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85Terrible Beauty: Irish Poets and the Conflict in Ireland
"All is changed, changed utterly; A terrible beauty is born" So WB Yeats prophesied in his poem 'Easter 1916'. In a single line he captured the ambiguity of Irish politics at the time - the beauty of struggling for freedom, the terrible...
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90Poetry Analysis - 'Punishment' - by Seamus Heaney
In his poem ‘Punishment’ Seamus Heaney writes of the discovery of a fourteen year old girl’s body exhumed from a bog in Germany, 1951. On further analysis of the poetry, it is revealed that this preserved body was two thousand years old, and...
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69Poem - Dear Brothers & Sisters in the Universe
I had a dream I heard radio waves a message looping over and over, it was just an echo of us;- “We’re nice people here, really, is anyone there ? we don’t kill as many any more and torture is almost eradicated of course there is a big divide...
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69Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney is a well knowns irish poet who has achieved fame all over the world not just in Ireland.
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78The Famous Quotes and Sayings of Irish Poet Oscar Wilde
The Famous Quotes and Sayings of Irish Poet Oscar Wilde His Life and other Works Oscar Wilde was an Irish playwright, poet, short story writer, journalist who was born on October 16, 1854 in Dublin...
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66Poem - The Stone
find yourself a smooth stone to hold find yourself a nice quiet corner pick a time late at night (light a candle) or early early in the morning read the poem This poem is absolutely NOT to be read on the train, in traffic, at work, when the...
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65Poem - The House Children
in the chaos I stumbled over this image and I could just see them crowding around, waiting, waiting... Image used courtesy of Mel Rodicq "Brightown by Mel Rodicq" the house children gathered aroundtheir window eyes wide in amazementat a...
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64Poem - The Corset
I read this fantastic Hub called Sexy-Womens-Corsets by Djtphn1 and the words of this poem occurred to me.. thanks very much Djtphn.... It is always difficult to know when to finish a poem.... this one was no different.. except i have a few...
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64Poem - Mannah from the Muse
as i trudge through the winter of my yearsthe constant snow plagues my soulmy friends the trees mock mebending to the storms of lovethe shadow of the ruins of lifea backdrop to my wanderingsthe writings on my staffthe only sanity I feelthe skin of...
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58RMSTitanic
I decided to write this brief Hub and include a view of the birthplace of the RMS TITANIC, Belfast's Harland & Wolff shipyard. I read this poem in at the Irish Literature Festival 2009 in Bangor Co Down,...
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