But time is tied to the wrist or kept in a box, ticking with impatience. ... Raine is encouraging us to appreciate the delicate wealth and richness, joy and sadness that literature can bring us and to not be void or lacking of emotion in our haste. ... "But time is tied to the wrist or kept in a box, ticking with impatience." Time is personified as it "[ticks] with impatience". ... The alien has shown us, through seeing these impediments for the first time, an appreciation of something long known beautiful, but now clearly seen for the first time....

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But time is tied to the wrist or kept in a box, ticking with impatience. ... Raine is encouraging us to appreciate the delicate wealth and richness, joy and sadness that literature can bring us and to not be void or lacking of emotion in our haste. ... "But time is tied to the wrist or kept in a box, ticking with impatience." Time is personified as it "[ticks] with impatience". ... The alien has shown us, through seeing these impediments for the first time, an appreciation of something long known beautiful, but now clearly seen for the first time....

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These themes highlighted are relevant to any society, civilization or era - and that's the beauty of Shakespearean literature. ... Immortality Shakespeare, like many sonneteers, portrays time as an enemy of love. ... Time passes. ... The speaker of Sonnet 18 is absolutely fixated on fate and mortality, but believes he's come up with an effective time machine: poetry. ... Man, in the natural world, can't avoid being subject to time, but it is through literature, through this very poem, that he can free himself. ...

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By the time of the First World War there was a whole new generation of young soldiers who not only could read but, very important, were able for the first time in the history of war to write letters home describing war in all its unheroic horror. ... Before 1914, English literature and ideas were in many ways still harking back to the nineteenth century: after 1918, Modern begins to define the twentieth century. ... Auden will probably still be read in a hundred years' time. ... There is also the fact that there is much more literature, more cultural production in general, in the twentie...

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However, there was a different type of people; those who expressed a struggle towards these changes through literature, such as Richard Brautigan in one of his many poems called: "all watched over by machines of loving grace." ... "All watched over by machines of loving grace" was a poem written in 1969, according to Brautigan's official website. ... In the first part, meadows are the "victim" of technology, but after the second verse, Brautigan is including the forest and the animals in it.- Computers resemble flowers, and with this I can only imagine little m...

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William Wordsworth was one of the strongest romantic poets in the English Language of his time. ... At the time this book was published it failed to arouse interest at the time, but it has since come to be known as his masterpiece English poet, literary critic, and philosopher, William Wordsworth helped launch the Romantic age in English literature towards the end of the 18th century in Europe with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads. ... The way that the poet is able to convey such feelings such as beauty is through the use of both similes and metaphors both these elements of literature ...

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