writing style. E.E. Cummings was born on October 14th‚ 1894 in Cambridge‚ Massachusetts. In 1916‚ Cummings graduated with a master’s degree from Harvard University. During his studies‚ he was subject to many great writers such as Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound. After working for five months as a volunteer ambulance driver in World War I‚ he was captured by French authorities. He was accused on accounts of espionage. After the war‚ he settled into a life in which he bounced around from houses in rural Connecticut
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The waste Land T.S.Eliot complcted ‘The Waste Land’ in the autumn of 1921‚ and with the constructive suggestions of Ezra Pound about the structure of the poem ‚the present draft of the poem ‚ which was published in 1922‚ has become a classic. It is also‚ more importantly‚ the symbol of a whole age‚ signifying a new kind of poetry and a poetic revolution in modern English Literature and culture. The poem is a masterpiece of innovative poetic design and embodies an entirely new and original poetic
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English poetry in between two wars Introduction: The years between the two world wars (1919-1939) witnessed prolific poetic activity. It was a period when tradition and innovation went side by side. In the direction of innovation we can find such groups as the Imagists‚ Symbolists‚ and Surrealists working‚ whereas we also find some traditionalists fighting a last-ditch battle against the forces of change. However‚ most of the poets of the age combined tradition and innovation; and even the most
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soon crossed the English Channel‚ as instanced by the abstraction and dynamism of Red Stone Dancer (1913-14) by the London-based vorticist sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. Other vorticists and modernists include such English-language writers as Ezra Pound‚ Wyndham Lewis‚ and Mina Loy‚ who also responded to the stimulus and challenge of the European avant-garde with
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of British society.He employees many literary and cultural allusions from the western canon‚from Buddism and the Hindu Upanishad in the poem.Of course‚the waste land is not quite the poem Eliot originally drafted.His close friend and colleague‚Ezra Pound‚significantly revirsed the poem‚suggesting major cuts and compressing.The main features of the book are given below- Summary of the poem- The poem’s structure is divided in to five sections.In the first section‚ “The Burial of Death”‚the narrator-perhaps
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------------------------------------------------- Modernism In LiteraturePresentation Transcript * 1. Modernism in literature An overwiew of early 20th century literary trends * 2. Definition Modernism is a literary and cultural international movement which flourished in the first decades of the 20th century. Modernism is not a term to which a single meaning can be ascribed . It may be applied both to the content and to the form of a work‚ or to either in isolation. It reflects a sense of
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States‚ and Frost taught at Amherst College (“Robert Frost Poetry”). The following year‚ Frost became a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters (“Robert Frost Poetry”). He also had the opportunity to meet many great poets including Ezra Pound and Edward Thomas (“Robert Frost”). His honorary highlights continued when he was awarded the Congressional Medal‚ the Pulitzer Prize for four years‚ Honorary Degrees from Princeton‚ Oxford‚ and Cambridge‚ and the Bollingen Prize in poetry (“Robert
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"We Are Seven" The speaker[->0] begins this poem by asking what a simple child who is full of life could know about death. He then meets "a little cottage Girl" who is eight years old and has thick curly hair. She is rustic and woodsy‚ but very beautiful‚ and she makes the speaker happy. He asks her how many siblings she has‚ to which she replies that there are seven including her: --A simple child‚ That lightly draws its breath‚ And feels its life in every limb‚ What should it know of death
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The Black Prince is structured as Pearson’s apologia to his editor and friend P.A. Loxias. This allows Murdoch to address an audience directly‚ pausing for philosophical musings‚ without engaging in the post-modern trick of acknowledging the reader. Loxias and Pearson both write forewords to the main text. Pearson and four other characters offer competing postscripts. Two deny Loxias’s existence. This fulfills early premonitions about Pearson’s unreliability as a narrator. The first significant piece
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Bibliography: Deane‚ Patrick. "Rhetoric and Affect: Eliot ’s Classicism‚ Pound ’s Symbolism‚ and the Drafts of "The Waste Land"" Journal of Modern Literature 18.1 (1992): 77-93. Web. Donoghue‚ Denis. "The Word Within a Word" in The Waste Land in Different Voices. London: A.D. Edward Arnold‚ 1974. 185-201. Print. Donoghue‚ Denis
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