And an immense bridge Going into white fog. Here is a broken city‚ And the wind throws the screams of gulls on your grave When I am talking with you. What is poetry which does not save Nations or people? A connivance with official lies‚ A song of drunkards whose throats will be cut in a moment‚ Readings for sophomore girls. That I wanted good poetry without knowing it‚ That I discovered‚ late‚ its salutary aim‚ In this and only this I find salvation. They used to pour millet on graves
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Further‚ I will analyse one of the primary manifestations of the modernist aesthetic‚ Literature. Lastly ‚ I wish to identify stylistic and thematic traits of the movement as well as probe representative works such as Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway‚ Eliot’s Prufrock and Other Observations and Conrad’s Heart of Darkness to demonstrate the same. During the late nineteenth century many of Society’s cornerstones were broken. Scientific discoveries such as those of the X-Ray had egalitarian effects on society
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Mary Hyland 11/18/14 P.3 Poem Reaction Paragraphs Emily Dickinson: “Success Is Counted Sweetest” This poem brought about a reaction in me of true success. The message is those who succeed‚ never truly appreciate success: only those who fail‚ or who lack something‚ can truly appreciate the joy if they had succeeded. The poet says “those who ne’er succeed” genuinely value success‚ or as she says‚ “They “count” it “sweetest”. Dickinson also states the members of the victorious army
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its successful unity of society through its illumination of the feelings of disillusionment and rebellion. This illumination and unification is shown in a number of texts composed at the time‚ including; Preludes‚ The Waste Land and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S Eliot. T.S. Eliot’s Preludes portrays a futile existence in a desolate world‚ and a disillusioned protagonist‚ who sees the world for what it is. It was written between the years of 1910 and 1911 and can be viewed as a reflection
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Smith’s Academy in St. Louis and Milton Academy in Massachusetts. He later went to college at Harvard University where he became an editor for the Harvard Advocate which published many of his poems. This lead to his first publication‚ “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” In 1925‚ he joined a publishing company which took over the publication of his magazine. After he graduated in 1910‚ he moved to Paris to study for the Sorbonne before finally returning to Harvard to continue graduate studies for philosophy
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English 12 CP/ Period 6 6 December 2016 Human Condition In both poems‚ “On Monsieur’s Departure” and “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock‚” they reveal very similar aspects in the human condition using figurative language. The use of figurative language in these poems makes it easier to portray the types of feelings that go through one’s head. In “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock” the poem is talking about what seems to be more of what happens when one over thinks when he’s alone. Whereas in “On
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Eliot’s portrayal of urban life in the early 20th Century within his poem “Preludes” seems to paint a very bleak picture indeed‚ drawing to light the hopelessness of urban life in the opening years of the 20th century heavily‚ and with various different methods. Within Poem 1 and Poem 2 of “Preludes”‚ Eliot comments on the state of the setting‚ early 20th century London or Paris. Poem 1 is overflowing with adjectives with negative connotations such as “grimy”‚ “lonely”‚ “withered” and “burnt-out”
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”105 “My Life Had Stood—a Loaded Gun” 108“Metaphors”109“Simile”110Personification‚ 113Overstatement (hyperbole)‚ 114Paradox‚ 115 | 22“To see the world in a grain of sand” 109“You Fit Into Me”116 “The Silken Tent”118 “The Secret Sits”119 | 25Ch. 7 Song‚ 124-5“To Celia”125—Julie Ngo “O Mistress Mine” 127“Richard Cory” (Simon) 129—Rachel Pickens | 27“Funeral Blues” 135—Sidney White“Eleanor Rigby” 137—Maggie Patterson | 1 March“The Times They Are a-Changin’” 138—Manuel M. Toledo“Deathly” 140—Erin
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