fully industrialized world. The first half of the 20th century is then normally referred to in literary histories as ‘Modernism’‚ a very general term used to talk about a series of different movements and tendencies (impressionism‚ expressionism‚ imagism‚ futurism‚ dadaism‚ surrealism...) that tried to break with old tradition and the realistic concept of art. Modernism challenged the assumption of reality‚ which is at the roots of realism: that there is a common phenomenal world that can be reliably
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A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF EZRA POUND’S IN A STATION OF THE METRO AND T.S. ELIOT’S THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK MAHRUKH BAIG M.Phil Applied Linguistics‚ “Lecturer English” University of Management and Technology‚ Lahore‚ Pakistan. ABSTRACT Pound and Eliot’s satiric criticism on the new morality of the modern world is skillfully achieved in their famous poems‚ “In a Station of the Metro” and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”. This research paper is aimed at a comparative analysis
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Mark Twain‚ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Henry James‚ Daisy Miller Kate Chopin‚ The Story of an Hour Robert Frost and his poems. Modernism Ernst Hemingway‚ Pulitzer Prizes‚ Noble Prize‚ and The Killers Minimalism Ezra Pound‚ In A Station of the Metro Imagism Essay questions – On test day‚ you will be asked two essay questions. They will be picked at random from the four questions below. So be prepared to answer all of them because‚ you will not know which one you will have to
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particularly poetry‚ modernism inspired new and revolutionary ideas‚ forming distinct poetic groups. Through modernism‚ came Imagism. Imagists rejected traditional poetry such as romantic and futurist and focused on the notion that less is more. Prominent imagist poet Ezra Pound believed‚ “It is better to present on Image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous works” (Caws‚ 356). Imagism was a movement of poets
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Samantha Monnett English 11 Literature of America April 27‚ 2012 The Life of a So Called Lesbian Amy Lowell was born in Brookline‚ Massachusetts on February 9‚ 1874. She was the daughter of Augustus Lowell and Katherine Bigelow Lawrence. Both her mother and father were from New England aristocrats. Aristocrats are wealthy and prominent members of society. Her father‚ Augustus‚ was a businessman‚ civic leader‚ and horticulturalist. Lowell’s mother‚ Katherine‚ was an accomplished musician
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Poesía Norteamericana THE PHILOSOPHIC MATRIX OF MODERNISM‚ IMAGISM‚ CULTURAL BEARINGS‚ INFLUENCES By the beginning of the XX c. in England‚ the poetry cultivated was one in the line of the Romantic poetry. Relevant figures such as Rudgard Kipling and Oscar Wilde: Kipling’s poetry has a social use‚ official propaganda‚ in order to make the reader achieve social goals. The style is rhetorical and discursive. The language is the language of the public. (Morality) Oscar Wilde stands for another type
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generally called a movement‚ it is more valid to see modernism as an international body of literature characterized by a new self-consciousness about modernity and by radical formal experimentation. Several literary movements and styles‚ notably Imagism and Vorticism‚ were fostered within modernism‚ which flourished from around 1890 until 1940. There was also a period of so-called "high modernism‚" 1920-5. Generally‚ modernists were driven by the belief that the assurances once provided by religion
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MODERNISM The literary movement that spanned from the late 19th century until roughly 1965 is referred to as modernism. When talking about the movement there must be an understanding of the difference between modernism and the more common word “modern”. The word modern refers to what is new‚ recent‚ and updated. Although modernism does deal with the futuristic and the new‚ it also covers vastly more topics and themes. Modernism reaches into rebellion‚ struggle and harsh realities. From there it
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great personal hardships in life. Even though he had those hardships‚ he still went on to write many more great poems. In his poetry he was influenced by the hardships that he went through‚ along with other poets such as Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ and Ezra Pound (Killoran‚ Helen). He was also influenced by the many tragedies that occurred in his life. From his father dying at a young age‚ to him having suicidal thoughts‚ to his daughter being in and out of a mental institution‚ the suicide of his son‚ and
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Eliot’s second wife‚ Valerie‚ was published and revealed how much the poem was edited and compressed by Eliot along with Ezra Pound‚
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