Essays about: "English poets"

Found 3 essays containing the words English poets.

  1. 1. Re-imagining the World Through Popular Poetry Set in Motion by the Ultimate Signalling Officer Alan Alexander Milne

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Anja Skogberg Lundin; [2023]
    Keywords : 20th Century war-poets; Alan Alexander Milne; Winnie-the-pooh; The Great War; soldiers; pacifism;

    Abstract : Alan Alexander Milne’s authorship was never limited to being the author of the very beloved teddy-bear, far from it. In addition to being a successful playwrite and editing Punch, Milne also wrote several poetry collections which all have been out of print since the 1940s in the entire English-speaking world. READ MORE

  3. 2. Red English: Duality and Representation in Contemporary Native American Poetics

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

    Author : Jennifer Ellen Hall; [2019]
    Keywords : Native American; Poetry; Contemporary Poetry; Post-Colonialism; Tommy Pico; Layli Long Soldier; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis explores representations of duality across the work of contemporary Native American poets. Through the use of several analytic methods and postcolonial theories, this thesis will analyse representations of language, place, and identity, and argue that they are constructed in the border between Native American and American consciousness. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Poet as Hero : A Study of the Clash Between the Hero and the First World War in British Trench Poetry, and Its Use in the Swedish School System Within the Subject of English.

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Carl Olsson; [2018]
    Keywords : The Great War; The First World War; First World War Poetry; The hero in the First World War; Siegfried Sassoon; Wilfred Owen; Rupert Brooke; Trench Poetry; Poetry; First World War poetry in the Swedish education system; Heroes; Heroism; The hero in poetry; The hero as weapon; New Historicism; Critical Literature Pedagogy.;

    Abstract : This thesis studies the clash between the hero and the First World War in the works of Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. It explores the impact on their poetry and attitude towards the concept of the hero as it applied to them as people and poets. READ MORE