The Muses in Greek Mythology and Art The Muses were deities worshipped by the ancient Greeks. They were 9 women‚ sisters‚ whose sole purpose for being was that of the inspiration to mortal man‚ typically in an artistic capacity. The embodiment of the classical idea of the poetical faculty as a divine gift‚ these famous sisters dwelt on Mount Helicon‚ in Greece. The Muses were therefore both the embodiments and sponsors of performed metrical speech: mousike‚ whence "music"‚ was the art of the Muses
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Auguste Rodin was born in 1840 and died in 1917‚ a year before the end of World War I. He was one of the most illustrious artists of his time‚ and in the eyes of posterity he remains‚ surely‚ the greatest name in Western Sculpture since Michelangelo. His style was both classic and romantic‚ and to his contemporaries it was also revolutionary‚ for although Rodin followed routine closely‚ he presented it exactly as he saw and experienced it‚ and refused to be bound by the artistic conventions of
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The worth of any physical journey can be measured by the value it has to the traveller; by the psychological‚ moral and philosophical insight gained during the course of travel. This is especially valid for a trip of such immense significance as the one undertaken by the narrator in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness‚ Marlow‚ as he travels along the Congo River in Africa. The symbolic importance of the Congo River is paramount throughout the novella; however‚ it is equally important to consider the
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An analysis of how the first paragraph of The Metamorphosis supports the theory of Determinism . The theory of determinism states that all events are the consequence of prior events. Determinism is based on the scientific theory of cause and effect. An example of cause and effect is as follows: if a glass were to fall on a surface and break‚ then its breaking would be as a result of the collision of the glass and the surface; indicating that every occurrence has a cause. The literary work
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juxtaposed with images of hell. The backgrounds carry skulls of suffering‚ I’ll place it up against this classic 1800’s painting by Gustave Dore: La vision des Ossements Desséchés. Much inspiration of hellish torment and suffering came from Dante Alighieri’s Inferno. This is suiting‚ because the Joker is one of the most demonic villains possible‚ and Batman is one of the most tortured heroes. Riley Rossmo has a gift of drawing desperation‚ it might be due to how lanky he’s is able to draw them‚ yet still
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describe‚ how song of j. Alfred prufrock could be a modernist poem? As with many other works of the Modern period in English literature‚ T. S. Eliot utilizes fragmentation‚ allusion‚ and symbolism to show J. Alfred Prufrock’s inability to act towards the outside world. Prufrock appears‚ in the poem‚ to be a middle-aged balding man who has a very pressing question to ask someone (presumably a woman); however‚ he finds it hard to vocalize his feelings to other people. Instead‚ he spends his time dwelling
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The setting of the play was further discussed in the Interactive oral on Jean-Paul Sartre’s play‚ No Exit. The author’s view of Hell was compared with Dante’s view of Hell‚ in Dante’s Inferno. Dante believed that a person’s soul is reduced to the sin itself when damned to Hell. If Dante’s reasoning is applicable in No Exit‚ Garcin would be reduced to being treacherous. Garcin was evaluated in terms of the Nine Circles of Hell: Limbo‚ Lust‚ Gluttony‚ Greed‚ Anger‚ Heresy‚ Violence‚ Fraud‚ and Treachery
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Art 102 Group paper Today ’s Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Movement In art the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood movement is much like disco‚ its not dead until the people are done enjoying it. The group founded by John Millais‚ John Everett Millais‚ Dante Gabriel Rossetti‚ and William Holman Hunt first started in 1848 in Millais ’s parents house. Not one of its founders could have dreamed the sensational art they were about to unveil to the world. The group itself was mainly comprised of poets and painters
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Prufrock’s point of view‚ Eliot has intended it to give the reader an insight into Prufrock’s personality. The fact that the quotation is taken from Dante’s Inferno would offer an insight to Prufrock’s mindset – that he is eternally doomed as a result of his ‘awkwardness’ or inability to sufficiently participate. As the epigraph is taken from Dante’s Inferno it is easy to see that Eliot has used something that is often in a foreign language to the reader to further separate the poem from the reader. Alexander
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Write a critical analysis‚ focusing particularly on what makes your chosen passage a piece of Modernist writing. Unreal City‚ Under the brown fog of a winter dawn‚ A crowd flowed over London Bridge‚ so many‚ I had not thought death had undone so many. Sighs‚ short and infrequent‚ were exhaled‚ And each man fixed his eyes before his feet. Flowed up the hill and down King William Street‚ To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine. There I saw
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