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Censored Ing Second Stanza
1,280 wordsThis Be the Verse by Philip Larkin They censored you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you. But they were censored ed up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and coats, Who half the time were sloppy-stern And half at one another's throats. It deepens like a coastal shelf. And don't have any kids yourself. Lately, I have read a good deal of poems by Philip Larkin, and one unifying factor that I have not...
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Underlying Themes Of Philip Larkin Poetry
1,104 wordsPhilip Larkin, though a very talented and revered poet, wrote most of his poetry on his discontent with life. He seems to always be lusting after love, sex, and happiness. Larkin consistently writes about his own unhappiness and lack of social life and this creates a style of poem all his own. Larkin really opens up in his poetry and pours out his feelings on the reader. If Larkin feels like having sex he lets the reader know; if Larkin had a bad day he lets the reader know; if Larkin saw a coup...
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Poet Laureate Ted Hughes
2,097 wordsKnowledge of contemporary British poetry is of great importance when it comes to understanding the reigning trends of England. The 1970 s saw a fair amount of polemic concerning the discontinuities of the national "traditions, " most of it concerned with poetry, all of it vulnerable to a blunt totalizing which demonstrated the triumphant ability of "nation" to organize literary study and judgment -- as it does still, perhaps more than ever. It remains the case twenty years later that there is a ...
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Company Called Quintex Channel 7 Network Skase
459 wordsIn the early 1980 s a young confident man named Christopher Charles Skase became world famous by amassing a list of assets including a multi-million dollar company called Quintex, the channel 7 network, Mirage resorts and a number of extravagant houses across the world. Christopher Skase was born on the 18 th of September 1948 in Melbourne, Australia. He grew up in a rich family going to Malvern and Caulfield Grammar Schools. He first started making money as a stockbroker and then as a finance j...
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Narrator Real Life
447 wordsExplication of A Study of Reading Habits A Study of Reading Habits, is Philip Larkin? s poetic warning that escapism and ignoring reality only makes real life less fulfilling. Larkin develops this idea via a narrator who prefers to escape from life rather than deal with it, as well as through changing use of language and subtle irony. Larkin? s most direct expression of his warning comes through the narrator? s experience with escapism through books. The narrator reveals his changing attitudes t...
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Frank Lloyd Wright Wright
3,084 wordsNOTE: Received an A with some corrections. If your professor is one who checks bibliography s be careful with mine. Art History 5 December 2000 Frank Lloyd Wright American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright is considered the pioneer in modern style and one of the greatest figures in twentieth-century architecture (Twombly, 16). According to Frank Lloyd Wright: ? ? having a good start, not only do I fully intend to be the greatest architect who has yet lived, but fully intend to be the greatest archit...
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Lord Of The Flies Adolph Hitler
1,213 wordsLord of the Flies Why do we choose the leaders that we do? : In the following paper, Im going to attempt to explain why it is that we choose the leaders in which we do. There are many various reasons why we pick certain individuals to lead us. The first one, which is in no relation to Lord of the Flies, is by being appointed. People are often predetermined leaders. One of the most obvious examples of this is royalty. For thousands of years, sons and daughters of royal flies are given power when ...
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Adolph Hitler Charismatic Leader
1,150 wordsIn the following paper, I? m going to attempt to explain why it is that we choose the leaders in which we do. There are many various reasons why we pick certain individuals to lead us. The first one, which is in no relation to Lord of the Flies, is by being appointed. People are often predetermined leaders. One of the most obvious examples of this is royalty. For thousands of years, sons and daughters of royal families are given power when their parents pass on. If both king and queen pass on, a...
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Attitude Line 15
552 wordsAn object Moon Essay Moon An object can represent many different things to many different people. One object of interest is the moon. Philip Larkin, the speaker of Sad Steps, and Sir Philip Sidney, speaker of sonnet 31 from Astrophel and Stella, have different feelings and attitudes towards the moon. Each speaker uses various rhetorical devices to present their opinion of the moon. Larkin uses these devices to show his bitterness and the ridiculous nature of the moon and what people think of it,...
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