The present study is a triumph to bring forth the delineation of ideas and impacts of childhood reminiscences and experiences of migration on the poetic stance of an Irish poet Seamus Heaney and a Kashmiri originated American poet Agha Shahid Ali. Seamus Heaney and Agha Shahid Ali belong to culturally, linguistically and geographically different nations, in their works some common themes are found, like they have dealt with the themes of the problems of common people and they have also focused on the miseries and sufferings of a common man because of failure of political setup. Though these themes are very dominant in the works of both these poets, but there is another issue which deserves attention in the works of both these poets and that …show more content…
Seamus Heaney was boarding at St. Columb’s College in Londonderry on a scholarship. Here he had a very good English teacher and began to love reading, absorbing diverse material, from comic books to great literature. While as Agha Shahid Ali studied in Burris School in Muncie, Indiana. The Burris School is affiliated to Ball State University where Ali's father was earning the first Doctorate ever granted by Ball State University as well as the first Doctorate in Education by a Kashmiri. From 1957 until 1961 Heaney studied at Queen’s University in Belfast. It was here that he was impressed by the work of Robert Frost and Ted Hughes and so started writing his own poetry, some of which was published in the school’s literary magazine. He received a degree in English language and literature with first-class honors and moved on to post-graduate work and attaining a teacher’s certificate at St. Joseph’s College of Education in Belfast. Ali studied for a B. A. in the Humanities (1968) at the University of Kashmir; he then went to the University of Delhi for a Master's Degree (1970) in English literature and taught there until 1975. Heaney also taught at St. Thomas’ Secondary school in Belfast in 1962 and was lecturer in English at St. Joseph’s college. From 1961 to 1962, Heaney gained a more extensive understanding of English literature and made his first true venture into …show more content…
While some reviewers criticised Heaney for being an apologist and mythologiser, Morrison suggested that Heaney would never reduce political situations to false simple clarity, and never thought his role should be as a political spokesman. The author "has written poems directly about the Troubles as well as elegies for friends and acquaintances who have died in them; he has tried to discover a historical framework in which to interpret the current unrest; and he has taken on the mantle of public spokesman, someone looked to for comment and guidance," (Morrison 32). "Yet he has also shown signs of deeply resenting this role, defending the right of poets to be private and apolitical, and questioning the extent to which poetry, however 'committed,' can influence the course of history”
Could you imagine living in a place that was under constant warfare? This was the reality author Rawan Yaghi wrote of in her personal narrative From Beneath. In the article What’s the Environmental Impact of War by Karl Mathiesen he uses facts and statistics to inform readers of the extreme negative effects war has on the environment. In the personal narrative, From Benath by Rawan Yaghi, she writes about her first time experiencing a bombing while living in the Gaza strip a Palestinian territory that experiences violence due to the war between Isreal and Palestine.
The structure of AGMIHTF by Flannery O'Connor is interesting and is a good place to start the discussion. It is divided into two different parts. The boundary between the first and second part is when the group has their accident. As this is the moment when the trip suddenly becomes extremely unpleasant, it is a significant event that creates a sharp difference in the tone and the mood of the story. In the first part, the focus is mainly on the family and the personalities of everyone in the family.
Artie attended Union high school but his poor grades made him join Summer School to graduate. He was arrested for committing robbery in a bank in 1985. He
Later he attended the college of the city of New York at the age of 14. He wrote short fiction novels for magazines to help pay for college. After Graduating in 1897 he went Columbia University to study law. He supported himself while attending this university by writing for adventure-story magazines. He moved to Quebec in 1900 and spent a lot of his life writing.
Arthur came from Delano Island, which is located between Vancouver Island and mainland British Columbia. It is a small island with only one elementary school with sixty students. He stays there until being admitted into the University of Toronto. “The point of coming to this city wasn’t school, he decides, school was just his method of escape” (Mandel 74). He regards schooling as a method to leave the island on which he lives.
