Realism – Unit Test 1. Which of the following quotations from "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" reveals an objective point of view? A "He was a captain." B "He closed his eyes in order to fix his last thoughts upon his wife and children." C "His whole body was racked and wrenched with an insupportable anguish!" D "He had not known that he lived in so wild a region." 2. Why does the author describe
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milieu. The characterization‚ the story line‚ the plot are all reflective of the ancient traditions‚ only the names and sequence have been modified intentionally. The back ground Trojan War is replaced by the American Civil War. O’Neill’s Agamemnon is Ezra Mannon‚ a hard unbending New Englander‚ who has been off to the Mexican War in his youth‚ who has studied law‚ been a skipper‚ achieved great success in business and served as Mayor of the small town in which his family is outstanding. His Clytemnestra
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the function of literature as a generated prize-worthy force is precisely that it does incite humanity to continue living; that it eases the mind of strain‚ and feeds it‚ I mean definitely as nutrition of impulse." [T.S. Eliot‚ Literary Essays of Ezra Pound 20 (New York: New Directions Book‚ 1935)] Literature "returns you to otherness‚ whether in yourself or in friends‚ or in those who may become
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In the poem “White Lies” by Natasha Trethewey I felt like this poem represents imagism because it mentions six different colors all describing lies. It’s about an African American girl that may tell little lies that don’t really mean much. She lies about where she lives‚ where she brought her clothes‚ and would also lie about being African American. When she lies about her skin color in the line‚ “I could even keep quiet‚ quiet as kept‚ like the time a white girl said (squeezing my hand)‚ Now we
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The blackbird is the only element in nature which is aesthetically compatible with bleak light and bare limbs: he is‚ we may say‚ a certain kind of language‚ opposed to euphony‚ to those "noble accents and lucid inescapable rhythms" which Stevens used so memorably elsewhere in Harmonium. … There are thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird because thirteen is the eccentric number; Stevens is almost medieval in his relish for external form. This poetry will be one of inflection and innuendo; the inflections
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When we read poems‚ we don’t exactly interpret the meaning of it automatically. It takes us a shot‚ or two‚ or three to fully understand the meaning of it or at least have your own interpretation. In the poem In a Station of the Metro‚ written by Ezra Pound‚ one of the themes that are presented is modernization. Nowadays‚ the metro isn’t the place where people want to be because of its lousy appearance‚ the people seem a little odd for others‚ and in other words people don’t like taking it because
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For countless years‚ great authors have evolved influenced people and each other from their sublime work. This essay will dive into the comparison of writers‚ Ernest Hemingway and Morley Callaghan‚ through analyzing three examples regarding each readers‚ Birth year‚ along with what kind of family life each writer had‚ each writers entrance into the writing world‚ and their different writing styles reflected by their earlier life. This essay will not depict who is a better writer‚ but simply how they
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Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 9‚ 1861 in an affluent family in the Jorasanko Mansion in Kolkata. His parents were Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi.Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta‚ India into a wealthy Brahmin family. After a brief stay in England (1878) to attempt to study law‚ he returned to India‚ and instead pursued a career as a writer‚ playwright‚ songwriter‚ poet‚ philosopher and educator. During the first 51 years of his life he achieved some success
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be found‚ the original typescript of the poem as well as that version with comments by Ezra Pound. In the typescript‚ the name of the poem is "Gerousia"‚ referring to the name of the Council of the Elders at Sparta.[5] Pound‚ who was living in London‚ England in 1919‚ acted as Eliot’s editor and influenced many of his works. When Eliot considered publishing the poem as the opening part of The Waste Land‚ Pound discouraged him from doing so saying‚ "I do not advise printing Gerontion as preface. One
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Decision: Better inventory management No production bottlenecks Boosts employee morale Background: -c/o Alfranz Symptoms: * Un-updated inventory levels (no EO‚ and tracking method) * Non separation of inventory control and store keeping * Absence of materials requisition (monitored inventory levels) * Idle people in the production department * Production bottlenecks * Long lead time * No safety stocks * No production planning * Inefficient floor layout
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