Analyse the poems and how they reflect the time they are written in The poem ‘The Rear-Guard” has been written by Siegfried Sassoon in 1917 during the time when Word War 1 was going on. He was provoked to write this poem because he was unhappy of the effect it had on soldiers. The poem ‘The Solitary Reaper’ on the other hand, has been written during the romantic era by William Wordsworth in 1803. It is a poem about how Wordsworth is affected by a song sung by a woman reaping grain by herself in
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authors have the ability to convey their view of a place without actually saying it, to portray a landscape in a certain light simply by describing it. In the opening paragraphs of In Cold Blood, Truman Capote does just this. Through his use of stylistic elements such as selection of detail, imagery, and figurative language, Capote reveals his own solemn and mysterious view of Holcomb, Kansas, while setting the stage for an imminent change. Beginning in the first line of the passage, Capote selects
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Texts 1 and 2 are two different types of texts directed to different audiences and written with different purposes. Text 1 is a poem that shows on a personal level what the poet feels her experience of growing older will be. However, text 2 is an extract from an essay that tells the reader how “the view from 80” looks like. Even though both texts are different, they share the same topic, growing old. It can be easily seen that both texts have different structures starting because text 1 is a poem
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Antoine Watteau's painting, L'Indifferent, 1716, oil on canvas, 25cm x 18cm and Eugene Delacroix's Paganini, 1831, oil on cardboard on wood panel, approx. 43cm x 28cm have been selected to represent the Rococo and Romanticism periods respectively. Rococo was a style of art that followed on from the Baroque period in the early 18th century. The artists of this style typically depicted themes of "love, artfully and archly pursued through erotic frivolity and playful intrigue". 1 Both the art and
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1933 to the late 1940s, Billie Holiday sang of the heartaches and miseries African Americans faced and gave them a voice. Ms. Holiday, despite being taken over by her drug and alcohol addiction, was a prominent voice in the jazz industry due to her stylistic choices and unique voice. Billie Holiday, born Eleanora Fagan, was born on April 7, 1915 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was mainly raised by her young mother, Sarah Julia Fagan. Her father, although not present in her life, was believed to be
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Titus Flavius Josephus was an ethnic Hebrew man, a soldier, a husband many, many times as well as a historian. Because he was a historian he was able to attain knowledge pertaining to different sects in Judaism. This ability allowed him to choose to be a Pharisee. His opinion may have been that he was against the war between the Romans and Jews but it did not change the fact that he became the commander of Galilee. In essence, he fought the Romans between the years of 66 A.D and 73 A.D as not
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“There are many different voices created by McEwan in ‘Atonement’. The language a character uses can tell us more about their personality than can be demonstrated in other ways.” How far and in what ways does your chosen passage from ‘Atonement’ support this assertion? (pages 50-52) In Ian McEwan’s novel ‘Atonement’, each character has been given a different style of language and voicing, which gives the reader a more in depth understanding of the character traits, allowing a larger window for
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the exposition, because you get to know the tragedy in the beginning but you have to experience the end first by reading the book. The change between the characters narrative enhances the way Morrison structered her story. Another very important stylistic aspect is the change in the character narratives which changes from 3rd person omniscent to a lot of first persons of Cholly, Paulina, Pecola and Claudia. While it could be perceived as bemusing, it is definitely an exciting way of experiencing the
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Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was born in London to parents who were members of the court of Queen Elizabeth I. He attended Trinity College, entered the practice of law in his late teens, and became a member of the House of Commons at the age of 23. His career flourished under King James I, but later scandals ended his life as a politician. A philosopher/scientist by nature and one of the most admired thinkers of his day, Bacon was a founder of the modern empirical tradition based on closely observing
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Exhibition Report The piece of work I have chosen to analyze is an ancient West African water vessel, which is part of the University of Iowa Museum of Art’s collection currently featured in the Richey Ballroom. Because the piece is ancient and pottery has, until very recently, been held in very low esteem in comparison to other mediums the artist is unknown. The piece is approximately a foot in height; the diameter of the body of the piece is six inches tapering off to about an inch at the neck
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