These three poems that share this common theme are "After a Journey,"" "The Haunter,"" and "Your Last Drive."" ... After a Journey By: Thomas Hardy Hereto come to view a voiceless ghost; Whither, O whither will its whim now draw me? ... In "After a Journey- the kennings that Hardy used are "nut-coloured-, "rose-flushed- (ll. 7-8), and "mist-bow-. ... What Collins wrote in his criticism on "After a Journey- seems to be right on the dot to what Hardy was going for. ... Ramazani's criticism of "After a Journey- just doesn't seem right. ...

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The poem 'Here' follows a car journey through different types of landscapes. ... The lines have similar length and punctuation is used to create a regular rhythm which could represent the progression of the journey. ... This action emphasises the idea of movement in the poem and the progression of the journey away from the urban area. ...

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Stages of Acceptance in T. S. Eliot's "Burnt Norton" The Four Quartets were written over a period of eight years, from 1935 to 1942. These years span World War II and they also follow Eliot's conversion to the Church of England and his naturalization as a British subject. These poems are the work...

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Allen Ginsberg's Motivation for writing Howl Richard Eberhart, the Pulitzer Prize winning poet of 1966, remarks, "Ginsberg's Howl ushered in a new generation." Many 20th century poets have attested to the freeing effect that Ginsberg's poetry had upon them in the late fifties. But to allege th...

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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 were "hymns of praise" (1855 preface to Leaves of Grass) to things, and Rilke believed that a poet had to "win the confidence" (Letters to a Young Poet) of things. Both poets also felt that we have to reach a certain level before we truly experience life. Of course, both poets had differe...

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Analysis of "Tintern Abbey" Whereas most individuals tend to see nature as a playhouse that should alter and self-destruct to their every need, William Wordsworth had a very different view. Wordsworth perceived nature as a sanctuary where his views of life, love, and his creator were eventually alt...

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Haunted by her past, Julia Alvarez has portrayed her immigrant experience as both painful and ambiguous. Her love of language and need to understand it has molded her life as an English professor and acclaimed author (Contemporary 1). However, a chronological study of several of her works exposes ...

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"Keats's Odes of May 1819 articulate a Profoundly Divided Self." Discuss. The poetry of John Keats articulates an astonishing literary liturgy, which has influenced much of the study of nineteenth century literature; though during his short lifetime he was deemed to be a "lower class cockney," and an ignorant, unsettled "pretender" to a higher culture. Barnard (1999) asserts that Keats is one of the great English romantic poets, whose prime belief was in art and beauty. The most famous of Keats's poems, the Odes, can be seen to reflect the notion that he was a poet preoccupied by...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

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A proem is a short introduction, in verse, to the matter and meaning of the rest of the poem. Some published editions of the poem do not make a division between The Proem and The Dream. The Proem is lines 1 through 290, and The Dream is lines 291 through 1334, the end of the poem. In  The Book of the Duchess, the poet is introduced in the first person. He has difficulty getting to sleep and has not slept, he says, for eight years. ...

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