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of the Times Every once in a while someone with an exceptional mind is born. Unfortunately, sometimes that person is plagued with poverty and sickness and is unable to perform at their fullest. That was the case for Samuel Coleridge. Throughout…

of his personal life" A person is merely a product of the environment in which they are brought up. This is the strongest influence a person can experience and it shapes them throughout their life. Yeats lived in one of the most turbulent periods…

and continue this full description throughout the poem giving you a very clear image of the sights, sounds and smells described. The very first lines of each poem show this rich flavour and very much give you the idea that the poems are about nature.…

on May 21, 1688 into a Roman Catholic family. He was a satirical poet whose great talent was that he could crystallise the plain man's thoughts into memorable verse and could express thoughts of the subtlest ingenuity. At a young age he was infected…

poem "The precipice" and Gwen Harwood's "The spelling prize", all three texts describe an individual's uniqueness and difference, both physical and mental - Zein's physical awkwardness; the woman in "The precipice" commits suicide who has emotional…

or state, where everyone lives in harmony and everything is for the best (Utopia). In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, the world that Guy Montag lives in is an anti-utopian or a seemingly perfect place (Anti- utopian). Ray Bradbury tells of a society…

is as fascinating and complex as her literary works. The comparison is significant because several of Kay's pieces spring from her biography and they are all concerned with the intricate nature of identity. Kay's father was a black Nigerian visiting…

W.B Yeats retells the Greek myth of Leda's rape by Zeus, as he uses diction to emphasize the divinity of Zeus, and the helplessness of Leda. Most of the words used to identify Leda describe her physical aspects with helpless connotations, such as…

when comparing their lives and poems. They are both Anglo Welsh and are equally concerned about landscape and their surroundings. The two poets have written about nature and the environment. They were both born in Cardiff and are equally…

century. This provides us with an idea that the poem that was written during a time when the society was in the process of converting from paganism to Christianity. When cultures are converting to a new lifestyle, such as Christianity, there are always…