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Hussain Khalil Lecturer: Saman Mohammed Literature: Poetry December 7, 2018, 2018
Hussain Khalil Lecturer: Saman Mohammed Literature: Poetry December 7, 2018, 2018
Hussain Khalil
Lecturer: Saman Mohammed
Literature: Poetry
December 7, 2018, 2018
The Victorian Age
One of the most significance periods in the English literature, it consider a revolutionary
.time for many of writers and other figures in that period
The Victorian age started from 1837-1901, referring to Queen Victoria during her role, where
she was the only queen in the country, while in other country there was more than too kings
.like Germany
England was in its highest strength that time by occupying many countries like America,
South Africa, Australia and India during Queen Victoria's role and widely expanded after her
death. In that time there was strict rules for all aspect of life; politically, culturally. From the
political side as we talked about it there was no higher than the rules and the community was
obliged to applied it otherwise they will face a punishment made by the political system, so
those rules were as a red line for the people which controlled their life. the Culture that time
were divided into three classes; Upper class, Middle class, Working class, so there was a huge
differences between those classes, were the Upper class were consider to be from the
Aristocratic family, wealthy, have the control on the remain classes and they should obey to
their orders. The Middle class were specialists in their job or work and they were financially
secure, somehow they were not facing big problems as poverty and lack of jobs or works. The
Working class were the machine of that time and has no rights and no voice, so they were
working just to secure themselves from death. Those classes were not in a harmony
environment as a machine that contain several parts that work together but all parts are not
from one factory. The problem of the Gender most be consider too, because also man and
women they were not having imbalance between their lives, so man were supposed to work
and be the one who has responsibility toward his family and the outside word (Society), like
facing the problems of the strict rules of business and politics also he must have the authority
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in on his family, while women their responsibility were conducted inside the house in raising
children, taking care of her husband, the order in home from cleaning and etc…., in A Doll's
House book by Henry Ibsen where he wrote this on December 1879 is a remarkable paly
which he explain the harsh reality of how women were living under the pressure, rules all
their lives. Another issue that can be discussed is (Race), were they create the chain of being
which it starts from the top as the higher one (GOD) who has the super power, then Angels,
Humans, Animals, plants, and ends with the rocks, beside that chain they ranked nations in
In my point of view there were similarities between this period and what was happening
inside the Kurdish nation in north Syria before 2012, we can say that there was no public
democracy or equality between man and women, because there were strict rules made by the
ruling authority, and the habits and traditions that set limits for peoples way of thinking,
behaviors, developing their future to a better life but no one could change that fact till the
Syrian civil war started and by observing the outside world somehow that condition has
changed because of the demonstrations and asking for their rights and the most important
thing was migration that leads to the clash culture with other nationalities like; Iraqis, Turk,
So for our society still we are in a transitional period like the transitional period of the
Victorian era toward Modernism. It means that we have a long journey to reach that point of
modern life and the coming future, so our duty as Kurds is to stand together, be honest toward
each other, learn from our previous mistakes that our grandparents couldn’t solve them, and
taking responsibility seriously to build a stable, free, dependent country, and that will not be
done till every person knows his role in life as a Kurd. Many dreams had become truth and
reality through history, so why we cannot achieve it since we have constituents state which
are: people(Kurds), land(territory), and authority which refer to which kind of authority can
be more activate for our benefit by sitting rules for democracy that protect people's rights,
freedom of speech (politically, civil society), a modern educational system which keeps the
mentality of humans in process toward the best life, securing the standard of living and social
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protection. This, of course, is not only my dream rather it is the dream of every Kurd from the
four parts of the great Kurdistan. Nothing is impossible if we supported each other by
A Victorian poet born in 1806 in Durham country, London. She was depending on
herself in education and she wrote her first epic poem when she was 10 years old. In
1836 they moved to live in London because of some financial issue, which forced her
father to sell their own house, she was famous between the literary poets. Her health
One of the poems that excited me was "The Cry of the Children" 1843, were she is
describing child labors, when they are hardly working in order to remain a life and to
secure their families too from the strict rules that limited their wishes, views and set a
So this a perfect imagery poem that we can clearly those kids are forbidden from the
taste of life and how they are weeping at their mothers comparing themselves with
other nature creatures like; lambs and fawns were they are enjoying the life that they
have, while they are working forcibly in the coal mines and factories in England,
means that they are like machines; cannot stop, cannot get tired, cannot get a rest or a
.free time enjoying the normal life as the other creatures beside their mothers
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