text. OR (ii) “The novel Wuthering Heights portrays a clash between two worlds represented by Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange.” Discuss this view of the novel‚ supporting your answer by reference to the text. B SILAS MARNER – George Eliot (i) “The story of Silas Marner has the magic of a fairy-tale‚ which leaves the reader feeling good about people.” Write a response to this view of the novel‚ supporting your answer by reference to the text. OR (ii) “Godfrey Cass is not perfect‚ but
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Marina‚ a poem by T.S. Eliot Posted on September 7‚ 2012 by Morgan Mussell One of best educational experiences I ever had was a class called “Yeats and Eliot” that I took as a college sophomore. I’ve been reading and rereading his work ever since. The name of this blog‚ “The first gate(s)” comes from the opening of Eliot’s long poem‚ “The Four Quartets‚” which matches the scope and depth of the work of any poet who ventures into ineffable realms. T.S. Eliot by Lady Ottoline Morrell‚ 1934. Public
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(Full and Empty at The same Time) Three messages from The Hollow Men by T.S Eliot In the beginning of the poem The Hollow Men by T.S Eliot starts off with an allusions to help him contrast the past with the present. Eliot’s allusions created a distinctive‚ dreamlike world for a reader to explore. Also they reflected his theory of poetry‚ this story doesn’t reflect T.S Eliot’s life‚ but a bunch of past literature was a key source in writing his story. Three main messages from The Hollow Men
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thrill in the whole poem. The first image created in the minds of the reader is that of a silent evening. The next is that of a patient etherised on a table. The Romantics had the notion that the “evening” is healing in nature. It nourishes the soul. Eliot breaks this notion by associating
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that they are fervently denying their guilt‚ as anyone ashamed of something well generally deny it more than usual. Yet this excuse of passive planning could never possibly emancipate them from a fate in purgatory. In the third part of the poem‚ Eliot introduces this desert-like landscape which the men currently inhabit and refers to it as "the twilight kingdom." The statement has direct ties to the Catholic belief in the levels of afterlife‚ where heaven is bright and stellar‚ and hell is dark
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people: “Streets that follow like a tedious argument / Of insidious intent” (Eliot 8-9). Also‚ Prufrock talks about how women talk in a schoolgirl way‚ name dropping to sound smart and to socialize with other people. For example‚ in lines 13 and 14: “In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo” (Eliot 13-14)‚ Eliot uses trochee and true rhyme to imply the women’s shallowness and how they try to just look
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Ezra Pound and TS Eliot were both expatriate Americans who were part of the early Modernist movement in the beginning of the twentieth century. The two men were great friends during this time and Pound took Eliot under his wing‚ publishing and promoting his work and introducing him to all the right people. In their early work as they are just discovering and honing their talents the idea of culture and identity was of huge importance to them both. They had both left America to travel and experience
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Dictionary‚ Suffolk: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Conner‚ M. Dr. http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/English_Literature/period/metaphysicals.html [accessed February 2008]. Eliot‚ T. S. (1921) The Metaphysical Poets‚ The Norton Anthology Theory And Criticism‚ ed. Vincent B. Leitch‚ General Editor‚ (New York: W.W. Norton & Company‚ Inc‚ 2001). Johnson‚ S. (1783) From Lives of the English Poet‚ The Norton Anthology Theory And Criticism‚ ed. Vincent B. Leitch‚ General Editor‚ (New York: W.W. Norton & Company‚ Inc
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Passalacqua English 2 2/11/13 Prufrock Essay Insecurities are an inevitable part of life‚ everyone posses their own. Similarly‚ in the poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S Eliot‚ the narrator dwells on his own insecurities when trying to find his place in life. Prufrock gives any excuse so he does not have fit in with high society. Eliot’s poem utilizes many repeated refrains‚ including: "there will be time"‚ "for I have known"
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Let’s Talk About Creativity‚ The Magnificent Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock In 1915 a controversial poem titled “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” was released by T.S. Eliot. It is a first person stream of consciousness narrative based on a man at a social gathering who is having some social anxiety. This character is an examination of the tortured psyche of the prototypical modern man; an overeducated‚ eloquent‚ neurotic‚ and emotionally stilted figure. The main character Alfred speaks about
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