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…published Poems by Two Brothers in 1827 and each won university prizes for poetry (Alfred winning the Chancellor's Gold Medal in 1828 for ÒTimbuctooÓ) the Tennyson brothers became well known at Cambridge. In 1829 The Apostles, an undergraduate club, whose…

…In the poem "I Never Saw A Moor--," Emily Dickenson uses her rendition of the beach to portray her faith in God. There are two refrains in her short poem. The first is about her unfamiliarity with the beach and the second explicates her certitude…

…The Idea of Male Power vs. Female Powerlessness in “The Young Housewife” “The Young Housewife” is a poem by William Carlos Williams that deals with many issues. One of the main issues that this poem deals with is the conflict between male power…

…LYING When a married couple lays down to fall asleep, conversation usually occurs. The situation is never thought about, it just happens. Philip Larkin wrote a poem titled “Talking In Bed”, in this poem he is writing about the very situation…

…Ourselves to Death, Postman makes an excellent observation. He states “Can you imagine a modern economist articulating truths about our standard of living by reciting a poem?” Writing a poem Postman states “would be irrelevant… Yet these forms of language…

…In both the poem Beowulf and the novel Grendel address the issue of fate versus free will. The primary belief expressed in the poem Beowulf was fate (between those two), I also thought it also expressed never to give up and always have your head up…

…Federico Garcia Lorca, one of Spain's greatest modern poet and playwright, was born June 5, 1898 at Fuente Vaqueros in the Spanish province of Granada. He began writing poems in his late teens, reciting many of them in the local cafes. In 1919 he left…

…A poem that begins with ellipsis' and continues with a volta at each new stanza, a poem that in the second line verbs (unworlding), easily holds the interest, if not grabbing it by the throat. Austin Clarke, creates such vivid atmosphere, and gives…

…In William Wordworth’s poem “We Are Seven” we see Wordsworth asking a little girl about her siblings. The little girl says that there are seven of them, including two that are dead. Wordsworth tries to persuade the little girl that her two deceased…

…of personal content through love and loss in her Poems: “In Reference to my children 23, June 1659,” “A letter to her husband absent upon public employment”, and “Upon the Burning of our House July 10th 1666”. Anne Bradstreet showed a personal side, one which…