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World War 1 Poets
1,926 wordsWorld War I was the first major war in which virtually every country took part. Because of the large number of countries involved in this war, there were many casualties by the time everything returned to normal. This war had a long lasting impact on just about everything. During the four years of the war (1914 - 1918) the number of known dead has been placed at approximately 10, 000, 000 and about 20, 000, 000 wounded. (Langer) Although the numbers of injured and killed were huge during the war...
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W H Auden Fall In Love
1,186 wordsA Journal of Romance The Oxford dictionary defines romance as an atmosphere or tendency characterized by a sense of remoteness from or idealization of everyday life. The same book goes on to say that it also a prevailing sense of wonder or mystery surrounding the mutual attraction in a love affair. Every romance follows its own road. Some will end quickly, others last longer but ultimately fizzle or explode at the end, and a favoured few last a life time and beyond. So how do poets give us this ...
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan
5,574 wordsIf Kubla Khan Kubla Khan If a man could pass thro Paradise in a Dream, &# 038; have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his Soul had really been there, &# 038; found that flower in his hand when he awoke Aye! and what then? (CN, iii 4287) Kubla Khan is a fascinating and exasperating poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (. Almost everyone who has read it, has been charmed by its magic. It must surely be true that no poem of comparable length in English or any other language has been the...
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Robert Graves Modern Poetry
858 wordsHaving admired (Riding) Jacksons " The Quids" published in The Fugitive (1924), Robert Graves began correspondence with her. He subsequently arranged with Virginia and Leonard Woolfs Hogarth Press to publish her first collection of poems, The Close Chapel (1926). Afterwards she apparently was invited to become Graves secretary or to collaborate with him on a book about modern poetry. Their thirteen-year relationship (1926 - 39) was besieged with the intricacies of their personal, poeti...
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Quot Quot Phrase Quot
3,237 wordsDavid Kalstone " An Urban Convalescence" is designed to act out a false start and implicitly to suggest a search for more revealing and durable images. What he appears to be learning to do is to disentangle his own needs and style from the clich? s of the world of fashionable destruction a clarification of feeling signalled in the crisp rhymed quatrains [at the end of the poem: Kalstone cites the last stanzas]. Much of the poems feeling is gathered in the now charged associations of ho...
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