In any given speech, or piece of literature for that matter, there is a certain amount of pathos, logos, and ethos used by the author, a technique that people like to call the “Rhetorical Triangle”. In the thought provoking speech: “Tide of Voices: Why Poetry Matters Now”, the speaker spectacularly uses these tactics to prove the validity, importance, and beauty of poetry. Mark Doty, the author, is a recognized American poet, who was the winner of the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008. This accomplishment on its own establishes ethos, a form of trust and credibility. Obviously, a poet defending poetry is as expected as a mathematician defending mathematics, but still, the reliability and status is there.
Growing Up Young Loss of innocence is when one is unaware of evil surrounding them especially in children of a young age. Saul remembers his traumatic past experiences and feels better when he talks it through with someone. In the novel, Indian Horse, by Richard Wagamese, Saul is stripped of his innocence, which in turn makes him more violent and causes him to turn to alcohol to cope with and escape from his troubles. Loss of innocence at a young age can forcibly take away one’s dreams, ultimately leading to a life of negativity. Hockey was the only source Saul was able to rely on, but with all the racism and his traumatic past, he is unable to pursue his passion for hockey.
He didn't start schooling till around the age of 11, but excelled in his classes to catch up with the other kids his age. Sinclair started writing while still attending school. He wrote jokes and puzzles that were placed in children's magazines. The income he received from this allowed him to get his own apartment. He attended the City College of New York where he studied law.
To help his mother he worked in a factory after school to bring in extra income. Despite working he maintained high grades and remained top of his class and also found time to publish his first story in the community newspaper. When DuBois turned 15 he become the first African American to graduate from Great Barrington High. DuBois started his path of greatness at young and continued it when he attended Frisk University in Nashville. Tennessee on a partial scholarship.
An of the comparison rabbi Eliahu and His Son with Eli and His Father In the book, “Night” Rabbi Eliahu loved his father just as Eli love his father. No matter what was happening, their relationship’s were really strong. Their relationships weren 't that similar. Each father and son had their own struggles.
His parents were believed to be a dentist and the other an educator-turned-casino worker. He attended Verona-Verona-Sherrill Central School, where he was a part of many different extracurricular activities. These include bowling team, youth court and history club, and a member of the National Honors Society. Skip a few years into his adulthood; he decides to attend a University at Albany. He was able to get his bachelor’s degree in
Donald Bruce Dawe’s literature makes society cognisant on the painful realities that are of the raw and dehumanising truth that plague this world. Donald Bruce Dawe, an Australian poet. His literature is predicated unto the dehumanising and defamatory experiences that he, the inditer himself had experienced through his time in the army, the RAAF. Though his literature, he conveys an opinionated point-of-view, urging the audience to optically discern the exploited and flawed practices of the regime. It is the truth obnubilated from society by propaganda and word of mouth, Dawe pushes the theme time and time again that authenticity is a painful experience, and that war is erroneous, wasteful, dehumanising.
In Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, individual freedom is controlled by the use of recreational drugs, genetic manipulation and the encouragement of promiscuous sexual conduct, creating the ideal society whose inhabitants are in a constant happy unchanging utopia. In sharp contrast, Seamus Heaney’s poetry allows for the exploration of individual freedom through his symbolic use of nature and this is emphasised even further by people’s expression of religion, which prevails over the horrors of warfare. Huxley’s incorporation of the totalitarian ruler Mustapha Mond exemplifies the power that World State officials have over individuals within this envisioned society. “Almost nobody.
After completing his junior education in two years, he moved to Healdtown, a strict Methodist college in Fort Beaufort and left to get a higher education at the University of Fort Hare ( the first South Africa’s College for black Africans ) and studies for bachelor of arts degree but he didn’t complete his degree there because he was expelled for against
The poem Two Lorries was written by Seamus Heaney an Irish poet born in Northern Ireland, precisely in County Derry, on April 13, 1939. He was one of the most remarkable authors of that time, which dealt with topics of violence and social issues as well as nature and Ireland history, which demonstrates the variety of his work. Heaney was awarded with a Nobel Prize in the field of literature, by 1995 since his work was of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past. Seamus marked study on the role of sorrow in Ireland’s political atmosphere during the Troubles; a meditation on the personal effect of the Troubles on the citizen population, and should be read as the physical death of human life, the death of Ireland’s pastoral innocence, and the death of childhood to the abrupt nature of violence. By the time he was 74 he died on the 30 of August in Dublin.