... This years theme is journeys, and in particular, imaginative journeys. As well as local artists we have some of Joseph Turner's fine masterpieces from the Vortex series. A journey is undertaken for personal gain, whether it is to physically travel to a different place or to obtain a better understanding of your surroundings and yourself. The imaginative journey picks up where the physical journey ends ... . It allows this exploration to continue further. It is the source of all ideas and lies beyond the restrictions of the physical realm. By journeying into the imagination is to surpass ...

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... and leech-like such as in the line "rulers, who neither see, nor fell, nor know." The exploited and abused the working class for their own personal gain. "A people starved and stabbed" is an example of how language in the poem is used to show the abuse. The parliament ... in society, derived from inheritance would have been seen as traditional and conventional to them and they would have rejected these kinds of ideas as they were attacking their position in society. They would have seen their role in society to be stabilizing whereas republicans would have ... 18th century London as a...

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• Grade Level: High School