Eliot’s Modernist poem‚ “The Hollow Men” After World War I the Modernist era made changes not only in the world but also in English literature. The Modernist era of English literature changed the traditional writing style of the twentieth century. T.S. Eliot was considered one of the most influential twentieth century poets in English literature. His poetry differs from most of the nineteenth and twentieth century poetry. T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Hollow Men” is a classic example of the Modernist poetry
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After this Hemingway returned again to enlist in the Italian infantry. He served in the infantry on the Austrian front until the war ended. Hemingway was part of a unique experience. Veterans of World War I were the only people who understood the chaos and monstrosity that took place overseas because they experienced it first hand. This is not something easily communicated to those who have not served in the war. Hemingway uses his novels‚ specifically The Sun Also Rises‚ to show the post-war effects
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doesn’t want her to have the baby he tells her that the surgery will be perfectly simple.He tries to persuade her that he knows a lot of people that have done the procedure.He thinks it’s the best thing to do for the both of them.The author Ernest Hemingway uses the literary element of symbolism throughout the story to convey the larger meaning. The whole story revolved around the elephant.The elephant is important because the woman wanted
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Hemingway has a stylistic craft that seems simple‚ but it has so much depth between the lines. The short story is about a couple that is at a train station bar that is anything but normal‚ something that could change their lives forever. In “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway‚ he conveys a story that seems about something small‚ but it has so much effect in it. Hemingway uses repetition to emphasize certain words‚ the use of extended metaphors to avoid the big idea‚ and symbolism to
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Ernest Hemingway is perhaps considered one of the greatest innovators of the 20th-century fiction. "Hills Like White Elephants" from the 1927 collection Men Without Women is one of the most famous American short stories ever composed by Hemingway‚ one of America’s most famous authors. This story focuses on a conversation between an American man and a woman‚ Jig‚ at a Spanish train station while waiting for a train to Madrid. The pair engages in an intense discussion about an "operation" which the
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The After Effects of the War in The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemmingway was an intellectual writer who used characters‚ setting‚ and action in the novel‚ The Sun Also Rises‚ to convey many themes. He is also known to be a writer about the World War I time period. Thus‚ World War I has affected each of the characters in the novel in one-way or another. The war serves to haunt many of the characters and is the source of great pain in the book. Two characters that are specifically affected by the war
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by Ernest Hemingway‚ a man known as the American and his girlfriend are waiting for a train to Madrid. They are forced to make a very hard decision before the train arrives‚ on whether or not the girl should abort her pregnancy. The overall theme of hard choices are symbolized in different forms such as the setting. Hemingway uses the setting of the train station and the landscape that surrounds it‚ to help emphasize this overall theme of difficult decision making. Although Hemingway uses many
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Life is a very precious thing. The ability to give it is amazing‚ and the power to take it away is one of the hardest things to do. In Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Hills Like White Elephants”‚ he shows the difficult decision some families must make with their child‚ abortion‚ through the symbolism of the hills “looking like white elephants” and also the that woman drinking alcohol although she is pregnant. To understand the symbolism of the comparison of the hills and the white elephant‚ the
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short story “Short happy life of Francis Macomber‚” We see major changes in the characters perspectives throughout the story. These perspectives vary from negative and positive in the author’s craft. . Each character changes differently; Giving hemingway a multi-[part claim. And through this margot francis and wilson are character by muli-pul perspectives with multiple trait and negative aspects. The short story. Wilson has a major perspective during you can see the change. You can see wilson’s
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Hemingway and the Struggle of Masculinity in WarMen in A Farewell to Arms and For Whom The Bell TollsThe name of Ernest Hemingway has long been associated with the idea of a strong‚ stubborn man who is very socially inept. In both A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls‚ we are introduced to an extremely cold‚ unfeeling character and we see how they evolve from one type of man into another. Frederic Henry and Robert Jordan are both Americans serving overseas in some conflict‚ Henry being in
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