what is the importance of robert burns in literature and what is his contributions.?
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Robert Burns is the Poet Laureate of Scotland.   He wrote many wonderful poems, most of which are in Scotish dialect, which is fascinating to read.   In Scotland they still have an evening dedicated to him, in which they traditionally eat haggis.  (He even has a poem called "To a Haggis".)  You can read some of his more famous poems here.\n\nhttp://www.poetry-archive.com/b/burns_robert.html\n\nBurns was part of the larger group of Romantic Poets, including John Keats, Percy Bysse Shelley, George Gordon Lord Byron, and William Blake.  Each of these men had a great impact on the way society at the time thought and the way ideas were expressed.\n\nBurns is probably most famous for two of his poems, "Auld Lang Syne" and "To a Mouse".  "Auld Lang Syne" is the traditional song sung on New Years Eve.  "To a Mouse" is not a necessarily well known poem, but it did inspire author John Steinbeck.  His famous novel "Of Mice and Men" was named after a line in the poem which states "the best lain plans o mice and men gang aft agly".  The poem is saying that, even though people (or mice!) may plan and work and hope for the future, they can't predict what will happen and often their plans will go awry (gang aft agly).  Fate plays a part in everything; this was a major theme of Steinbeck's novel.
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I'm sure many including myself will agree on the fact that literature affects one's life immensely. \nGood literature is not only a good sense of entertainment but also refines one's vocabulary and personality. They even add to knowledge as well as affect the views of a person. A person who is a fanatic of Sherlock Holmes will learn to analyse things deeply and will develop skills of perception and systematic thinking.\nMany people also picture themselves as one of the characters. It helps them to overcome troubles by being inspired. A good background in literature helps you learn how thinks were in the past, analyse the present and then shape the future. \nThere is a lot to learn fom Literature and believe me it is worth the time to read some Book.
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Scotland\nvery important\nno\nless time spent together\nthey share a common experience\nyes
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Studying classical literature helps you better understand history and other culture. For example, read Bleak House or any other Dickens novel, and you'll see that the Victorian era was not the wonderful idealistic time that many perceive it to be. Or, read some Greek drama like Oedipus Rex to learn some things that the ancient Greeks valued. \n\nStudying literature gives you a broader perspective of the world. It helps your creativity. It improves your writing skills. It's also interesting and fun!!!
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Literature to me is important because it takes you back to the times when English first came about and it helps you to understand how much the language and the curriculum has changed over the years and how much writers have progressed.
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many of his works are satires. He was the leader of a style of writing known as romanticism and many of his works have an air of brooding. He was also known for his sexual exploits (don't know if that'll help you) and his rebelliousness. Of course I needn't have to tell you that his most famous work is a long poem called Don Juan.\n\nBut what does this have to do with government?
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He was so important because he used his wit to invert situations in order to bring them to light.  Using humour, Wilde was able to make people think about things that they'd rather not in the repressive Victorian society.
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Here are a few topics that you may want to consider, I don't know what type of literature you're studying nor do I know what books you've read but here are a few:\n\n1. Homer's the Iliad- maybe focus on Achilles or Hector as a tragic hero\n\n2. The Aeneid- focus on whether Aeneas betrays Dido\n If you have read African American literature such as The Color Purple or Their Eyes Were Watching God you can focus on how the main characters find themselves. Good Luck!!!
