Abstract
This paper discusses how Elizabeth Barrett Browning?s poetry evidently shows how aware she was of the contemporary social and political issues she was faced with, living in Victorian England. It looks at how she was, perhaps, one of the braver literary pioneers and how through her poetry she explicitly and directly confronted issues which many of her contemporaries may heave shied away from. It focuses on two of her poems; ?The Cry of the Children? (1843) and ?The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim?s Point? (1848).

From the Paper
"Barrett herself was a devout Christian, but also liberal enough to accept that many of the little factory children would have found it hard to believe in God when they were treated so harshly, and believes them when they say "grief has made us unbelieving". The Victorian's spread the gospel throughout the world, and yet the children in the poem do not know how to pray, or even if they did they feel that God would neglect them, "We look up for God, but tears have made us blind". Barrett's questioning of religion would have shocked many of her readers, and provides us with a good example of how she was more concerned with the message she was portraying rather than the reviews she would receive."

Tags:runaway, slave, victorian, england, children, pilgrim's, point

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This looks at how both poems are based on the theme discrimination and how they discuss different types of this issue. It shows how "You Will Be Hearing From Us Shortly" is based on various types of discrimination including age, appearance, accent, education, background and marital status whereas "Telephone Conversation" is about racism, in terms of color. For each poem, it discusses the subject matter, the impression given of each of the characters, the tone, the use of language and the form of the poem.

From the Paper
"The poem "You will be hearing from us shortly" is about a person being discriminated against in an interview. The issue of discrimination is conveyed through the interviewer asking the interviewee firstly about his or her age. This is shown when the interviewer asks "Now your age. Perhaps you feel able to make your own comment about that, too?" This indicates that the interviewer and his company want someone who is younger and less mature. They may feel threatened if they employ an older person and it is also possible that they may have to pay them more money. The interviewer and his company can influence a younger more easily. The interviewer is against the interviewee's older age. In comparison, the poem "Telephone conversation" does not discuss any discrimination of age. Instead, the first type of discrimination shown is in terms of color."

Tags:prejudice, interview, colour, accent

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This paper explains that poet Anna Akhmatova, born in Odessa, Russia, in 1889, began writing poetry at the age of eleven and experienced lifelong grief and heartache, which is clearly illustrated in her poetry. The author believes that the "Requiem", a set of fifteen thematically linked verses written in 1935, is one of Akhmatova's best pieces. The paper relates that anyone reading "Requiem" could identify with Verse Four because it describes the time Akhmatova looks back on her life wishing someone would have warned her of the troubles that lay ahead.

From the Paper
"Akhmatova's use of describing emotions felt collectively by the masses of women makes the reader associate with them. One can almost imagine how it would feel to know that your loved one is innocent but locked away, to wait only to hear that the sentence is death, to be strong yet look so weak and desperate. Once these feelings have captured the reader, they become more and more vivid as one finds out Akhmatova's feelings as an individual:
"At dawn they came and took you away.
You were my dead: I walked behind.
In the dark room children cried,
The holy candle gasped for air.""

Tags:russia, grief, emotions, sinner, prison

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This paper examines how Wilfred Owen wrote the poem, "Dulce et Decorum Est", to reflect on his experiences during the First World War and attempts to establish whether it can be applied to any war. It looks at how the purpose of Owen's poem was to shock the reader and move away from the popularly believed image of war being glorious. It shows how the poem is made up of similes, metaphors and alliteration, which create many vivid visual and aural images some of which are applicable to the wars of today. This essay points out a number of similarities and differences between war today and as it was in the First World War by closely analyzing the techniques employed by Wildred Owen when he wrote the poem Dulce et Decorum Est.

From the Paper
"Later on in his poem, Owen went on to describe the effects of a condition specific to World War One, trench foot. Trench foot is where, through lack of basic hygiene and standing in damp conditions, the foot begins to decay. This was described in Owen's poem when he wrote: "Many of them had lost their boots, but limped on, blood shod"
This told the reader that there was a thin layer of blood around the foot, possibly a repercussion of trench foot. This was applicable to World War One because the soldiers worked in trenches under terrible conditions, but could not apply to any other war as trench foot is no longer allowed to happen - the men are kept in much better health and trenches are no longer a prominent part of war."

Tags:country, trench, blood

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This paper explores how Alfred Lord Tennyson's poems reflect the widely accepted Victorian attitudes towards male and female gender roles by the analysis of his poems "The Lady of Shalott" and "Mariana" and references to material by the nineteenth-century writer, John Ruskin. It discusses how in both these poems, which were written between 1830 and 1832, Tennyson is essentially describing the attitudes towards women in Victorian society. It looks at how he portrays a period where women are perceived to be unable to exist in a world without men and are entirely inferior to the men in their society.

From the Paper
"This may be a subtle way in which Tennyson demonstrates that not all women are so purely and completely perfect, as it is when Mariana is alone at night in bed she feels most lonely due to her sexual longing. A piece of writing about early Victorian Britain states that a woman "was not supposed to desire sexual intercourse for any pleasure she might derive from it, but solely as a duty to her husband". In John Ruskin's famous passage, "Sesame and Lilies" (1865) he asserts that "she (the woman) must be enduringly, incorruptibly good; instinctively". The role of the woman in Victorian times was extremely disciplined and sexually restricted and here, Tennyson may be showing that women did not always conform to the rules society enforced upon them."

