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Blue Remembered Hills - review
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Blue Remembered Hills Essay 'Blue Remembered Hills' is a poem by AE Houseman that shows an idealistic view of childhood as you see in the poem. That is the land of lost content I see it shining plain The happy highways where I went And cannot come again In this short piece AE Houseman gives the effect of a clean happy time. Dennis Potter has a completely different view on childhood that completely contrasts with AE Houseman's poem. Dennis potters play is a reversal of AE Houseman's poem, including the attitudes of the children. In this play the children think only for themselves. There is extreme cruelty between the children. There is a constant power struggle between the boys and the girls. This constant struggle for power, admiration and for wanting to be respected leads to the destruction of a member of the group of boys. The children constantly pick on the weakest to make...
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