2014 H. W. Brands. American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism‚ 1865-1900. New York: Anchor Books‚ 2010. Pp. 686. $17.95 (pap.) ISBN: 978-0-307-368677-9. H. W. Brands attended Stanford University where he earned a bachelor’s degree in history; he then went on to earn at masters and doctorate in history at Reed College in 1978‚ Portland State University 1981‚ University of Texas at Austin1985. In addition to American Colossus‚ Brands has also written The Man Who Saved the Union:
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Ezra Pound in the Imagist Movement In the beginning of the 20th century‚ a poetry style called Imagism was growing. Imagism is derived from Modernism and was created in response to Romanticism. Contrary to Romanticism‚ Imagist poems consist of brief sentences of dry clarity which painted an exact visual image and poetic statement. Thence leaving little to no room for interpretation due to it’s candidness expressing of ideas. Imagism was also a conferrer to the french Symbolist movement
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Ezra Pound is generally considered the poet most responsible for defining and promoting a modernist aesthetic in poetry. In the early teens of the twentieth century‚ he opened a seminal exchange of work and ideas between British and American writers‚ and was famous for the generosity with which he advanced the work of such major contemporaries as W. B. Yeats‚ Robert Frost‚ William Carlos Williams‚ Marianne Moore‚ H. D.‚ James Joyce‚ Ernest Hemingway‚ and especially T. S. Eliot. His own significant
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Voices and Visions: Ezra Pound Out of all of the poets in the Voices and Visions series‚ Ezra Pound was one the few I was least familiar with. I’ve learned that he is one of modern poetry’s most significant figures–as well as one of the most controversial–of the twentieth century. He was committed and passionate about his work and about the advancement of poetry in the world. He had high standards for the arts and wasn’t afraid to rebuke anyone who didn’t meet them. Pound was born in Hailey
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theme of mortality in Hamlet and Lady Lazarus. In both Lady Lazarus and Hamlet the semantic field of mortality and death can be clearly seen. Hamlet’s second soliloquy‚ ‘To be or not to be’ can be found in act three‚ when Polonius and Claudius are hiding behind a wall listening to how Hamlet responds to Ophelia. Although there is a huge time difference between when they were written it is surprisingly similar in its semantic field of vocabulary to Lady Lazarus written in the 1950s by Sylvia Plath
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This poem consists of 8 regular stanzas‚ each stanza being a quintet. Throughout the poem‚ no particular rhyme scheme is conveyed and the sentence length varies in each stanza. This poem is entirely constructed in 1st person narrative. Stanza 1 “I had grieved” – past tense – descriptive – suggests that sorrow was previously present however there is none now. Description of graveyard implies that this was a terrifying/chilling experience for her. “Married” implies that she had
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25-year-old Charles Lazarus turned his dream of creating a child-oriented business into a reality. A visionary for his time‚ Lazarus started a baby furniture store‚ Children’s Bargain Town‚ in Washington‚ D.C. to cater to the post-war baby boom era. Lazarus filled his store with cribs and baby furniture and ran it single-handedly‚ overseeing everything from bookkeeping to delivering merchandise to customers’ homes. Continually looking for new ways to satisfy his customers’ needs‚ Lazarus introduced infant
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indirectly accuses Raskolnikov of crime by accusing him of spreading his “illness” and of being “sick” and “delirious” • The Bible/Story of Lazarus- ties back to the “holy fools”; the story of Lazarus symbolizes Sonia and Lizaveta’s beliefs that religion will compensate them for their sacrifice and servitude (they hope to be resurrected by God‚ like Lazarus was); bible is obviously religion 2. Language • Hyperbole/Allusion-
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suicide in college by overdosing on sleeping pills‚ but once she recovered she became successful in literacy. She wrote over 400 poem while in college. She married Ted Hughes in 1965‚ and a year later‚ at age 28 she published her first book‚ The Colossus‚ in England. She lived for a time in England and had a total of 2 children. Two years after the birth of their first child their marriage fell apart. Usually Sylvia turned to writing poems to cope with her problems and it was something to do in
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Awareness about mental illness is spreading everyday. Around the world‚concepts like Depression or Anxiety were taboo;the subject of relentless stigma. Never to be taken seriously‚mental health has spent years being brushed aside. Thanks to an increasing number of Media portrayals‚ books‚ studies‚conferences and so on‚ the world now is more accepting of the mental health community. But with such insights‚ newer considerations have also been brought to light. If a person faces a mental illness‚ are
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