Tags:society, john, ruskin

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This paper discusses romanticism, a term given to a European wide movement in the arts in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in revolt against the neo-classicism of the previous centuries. It focuses on the theme of nature, one of four main themes in romanticism and how nature is associated with ideas about psychology, pleasure and health, morality and the divine. It reviews William Wordsworth's lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey, with an emphasis on how the poet describes nature and uses it to express deeper feelings and meaning.

From the Paper
"In the poem, Wordsworth is writing of an ordinary event that he thought worthy of recording and the experience he is describing is something everyone can relate to, not just a privileged few. This poem is seen as being Wordsworth's first great statement of his principle idea that the memory of interaction with nature in childhood, works on the mind even in adulthood when access to that interaction is lost. Wordsworth strongly believed that childhood experiences affected the adult mind and in this poem he almost mourns the loss of his youth and realizes that as adults we lose some of the innocent perceptions of childhood. He also realizes that we make up for that loss by gaining an increased maturity of mind, and the ability to see a greater importance of nature and its relationship with humanity."

Tags:imagination, emotion, neoclassicism

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This paper explores the purpose and usage of flowers in poetry using William Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" as an example. It focuses on Wordsworth's choice of words and also on the greater profound concept that he is trying to depict. The first part of the paper focuses on interpreting the poem. It shows how Wordsworth eloquently uses figurative language, imagery, and personification to describe a scenic display of daffodils. The second part of the paper offers an analysis of the poem. In particular, it examines the concept of the futility of the individual when compared to the collective good of society, as shown in the context of man versus nature.

From the Paper
"Wordsworth overwhelms us with collective images in stanza 2, relating the daffodils to stars, describing them as stretching "in never-ending line" (9) and also expressing that he sees "ten thousand ... at a glance" (11). In the last line of stanza 1 he personifies the daffodils to be "fluttering and dancing in the breeze" (6). We can elaborate on Wordsworth's many collective images through this line. Frequently, communities or groups of people have trouble working together, but through Wordsworth's personification of the daffodils, also seen in line 12 where the daffodils are "tossing their heads in sprightly dance," (12) we recognize that the daffodils are working together in unison with no trouble at all. Their "dance" is in complete coordination."

Tags:figurative, imagery, nature, personification

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This essay analyses the way T. S. Eliot expresses his view on modern urban life and his feelings of social classes and society using what seems to be simple imagery with a more complex underlying meaning to them. It examines how the series of poems in "Preludes" (I, II, III, IV) offer a more detailed exploration of the poem, showing how modern city life and its dwellers are void of spirituality and meaning.

From the Paper
"The adjective of "smoky" suggests a lack of vision and emphasizes the feeling of loss of vitality together with the presence of urban squalor. Eliot joins images of decadence and disintegration with images that we usually associate with the modern urban surroundings, such as "steaks" and "cigarettes". He places these ordinary images onto a context that suggests a criticism of the modern world and lifestyle, which he emphasizes with images of dirt and decay, such as "The grimy scraps". The image of "withered leaves" again point to the winter motif, creating a clear picture of death and decline. Eliot is not only referring to leaves here, but uses this image, through association, to connect to the general idea of loss of meaning in the modern urban world, exposing a world that is falling apart."

Tags:cities, class, urban

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This paper begins with information about the poet Arthur Lord Tennyson and outlines his other works. It then goes into a detailed analysis (almost line by line) of 'The lady of Shalott' and looks closely at poetic technique and language using the relevant terms. It looks at the themes that occur within the poem and how the language and poetic techniques such as imagery help to convey the themes. The writer also includes some relevant quotes.

From the Paper
"Alfred Lord Tennyson was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire on August 6, 1809. It was his father, Reverend George Tennyson, who initially educated him and recognized his poetic abilities, whilst he was still in his early teens. Tennyson wrote, The Devil and the Lady, when he was just fourteen. The atmosphere in which Tennyson was raised was one of bitterness and relative poverty. Tennyson lived an extremely troubled life; the death of his friend Arthur Hallam shocked him most profoundly. This grief led to most of his best poetry being written, including In Memoriam. It was the success of this and other poems that led to him being appointed as Poet Laureate in 1850. He was finally established as the most popular poet of the Victorian era and wrote more than a hundred poems before his death in October 1892. In this essay I intend to look closely at his poem The Lady of Shalott."

Tags:analysis, imagery, literature, poetry, romance, romantics, technique, themes

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The paper compares the two poets and notes the major differences in their styles, focusing on length of poems, tension within the poems, meter and syntax. The paper also examines the similarities the two poets shared, most notable of which was that both invented their own form of verse and the fact that they were both not too popular with publishers because of the content of their poetry.

From the Paper
"The styles of both Whitman and Dickinson are completely different, the style of the poet can also define how much tension a poem contains. Dickinson's own idiosyncratic style simply lends itself to tensions. Her lines are almost always short and she uses syntax in a very specific way which helps to build up the tensions in her work, which does often prove as Gelpi points out to be the coherence of it. Whereas Whitman's style is free verse and his lines are often as long as her wants them to be, they don't have the same tensions as Dickinson's simply down to the way they were written."

Tags:grass, leaves, gelpi, song, of, myself, gun