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As illustrated in Peter Jerkiness’s Immigrant Chronicle poetry, having a strong sense of self-knowledge & understanding – and a deep connection to one’s own culture, beliefs and values – develops a feeling of belonging to and knowing one’s self, and in turn, a strong sense of belonging to humanity. ‘Feline Crooknecks’, ‘SST Patriot’s College’ and…

    Since in this view, societal “needs” are mediated by individual agents – responding, holding attitudes, and acting – such a need fulfillment theory reduces to a psychological one. Every important custom has its pragmatic or emotional value for some members of the society, or else it falls into disuse and is forgotten. ”…

Mackerels wrote “My Country’ during the First World War on a visit to England, where from then on it became one of the best-known Australian bush poems due to its appeal to the sense of patriotism encouraged by the war and post-war nationalism (Kingston, 1986). The poem was believed to have been directly influenced by…

Plash’s early poems like “Point Shirley’ and “Hard Castle Crags” are purely autobiographical in tauter and confessional in character. But her best poems like “Daddy’, “Lady Lazarus” have deeper connotations. As Bernstein puts it: They deal with extreme emotional states and sometimes with the theme of individual suffering as inner registration of outward turmoil. One…

    The inclusion of the superstition of Midsummer adds to the suspense of where William actually was on Midsummer night. The grieving within the story is when William goes out of his way to avoid the spring because this is where his son drowned – this shows that the theme of grief in ghost…

Welcome, to this conference, Nexus of Art and Society, to reflect on the question – how did confessional poets help to influence he changes that occurred in sass’s and ass’s America and helped to shape today’s world of poetry and song Confessional poetry was never truly published until the late sass’s. This type of poetry…

The Holocaust was a time when countless Jews, and others deemed “undesirables” by Hitler and the Nazis, underwent the most cruel and inhumane persecution while trapped in concentration camps under the power of the Third Reich. Elie Wiesel’s Night is an account of his unimaginably shocking experiences in and traveling to such concentration camps as…

  This is something typical of Medieval beliefs: we are reminded of Gawain’s pentangle with its five interlocking virtues, but Julian seems to take this further in that one image does not only exist alongside another, but one follows on from another in a chain of images and associations that traces the path from the…

  The sentinels, Barnardo, Francisco, Marcellus and even the sceptical Horatio are present at the time the ghost appears. A bewildered Horatio could hardly believe his own eyes when contemplating the old dead king’s figure; “Before my God, I might not this believe Without the sensible and true avouch Of my own eyes”. We even…

Gender Typing in the Confessional Poetry of Judith Wright Judith Wright (1915-2000), a poet, an essayist, a short story writer, and an activist, represents her hardship, gender-awareness, protest against the imperial outlook of patriarchy and her typical attitude towards men In her confessional poetry. She Is considered the best poet of Australia and is globally…