What is the role and influence of the media in modern society? How does it contribute to‚ create‚ direct or represent that society’s ’culture’? Consideration of the role‚ influence and development of the Media in Society and Culture involves addressing fundamental questions about Culture and Society themselves. The insight of various thinkers into the social and cultural role of the media has been underwritten by presuppositions which are‚ in turn‚ informed by points of view on what constitutes society
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” wrote Ezra Pound shortly after the poem was published in 1922. T.S. Eliot’s poem describes a mood of deep disillusionment stemming both from the collective experience of the first world war and from Eliot’s personal travails. Born in St. Louis‚ Eliot had studied at Harvard‚ the Sorbonne‚ and Oxford before moving to London‚ where he completed his doctoral dissertation on the philosopher F. H. Bradley. Because of the war‚ he was unable to return to the United States to receive his degree. He taught
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be put off so easily. VINCENT VAN GOGH‚ letter to Theo van Gogh‚ Oct. 1884 Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances‚ incalculable as the descent of thistle-down. GEORGE ELIOT‚ Romola To live is to war with trolls. HENRIK IBSEN Brief and powerless is man’s life; on him and all his race the slow‚ sure doom falls pitiless and dark. BERTRAND RUSSELL‚ Philosophical Essays Life is a game. Money is how we keep score. TED TURNER
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through his poetry. His poetry reflects his desire to depict the depressing‚ degrading and disgusting conditions of life in this country. When we study W B Yeats and T.S.Eliot‚we talk about the Irish sensibility in Yeats or American influence in Eliot and so on. However the momentwe speak about the reflection of Indian sensibility in Indian English poetry‚ the first name that comes to our mind is that of Nissim Ezekiel as his poetry reflects his Indianness. Nissim Ezekiel has beautifully used
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Perpetual Quest for Identity and Commitment in Nissim Ezekiel Poetry Dr.Ratan Bhattacharjee About the writer: (Dr.Ratan Bhattacharjee is at present the Chairperson of the Post Graduate Dept. of English and is also associated with teaching in the PG Dept of English of Rabindra Bharati Univesity ‚ both in regular and distance.He is the Executive member in the International Advisory Board of International Theeodore Dreiser Society‚ USA. (http://uncw.edu/dreiser/) His articles and poems are
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Critical appreciation of a poem is defined as the critical reading of a poem. The meaning of its words‚ its rhyme‚ scheme‚ the speaker‚ figures of speech‚ the references to other works (intertextuality)‚ the style of language‚ the general writing style of the poet ( if mentioned)‚ the genre‚ the context‚ the tone of the speaker and such other elements make up the critical reading or appreciation. It does not mean criticising the poem. A critical appreciation helps in a better understanding of the
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Poem Summary Lines 1-6 This epigraph is taken from Dante’s Divine Comedy. It reads: “If I thought my answer were to one who could ever return to the world‚ this flame would move no more; but since no one has ever returned alive from this depth‚ if what I hear be true‚ without fear of infamy I answer you.” The words are spoken by a lost soul‚ damned to Hell for the attempt to buy absolution in advance of committing a crime. This correlates with Prufrock’s need to know the answer to the question
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Syllabus of English (BDP) B.A. (Hons.) Course Code : EEG NETAJI SUBHAS OPEN UNIVERSITY 1‚ Woodburn Park‚ Kolkata-700 020 Tel. : 2283-5157 TeleFax : 033-2283 5082Course Structure For The Bachelor’s Degree Programme (BDP) in English 1. Compulsory Subjects : Foundation Course (a) Humanities and Social Science (FHS) 8 Credits (b) Science and Technology (FST) 8 Credits (c) Bengali (FBG) 4 Credits (d) English (FEG) 4 Credits 24 Credits 2. Elective Subjects : Honours Course (EEG) Paper 1 : Reading Poetry
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scientific and philosophical discoveries increased. The founder of the new poetic theory was the Anglo-American poet T.S. Eliot. He dedicated his poem The Waste Land‚ the greatest modern poem‚ to Ezra Pound‚ the leader of Imagism. Modernism established that the new poet had to reject subjective feelings in favour of a central authority and objective‚ central standards. T.S. Eliot found this central authority in tradition that consist in the works of the great masters of the past‚ like Dante. The
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Rock n’ roll and 20th Century Culture According to Philip Ennis‚ rock n’ roll emerged from the convergence of social transformations which resulted from World War II (Ryan 927). Despite its pop culture origins‚ rock music is arguably one of the strongest cultural factors to develop in this century. Artists such as Lennon‚ McCartney and Dylan defined the emotions of a generation and‚ in the last decade‚ it as even been acknowledged by members of the establishment which it hoped to
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