“Modernist texts critique aspects of modernity.” Discuss how composers manipulate and appropriate textual forms and features in their responses to modern culture and values. Modernity was a period that can be loosely defined as unconventional‚ progressive‚ unveiling the barrier of propaganda‚ cultural disenchantment and violent. Throughout the period‚ many aspects affected how composers viewed the world. With effects of war‚ effects of industrialisation and the corruption of political power‚ many
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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 of his isolated and insignificant status. He experienced both a physical and imaginative journey. Prufrock is a man who is a mid aged man‚ single and a pessimist. He isolates himself and is afraid of making
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also shared by TS Eliot‚ who through his poems “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock”‚”Preludes” and “Rhapsody on a Windy Night” ‚ communicates a pessimistic view on the dehumanising urban environment‚ the decay of relationships as a result of superficiality and the monotony of modern life. TS Eliot communicated his modernist negativity to urban‚ industrialised cities through his poems. “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock” and ”Preludes” are a few of his poems that strongly express his dislike to
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Robert Frost was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes Youth appears prominently in Frost’s poetry‚ particularly in connection with innocence and its loss. A Boy’s Will deals with this theme explicitly‚ tracing the development of a solitary youth as he explores
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The term modernism refers to the radical shift in aesthetic and cultural sensibilities evident in the art and literature of the post-World War One period. The ordered‚ stable and inherently meaningful worldview of the nineteenth century could not‚ wrote T.S. Eliot‚ accord with "the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history." Modernism thus marks a distinctive break with Victorian bourgeois morality; rejecting nineteenth-century optimism‚ they presented a profoundly pessimistic
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Though written in different periods of T.S. Eliot’s life the poems ’The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock’‚ ’Portrait of a Lady’ and ’Preludes’ uses a variety of poetic devices to portray these thematic concerns. Through the portrayal of his numerous protagonists Eliot explores the effects of exclusion and its tendency for the individual to feel self pity. In the poem‚ The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock‚ Eliot’s use of personification in the lines‚ "The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window
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Modernistic literature is the expression of the modern era (1901-45). It tends to revolve around themes of individuality‚ the randomness of life‚ mistrust of government and religion and the disbelief in absolute truth. Literature scholars classify the years from 1900 to about 1965 as the Modernist period. During this period‚ society at every level underwent profound changes. War and industrialization seemed to devalue the individual. Global communication made the world a smaller place. The pace
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literary techniques as the progression from the Realism and Romanticism of the 19th century called for more realistic conventions in literature to allow writers express their values concerning the changing world. The poem ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ by T.S. Eliot and ‘Hills Like White Elephants’ by Ernest Hemingway are two texts which highlight the concerns of rapid industrialisation and values such as sex before marriage. Modernist writers expressed their opinions through the use of techniques
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Easter 1916 : William Butler Yeats - Summary and Critical Analysis Easter 1916 by William Butler Yeats is a poem about an Irish immature revolutionary plan which became unsuccessful to overthrow the British reign in Ireland. About fifteen hundred people participated in this revolution to seize the government office building of Dublin on Easter morning‚ but three hundred of them were killed on the spot‚ and more than two hundred people were taken as prisoner and tortured. In Easter 1916‚ poet
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poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” where he gives his readers a description of “Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves‚ leaning out of windows?”(72‚ Eliot) but then follows the line with a bizarre image “I should have been a pair of ragged claws/Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.”(73-74‚ Eliot). Although these poets’ uses of surreal metaphors seem similar‚ Plath gives this method her own stamp by personalizing it‚ unlike Eliot who used the character of Prufrock to convey emotion. By incorporating
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