W. H. Davies

The timeless essence and the ambivalence in Yeats’ poems urge the reader’s response to relevant themes in society today. This enduring power of Yeats’ poetry, influenced by the Mystic and pagan influences is embedded within the textual integrity drawn from poetic techniques and structure when discussing relevant contextual concerns. “Wild Swans at Coole”, “Easter 1916” and “The Second Coming” encapsulate the romanticism in his early poetry to civil influences and then a modernist approach in the

I feel that each poem in its own “Funeral Blues” (W. H. Auden), “Death, be not proud” (John Donne), and “Because I could not stop for Death” (Emily Dickinson) are unique in their own way however, I feel that two poems in particular may show more similarity in each other versus all three being compared at once although, I will be comparing and contrasting all three poems towards the end of this essay. For example, When reading “Funeral Blues” (W. H. Auden), I felt a greater sense of similarity to “Because

1. Describe the learning objectives of this course and the type of best practice that you are sharing. Literature of the Holocaust (EN113A) is a 100-level, elective English course that emphasizes extending EN 11 & 12 critical reading and writing skills, as well as mastering close reading of diverse fiction and non-fiction texts in a specific content area. The course is also included in the JUHAN and the Jewish Studies minor. I use as much visual art as I can to capture and enhance my students’

Robert Burns’ “Oh, my love is like a red, red rose” and in W. H. Auden “As I Walked Out One Evening” both write about how one loves a significant other for an eternity. Both poets use time measuring devices to show how time could hinder the couple’s feelings. Burns and Auden use the themes of love and time to show that people will fall in love and that time will never stop. They both show how time can affect the way that the lovers in the poems feel about one another. In Burns’ poem, the speaker

without any complaints. Each of the three literary writings has a character that is considered rebellious within the norms of society. A rebellious person is someone who does not follow the rules that are given to them. The poem “The Unknown Citizen” by W. H. Auden is mainly about an unnamed man who is a conformist, because he listens to all the rules that are made for the society. On the other hand, the short story “A & P” by John Updike and the play “Antigone” by Sophocles there is a conformist character

Comparative Essay on Wordsworth and Yeats In “Down by the Salley Gardens” by William Butler Yeats and “She Dwelt Among the Untrodden ways” by William Wordsworth, the poets use a theme of love while applying imagery consistently throughout the poems. Additionally, Yeats uses repetition to show the passing of time through metaphors while Wordsworth comparatively portrays his inner thoughts. Since they are giving their emotions, Yeats applies similes comparing his love for the beauty of nature whilst

In the mythological tale of Icarus, it is said that Daedalus, Icarus’s father, had been trapped with his son in a labyrinth of his own doing. Daedalus, being a skilled inventor and craftsman, ingeniously fashioned two pairs of wings for both himself and his son to escape. Upon giving a pair of wings to his son, Daedalus cautioned Icarus not to fly too close to the sun nor the ocean, just the path he had set for him. After Icarus took off, his confusion with the guidelines combined with his exultation

Referring closely to the language of the poets, explain how loss is presented in “Stop All The Clocks” and “The Voice.” “Stop All The Clocks” by W. H. Auden expresses a dramatic, immediate response to the death of his partner. Thomas Hardy writes “The Voice” to profess the remorse he feels, after his wife dies while their relationship was on bad terms and estranged. Both Poems are written in four stanzas of four lines. Each stanza in “The Voice” highlights the different stages of grief. The first

Violence, conflict and bloodshed are used on an enormous scale throughout the poems that I have studied. Today I’m going to explore the theme of conflict in the poems: “A mother in a refugee camp” by Chinua Achebe, “War photographer “by Carol Ann Duffy and “Prayer before birth “by Louis MacNeice. I personally believe the poets succeed remarkably well in portraying how conflict plays an important role in informing the people about the society and how the poet illustrates conflict throughout the poems

What are the tragic consequences of war shown in Refugee Blues and Disabled? Both of the poems are based on the calamities of war. ‘Disabled’ and ‘Refugee Blues’ written by Wilfred Owen and W.H Auden both contain similarities such as the expression of loss due to war. ‘Disabled’ is about a young lad that has lost his youth and ‘Refugee Blues’ is about the hard conditions of a Jewish couple amidst World War two. The poets use a variety of fundamental language techniques to emphasize the barbarity