In The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock‚ T.S. Elliot employs both pessimistic and mundane descriptions to portray the feeling of alienation and dysfunction facing many city dwellers at the beginning of the twentieth century. This style of writing was in direct opposition to the optimism and happy outlook popular to the previous Victorian Era. Modernism and the development of a city culture brought with it feelings of losing ones self‚ and many writers began to question the previous ideas of a society
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Poetry is literature which expresses feelings‚ ideas and emotions ultimately to tell a story‚ but the intensity‚ reality and drive of the story is portrayed through the used of distinctive style‚ genre‚ rhythm and beat. Robert Creeley and Emily Dickinson both use poetic language and form in order to convey and allow the reader to unpack the poem and create meaning. Robert Creeley’s Broken Back Blues‚ explores the genre of Blues which allows the piece to carry a pensive tone which evokes a Jazz
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The Alchemist Workshop I had the pleasure of visiting Egyptian Museum and was very Impress.Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn is regarded as one of the most prolific and intense artists of his era. Born on July 15th‚ 1606 he is renowned as one of the most revered painters and printmakers in European art history and perhaps the most important in Dutch history of all.Rembrandt painted “Alchemist workshop” in 1606.this is the provenance of the painting
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Lee Lozano’s ‘Ream’ is a 78” x 96” oil on canvas painting. This painting displays a grooved conical figure that has the appearance of a splitter screw. Its grooves are articulated as they wrap sensually wrap around around the point of the figure. The left side of the painting is where the base of the cone starts; it narrows down just before the tip reaches the right side of the painting. The use of grey makes the painting radiate an urbanized presence. The use of vertical and horizontal hatching
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The paintings of Chuck Close and Rembrandt bear several similarities. Both convey the realism art style‚ although Close’s painting is super realism. There are also some important differences between the paintings. The most obvious one is the color. Close’s painting is done using tones of black‚ gray and white; this gives the painting a black-and-white photograph look. Rembrandt’s painting‚ on the other hand‚ has orange and is darker. The style of the paintings tell the viewer a lot about the changing
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Collin Stevens Prof. Farmer ENG 200 28 April 2016 The Quest and Prufrock The Holy Grail is the central device in Chrétien de Troyes’ Perceval‚ the Story of the Grail. T.S. Eliot takes this medieval romance and modernizes aspects of it in his poem‚ “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”. The poem exhibits the features of a grail quest‚ albeit in an inverted form. Eliot uses Prufrock as a kind of Perceval; Prufrock is a character in search of a grail of sorts‚ but Prufrock’s grail takes the form of
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1. Describe the speaker of this poem: J. Alfred Prufrock‚ the speaker of this poem‚ is a lonely middle-aged man who is still looking for love. He admits to himself that no-one would love him back even if he would to try. And he already feels like that he’s alienated for society and it has made him into a lonely person. Also‚ he tends to avoid doing things out of the ordinary because it would disturb his daily routine. And he really like fantasy because it doesn’t make him uncomfortable and he
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In a reading titled “Rembrandt’s Africans”‚ Elmer Kolfin argues that although scholarly literature has never fully discussed the presence black Africans in Rembrandt’s artwork‚ Rembrandt chose to depict Africans as the major subject of many of his often overlooked works. The paradox of Rembrandt’s Africans lies in the importance of portraying them‚ but not to such a significant degree as the Jews. He first establishes where and how Rembrandt applies the black African motif. Through his many figure
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Dani Hewitt WR121 Portrait of a Writer From a very early age I loved to read. I read every chance I got. And everywhere. I read in my car while driving (which resulted in a fender bender)‚ in the bathtub‚ and yes‚ even in the shower. I ruined a good many books this way. I believe that this kind of love for reading never goes away. Just like the love you have for your child. I think that to be able to create
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The Machinist: A Psychological Portrait of a Killer Despite being an esoteric genre‚ several films dare to delve into the realm of psychological thrillers. Films such as “Pi”‚ “Mulholland Drive”‚ “Jacob’s Ladder”‚ and “Memento” are some examples of suspenseful movies which tap into the human psyche. However‚ Brad Anderson’s 2004 film “The Machinist”‚ is a bit of an exception to this genre. Written by Scott Kosar‚ although still suspenseful‚ this film focuses more into the psychological aspect‚ rather
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