D. H. LAWRENCE (1885 – 1930) Hardy and Yeats belong to the upper classes; however‚ D. H. Lawrence is a working class poet and novelist. Both Hardy and D.H. Lawrence write outstanding novels and they are famous in both of the literary forms. Hardy depicts nature in terms of pessimism like William Butler Yeats and D.H. Lawrence portrays pessimism through the sexuality that stands for the blood for himself. In Freudian psychology‚ the snake symbolizes the male sexual power. However‚ in D.H. Lawrence’s
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Angel Clifford Clifford 1 Ms. MacArthur English 2 3 March 2013 E.E Cummings Edward Estlin Cummings‚ more commonly known as E.E Cummings‚ was born on October 14‚ 1894. He was well known for his poetry. “Little Tree”‚ “Selected Poems”‚ and “Eimi“ are just some of his books of poetry‚ but does this make him securely canonized as major or minor? Richard S. Kennedy explains his point of view. He says Cummings would be a major minor poet. Someone who is considered minor
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Archibald MacLeish’s imagist idea of art for art’s sake is expressed in the poem ’Ars Poetica’. The poem is about the art of poetry or what a poem should be. It is interesting to note that as MacLeish states what a poem should be‚ he illustrates it as well‚ in the poem by successfully using paradoxes/contradictions and images to convey the idea that good poetry uses powerful images. The poem is divided into three sections of eight lines each with four rhyming couplets. In the first section‚ he
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Poetry is considered one of the most challenging literary genre to translate. American poet Robert Frost argues that “poetry is what gets lost in translation‚" (qtd. in Gentzler 27) which is agreed by many others. Many scholars even denied that possibility for poetry to be translated into other languages‚ namely its untranslatability. Translatability is “the capacity for some kind of meaning to be transferred from one language to another without undergoing radical change.” (Baker & Malmkjær 273)
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How does The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock reflect T.S.Eliot’s concerns about the modern world? T.S.Eliot’s poem‚ The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock‚ is written in a modernist style. This becomes apparent from the very first stanza‚ when he describes a sunset. In Georgian poetry‚ a sunset is usually described in a beautiful sense‚ whereas Eliot has compared it to a ’patient etherised upon a table’. The language Eliot has used is one of a scientific and sterile nature. He may be trying to raise
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Abstract: Modernism provides many of the major works that continue to define what literature and painting are. Understanding Modernism (between about 1870 and 1939) is essential for understanding modern literature. Can only gifted students understand Modernism? Can only gifted students understand modern literature and art? The focus here is on classics of prose‚ poetry and painting that are interesting in themselves and help to make sense of the period of cultural crisis that defined abstraction
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Ange Ngatchou period 3 9/12/2015 I‚ Too‚ Sing America I too sing america was written by Langston Hughes in 1925‚ a time when there was an outburst of cultural‚ ethnical and literary creativity. The poem I too sing america was very famous not only because of when it was written but also to whom it was made for. In 1891‚ Walt Whitman wrote a poem called I Hear America Singing‚ In order to explain Hughes poem‚ I need to explain Whitman’s poem. As well as W.E.B du bois theory of double consciousness
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If a picture can paint a thousand words‚ certainly a word could paint a thousand pictures. This is what poet Marianne Moore accomplishes with chosen words in her poem. Words that create specific pictures that provide the reader with an insight into her thoughts. However‚ her pictures are not pleasant and encouraging images. On the contrary‚ in the poem “What Are Years?” Moore utilizes negative and demoralizing imagery to reveal her pessimism and belief of mankind’s declining morality. In the first
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William Ellis was born in Salford‚ Greater Manchester in the United Kingdom. He was born on August 24‚1794. He was born to two hard working parents. William was a missionary in Hawaii and he was also a famous writer. He made a big impact on the people he was a missionary to and has many well-known books that have been published. His books are about his life as a missionary and his wife. I picked him because all of the places he visited were interesting to me. They were interesting because I like
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Spoils of War In the poem “Next to you god of course america” by e.e. cummings figurative devices and sarcasm are used to reveal the hate some people have towards World War I The poem starts with a man speaking of how honorable and fascinating America in the war is. He sings parts of songs and questions anyone who thinks war is distasteful. This‚ at first glance‚ may be seen as love toward the great country but with the use of diction‚ similes‚ and line spacing the truth is revealed. The speaker
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