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Robin_Thor has a good understanding about this literary giant and this is to let him know that we appreciate a good effort. \nWell itsamystery, hopefully you are rested up from your Spring Break because if this is an assignment that needs to be turned in I am afraid that you have some work to do.\nIn gratitude to you for your question I will answer you with 'my start' into this work which if not for your question I would still be outside on the patio.  \n\nHere goes a swell beginning:\n\n.\n\nWhy, Death Be Not Proud\nIn “Death Be Not Proud” the protagonist literary presenters are chosen teenagers for the reasons that the importance of this poem is to have a definite and positive impact on younger students and young adults alike across the world.  For it serves as guide for the confrontatious attitudes necessary in the face of, emotional, physical and spiritual adversity.  To forge a better social function among us that will inevitably present to our younger generations. These are all here and within this poem and which all support the theme of this magnificent writing.  In  “Death Be Not Proud” is found a generational social cohesiveness that is necessary for a functional society’s survival, and which is so well prayed by John Gunther’s 1947 memoirs.  \nIt is a penned offering intellectually and emotionally secured as a memoir to his son whose ultimate youthful death by a brain tumor at the age of seventeen is eminent. Gunther draws from his heart and from John Dunne’s 17th century “The Holy Sonnets: X” in producing this writing.  It is a poem, in which Gunther argues that ‘death should take no pride in what it does, as it is ultimately powerless to prevent the resurrection of all humanity.’ It can be presented at a literary discourse for educational purpose or as a play on a stage.  \n“Death be not proud, though some have called thee / mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so,\nFor those whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow,\nDie not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.\nFrom rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,\nMuch pleasure:  then from thee much more must flow,\nAnd soonest our best men with thee do go,\nRest of their bones, and soul’s delivery.\nThou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,\nAnd dost with poison, war and sickness dwell;\nAnd Poppy or charms can make us sleep as well\nAnd better than thy stroke; why swell’st thou then? \nOne short sleep past, we wake eternally,\nAnd death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.     John Donne\nIt is a versified oratory free-verse poem with melodic tone, chant, and supple plea/defiant texture composed about young Johnny Gunther.  About his attitudes and strife for living in the face of a natural and inevitable defeat.  It is the presentation of the life of Johnny’s family and their recourse to every medical possibility known at the time, taken from an elegy of a long time past, converted from a poem of love and not a poem of mourning. And even unto an eternal spiritual search for the healing of the body, of the mind, and of the spirit of their son by John Gunther and his wife.  About their tessellated forms draught from their experiential abilities within such frames of human suffrage.  In explicit honesty are laid bare the pains and struggles of a family trying to delay the ultimate inevitable end for a son that is as brilliant as Johnny.  From the radical surgeries to strictly controlled diets in endless effort to save his life by a determined harmonious familial union in the face of adversarial reality as they live on for life’s sake. All while in defiance of any honor attributable by mere mortals to death’s demands. \n\nhttp://www.cs.rice.edu/ ssiyer/minstrels/poems/796.html  \n\n\nJose
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i suggest not doing romeo or juliet b/c everyones going to do them and your teachers going to read a million of them and if she gets to yours and its different- thats a good thing. i suggest friar lawerence. he was crutial to their secret marriage, juliets fake suicide, he was the only one who knew that juliet wasnt really dead, he was the first to find thr dead romeo, told juliet what had happened, etc. without him the none of that twisted romantic tragedy could have happened.\n\noh- and a good thesis sentence could be: The most influential character in The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, without whom the plot would be undone, is Friar Lawerence. \nbtw:The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is the official title.
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Crystalheart287, I am including an incomplete brief writing that may afford you some ideas for a best topic and composition. In it are found several topics of interest such as migration in search of a better life, a distinguished person, and of course President Kennedy. Think straight,smooth,make notes for research and consolidate into a report. Jose\n\nEndeavors in overcoming oppression were indeed early struggles, which were part of our social American evolution.  Although Robert Frost (1874-1963) is not known as a political poet or essayist, his poetry and lifestyle in my opinion did serve as prime example to the freedoms, which America afforded its citizenry of his day, in contrast to life in America in the 17th century.  Frost being born a Californian moved with his proper nuclear family to New England.  Here in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Frost graduated from high school in 1891, married and continued his education.  Twenty years later after unsatisfying intellectual and agricultural ventures, he moved with his new nuclear proper family to England.  In this atmosphere and in reminisce of his life and friends in America, he soon was devotedly engaged in writing poetry.  His desire to roam far from home became evident of a man in search of his true identity, his destiny, and afforded him insight into colonial American life of which he was extremely proud of and that instilled in Frost the ‘want of write’.  It was by this personal venture that he gained the ability to express his poetry through colloquial rhythms, simplicity of image and folksy diction.  His verses were to contribute a rich footing for American social development and can be sensed in the following passage to his poem ‘The Gift Outright’;\nThe land was ours before we were the lands,\nShe was our land more than a hundred years,\nBefore we were her people.\nThis patriotic presentation is so moving to so many Americans that Frost personally recited it at John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s Presidential inauguration in 1961. An honorable achievement by a political conservative, a beautiful social achievement through literature.
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yes i would care to know the deeper meaning to the story! it would interest me! good luck w/ ur research!
