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Hi Michael,
It is true that Yeats was very dismissive of war poetry and it is unlikely that he would have taken inspiration from this poem. From a stylistic viewpoint, the major...

Hi Oniw17,
the metre is called tetrameter, i.e. four feet of stressed and unstressed syllables per line, but there the form would depend on other aspects, such as the number of lines per stanza...

i would suggest catch 22 is under-rated although already very popular since, if the english canon is about the universality of texts, then catch 22 carries a universal message that is portrayed in a...

i think ya might be waiting...

To what extent can King Lear be said to follow the Bible in its presentation of resurrection?

would it be a moniker that you are thinking of???

im sorry if i gave you this impression, as I was actually looking through the pages and I seen several people doing it so no I shall not blame you lol...

yes the lion the witch and the wardrobe is a brilliant book- first captured my imagination in primary school and has never let go...hopefully it never will...

i disagree that non-classicism is, at the very least, associated with romanticism. these people may be romantics but i cannot accept they are for this reason, or else romanticism could be said to...

the raven by edgar allen poe- the tightness of the rhythm is beyond perfection-anybody disagree? am in the mood for a debate...

bartleby by herman melville have u read it?

ok well if we leave behind the stereotypical notion of what Romanticism is and forget about the dates and all the rest, and simply apply your definition of going against non-classicism, i can see how...

do you realise that you r now gonna b swaped with suggestion??? for my part i recommend 1984

out of interest I would like to hear your definition of Romanticism if you are able to include yeats, Poe and Whitman in as they seem to me to be three fairly different poets in terms of their...

your last point seems to be very closely related to what certain large governments of today, which cannot be named due to the restrictions on the board (but hint hint i think i heard somewhere they...

lol, sorry, my mistake, i meant to say hamlet lol- apologies...

Anybody notice that a lot of the material being quoted are not even novels but poems and plays such as les miserables and paradise lost. i move to propose that the list be kept solely to novels and...

You could write something about the views the military have on the psyhcological impact on Yossarian in the book...

Mobius 1, despite the obvious love of yourself, I think it is very easy to read Heart of Darkness in a post-colonial way and particularly how it condems the actions of colonists. The Company...

It really depends on whether or not you are talking about modern poetry or modernism. The characteristics you outlined are those of modernism, but Modern poetry is not modernism, nor is it...

Don't know if anyone here is familiar with his work, particularly his bog poems. Anyways, was interested in whether anybody considered how bog poems as an apology for the troubles in Northern Ireland...

You Can't go far wrong with 'Great Expectations'. I recommend that if you like it then read more of his works.

no. because they have the vain hope that these poems of theirs will one day get discovered leading to publication, fame and money.



ooops, wrong again. bad luck. wasnt actually talking about...

ok, may as well start at the top, Aiculik. trying to find the best means, or form, if you will, for your expression is a distinctly modernist/post-modernist idea that reacts against the norms of...

Aiculik- I could not disagree with you more. No offence but the real poet doesnt write in the form of symbols and metaphors but speaks from the heart, trying to express in words his feelings so that...