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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Eliot‚ T. S.‚ in full THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT (b. Sept. 26‚ 1888‚ St. Louis‚ Mo.‚ U.S. – d. Jan. 4‚ 1965‚ London‚ Eng.)‚ American-English poet‚ playwright‚ literary critic‚ and editor‚ a leader of the modernist movement in poetry in such works as The Waste Land (1922) and Four Quartets (1943). Eliot exercised a strong influence on Anglo-American culture from the 1920s until late in the century. His experiments in diction‚ style‚ and versification revitalized English poetry‚ and in a series of critical
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United States of America 4. Characters: Pearl Tull (major)- The single mother of three children‚ Cody‚ Ezra‚ and Jenny. She is very independent and resourceful. Pearl sets very high standards for herself and does not want assistance from anyone. Ezra Tull (major)- Ezra is the middle child and the youngest son of Pearl. He is the most sympathetic character in the novel. Throughout the novel‚ Ezra is noted to be the favored child of the three. Cody Tull (major)- Cody is the eldest son of Pearl. He is
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This needs saying at the outset. In itself‚ it might seem like an unremarkable fact‚ but it actually is not: Amartya Sen is a citizen of India. While most of his countrymen who have been able to leave India for a long time try their best to become citizens of the country they might have gone to (Britain‚ America‚ Canada‚ Australia)‚ Sen‚ a man whom Cambridge and Harvard are said to have fought over for the privilege of offering an appointment‚ resolutely retains his blue Indian passport after half
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sculpture. In describing Brancusi’s “Golden Bird” sculpture‚ Loy uses the futuristic ideals of speed and machines to depict the very fast and perhaps violent bird. In the opening line‚ Loy states “The toy become the aesthetic archetype‚” (79). Loy uses imagism to depict the bird as an abstract work of art that is very modern for the era. She depicts the bird as a toy with a futuristic “aesthetic archetype.” Due to its rare architecture‚ the form of the bird can be related to the glorification of machines
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writers and their writings. The Divine Comedy influenced different writers and poets throughout the centuries. The writers saw different meanings behind the work of fiction. Some focused on the poetry and how it represents human nature. For example‚ Ezra Pound found it to focus on the moral flaws of humans and his poem‚ Cantos‚ works with Hell and Purgatory only(Lummus 7). Others argued that Inferno was the truth on the workings of Hell. Erich Auerbach wrote in his essay‚ Figura‚ that the Divine Comedy
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people‚ places‚ and things in literature. John Knowles makes a great use of symbolism through the Devon and Naguamsett Rivers in his novel A Separate Peace. “Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.”- Ezra
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C. (Neh. 13). Nehemiah was written by Ezra sometime during or after Nehemiah’s second term‚ but no later than 400 B.C. The combined book Ezra–Nehemiah of the earliest Christian and Jewish period was known as Ezra and was probably attributed to Ezra himself; according to a rabbinic tradition‚ however‚ Nehemiah was the real author but was forbidden
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no redemption. Machiavelli`s highly ranked book “The Prince” is being taught in every school and strongly recommended for being the key to success. It is a book I would personally ban from every institution‚ and instead I would teach about “Seven Pounds”‚ a movie where we can learn more about how a successful man can make an ultimate sacrifice in order to make others happy. It`s a fine work directed by Gabriele Mucino after the story written of Grant Nieporte. With Will Smith in the main role‚ a
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story‚ different events occurred that justified the main theme of the story. The most significant event happened at the end of the book and could be classified as the climax. The main character‚ Ezra‚ wanted more than anything to get back together with his
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