Due to his revolutionary ideals, which he had manifested in his poetry, he was considered a non-conformist, an atheist and a subversive and dangerous immoralist. ... His motivation in writing poetry derived from these revolutionary ideas as well as "his consciousness of his duty as an artist in the immense and fiery process of social change of which he knew himself to be part-, according to Richard Holmes. ... Stanzas 1-9: Hearing the violence English people were faced with, Shelley felt some power drove him to write poetry. ...

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• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Even the story of Paradise Lost would become bald and uninteresting, if stripped of these ornaments of poetry."" ... Brett, who feels that he has spiritual Christian poetry and Anne Mellor, who feels that he views nature as more emotional, moral, and divinely (Annotations, 3). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Year 1000: Life at the Turn of the First Millennium The Year 1000, a book by Robert Lacey and Danziger, explores how people lived in the year 1000, at the turn of the millennium. Life in the year 1000 was very different from life today. Lacey and Danziger used the Julius Work Cale...

• Word Count: 2816
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

It is mentioned in Irish History that St. Patrick banished all the snakes from Ireland. This seems an impressive feat and we seem to be able to confirm it as fact as Ireland is indeed a country without snakes. However, the more realistic, and more mundane reason why there are no snakes in Ireland is...

• Word Count: 10019
• Approx Pages: 40
• Grade Level: Undergraduate