What are the 'Waves' of Feminism?
Feminism shows its roots as early as the reign of Queen Elizabeth the First of the 1500s, Mary Wollstonecraft of the 1700s or Jane Austen during the early 1800s. These women advocated and showed...
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A Sense of Place in 'London' and 'Lines' pt.3
The image of her curse ‘[blasting] the new born Infant’s tear’ could be seen as a foreboding and hopeless one: that the anguish that the speaker sees and hears is being carried...
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A Sense of Place in 'London' and 'Lines' pt.2
Interestingly, contrary to the usual Romantic idolatry towards childhood and youth, Wordsworth appears to favour maturity: ‘that time [his ‘thoughtless youth’] has past &hellip...
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A Sense of Place in 'London' and 'Lines'
Both William Blake’s ‘London’ and William Wordsworth’s ‘Lines: Tintern Abbey’ offer contrasting settings: the heart of urban industry and the epitome of tranq...
