However, because the rhyme is unusual is can be used occasionally to emphasises certain images, eg, 'high above the gutter' and 'golden butter' The poem begins by described how the 'adverts face all ways and block'. ... The rhyme used in 'high above the gutter' and 'golden butter' highlighted the contrast between the unobtainable life portrayed in the adverts and the reality of the lives the working class. ... Larkin describes 'the boy', 'a pensioner', 'dying smokers' and 'going dark' to describe a progr...

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It is interesting how poets from different writing periods can have similar views. Walt Whitman was a Transcendentalist, and Rainer Rilke wrote at the beginning of the Modernist period, yet both have very similar ideas about a poet's dedication to "things." Whitman believed that a poet's thoughts ...

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The Education Act of 1870 made elementary education compulsory for everyone between the ages of 5 and 13. ... To some writers, the alienation they felt and depicted was an exploration of the individual sensibility in a world which it was felt was becoming ever more standardized and uniform, an age of the masses. ... Poetry to 1945 Queen Victoria died in 1901, but most of the certainties of the Victorian age had disappeared long before. ... His novels, written between 1870 and 1895, made him the explorer of the transition of lives and minds from the age of traditional values and religious certa...

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"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from." T.S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965), was an early twentieth century poet, dramatist, publisher, playwright and literary and social critic", one of the twentieth century...

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