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    sex with him but she is just playing hard to get, enjoying the chase! He seems to think that his lover is naïve because he uses false flattery and promises her all that she wants, tells her everything that she wants to hear. He tells her “Two hundred to adore each breast: But thirty thousand to the rest”. Thus is an example of both, he is saying that this is what she is worth and this is the value she will have so long a she sleeps with him. He begins trying to persuade her

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    John Donne's Poetry

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    John Donne is in fact a pioneer in the poetic wit of love; he has paved the way for many metaphysical poets after him. His style of writing, although immediately recognizable, formed to the events unfolding around him. His work covers his early years of sensuality, where he produced explicit sexual poetry, along with his later years of religious study, where he wrote explicit religious poetry, a lot of which are hard to tell apart. Because none of Donne’s poetry was published while he was living

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    John Donne The Flea

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    seminar as part of the Poetry Matters forum. Today I will be focusing on the poem, The Flea written by the metaphysical poet John Donne in the late 16th century. Donne utilises literary devices such as conceit, in which a comparison is made between two unusual or unlikely things, and metaphors to combine the flea in the poem with sex to create his theme of seduction. There are two very distinct phases in Donne’s life which contrast one another. Donne had a highly religious upbringing therefore

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    The poet who marvelled the readers and critics alike in the last decade of the nineteenth century through his exquisite handling of subject matter and stylistic devices is obviously Andrew Marvell(1621-1678).Originally associated with the school of Donne ,that is , the metaphysical school of poetry which focused on abstruse terminology, dramatic beginning, ratiocinative mode, colloquial language, wit, pun, paradox, ambiguity and above all, the use of metaphysical conceit; his is a veritable mosaic

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    Flea

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    In other words, this is how the poet would like to enjoy her. He does not feel obligated to court her in order for her to enjoy the sexual favors. When the narrator uses the words, 'Tis true ; then learn how false fears be” Just so much honour, when thou yield'st to me, Will waste, as this flea's death took life from thee. (Line 25-27) he is pretty much telling the woman she is dishonoring him. He feels the two come together with the blood. He wants her to “yield”

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    ESSAY: Dulce Decorum Est- Wilfred Owen I chose to study the war poets. World War One, was a major evenement of the 20th century. It involved more soldiers and destructions at levels never before seen. Over 60 millions menof man participated : 9 millions of them died and 20 millions were seriously injured. I wanted to write about the poets war, because it is important to remember history. It is a part of who we are today. We tend to focus on the lost and suffuring of our country and not realise

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    Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman both were American poets who lived in the 19th century who strayed from the traditional style of writing poetry and formed their own individual style of writing which became the unique American style of poetry. Their lifestyles and writing styles were extremely different, as they shared little in common. The dissimilarities in these two poets are in the way they composed their poems and possibly in the content of the poems. Whitman established a unique style in

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    Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Edgar Lee Masters were three literacy scholars, who without a doubt evolved American literature. They were each able to break the ancient stigmas, and created supplementary freedom when it came to what a piece of literature can offer. They were known to speak upon various topics that were recognized as inappropriate within the society, but that didn’t stop them from stating their beliefs. Common similarities that these literacy masters shared amongst each other

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    John Donne was one of the most influential poets of the seventeenth century. His often comical poems contain intricate dual meanings and his religious (divine) poetry is convincing and beautiful. Andrew Marvell also wrote during the same period as John Donne and the two worked on similar important matters concerning humanity throughout their careers. Both are classified as metaphysical poets, meaning the poetry employs paradoxes, and is “highly intellectualized, marked by bold and ingenious conceits

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    Langston Hughes was one of the most prominent American poets of the 20th century and the most recognizable poet to have indited during the soi-disant Harlem Renaissance of the 1910s and '20s. “Theme for English B” is without a doubt one of Langston Hughes’s most famous, beloved, and anthologized poems. He indited it in 1951, the evening of his vocation, and it addresses one of his most ubiquitous themes – the American Dream. Thematically, "Theme for English B" resembles “American Heartbreak” and

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