Britská literatura
Hardy, Thomas. "Under the Waterfall".
Summary
- the female speaker plunges her arm into a basin, which makes her recall a valley with a waterfall whose sound stands for her for the only "real love-rhyme"
- the 1st stanza describes the hidden...
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Hardy, Thomas. "Weathers".
Summary
- the speaker expresses his deep love and appreciation for the landscape and its seasons, here specifically the spring with its chestnut spikes, nightingales, showers, etc.
- compares his love to...
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Heaney, Seamus. "Blackberry-picking".
Summary
- the speaker describes the ripening blackberries, the lustful gathering of the intoxicating fruit, and the deep disappointment over its going foul every time after being taken for storing
- sadly...
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Heaney, Seamus. "Digging".
Summary
- the speaker sits indoors with a pen in his hand, listens to the sounds of a spade outdoors, and develops a series of thoughts the digging evokes in his mind
-his father digs among the flowerbeds...
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Heaney, Seamus. "Mossbawn Sunlight".
Summary
- dedicated to the poet's mother
- the speaker returns in his memories to his native farm
- describes the pleasant yard outdoors and shifts indoors to describe the comforting household activities of...
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Heaney, Seamus. "North".
Summary
- the speaker talks about his returning to the Atlantic strand, encountering the present non-telling landscape, yet travelling back in his memory to look at the sad history of the "North"
- describes...
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Hughes, Ted. "Crow Blacker Than Ever".
Summary
- an absurd and morbid story of the triumphing crow
- God gets disgusted with man and turns twd heaven, while man gets disgusted with God and turns twd Eve, both heaven and earth are falling apart
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Hughes, Ted. "Crow Goes Hunting".
Summary
- an absurd fable of the brutality (of the crow) losing the battle against the wit (of the hare)
- the crow decides "to try words", focuses on the hare to diminish it with his words
- the hare...
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Hughes, Ted. "Hawk Roosting".
Summary
- the speaker: an arrogant hawk lazily contemplating his predatory perfection
- holds an aloof post in "the high trees" above the earth, finds a sadistic pleasure in arbitrary killing
- describes...
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Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World.
Summary
The novel is introduced by a French paragraph by the contemporary Russian philosopher Nicolas Berdiaeff, which contemplates the relativity of reality and the nature of utopian...
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Johnson, Samuel. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
Summary
The Happy Valley
"Description of a Palace in a Valley". Rasselas, aged twenty-six, is the fourth son of the emperor of Egypt. He is kept captive together with other successors to the throne in a...
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Jonson, Ben. Volpone; or, The Fox.
Introduction
(from Norton)
Characteristics and Source of the Play
A dramatic satire on human greed. Set in Venice, but targeted at London as a place devoted to commerce and mired in corruption. Protests the...
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Kelman, James. How late it was, how late.
Summary
Sammy wakes up on Sunday morning after a "boozer" (a drinking marathon) which started on Friday evening. He does not recollect anything that happened meanwhile, but realizes someone has stolen his new...
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Kennedy, A. L. "A Perfect Possession".
Summary
- an intimate confession of parents attempting to supress what they consider evil in their child by the means of their love to the boy and to God
Analysis
The Title
- the complete...
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Kennedy, A. L. "Failing to Fall".
Analysis
The Title
- fall = an elevated condition of being oneself and enjoying something very special
- failing to fall = the absence of the elevated condition caused in the protagonist by the unwellcome...
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