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    oniapinto@hotmail.co.nzDead Poets Society, Directed by Peter Weir A significant event that occurs towards the finale of ‘Dead Poets Society’ directed by Peter Weir is the movie’s compelling climax, which is when one of the film’s most impassioned characters, Neil ends his own life. Neil commits suicide as he feels trapped with no alternative option other than to conform to his father’s wishes. The significance of this sequence is conveyed through a range of visual and verbal features such as colour

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    relationship, and for some, of life itself. It is in this widespread influence that the conceptions of love and marriage are such powerful topics in modern and classical literature, specifically poetry, the more lyrical structure providing a more aesthetic and artistic impression on the reader, usually the object of the poet’s desires. Yet, William Cowper’s poem Mutual Forbearance – Necessary to the Happiness of the Married State Cowper twists the expectations of marriage to something more unstable

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    Love Me, Love Me Not The two poetics from whom have created pieces of literature in the past such as “The Flea” by John Donne and “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell, whom were highly educated poets in the 17th century, in which their writing styles were pieces of unique abstract, theoretical forms, and one particular famous style called metaphysical conceit to which “John is known as the founder of the  HYPERLINK "https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/brief-guide-metaphysical-poets" Metaphysical

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    Poem analysis- Mulga Bills Bicycle Mulga Bills Bicycle was written by A.B. “Banjo” Paterson. It is a humorous poem about a man who believes he can ride anything from Bull to Bike. He has never ridden a bike and thinks that he is the best rider in the world. Mulga Bills Bicycle is a poem with verse of irregular lengths. It uses simple language and imagery to generate strong dramatic action and dialogue. The poem has a regular rhythm in rhyming couplets which adds momentum and humour to the story

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    Scott F. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, along with a poem “Hope is the thing with feathers” by Emily Dickinson, and poem “Are you the new person drawn toward me?” by Walt Whitman convey how hope and hard work can change a person’s fate, but uncertainty in life can outweigh previous hope and hard work,eventually ruins one’s fate. In Emily Dickinson’s “Hope is the thing with Feather”. She wrote “I’ve heard it in the chilliest land -And on the strangest Sea -” In this quotation, “The strangest Sea”

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