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    the poem’s “When You Are Old” By W.B Yeats, and “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” By Dylan Thomas.They have a bunch of similarities and differences.For example in each of the poems the theme of the poems are death and the narrator’s message in the rhyming pattern poems are both similar in the poems ,and the writing style of the poems are rhyme schemes and therefore they use different rhyme scheme in each of the poems. The theme of Dylan Thomas and W.B Yeats poems are about death. In Do Not

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    Meaning Of Sonnet 116

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    BY SHAKESPEARE. * WHEN YOU ARE OLD BY W.B YEATS. Shakespeare: William Shakespeare was an English poet,playwright and actor,widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. Sonnets were the last of Shakespeare’s non dramatic works to be printed. Period was English renaissance. W.B YEATS W.B yeats was an irish poet and one foremost figures of the 20th century. He was a symbolist poet, in that

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    W.B Yeats wrote “Second Coming” which had reflected the effects of world war one and another war poet known as Welfred Owen wrote the poem ‘1914” which also discussed about the world war one which broke out in 1914. These poems had evoked the theme of fall of civilization and chaos in the world specially the European countries who were involved in the war. Both the Irish poets blamed the greed and irrational acts of the people whose immoral deeds had ensued in the inception of great destruction

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    Vision" had reached its final stages; finished. All of the trials and tribulation Yeats had faced gave Yeats a new outlook. "His language became more forceful; the Jesuit Father Peter Finlay was described by Yeats as a man of "monstrous discourtesy", and he lamented that, "It is one of the glories of the Church in which I was born that we have put our Bishops in their place in discussions requiring legislation"." (¶3 W.B. Yeats) In Yeats's old age his health wasn't the only thing failing, He was filled

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    Byzantium was one of the major cities of the world. The whole city was like an art exhibit with layers of gold on the roofs of buildings. In the article, Guide to a Golden Age, by Canon Comerford, it says, “For Yeats, the holy city of Byzantium - especially the Byzantium of Justinian - represented a golden age that produced lasting cultural monuments: the Justinian Code, which provided the basis of European law, and so many works of art and architecture.” Byzantium was the best place imaginable,

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    conveyed by McEwan. The most reviewed examples of intertextuality in Atonement are McEwan's references to Twelfth Night and In Memory of W.B. Yeats. These two works provide a level of wisdom for the reader, however subtle the two references may be. McEwan's usage of Twelfth Night can be looked at in countless ways, making this allusion to Shakespeare's work

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    W.H a famous poet with bright poems and a dark life. W.H was the the most influential and best poet of all time. It can be said that his poetry can be used to Calm minds and souls. He was also known as a playwright liberalist, editor and essayists. He generally was a major influence on succeeding generations of poets on Both sides of the world. (http//.www.poets.org) W.H was born in York, England in 1907 but he moved to Birmingham Alabama as a young child. Auden was educated

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    “human” without thinking about the future, at least to some degree. This idea also encompasses the belief that human beings must have a purpose in order to live, no matter how insignificant, and is expressed in Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road and W.B. Yeats’ poem Sailing to Byzantium, though in very different ways. On the surface, it appears as though McCarthy places little emphasis on the character’s future; in the dismal, barren wasteland in which The Road is set, the characters can scarcely differentiate

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    Ciaran Carson

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    Also the effectivity of the poems. W.B. Yeats and Ciaran Carson wrote poems at very different time periods which influenced their poems. W.B. Yeats died on January 28, 1939, and Ciaran Carson was born on October 9, 1948, and is still alive in the present. There are many differences between Yeats’s poems and Carson’s poems. Some of the differences in the emotions felt are forgiveness, which is felt in the poem ‘September 1913’ written by Yeats, and is not felt in the poems by Carson. In addition

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    Disability Of War

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    Yeats is about a man who is contemplating on joining the air force in spite of living a normal boring life. This poem shows how a soldier weighed his pros and cons in joining the military and made the decision to participate in what he thought of as a meaningless conflict where he stated that "those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love"(Yeats 3-4). The man in this poem knew that he was bound to die in the air

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