"Dylan Thomas's poems are exuberant, often florid and occasionally obscure". a) How far do you agree with the above assessment of the collection in "Selected Poems"? Dylan Thomas's "Selected Poems" offers a wide magnitude of poetry, ranging from poems that are filled with exuberant, elaborate,...
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...
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. ...
Soul are in many respects sensitive to ways of speaking and thinking about the soul [psuchê] that are not specifically philosophical or theoretical. We therefore begin with what the word 'soul' meant to speakers of Classical Greek, and what it would have been natural to think about and associate with the soul. Psyche Although willing to provide a common account of the soul in these general terms, Aristotle devotes most of his energy in De Anima to detailed investigations of the soul's individual capacities or faculties, which he first lists as nutrition, perception, and mi...
