great personal hardships in life. Even though he had those hardships‚ he still went on to write many more great poems. In his poetry he was influenced by the hardships that he went through‚ along with other poets such as Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ and Ezra Pound (Killoran‚ Helen). He was also influenced by the many tragedies that occurred in his life. From his father dying at a young age‚ to him having suicidal thoughts‚ to his daughter being in and out of a mental institution‚ the suicide of his son‚ and
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by George Dow‚ in which a variety of pictographs was used to indicate facilities available at or near each station. Pictographs remain in common use today‚ serving as pictorial‚ representational signs‚ instructions‚ or statistical diagrams. Because of their graphical nature and fairly realistic style‚ they are widely used to indicate public toilets‚ or places such as airports and train stations. Pictographic writing as a modernist poetic
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Promt: Compare the two versions of The Seafarer by Raffel and Pound and give reasoning for why one is a better translation‚ in terms of preserving the Anglo-Saxon poetic tradition and the overall feel of the poem. It would not be possible to translate The Seafarer perfectly‚ keeping all of its patently Anglo-Saxon poetic devices intact. Because much of their poetic tradition involves the sounds of the words themselves‚ unless there were similar-sounding synonyms in modern English for each there
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Ezra Pound and TS Eliot were both expatriate Americans who were part of the early Modernist movement in the beginning of the twentieth century. The two men were great friends during this time and Pound took Eliot under his wing‚ publishing and promoting his work and introducing him to all the right people. In their early work as they are just discovering and honing their talents the idea of culture and identity was of huge importance to them both. They had both left America to travel and experience
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DIDLS Breakdown DIDLS Diction‚ Imagery‚ Details‚ Language‚ and Syntax Use diction to find tone. Use imagery‚ details‚ language and syntax to support tone. TONE Author’s attitude toward the subject‚ toward himself‚ or toward the audience. DICTION Adjectives‚ nouns‚ verbs‚ adverbs‚ negative words‚ positive words‚ synonyms‚ contrast. Look at the words that jump out at you - Evaluate only those words to find tone Also look at: Colloquial (Slang) Old-Fashioned Informal (Conversational)
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Eliot’s second wife‚ Valerie‚ was published and revealed how much the poem was edited and compressed by Eliot along with Ezra Pound‚
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showed that whatever class you were in‚ whether you were born rich or poor‚ you had a chance to succeed‚ as we can see with Mr Doolittle and Eliza‚ where Doolittle is given money by Ezra D. Wannafeller and becomes middle class. When Doolittle ‘sells’ Eliza to Higgins for £5‚ Higgins offers him £10 and Doolittle says‚ “Ten pounds is a lot of money: it makes a man feel prudent like; and then goodbye to happiness.” This proves that lower class people felt that if they were to have more money than they needed
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the formation of modernism" ("Stein Holds Her First Paris Salons"). But why were these people so drawn to Paris‚ what made them leave America? Malcolm Cowley‚ an American Literary critic and social historian who became close to Gertrude Stein‚ Ezra Pound‚ and other writers from the Lost Generation‚ "suggested that a distaste for the grandiose and sentimental languages of the patriotic manifestos of the war gave [the expatriates] a common standpoint‚" and Stein gave them an environment in which they
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Aphoristic style- the use of sentances or phrases within a larger essay or speech (usually persuasive) that stand out as memorable statements (aphorisms) in themselves. What we obtain cheap‚ we esteem too lightly Tyranny‚ like hell‚ is not easily conquered These are times that try men’s souls The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph Through the flame of liberty may cease to shine‚ the coal can never expire. It matters not where you love‚ or what rank of life you hold
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