Upon Westminster Bridge-Wordsworth/London-Blake

Advantages: Memorable poem!
Disadvantages: N/A

...Compare and contrast Wordsworth's and Blake's poems. What do the poems tell you about the differing attitudes towards the city? The two poems tell us a lot about the poet's respective attitudes towards the city. We learn of their (occasionally) differing attitudes towards industrialisation, nature and the like. We can observe how the two poets have used different techniques such as structure, rhyme, imagery etc. to enhance their messages. The poet William Wordsworth was born in 1770 and by the time he died on Shakespeare day in 1850 he had influenced English poetry as a whole by producing some of the greatest works in history. He was educated at grammar school and lived much of his life in amongst the northern lakes in the heart of the Lake District. The poet, artist, and printmaker William Blake on the other hand was not...

joewcarpenter 28.05.2008 · Read review
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Review of Upon Westminster Bridge - William Wordsworth

Lines Written Above Tintern Abbey, a beautiful poem by Wordsworth

Advantages: A beautifully written poem that can be read over and over to bring the reader a sense of peace
Disadvantages: A rather long poem that can be tedious to get through

...Romantic poetry often concerns itself with the power of nature. This theme is also especially predominant in Samuel Coleridge?s poetry. This love of the natural world is often linked with rural imagery from the British countryside. Lines Written Above Tintern Abbey contains many images illustrating the beauty of the countryside and the peaceful lives of its inhabitants. This is emphasized when put in contrast with the dark and foreboding nature of the urbanisation of the countryside. It begins with Wordsworth reminiscing about the beauty of the abbey and its continued beauty even after 5 years. Wordsworth uses beautiful imagery to describe the surrounding cliffs and sea. The murmur of sound allows for an undertone of isolation and peace. This creates the image of a sanctuary for reflection for the abbey itself. By using the word...

taranmatharu 22.04.2009 · Read review
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Review of Lines Written Above Tintern Abbey - William Wordsworth

Robbie Williams Live At Knebworth "Without Me" : (

Advantages: An Excellent Live Album!
Disadvantages: None!

...Hell is gone and heaven's here, There's nothing left for you to fear Shake your arse come over here Now scream! I'm a burning effigy Of everything I used to be You're my rock of empathy, my dear "So come on let me entertain you" "Let me entertain you"! Reasons For Purchasing: Well "Let me entertain you" with my review! I am a huge fan of the Pop Star Robbie Williams and I have every single album he has ever released in my huge CD collection. I think most people are aware who this great star is, but I will include a little bit of information about him, for those who do not in the next paragraph. Robbie Williams was born on the 13th February 1974, in England, in a little town called Stoke-on-Trent. His pop career started when he was just sixteen years old, when he was chosen to be included in a UK boy...

hillhead 23.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Live At Knebworth (Explicit Version) - Robbie Williams

William Blake's works

Advantages: Beautifully written poems concerning the effects of innocence and experience
Disadvantages: The language is often hard to read without concentration

...In his poems, William Blake has a number of underlying messages riddled in them. He seems to agree and disagree with certain things in a number of his poems which I will now discuss. In Songs of Experience, the poem called The Garden of Love shows some of the things that Blake seems to disagree with. In The Garden of Love I believe Blake tries to convey that as a child grows up things change. He seems to think that these changes are bad, for example the chapel replaced his childhood green where he had played and instead of flowers on the green, tombstones in a graveyard. I think he is saying that childhood was a happier, carefree time and as adulthood abruptly arises, you lose the innocence of your childhood. In William Blake?s case, things become darker. He seems to disagree with this. Also he puts across the feeling of being...

taranmatharu 22.04.2009 · Read review
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Review of William Blake

Williams' use of violence

Advantages: see op
Disadvantages: see op

...A Streetcar Named Desire : How does violence progress throughout the play and change the course of action? In what ways did Williams? use of violence contribute to the controversy of the play? Williams? work is often considered as ?one of the most savage indictments of culture in our time?(i) and A Streetcar Named Desire is no exception. The play challenged the taboo issues of violence, homosexuality and promiscuity whilst the 1951 film adaptation caused great controversy despite censorship carried out by the Motion Picture Association of America and the Catholic Legion of Decency. Since it is Stanley?s rape of Blanche that leads to her inevitable demise, it is important to consider the significance that Williams? use of violence bears to the play as a whole. This central topic of violence is initially revealed to...

nicolemorgan 28.02.2003 · Read review
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Fort William Rocks !!!

