T.S. Eliot is a modernist. He believes that your mind makes things real to you; the way that we think about the world creates the world. Ronald Barthes is a postmodernist. His writings reflect his beliefs that language changes consciousness and then the world. There are obviously many differences between Eliot’s text‚ "Tradition and the Individual Talent‚" and Barthes’ text‚ "The Death of the Author." They are two different authors from different time periods of literature who developed different
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This poem’s title‚ Gerontion‚ is Greek for “little old man”. This title ties in with the poem’s theme of an old man pondering about life and death. Eliot continues his use of dryness; in this poem he uses it to represent hopelessness and purposelessness. However‚ the pervading theme of this poem is death‚ afterlife‚ and Christianity. Lines that particularly reflect these themes are lines 17-20‚ “Signs are taken for wonders. ‘We would see a sign!’/The word within a word‚ unable to speak a word
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on illusions and natural images. Whether we like it or not they were created by great men. This pops a question in our mind. If someone hates Metaphysical poetry‚ should he act like it didn’t exist at all? Lucky for us this question was answered by Eliot. He said a poet is not an individual who is separate from the rest of literary history. This statement is the very essence of his essay‚ traditional bounds should exist he said but he warned us about mere copying of some ancient or medieval poet. He
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“Meditation 17”‚ a text by John Donne‚ uses metaphors to develop the central idea that all people are connected. To convey this‚ Donne uses two metaphors to establish the concept of unity with every person in the world. The first metaphor describes how the church is universal and people are connected through it. He states‚ “the church is catholic‚ universal‚ so are all her actions” (488). This forms the idea that every person is connected‚ with depicting the church as connected to all people. The
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Textual Analysis of T.S. Eliot’s Essay from Notes on a Definition of Culture: a series of Radio talks. Abstract In his essay from a Definition of Culture Eliot proposes that the English language is the richest for the purposes of writing poetry. He uses this claim to support a second one: each culture is renewed when its fundamental nature of uniqueness and variety is recognized. Treatment This essay is a broadcast‚ delivered after WWII to the Germans. It has 3 sections‚ each represented by
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poetry of John Donne presents unexpected perspectives on human experience.” Discuss with reference to at least three poems. The use of unorthodox poetic imagery conveys equally unconventional notions of the human experience in Donne’s poetry. Through static images and exaggerated similes‚ satirical or humorous effects are expressed as each poem provides an insight into divergent facets of human existence. Established ideas are challenged by largely innocuous lines of reasoning‚ as Donne employs spurious
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to greater understanding. They can be physical‚ inner or imaginative and can allow one to gain self-awareness‚ discover their flaws and weaknesses as well as gain spiritual enlightenment. That journeys can lead to greater understanding can be seen in TS Eliot’s poem The Love Song‚ Philip Otto Rouge artwork Dawn‚ Harwood’s poem In the Park and Victor Kellesher’s book cover Ivory trail. Journeys lead to greater understanding. This can be seen in The Love Song… where Prufrock gains self-awareness
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the ways in which the two share a holy love‚ both sexual and spiritual in nature. Donne’s celebration of earthly love in this way has often been referred to as the "religion of love‚" a key feature of many other famous Donne poems‚ such as "The Canonization" and The Ecstasy. Donne treats their love as sacred‚ elevated above that of ordinary earthly lovers. He argues that because of the confidence their love gives them‚ they are strong enough to endure a temporary separation. In fact‚ he discovers
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’Oh keep the Dog far hence‚ that’s friend to men‚ ’Or with his nails he’ll dig it up again! ’You! Hypocrite lecteur! – mon semblable‚ - mon frère!’ T.S. Eliot‚ “The Burial of the Dead”‚ The Waste Land‚ lines 60-76. T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land is a Modernist piece of literature. Combining “traditional content” and radical style‚ Eliot has captured the tension between past and present. For him‚ the past is at once nostalgic‚ yet responsible for the present shared post-war “sense of desolation
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Eliot Spitzer‚ attorney general of New York Investment Protection Bureau‚ was the leading regulator who changed the way many Wall Street firms do business. What he accomplished was nothing short of extraordinary – he has not only stood up for the investors against Wall Street giants‚ but he did so in such an aggressive but rightful manner that required much courage and sophistication. Many criticized Spitzer for his overly aggressive indictments and actions against Wall Street firms‚ which consisted
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