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Shropshire: A Place of Imagined Sexual Contentment Published in 1869, A.E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad stands as one of the most socially acclaimed collections of English poetry from the Victorian age. This period in British history, however, proves, by judiciary focus (the Criminal Law Amendment of 1885), to be conflictive with Housman’s own internal conflicts concerning the homoerotic tendencies which he discovered in his admiration of fellow Oxford student Moses Jackson. Housman, much unlike other

A little under a year ago I wrote in this place about an encounter I’d had with Barry Sheerman MP and a Virgin Trains snack box on a train travelling from Manchester to London. At the time, what most bothered me about the snack box was its weird appearance: the cardboard printed with photo-real wickerwork so as to give the impression it was a sturdy hamper full of wholesome victuals ideal for a leisurely picnic lunch, rather than the flimsy packet of salty and sugary titbits Richard Branson was “giving”

A. E. Housman was a well known poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Within his two most famous publications, A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems, Housman effectively uses his adept understanding of language, its usage, and style to portray the significant themes behind all of his poems. To an Athlete Dying Young is a perfect example of Housman’s ability to convey his message to the reader through his use of diction, syntax, and tone. Writers make specific choices in the type of words, sentence

Born on the 18th of March, 1893 in Oswestry, England to parents of Welsh descent, Wilfred Edward Salter Owen was the eldest of four children. At the age of four, his family moved from his grandfather’s home to a place in Birkenhead, where Owen attended school for the next 7 years (“Wilfred Owen”). His family then moved again, this time to Shrewsbury where he finished up his schooling before trying for university. However, when he failed to win a scholarship he was forced to take a job as a lay assistant

regulations, when someone dies or suffers a specified major injury or condition such as broken bones, always a head injury, or if there is a dangerous occurrence, as defined in the regulations. The office manager or administrator must immediately notify Shropshire Councils Corporate Health and Safety Team by the quickest possible means, by telephone during office hours. They will report the incident to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). The incident must then be confirmed in

The “Afterlife”…a very curious subject that we as humans want to know about, we never want to experience it but we wonder what it would be like. Me as an individual, I am fascinated by the endless amount of ways life could be after death, if there even is life after death. Maybe one day you have the gloomy ,and desirable curiosity questions floating in your head like, “do they miss me, or have they moved on already?” In “Is my Team Plowing”, by A.E. Housman, the emotional speaker discusses how

Housman 's "To An Athlete Dying Young" A. E. Housman 's "To an Athlete Dying Young," also known as Lyric XIX in A Shropshire Lad, holds as its main theme the premature death of a young athlete as told from the point of view of a friend serving as pall bearer. The poem reveals the concept that those dying at the peak of their glory or youth are really quite lucky. The first few readings of "To an Athlete Dying Young" provides the reader with an understanding of Housman 's view of death. Additional

Cherry trees covered with snow, creating a forest where you want to go. Each bough is piled high with the powdery ice and you decide it looks rather nice You look around you and see god above, and in the lamb’s eyes, you see God’s love. The themes in the poems “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost, “Loveliest of Trees” by A E Housman and “The Lamb” by William Blake, reinforce the author’s purpose of demonstrating the different ways that human beings interact with and develop a perspective

It is extremely easy to associate late Victorian poetry with simple and beautiful things when poems about the aesthetics of both nature and city life were so popular at the time. Decadent poets in particular loved to write about the beautiful, especially the beautiful in everyday things. They believed that surrounding yourself with beautiful objects, including poetry, led to a better way of life, and that art required no further purpose than being aesthetically pleasing. When it comes to the theme

keeping his profession throughout the years at various universities, Housman became renown as a classicist for his own editions of countless Roman poets, such as Juvenal, Manilius, and Lucan. In 1896, Housman penned his first volume of poetry called A Shropshire Lad, which contains the poem “To an Athlete