Advantages: Breath-taking views, extremely friendly people
Disadvantages: None that I found...

...~~*~~ INTRODUCTION ~~*~~ Fort William - a delightful place to visit - before I went there 2 summers ago I assumed it was just a fort and not a whole new wonderful holiday experience! Hmm how wrong could I have been? The place where both Rob Roy and Braveheart were filmed, it's definitely a place to see if you believe in exploring the UK's finest places. I'm not an expert at writing travel reviews so please bear with me if this review isn't laid out exactly as you'd expect it to be. ~~*~~ WHERE AND WHAT IS IT? ~~*~~ Well as it's in the "United Kingdom Experience" I'm hoping everyone knows that it's here in the UK but it's right up there in the West Highlands of Scotland. As the crow flies (or car drives?) it's roughly 500 miles from my home in West London to Fort William, which equates to 8½ hours driving if you average...

anonymili 24.08.2005 (03.09.2005) · Read review
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Review of Fort William (Scotland)

Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare

Advantages: great story
Disadvantages: none

...Romeo and Juliet was written in 1595 by William Shakespeare as a play. It is classed as a tragic play, therefore involves a protagonist that has a peak in his or her life involving good fortune, but then on after good fortune turns quickly into bad, ending up in sadness and misfortune for the protagonist. All tragedies follow the same pattern, only changing the peak point and the speed of good fortune going bad. When mentioned, Shakespeare is often thought to be associated with romance and beautiful imagery, which in some cases is true, but this romance is a needle in a haystack amongst the violent, sexual, crude and malicious imagery. This is a trick that is used to make the romance stand out more, Romeo and Juliet is a very famous piece of Shakespeare's work, but is often thought to be extremely romantic and 'lovey-dovey', however...

pixels91 23.04.2009 · Read review
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Review of Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare

Hugo Williams - an all round nice book!

Advantages: Well writen, easy to get to grips with, interesting.
Disadvantages: Not as good as the later two books.

...This is the first book of this kind by Hugo Williams which was published on Faber and Faber in 1994, the later two being 'Billy's Rain' 1999 and 'Dear Room' 2006. Although this book was published in 1994 the topics that it covers are from alot earlier time and that shows in alot of the story's by Williams, for instance alot of them cover his parents and his childhood in the 1950's and 60's and then his early career. Where as in the later books the topics covered do not seem so dated and could quite easily be set at any time and do not have a date or event in them that tells of the time period that is being discussed. As I stated before in this book alot of the story's are ones which tell the story of his parents, and these are also the longest story's that are in the book. The First one that you come to in the book is titled 'Margaret...

drew_face 27.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Dock Leaves - Hugo Williams

My first trailer, Ifor Williams 505.

Advantages: Lightweight, easy to tow, retain value, smart.
Disadvantages: No handle on inside of jocky door.

...After afew years of having horses and paying for transport I decided to buy a trailer after careful consideration. I had never towed before and did not have a vehicle suitable for towing. It was not a decision taken lightly. I had considered buying a lorry but contemplated that the costs would be considerably higher to sustain another roadworhty vehicle in comparison with higher daily fuel costs to run a 4 x 4. (correct me if I am wrong). I bought a suitable towing vehicle and an Ifor Williams 505 which was about 5 years old. This cost me £2500 (I have had it nearly 2 years) from a reputable dealer and had full service history. It may cost more from dealers but at the time it was the best option for me as I didn`t really know what I needed to check from a safety angle. Also looking at the advertisments at the time, there were not...

spottydog2 01.08.2006 · Read review
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Review of Ifor Williams Trailers

William the conquerer

Advantages: Rebelled against the english
Disadvantages: got beaten EVENTUALLY

...Early Life William Wallace was born in c. 1270 in Elderslie, Renfrewshire and had an older and younger brother, Malcolm and John. He was said to have gone to the High School which is now 'The High School of Dundee' and spent most of his childhood growing up in the nearby village of Kilspindie. Wallace's parents owned land at Riccarton, near Kilmarnock which is where, supposedly, Wallace's father came from. He acted quickly fighting in battles when he was very young. Some of his first battles were in Ayrshire disputing over the English west of Riccarton at a site known as 'bickering bush'. Afterwards, Wallace joined some Scottish soldiers who were fighting the English at Irvine. Wallace helped by joining most of the scottish clans who were at war and uniting them to fight against the English. His family were said to be very nomadic...

Doni07 29.11.2006 · Read review
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Review of William Wallace - The True Story (DVD)