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    “Lady Lazarus” and Dickinson’s “I Felt a Funeral‚ in my Brain‚” as both poems deal with the morose matter of mental illness. By thoroughly examining these poems‚ it is clear that they reveal underlying themes of immense pain and suffering‚ as evidenced by the literary tools of enjambment and end stop‚ along with various melancholy symbols and images. In order to convey such incredible torment and despair‚ Plath utilizes the highly effective tools of enjambment and end stop. In “Lady Lazarus‚”

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    the audience’s minds. Two writers from this time period that wrote in the Imagist style were William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound. Williams became known for his imagist works such as “The Red Wheelbarrow” and “This is Just to Say‚” both of which are forms of imagism but in far different ways. A work that stood out from the imagist works was “In a Station of the Metro‚” by Ezra pound which is a very simplistic but deep

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    “Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives” A.Sachs Explore the preoccupation with death in “Edge” and “Lady Lazarus”. Death is very much a universal theme and one present in numerous poems written by Sylvia Plath. The subject of death‚ and consequently Plath’s work‚ can therefore relate to everyone as it is relevant to all humanity‚ nobody is exempt. It can be seen that Plath had a preoccupation with death‚ it has been said that she was attracted to it like

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    In poems of Sylvia Plath‚ entitled “Lady Lazarus” and “Daddy” some elements are similar‚ including used hostile imagery‚ gloomy atmosphere as well as recurring theme of suicide‚ but the poems differ in respect of the speaker’s point of view and attitude towards addressed person or unfavorable surroundings. These elements are employed by Plath in order to intensify the impact on her audience and convey all extreme emotions. Another issue that is considered to be worthy of thinking over is the question

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    The four great Modernists Poets of American Literature are Ezra Pound‚ T. S. Elliot‚ Robert Frost‚ and William Carlos Williams. The works of Pound‚ whose poetry focused mainly on the desolate state of the modern world‚ influenced by the poems of the other three poets. Elliot‚ too‚ made the ruin of the world his primary theme Frost whose topics ranged from nature to narratives‚ wrote his poetry in a somewhat light manner‚ or with a cool‚ neutral outlook. Williams‚ although not prone to sentimentalism

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    Q) What philosophy do Ezra Pound‚ William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore share? A) Ezra Pound‚ William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore were all modernist poets. Modernist poetry deals with experiment and innovation. All three were imagists‚ though at a later stage‚ William Carlos Williams started disagreeing with Ezra Pound. Ezra Pound Ezra Pound was the most aggressive of the modernist poets‚ who made “Make it new!” his battle cry. He turned to classical Chinese poetry as his

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    Bootie Call at Cho-fu-Sa "The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter‚" by Ezra Pound is not only a letter from a woman to her husband‚ but is also a narrative of a young woman’s sex life. It tells of a river merchant’s wife’s feelings on sex throughout her life and marriage. It also shows how her views change with time and circumstances. The poem starts with her early childhood‚ and then goes quickly into marriage‚ and ends when her husband has to go away on business. Never once does the poem mention love

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    Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams both comment in a theoretic way on the nature of poetry. Outline briefly their theories. Then discuss the implications their theories have for the writing and reading of poetry‚ and support your argument with a number of specific examples from their poems. I have structured this essay so that the first part deals entirely with the theories and poetry of Ezra Pound and the second‚ entirely with the theories and poetry of William Carlos Williams. Each part

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    Ezra Jack Keats‚ the son of Jewish Polish immigrants‚ was born in 1916 and brought up in Brooklyn‚ New York. He was originally named Jacob Ezra Jack Katz‚ but legally changed his name after WWII. It is speculated that it was a result of anti-semitism at that time. Keats did not have much‚ if any‚ formal art training. He painted murals for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects in the 1930s and went on to become a comic book illustrator. During World War II‚ Keats designed camouflage patterns

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    means the use of symbols ‚images to convey meaning‚ and thirdly we have pragmatics where meaning is understood through the context. So our attempt in this essay is the study of Ezra Pound’s poem ’The Garden ’from three perspectives‚ semantically‚ semiotically and pragmatically. "The Garden" is a free verse poem written by Ezra Pound. It was first published in 1913 in the collection "Poetry: A Magazine of Verse"‚ then as part of his collection "Lustra" in 1916. The poem is comprised of four stanzas

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