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He was hero from the Serbian folk and popular tradition. Hero from one national poem. \nIn the medieval 14. century Serbia was under Ottoman Empire. One of Ottoman band burn castle of Banovica Strahinje and kidnap his wife. Banović Strahinja he star journey to save here. \nShort description: While Banovic Strahina is hunting, Alija and his group attack his tower. He kills all the men, and takes away Strahinja's wife Andja, trying to seduce her by the way. She resists for a long time, but eventually gives in. Strahinja finds the renegade camp and kills Alija in duel. Andja then goes to her father to endure her penalty - digging her eyes out. She is taken to a temple, where the cruel custom is about to take place. Strahinja is there also. Everyone believes that he has come to convey the penalty himself. He takes a red-heated sword into his hands, but in an instant, forgives her and leads her out from the temple. By the motives of famous, synonymous folk song.
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Try checking out at www.sparknotes.com/literature.This will provide you not only with the date but also the context in which the story is written,a plot overview,a detailed summary and analysis as well as character analysis,while explaining important quotes and proving questions and answers to some of them.\nNever limit urself:the information u would have gathered will help u enormously!
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Good literature can teach you about yourself or other people. It can also help you to see things in a different way.
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He was one of the most prolific poets of his day.  He could make language do things many others could not.  The beauty in his words lives on.  His poems are as meaningful and understandable today as they were in the 1800's when he was writing them.  Much of his work has proven to be timeless.
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DAVID HUME:\nHume Time Line\n1711 April 26, is born at Edinburgh to a father who owned a small estate near Berwickshire named "Ninewells" and a mother, Katherine Falconer, who was from a family of lawyers.\n\n1723 After an early education at home enters Edinburg University where he begins the study of law but three years later turns from the study of law to pursue an intense independent study of his own devising.\n\n1734 After an attack of hypocondria he visits France where, over the next three years, he works on his Treatise of Human Nature.\n\n1739 January, the first two volumes of Treatise are published anonymously.\n\n1740 The third volume of Treatise published. Public reaction to his work is sparse, he declares: "It fell dead-born from the press, without reaching such distinctions even to excite a murmur among the zealots." In response he publishes, once more anonymously, An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature.\n\n1741 Publishes first volume of Essays which is largely successful.\n\n1742 Publishes second edition and second volume of Essays.\n\n1744 Fails to attain the chair of moral philosophy at Edinburgh. Becomes tutor to the marquis of Annandale.\n\n1746 Appointed secretary to General St. Clair an travles on a military expedition to Brittany (1746) and a diplomatic mission to Turin (1748).\n\n1748 Publishes Philosophical Essays concerning the Human Understanding a condensation of the Treatise. Essays retitled An Enquiry concerning the Human Understanding in the 1758 edition.\n\n1751 Publishes An Enquiry concerning Principles of Morals, also a condensation of the Treatise. Publishes Political Discourses with much success. Fails once more to attain to a professors chair.\n\n1752- Works as keeper of the Advocates Library, Edinburgh, where he 1757 writes History of Great Britain. History publised in five volumes between 1752 and 1764 and while first volume's sales were disappointing at first, within a few years sales made Hume quite rich.\n\n1757 Publishes Four Dissertations: The Natural History of Religion, Of the Passions, Of Tragedy, Of the Standard of Taste.\n\n1763- Appointed private secretary to Lord Hertford, British 1766 ambassador to Paris.\n\n1767- Serves in London as undersecretary of state, Northern 1768 Department.\n\n1769 Settles in Edinburgh and lives out his life as a man of letters and acknowledged patriarch of literature helping young writers critically as well as financially amoungst whom were Thomas Blackwell, Tobias Smollett and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.\n\n1776 Dies of cancer.\n\n1779 Postumous publication of Dialogues concerning Natural Religion.\n\nLOCKE:\nJohn Locke (b. 1632, d. 1704) was a British philosopher, Oxford academic and medical researcher, whose association with Anthony Ashley Cooper (later the First Earl of Shaftesbury) led him to become successively a government official charged with collecting information about trade and colonies, economic writer, opposition political activist, and finally a revolutionary whose cause ultimately triumphed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. \n\nMuch of Locke's work is characterized by opposition to authoritarianism. This opposition is both on the level of the individual person and on the level of institutions such as government and church. For the individual, Locke wants each of us to use reason to search after truth rather than simply accept the opinion of authorities or be subject to superstition. He wants us to proportion assent to propositions to the evidence for them. On the level of institutions it becomes important to distinguish the legitimate from the illegitimate functions of institutions and to make the corresponding distinction for the uses of force by these institutions. \n\nThe positive side of Locke's anti-authoritarianism is that he believes that using reason to try to grasp the truth, and determining the legitimate functions of institutions will optimize human flourishing for the individual and society b