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Soundings was dumped off the Leaving Cert curriculum in 2000, but was something lost in the move to make the syllabus more diverse and contemporary?
All that and in 1822 Percy Shelley drowned in a storm. Shelley allegedly carried his calcified heart with her until her death in 1851. In 1835 Shelley disclosed to her friend Edward Trelawny that she ...
What kind of love poems are you in the mood for? Throughout literary history, love poems have connected lonely hearts, ...
Her poem Variations on the Word Love discusses many forms of love, but ultimately, for me, it is a reminder of the awesome power of that emotion. She speaks of how the word "love" - only four ...
‘Sacrifice’, ‘emotions’ and ‘duty’ are terms that even today are often used to refer to one emotion- ‘the love of a mother’. Dinkar, through this poem, talks about the maternal love of Renuka, who was ...
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