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Oral traditions in African poetry
... those that had to do with superstitions and religious beliefs that ... beliefs that did not correspond with western principles. Concepts like reincarnation were frowned upon heavily by the European missionaries seeking to change the religious beliefs ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Poetry
"Romantic Poetry is essentially a reading in history." Discuss in 1500 words with reference to any two poems by the Romantic poets, Wordsworth, Shelley and Blake.
... turn of the eighteenth century whose work demonstrated such a belief that life could be lived by ideals rather than rules. Romantic ... through his beliefs about the 'figure of the poet', which he sees it as someone who embodies 'truth', and that the poet ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Poetry
The poetry of Judith Wright
... belief that the Anglo-Saxon population has a secret agenda. The fifth stanza is exceptionally powerful, making rather cutting remarks about the beliefs ... this message. The persona makes clear her belief that the Aboriginal people of Australia are looked ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Poetry
Anne Sexton
... is the false belief that women only care about their outer appearance or physical beauty. It is said that the stepmother refers ... that she intends to tell the fairy tales in a nonconventional way. Moreover, "according to a currently common feminist belief, ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Poetry
George Herbert's Easter Wings and E.E. Cummings in Just-as Innovative Examples of Concrete Poetry
... is the Christian belief that humans were born into the paradise of the Garden of Eden, that they sinned, and that because of this ... the Christian belief that after Christ had been crucified, he rose from the dead three days later. The poet asks that he may ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Poetry
In speaking for those who have no means of speaking, Bruce Dawe has succeeded in writing poetry that has universal appeal.
... emotions and beliefs like any other living human being which further evokes the reader's pity for the persona. He argues that his ... a pregnancy or any institution that is pro-abortion. The fact that the unborn foetus is ashamed to feel that he is a part ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Poetry
The Immigrant Chronicles
... uses the metaphor of time to portray to the responder his belief that there is not enough time to explore and to see ... poem in historical, social and political context. He effectively describes that the refugees are fleeing from communism and war-torn ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Poetry
How can Philip Larkin's poetry be used to address the marginal or neglected?
... it. In the third stanza he expresses the fairly naïve belief that nature is stronger and more resilient than man and it will ... meant her face and voice (ll.2-3), and that it was of her that these two words were used (l.7), being applicable ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Poetry
Anlysis of Karen Press's The Words That Rise to the Surface
... to question the futility of even voicing our beliefs in an authoritarian state like that of the Apartheid regime? The author is ... that float lazily to the surface as and could the author be challenging us to question the futility of even voicing our beliefs ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Poetry
Poetry Analysis: Sylvia Plath & Robert Hayden
... fact that he acknowledged this and made the effort not to witness it leads to the belief that he was a disciplinarian that was ... the belief that he was a disciplinarian that was very involved in his children's lives. This alone is a strong indication that he ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Poetry