... poetry cannot really influence things. Auden's own departure from England to America to some extent symbolised this change of attitude from commitment to withdrawal. SCOTTISH AND WELSH POETRY Scottish literature has always been polyglot: the linguistic influences of the Highlands, the Lowlands, Norway, England, France, and Rome have all shaped the language, thought and style of Scottish ... theatrical conventions with poetic diction rather less comfortably. In the 1930s, the poet W.H. Auden also contributed to several plays, usually on political themes and in collaboration with the noveli...

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Different authors use various figures of speech to present their characters in plays or poems. For actors, figures of speech usually help to determine the most prominent traits of characters. The first part one of this paper analyzes the character of Doctor Faustus who is the protagonist of Marlowe's play who was overwhelmed with the desire to possess power and the presentation of the character as a pure villain in the play. This will be compared with the character and the figure of Richard III in the eponymous play by William Shakespeare, while identifying the significance of his figure in re...

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... is discussed in Al Strangeways essay "The Boot in the Face: The Problem of the Holocaust in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath."" The escape to freedom is one of the themes in the poem "the female figure's adoration of the Fascist is an extreme result of a stereotypically feminine escape from the feelings of aloneness associated with freedom, through masochistic strivings- (Strangeways ... God, and in so doing became Satan, as a man with a will to power who drank blood, as a man who loved purity and order more than humanity, as a remote man of science who, like Lucifer, thought he alone had the...

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