Assignment On‚ “Concept of tradition and individual talent and depersonalization of the poet T.S.Eliot” Submitted to: ABM Monirul Haque Chairman ‚ Department of English Submitted By: In Tradition and Individual Talent‚ he propounded the doctrine that poetry should be impersonal and free itself from Romantic practices‚ ‘the progress of an author is a continual self-sacrifice‚ a continual extinction of personality’. He sees that in this depersonalization‚ the art approaches science. For Eliot
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Commentary on the poem- ‘My Grandmother’ by Elizabeth Jennings The poem ‘My Grandmother‚’ is a recount of a childhood memory of the poets’ grandmother who “kept an antique shop”‚ and there are many underlying meaning and thoughts in the poem‚ which illustrate the strong attachment of the grandmother towards her shop and the relationship between her and the poet. The poet uses her grandmothers’ life to portray themes such as loneliness‚ guilt and the passing of time. The first and third verse are written
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a theme of ‘fear and respect’ towards the main creature of the poem shown through contradicting dialogue The first example is ‘Pike’ by Ted Hughes. The poet uses the poem to expresses his love and respect but also fear towards the fresh water cannibalistic fish. The first line of the poem “Pike‚ three inches long‚ perfect” shows the poets knowledge of the fish and he describes the fish as being perfect which shows us he respects the fish but in the line “But silently cast and fished with the
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In Owen?s poem‚ ?Strange Meeting‚? the theme of war is heavily emphasized‚ as the poet expresses complete disgust concerning the nature of war. Yet‚ rather than describing the violence of war in the battlefield‚ the poet chooses a most unconventional route to attack war by instead placing the soldiers in Hell‚ centering the poem around the civil conversation between two dead enemies. In doing this‚ the poet strips away the barrier between these two enemies‚ and as a result‚ he evokes not anger‚ but
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A.K. Ramanujan’s poem “A River Theme The poet levels a scathing criticism against poets‚ both old and new poets‚ who eulogize the external beauty of nature while ignoring the deeper significance or the humanitarian aspect of the floods which destroy life and property. The old and new poets find the violent mood of the river more sensational and exciting and fail to write about the malignant aspect of nature .They are insensitive and callous towards human suffering. He criticizes the attitude of
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in the honour of St Francis. The poet describes the suffering of the dwarf then he describes how hypocritical the priest is being by taking tourists round the church rather than helping the dwarf. Paragraph 2. The dwarf “The dwarf with his hands on backwards” The poet uses this metaphor to describe how twister and deformed the dwarf looks. It also implies that the dwarf has poor dexterity in his hands. The reader begins to feel pity for the dwarf. The poet wants the reader to understand the
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In the troubadour tradition‚ love is both a thing that the poet pursues and a thing that pursues the poet. It can fulfill the poet and drive him crazy at the same time. The troubadour poem that I have chosen to help prove this is the poem‚ "On true love are all my thoughts bent." This poem is in the troubadour style of canso‚ or "love song‚" as opposed to being a sirventes‚ or "political song." Like in minnesinger poems‚ many lines in this poem have rhymes‚ which means "the pattern of repeated sounds
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mourner between the two wives of the poet. For which they are arguing who is the one who will be with the dead body of the poet. The poet clan together with his legal wife wants to have a peaceful burial for the poet so they want Esa to get away but She insist for she is the one who are there to take care the poet when he is ill. 3. Who is the single main character about whom the story centers? Describe? Esa‚ the Second wife. As for the narrator‚ the poets niece‚ She is Young‚ Accomplished‚ A
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The poet‚ John Donne wrote "The Sunne Rising" poem. The poem is metaphysical. Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of the reality of things‚ including questions about being and substance‚ time and space‚ causation and change‚ and identity. Metaphysics presents the theoretical philosophy as the ultimate science of being and knowing. Metaphysics provides sense relating to philosophical speculation and intellectual abstraction. Metaphysics belongs to the nature
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life style allowed him to open his mind to new things. Much of “the Poet” is influenced by transcendentalism‚ such as needing to find a balance between nature and society to properly share ideas with mankind. “The most lasting poetry — speaking historically—is the poetry that has given some expression to the poet’s soul‚ that part of him- or herself that connects most deeply and exactly with the souls of others” (Birkerts‚ 70). The poet does not let the outside influences of the world impact him‚ and
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