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    The epistle in its most basic form is simply a letter, with the epistolary form in the Eighteenth Century being a published letter often from one writer to another. This mode of writing was extremely popular in the Eighteenth Century, taking on different contexts for different purposes. An epistle can be a complex genre of writing. The Epistle can be a collection of poems, a satirical essay, a response to an author’s works or a raging sparring of words. Although quite constraining in format, an epistle

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    As the boats came in, the men were all shivering at the result of fear, except for the rare few who were willing to die for their country. ‘Jack Johnsons’ was one of the most patriotic people on the boats, his almost opposite ‘Benjamin Patrick’, who is a cowardice man and not brave what so ever. Jack dislikes most people who do not wish to serve their country in Gallipoli. Jack Johnson and Benjamin Patrick were on the first boats to enter the beaches, before they were noticed by the Turkish Soldiers

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    As early as the second section we are told of Hallam 's final burial below a Yew, whose “fibres net the dreamless head of Hallam. Tennyson 's choice to focus on the “dreamless” aspect of his friend 's skull above any other adjective such as 'lifeless ' or 'thoughtless ' places an emphasis on dreams at an early point in the poem. Dreams act as a place inbetween the hard, sometimes unbearable reality of Tennyson 's loss and the unreachable state of heaven that Hallam is in. Dreams and imagined visions

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    Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson of Aldworth and Freshwater is known as one of the greatest poetic figure of the Victorian Age. Tennyson started writing poetry at an early age and at the age of twelve he wrote a 6,000 line poem. His poems consisted of medieval legends, myths, and everyday life and nature. When he was appointed laureate a position he held for 42 years, the longest of any laureate, he wrote about historical events and one of his famous works was Ode on the Death of Duke of Wellington

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