seemingly insignificant is reinforced with imagery of the every day, such as in the passage, "Quiet the dog, tether the pony/To a distant post." ... Each stanza characterises one of the three important people from dif...

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This intelligible religious imagery depicts, through the death of the flea, the destruction of a union between two people. ... Donne's use of intricate language allows for the use of wit to breakdown the barriers ordinary language imposes. ... Although it was common for the "poem to partake in the extensive tradition of erotic poems centred on flea's", and was not entirely innovative, it still seems odd that a base insect could be used as ordinary imagery of love. ...

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In the second line, the speaker refers to himself as a member of the "people on the pavement " (2), which does not include Cory. This sets him apart as an outsider that is regarded in a higher status, since he does not walk on the pavement with the rest of the ordinary crowd. ... He most likely had the privilege of being wealthy his entire life, which would explain why he has no interactions with the people who live down town. ...

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Initially, the puritans controlled the literary work and defined moral and social standards of the people (Naeem, 2010). ... In the poem, he describes ordinary human beings in heroic terms. ... Through the proposal, Swift exposed the ruthless British rulers who were exploiting the Irish people. The British rulers had taken so much from the Irish people that the only thing left for them to trade was their children. ... He wrote the proposal at a time when the British rulers had enslaved a large number of the young people from Ireland. ...

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"Compare and contrast William Blake's "The Tyger" (1793) and William Wordsworth's "Strange fits of passion I have known" (1798/1800). Both "Strange fits of passion I have known" and "The Tyger" were written during the "Romantic Period", generally taken to extend from the outbreak of the French Re...

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Though a symbol has been used extensively since the pre-Islamic period, modern poets' innovation lies in their intermingling of mythical items with ordinary symbols to serve the multi-purpose poetic objectives such as expressing their views concerning socio-political aspects and criticizing the pitfalls of their societies. ... Al-Magaleh suffering abroad for being away from homeland and his dear ones, made him state "one of the basic characteristics of the structure of the Yemeni psychology, and new migrations of real people and mythical figures supported and still support this view."" ...

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However, this sense of social isolation is enhanced by a spatial isolation as well; typically, Tennyson's artist-like figures live in "an isolated environment of retirement apart from the concerns of ordinary people" . ...

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Writing about sex, (the) human body, many other "taboo" subjects and common objects and people, Whitman and Dickinson address the larger matters of life, namely death and religion. ... The negative account of other, pedestrian speech forms, like the admission of naturally superior discourse , is not only a way of recognizing (and sharing one's recognition) of a reality that lies beyond ordinary words, but also of communicating a sense of appropriate restraint in one's own writing " (Domhnall,2000). ...

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Literature "organized violence committed on ordinary speech" (Eagleton) While the definition of literature has been widely disputed throughout history, British literary theorist, Terrence Eagleton, attempts to make sense of it all during the introduction of his 1983 book, What is Literature. ...

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