Modernism An Anthology of Sources and Documents. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 366-375. Eliot‚ TS‚ 1923. ULYSSES‚ ORDER‚ AND MYTH. [Web Essay] Available at: http://people.virginia.edu/~jdk3t/eliotulysses.htm [Accessed on 3rd May 2012]. Imagism Moore M. 1926. New Poetry Since 1912 In: Kolocotroni V‚ Goldman J‚ Taxidou O eds. 1998. Modernism An Anthology of Sources and Documents. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University 429-433. Whitman W‚ 1855. From preface to Leaves of Grass In: Kolocotroni V‚ Goldman
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The Black Prince is structured as Pearson’s apologia to his editor and friend P.A. Loxias. This allows Murdoch to address an audience directly‚ pausing for philosophical musings‚ without engaging in the post-modern trick of acknowledging the reader. Loxias and Pearson both write forewords to the main text. Pearson and four other characters offer competing postscripts. Two deny Loxias’s existence. This fulfills early premonitions about Pearson’s unreliability as a narrator. The first significant piece
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‚ T.S. Eliot appeared on the scene of 20th century English poetry as a wonderful innovator with these lines of his The Love-song of J. Alfred Prufrock on the pages of the Poetry magazine in 1915: “Let us go‚ then‚ you and I When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table". These lines immediately revolutionized the intellectual climate of English poetry. Eliot initiated a new brand of poetry of the city‚ poetry essentially cerebral‚ impersonal‚ predominantly
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“A recurring characteristic of Modernism is the estrangement of the individual from his/her world: the outside world becomes unreal‚ uncanny‚ a place in which the individual can no longer feel at home.” What evidence do you find of such estrangement in the writing of the period? The late 19th century and early 20th century were times of great spiritual and social upheaval. It was an era in which many external values of the previous century were being challenged; faith in the government was in
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Current critical debate discusses contemporary poetry in terms of the Pound‚ Stevens or Williams’ era‚ forgetting T. S. Eliot‚ the poet who presided over the literary scenario for almost half a century. Eliot’s bookishness‚ political conservatism and religious leanings‚ together with the Modernist cultivation of an erudite‚ culturally charged idiom‚ have constituted a serious source of critical discontent. For the adepts of Marxist hermeneutics‚ his work came to represent “a privileged‚ closed‚ authoritative
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Poetry Commentary: The Wild Swans at Coole by Yeats The Wild Swans at Coole by William Butler Yeats is‚ as the title suggests‚ a poem about a flock of Swans inhabiting the lake at Augusta Gregory ’s Coole Park residence. However‚ the theme of the poem is change and unrequited love‚ presumably inspired by the transformation Europe‚ and Yeats himself‚ underwent in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The poem is written in a consistently contemplative and plaintive tone‚ and it seems the poet is experiencing
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Shel Silverstein was born in Chicago‚ Illinois 1932 and died May 10‚ 1999 from a heart attack. Shel Silverstein was a well know and well liked author/poet. Silverstein noticed his talents when he was twelve years old. When most boys are playing sports and chasing girls‚ Shel was at home writing and drawing original pieces. His talents were well developed by the time he served in the US Armed Forces during the 1950’s. While in the military he was a cartoonist for the Pacific Edition of the military
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The Style and Content of William Butler Yeats William Butler Yeats was a man who is known for his extraordinary writings of the nineteenth century‚ and is considered to be one of the greatest poets of the English language. Yeats was a poet with extensive knowledge and was thought to have been born ahead of his time. Throughout his poetry and literary works he uses a combination of technique and style to express his meaningful ideas. Yeats became a pioneering poet who had a revolutionary type of
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"Sailing to Byzantium": Appreciation of Life and the Struggle Between the Ages In W.B. Yeats‚ "Sailing to Byzantium" the narrator is an older man looking at his life with detest as the way it appears now. He is holding resent for the way the young get to live their lives and how he lives his now. The narrator is dealing with the issue of being older and his sadness of worth in this life‚ and who is later able to come to terms and accept his life. In "Sailing to Byzantium" the poem is broken
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The use of symbol in poetry and in literature as a whole is commonplace because it is an outlet for the author ’s creative psyche. A symbol is a creative use of metaphor‚ using a comparison but not just a direct comparison. The author attempts to achieve the effect that there is much more than just the reader ’s initial reaction creating a want to delve deeper into the true meaning‚ leaving a vast space of interpretation. Allegory on the other hand is a specific comparison‚ a symbol that is set
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