A Soft Wind Blows Near
Rounding the Bend through the Trees
Whistling a Tune
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In both ‘A Valediction: of Weeping’ and ‘A Valediction: forbidding mourning’ Donne is taking leave of a lover, but while having many similarities characteristic of Metaphysical poetry, the poems convey very different moods. ‘A Valediction: of Weeping’ is a passionate plea, while ‘A Valediction: forbidding mourning’ is a gentle confident persuasion.
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In his religious verse John Donne (1572-1631) used the same techniques he had developed in his love poetry. In this article I shall examine two of his religious poems, ‘Holy Sonnet (Batter my Heart)’, and ‘A Hymn to God the Father.’
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Thomas’s style of verse employs free association and musical concatenations. It sounds musical, but is this its sole effect as word music where sense is secondary to euphonic syntax? Philip Larkin disapproved of Thomas’s style because he felt the verse was too personalised and lacked communicative force
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William Shakespeare was an English poet, dramatist and actor, bynamed Bard of Avon. He is considered by many to be the greatest dramatist of all time and is called the English national poet.
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The War Poets did not come to treat war in the grand and glorious manner of Brooke, who was ignorant of the matter beyond the Iliad, and their verses gained more attention during the course of the war - in several cases after their deaths.
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Seamus Heaney was the son of a farmer who worked 50 hectares of land and kept cattle. His mother was an Ulsterwoman who never stopped talking while his father rarely spoke. So, early in life, Seamus Heaney found himself stood between speech and silence.
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Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) and Ezra Pound (1885-1872) were two Americans who lived in Europe and altered the manner and form of English poetry. Pound urged a conscious modernization of verse, and, in Eliot he believed he found a poet who had modernized himself already
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Edward J. Hughes grew up in Yorkshire where the bleak moorland and its wildlife provided a backdrop to many of his poems.
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John Donne (1572-1631) established what has become known as the Metaphysical style of poetry which was taken up by later poets such as George Herbert (1593-1633) and Henry Vaughan (1622-95).
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