The Lost Generation more specifically was a group of writers and artists who lived and worked in Paris or in other parts of Europe during World War I and the Depression. This group included authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ Ernest Hemingway‚ Ezra Pound‚ and T.S. Eliot. This group often had social connections with one another‚ and would even meet to critique one another’s work. Aside from the loss of innocence caused by the first World War‚ the group‚ for the most part‚ shared the stylistic
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1. Allegory (寓言)– The word derives from the Greek allegoria ( “speaking other-wise” ). It loosely describes any writing in verse or prose that has a double meaning. This fictional literary narrative acts as an extended metaphor in which persons‚ abstract ideas‚ or events represent not only themselves on the literal level‚ but also stand for something else on the symbolic level. An allegorical reading usually involves moral or spiritual concepts that may be more significant than the actual‚ literal
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highly regarded modernist periodical. In part because of her extensive European travels before the First World War‚ Moore came to the attention of poets as diverse as Wallace Stevens‚ Hilda Doolittle‚ T. S. Eliot‚ and Ezra Pound and corresponded for a time with W.H. Auden and Ezra Pound. In her poetry Moore experimented with the stanza and strived to unite what she called "precision‚ economy of statement [and] logic" with complex rhyme patterns‚ syllable counts‚ and ornate diction. Her volumes include
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Poetry 1. SIEGFRIED SASSOON (Blighters; They; The Hero; The General) - Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English poet and author. He became known as a writer of satirical anti-war verse during World War I. He later won acclaim for his prose work‚ notably his three-volume fictionalised autobiography‚ collectively known as the "Sherston Trilogy". Siegfried Sassoon was born on 8th September 1886 at Weirleigh‚ near Paddock Wood in Kent. After Marlborough College
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writing in free verse. A Free verse poem contains many other poetic devices in absence of rhythm. Many other techniques that are used are alliteration‚ assonance‚ metaphors and similes. POETS Poets that wrote in free verse were T.E. Hulme‚ Ezra Pound and T.S. Elliot. Other poets that had experimented with free verse were the romantic poets; John Keats Samuel Taylor Coleridge Percy Bysshe Shelley and William Wordsworth Also some American poets wrote in free verse
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accepted to be poetry during the turn of the twentieth century. His works did not interest the American publishers in 1912. This made him‚ along with his family‚ to move to Buckinghamshire‚ England in 1912‚ where he met famous literary figures such as Ezra Pound. He also released his first major collection of verse in 1913‚ after moving to England‚ and this was named "A Boy ’s Will." A year later‚ his second publication‚ "north of Boston‚" was underway. This volume contained one of
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radio‚ and television interviews. He subsequently earned a bachelor of arts in English from Tulane University and a master of arts in English from the University of New Orleans (UNO). His accomplishments at UNO include gaining admittance to Italy’s Ezra Pound Writing Institute for two summers and winning a “best graduate teacher”
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by responding against Romantic poetry. His collection of work was extremely experimental and he repeatedly deals with the views of symbolism and imagism in his poetry. America in the early part of the twentieth century was changing quickly and becoming more and more complex and the modernist authors and artists set out to prompt this in their works. Pound‚ Yeats‚ and Eliot‚ to name a couple‚ were all trying to ‘make it new’ and put a new spin on older genres of prose or art. Eliot used this idea of
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Eliot‚ went to fight for the release of their old acquaintance Ezra Pound‚ who was in a federal mental hospital for treason. In 1958‚ Pound was released after his charges were dropped. In the year of 1961‚ at John F. Kennedy’s inauguration‚ Frost recited “The Gift of Outright.” Frost was honored by being the first poet to speak at an inauguration and
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deepens as we experience those different types of love‚ however‚ the love that is felt for a significant other is by far the most fulfilling. When reading “How Do I Love Thee” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and “The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” by Ezra Pound the love that these two women express is very different yet very much the same. Within these poems it is apparent that the two authors present two different responses to love and because of their different definitions both were changed and influenced
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