Apart from displaying the speaker's wish for death, the poem also underlines her wish to be a man. ... In the poem "Goblin Market" we find Laura being tempted by the fruits of Goblins. ... The poem "In an Artist's Studio" examines the tendency of men to objectify women in art and the way that women are shown to suffer as a result. ... The poem presents us with a male artist who has one beautiful muse who is subject of all his paintings. ... In the poem "Goblin Market" the cautionary example of Jeanie's death shows the fate of women deprived of the support of sisterhood...

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However, Tennyson's oevre is too large to encompass every single poem poem of his. Thus, I will focus on one his early poem "The Lady of Shalott", considered as "art poem",which provides an insight into Tennyson's ideas on the figure of poet by portraying an isolated artist-like figure in conflict with society, in other words which represents best the charactersistics of Tennyson's artist-figures and Tennyson's internal struggle between "social responsibility" and "artistic detatchment"(alaya). ... (Arnold, "Preface to Poems&...

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The poems in this fairy tale that were so wittingly re-written by Charles both captured the child's imagination as well as had them rolling on the ground with laughter. The beginning poem "All in a Golden Afternoon", as well as " You are Old Father William" and "How Doth the Little Crocodile" were good examples of this. The first poem, "All in a Golden Afternoon" tells how the story came to be. ... The second poem, "How doth the little crocodile" is in fact a parody by Charles of Issac Watt's "Against Idleness and Mischeif". ... "You are old, father William" is another exa...

• Word Count: 1865
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• Grade Level: High School

1. How effectively does Possession by A.S Byatt reflect and/or challenge the dominant ways of thinking of the time in which it was composed? The year 1990 saw the publication of A.S Byatt's Possession-A Romance. Composed during a time where the dominant discourse in literature, academia, architec...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Victorian Period (1870 v/s 1900) The Victorian age can be described as the age of transition, which by definition has a dual aspect when change is revolutionary: destruction and reconstruction. The Victorians recognised that they were breaking down the systems of: Christian orthodoxy under the rule of the church, civil government under the rule of the king and nobility, the social structure of fixed classes, each with its recognised rights and duties and the economic organisation. That was "the old European system of dominant ideas and facts" which Arnold saw dissolving in the 19th Centu...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate