Q. Explain how T.S Eliot’s poems “Rhapsody on a Windy Night” and “Preludes” express modernist concerns Modernist concerns are expressed through T.S Eliot’s poems ‘Rhapsody on a Windy Night’ and ‘Preludes’. Eliot uses his fragmented childhood experiences and his thoughts on the squalor modern life to express the issues of meaningless life‚ isolation‚ the alienation and loneliness that the humans feel and lastly the damaged psyche of humanity. The issues of meaningless life is expressed through complex
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World War II started as an act of hatred directed towards the Jewish people. Since the leader of Nazi Germany‚ Adolf Hitler‚ blamed them for Germany’s loss during World War I and for the economic crisis they were having. Hitler invaded Poland on September 1‚ 1939 and claimed he did this for Lebensraum Living space for German people even though it was because he wanted to kill Jewish people. After this mistake‚ war was declared on Nazi Germany and the Axis powers to win what was considered‚ the war
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Call Centers -- RP’s Emerging Sunshine Industry The call center service has been dubbed the country’s latest sunshine industry‚ expected to generate around 24‚000 jobs in the next two years. When a door closes‚ a window opens. Even as the Philippines feels the fallout from the global IT crunch‚ it has benefited from the prevailing cost-cutting trend in an unexpected way -- an unprecedented boom in the call center business. Indeed‚ the call center service has been dubbed the country’s latest sunshine
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me for a professional opinion on whether we should turn this poem into a picture book.I’m glad to help avoid another disaster as shown in the past. Although these amazing poems that have shaped how we speak and write to this day some aren’t always appropriate. I think we shouldn’t turn this poem into a child’s picture book. This soliloquy wouldn’t look good in pictures. Some kids do not need to see what it says in the poem. Honestly‚ this poem is kind of provocative. The word choice the metaphors aren’t
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An Inspector Calls In act one of ‘An inspector Calls’ how does J.B. Priestley use dramatic devices to convey his concerns and ideas to the members of the audience‚ as well as interest and involve them in the play? ‘An Inspector Calls’ is a thriller‚ written by J.B. Priestley in 1945 at the end of World War II but it was set in 1912 two years before World War I. Priestley was concerned about social conditions for working class people in Britain at the time he wrote the play and he wants his
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The Call of the Wild: Life lessons that are learned and thought Introduction As a student in Introduction to Literature I have had the opportunity to engage in reading and writing from the books listed: The Call of the Wild‚ Harry Potter and the sorcerer’s‚ and I know why the cage bird sings. These books have taught me that a message could be delivered in many perspectives. I have learned that a book is more than a story being told. It is up to the reader imagination to take then to that magical
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AP Lit 20 8 2014 In ‘The Management of Grief” the narrator states that “Acceptance means you speak of your family in past tense and you make active plans for moving ahead with your life.” This quote is key to the theme because it ties in with dealing with loss while also struggling with being an outsider in a foreign country. Mrs. Bhave is a widowed mother of two who lost her sons and husband to a plane crash. She is viewed as the strongest of the group who lost someone because she has
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that the person is still with us right now. We try to “enjoy the moment”. Sensing the ethereal nature of human relationships‚ compounded with stories of remorse associated with the lack of spending time with that special someone that some people reveal‚ projects us to fit that someone into our social compartmentalisations. We reason that the amount of love is in proportion to the time spent. But how much time is enough? We can make proclamations that our world revolves around that person but
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mother and the twenty-six bridesmaids! I remember in the car on the way home she planned the eight-layer cake and a full lilac colour scheme. The word boring came to mind when I started to drift into la la land. By the time I came back to the real world‚ Courtney had worked out all the hymns‚ seating arrangements and decided that she wanted pink sweets to be handed round for the guests to choke on. My sisters wedding had taken over eighteen months to plan‚ which made me think of what my wedding would
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In ‘An Inspector Calls’‚ dislike for the character of Mrs Birling is created in numerous ways. A number of techniques are used throughout the play in order to portray this negative image to the audience. For instance‚ her naivety is repeatedly mentioned and her class conscious attitude is prominent in the play. From the outset‚ Priestley uses Mrs Birling’s persona to create an unlikeable character‚ a woman who is described as ‘cold’ in the stage directions‚ displaying the attitudes she will show
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