self and consciousness. In contrast to the Romantic world view‚ the Modernist cares rather little for Nature‚ Being‚ or the overarching structures of history. Instead of progress and growth‚ the Modernist intelligentsia sees decay and a growing alienation of the individual. The machinery of modern society is perceived as impersonal‚ capitalist‚ and antagonistic to the artistic impulse. War most certainly had a great deal of influence on such ways of approaching the world. Two World Wars in the span
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analysis of these poems‚ with particular regards to their thematic concerns and stylistic features. Key words: American Literature‚ Satiric criticism‚ Comparative analysis‚ Critique of the Modern World‚ Existentialism th Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot‚ two of the most prominent and prolific literary figures of 20 century America‚ had seen all the limits of misery and despair in the world. They had been ‘in many a land’ to realize that there was ‘naught else in living’. The backdrop of the World
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5.12-5.15 Change‚ whether it is present or absent‚ is universal and an inevitable notion and it can result in positive or negative impacts- depending on the factors stimulating the change. Within the beautifully composed poems by T.S. Eliot‚ the related text‚ The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini‚ this concept of change is depicted through the use and manipulation of language devices‚ with the aid of the recurring communal stimulating factors- change in perspective‚ change in world and change in one’s
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complexities it of through their works. Urban alienation‚ the meaning of life as well as inner psychological perspectives are some issues explored through the experimentation of new literary techniques as the progression from the Realism and Romanticism of the 19th century called for more realistic conventions in literature to allow writers express their values concerning the changing world. The poem ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ by T.S. Eliot and ‘Hills Like White Elephants’ by Ernest Hemingway
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modernism refers to the radical shift in aesthetic and cultural sensibilities evident in the art and literature of the post-World War One period. The ordered‚ stable and inherently meaningful worldview of the nineteenth century could not‚ wrote T.S. Eliot‚ accord with "the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history." Modernism thus marks a distinctive break with Victorian bourgeois morality; rejecting nineteenth-century optimism‚ they presented a profoundly pessimistic picture
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The Four Quartets Eliot finds an interesting aspect of time and eternity as displayed in this poem. There are philosophical investigations made in the poem within the twentieth century. The poem highlights the efforts of scientists in the bid to comprehend time (Kramer 10). This begins from Einstein’s explanation of quantum mechanics that enabled artists and scientists to come up with numerous ideologies regarding time. Postmodernists hold the view that the value of timelessness on eternity results
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Critical Study of Texts: Poetry – T.S Eliot Task: “What Will Continue To Make Eliot’s Poetry Worthy Of Critical Study?” Referring to two poems‚ defend the question through a critical evaluation of Eliot’s poetry‚ analysing the construction‚ content and language Modernism is a literary movement that emerged in the early 20th century in response to social reforms‚ developments in psychology and anthropology‚ and the rapid industrialisation and mechanisation of society. There is a strong connection
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resorted to veiling it in a novel. She illustrates the different stages of relationships that her characters undergo‚ from courtship through to marriage‚ George Eliot had pondered enough about the position and the portrayal of women in Victorian society‚ and the various responses different types of women elicit. Probably this had enabled Eliot to sketch and embed in her novel‚ charming characters such as Dorothea and Rosamond‚ two very different women who reflected in them the different tunes of the
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In Sylvia Plath’s "The Arrival of the Bee Box" and T. S. Eliot’s "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" both speakers are burdened by great mental anguish caused by their feeling of insignificance and powerlessness in the world. They both fear and accept the prospect of death‚ while acknowledging life as its opposite. These are the two sides of the human experience. Through an internal monologue‚ Prufrock explores his feeling of uselessness and displacement in society‚ while in "The Arrival of the
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Question: Write a short note on Modernism with special reference to Literature Almost every generation of society has a habit of reacting against the past by declaring itself “modern.” This quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns is a cyclical phenomenon. Modernism was a similar trend that spanned all of the arts and even spilled into politics and philosophy during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Anyone who looks at the evolution of western culture must note a distinct change
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