Historical Figures Essay Examples

During the Victorian era, there was significant transformation as a result of the industrial revolution. Urban areas rapidly expanded, causing an influx of rural residents seeking employment in factories and mills to escape impoverishment in the countryside. The disappearance of the countryside was a fast-paced development that caused writers like John Keats, Gerard Manley Hopkins, […]

A lot of Romantic era poets wrote about change, the change from misery to happiness. Many wrote about there sadness and problems they had but then spoke of what could help them become happier such as another person, an object, nature or even just song. “London 1802” by William Wordsworth “Ode to a Nightingale” by […]

Although written over 80 years apart, the ballads “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” and “A Trampwoman’s Tragedy” share similarities. Both convey a vague sense of love and possible death, with a dreamy or illusory tone and innocent main characters. “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” was written by John Keats on April 21, 1819 as a […]

In my essay, I want to discuss the different aspects of love, which are presented by several of the Romantic poets who wrote during this period of great poetic creativity. I am going to discuss how one group of poets saw love as a pleasant experience, whilst the other group of poets see love as […]

In this piece, I will discuss how love can be a painful encounter for certain individuals, using “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” and “Bredon Hill” as examples. These two poems illustrate distinct aspects of love: one explores the physical repercussions of love, while the other showcases the emotional aftermath of love. I will begin by […]

Predominantly found in Keats’ poetry, there are noticeable contrasting relationships between reality and ideals, rationality and imagination, as well as physical sensations and logical reasoning. Keats experienced a pronounced dichotomy between the allure of aesthetic beauty and physical sensation versus intellectual clarity and reason. For Keats, genuine perception involved pure sensation devoid of mental limitations. […]

O golden-tongued Romance with calm luting! Fair plumed Syren! Queen of far off! Leave melodizing on this wintry twenty-four hours. Shut up thine olden pages, and be deaf-and-dumb person: Adieu! for one time once more the ferocious difference. Betwixt damnation and impassion’d clay Must I burn through ; one time more meekly assay The bitter-sweet […]

John Keats’s poetry was greatly influenced by the Romantic Period and the Romantics, appreciation and exaggeration of nature’s beauty. Keats’s believed that the deepest meaning of life lay in the appreciation of material beauty, and that this beauty could be found in many different objects. He expresses this idea through the form of poetry. ‘To […]

“When I Have Fears” by John Keats and “Mezzo Cammin1” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow can both be seen as poems written to show that death is inevitably drawing nearer. In both poems, symbols and diction are used to help the reader contrast the two separate works, and through these techniques, these two men elucidate on […]

Ode on a Grecian Urn was inspired by a collection of Greek sculpture which Keats saw in the museum. Partly, perhaps, the inspiration for the poem was derived from a marble urn which belonged to Lord Holland. In giving us the imagery of the carvings on the urn, Keats was not thinking of a single […]

When I have fears that I may cease to be, by John Keats, portrays the poet’s fear of dying young and being unable to fulfill his ideal as a writer and loses his beloved. Based on the use of sensuous imagery, it is clear that visual image dominates the use of imagery and there are […]

Keats uses many methods to tell the story in his poem ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci. The story is first hinted at in the title, which translates as ‘The beautiful woman without mercy. For those who know of Keats’ background, it is easy to associate this poem with his instinctive distrust of women. Keats’ mother […]

Eternity and immortality are phrases to which it is impossible for us to annex any distinct ideas, and the more we attempt to explain them, the more we shall find ourselves involved in contradiction – Wiiliam Godwin, Political Injustice. The writers of the Romantic period found in immortality a topic which was not only of […]

Individualism, Balance and Nature Hannah Costley Veering away from the conventional attitude, fuelled by ideas of individualism and political liberty, authors, poets, intellects and playwrights played a part in the Romantic Movement of 1790-1860. Influenced by the French Revolution and the works of Jean Jacques Rousseau and William Godwin, intellectuals and artists strove to breakaway […]

Hobbes and Locke were both natural law theorists and social contract theorist, but their views on social contract differed. First, according to Locke, people give up their own rights with the main objective of exacting retributions for their own crimes so that they can get impartial justice that is backed by overwhelming forces. Therefore, people […]

Doomed Youth? “Dulce et decorum est pro Patria mori”. A noble sentiment, taken from a poem by Horace, and one which was taken as a veritable truth by virtually every man, woman and child in the early years of twentieth century Britain. The memories of Britain’s last conflict, the Boer War, had faded. Victoria’s reign […]

The portrayals of violence and horror in Siegfried Sassoon’s “Survivors” and Wilfred Owen’s “The Dead-Beat” showcase both similarities and differences stemming from the influence of Sassoon’s poetry on Owen’s work. The title “Survivors” itself suggests the tragedy of World War I that the soldiers fought through, and highlights their resilience as well as the potentially […]

People wrote poetry in the war because they wanted people to think that war was a good thing and that if you went you would be rewarded when you came back. They also wrote it because there was no Television and Radios so poetry was the way people got their ideas across. The attitude of […]

By comparing and contrasting a selection of war poems consider the ways in which attitudes to war have been explored and expressed. When considering poetry written post 1900 concentrate on a selection of poems by Wilfred Owen. In order to investigate the development of war poetry, I decided to begin with one of the most […]

In many sources the artillery had not broken the barbed wire and when the soldiers had to go over the top they couldn’t get past the barbed wire and the German machine guns cut them to ribbons. Craig mare says this and I think that his source is unbiased as it was after the war […]

During the First World War it is estimated that a total of 10 million people were killed and twice that number were wounded. The war lasted from 1914 to 1918. The war was fought between Britain and her allies and Germany and her allies. Most of the fighting took place in France and Belgium. At […]

The two poems, which I have chosen, are, “In Flanders Fields” by John McCrae, and “Suicide in the Trenches” by Siegfried Sassoon. The poems take opposing views to the war. “In Flanders Fields” we find McCrae taking a positive, almost religious and very sensitive view about the outcome of war. Whilst in comparison, in “Suicide […]