meant to be ‘shivering’ praying is warm
“For man were born to pray and save”- Ironic as ‘save’ people or money. ‘Pray’ is a pun for prey
“Romantic Ireland’s dead and...

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William Butler Yeats
On June 13, 1865 the erie town of Sandymount, Ireland welcomed William Butler Yeats, who later becomes a legend in modern English literature. In 1867 his family moved to London, but he frequently visited his grandparents in Northern Ireland. There he was immensely influenced by the folklore of the region. Eventually in 1881 his family returned to Dublin. There Yeats studied at the Metropolitan School of Art, getting increasingly more focused on literature, and later evolving into one of the greatest Symbolist poets of his time. Being a Symbolist poet, he uses allusive imagery and symbolic structures throughoutstripes because each number also stimulates a colour in their brain.'



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The obsessive artist

Tommy McHugh, 58, a divorced father of two from Liverpool, was a builder until he had a brain haemorrhage which almost killed him in 2001. Tommy is now a prodigious artist even though he had never picked up a paintbrush before.



Tommy McHugh: From builder to prodigious artist

He says: 'My urge to draw is like an addiction. My brain is so full of ideas for new sculptures or paintings that I struggle to sleep. I never dreamed my life would take this path.



'As a youngster, I was in trouble for fighting and left school at 15. I had never been interested in art or poetry, but the haemorrhage changed all that.



'When it happened,