A critic has said that 'A theme which dominates Larkin's poetry is that desire is ultimately unobtainable' Discuss two or three of Larkin's poems in the context of this statement. ... The phrase 'of how life should be emphasise the utopian society as something ordinary people can only aspire to'. ...

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His poems are largely traditional in theme, form, and structure, and show a continuity with the Wordsworthian art of recording the impact of ordinary daily events on an individual and sensitive mind. ...

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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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• Grade Level: High School