George Eliot on God and the Good Well known for her atheism‚ Eliot maintained a serious concern with morality and community throughout her life‚ evidenced in her novels and personal letters. She was persistently concerned with how to live a moral life outside organised religion‚ and how to maintain a sense of personal and community responsibility. First I’ll look at some influences on the development of her atheism‚ (and the limits of their influence)‚ then at the kind of religion she rejected
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understanding of an aspect of The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock?" "Let us go then‚ you and I". Throughout the poem‚ The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock‚ written by TS Eliot‚ there is a consistent use of the words ’you’ and ’I’. Not much is said about the narrator or who he is talking to and after conducting research on TS Eliot himself as well as reading opinions of critics on this topic‚ my understanding of who the ’you’ and ’I’ is has changed quite significantly. The Love Song of J Alfred
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The Teenage Wasteland‚ why was it so good? Growing up in the recent generations is very challenging. Children at such young ages‚ even younger than teens have been faced with such perilous decisions. It is especially hard for teenagers to find acceptance at this point in their lives. Here is an instance that is so common in this day and age‚ yet this particular case is only fiction. A teenage boy named Donny has been going through a few changes in his appearance. His parents‚ Matt and Daisy
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Muskan Hossain Memoir Report Sheet Title: Warrior’s Don’t Cry Author: Melba Pattillo Beals Copyright Date: 1994 1 The book‚ Warrior’s Don’t Cry is a memoir written by Melba Pattillo Beals. A way to know that the book is a memoir is that the book is written entirely in 1st person from Melba’s point‚ an example from the book would be the note she wrote before she began writing the book in which she had stated that the names of the characters had been changed to protect their identity
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Kyle Mootry Charles DeShong American Lit. II 4/24/2013 T.S. Eliot is thoroughly viewed as one of the most significant poets of the twentieth century‚ and one of the most important writers of the modernist era. He hated traditional realism by responding against Romantic poetry. His collection of work was extremely experimental and he repeatedly deals with the views of symbolism and imagism in his poetry. America in the early part of the twentieth century was changing quickly and becoming more
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features are commonly regarded as Eliot’s intent. (1) The clairvoyant is considered “the wisest woman in Europe” because the world is a tattered wasteland where everyone is in search of answers – a fortuneteller provides false security with her seemingly absolute understanding of destiny‚ and everyone is desperate enough to believe her. (2) Because Eliot regards fortunetelling as little more than empty consolation for the desperate‚ he writes with levity to poke fun at the concept. These two points
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By As I reflected upon the "The Dead" I pondered the manner in which James Joyce implemented "wasteland imagery" in the story. My understanding of the definition of "wasteland imagery" as it applies to this story is to represent an aspect of life as lacking in spiritual‚ aesthetic‚ or other humanizing qualities through use of vivid or figurative language. Throughout the story I couldn ’t help but notice finely nuanced descriptions and bits of dialogue where Joyce undercuts the celebratory nature
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Tradition answer in Eliot T.S. Eliot’s essay‚ Tradition and the Individual Talent (1920) is one of the earliest offerings of his literary theory. The essay outlines his philosophy of "tradition" and the implications this has for the poet‚ critic‚ and scholar. Tradition for Eliot includes a much broader definition than is recognized by the popular conception of the term. His idea of tradition includes psychological and philosophical aspects‚ and sets forth of the aims of poetry‚ the role of the poet
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I. Background of AT&T Corporation: The History AT&T Corporation can trace its root to the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. The original company was founded in 1885 by American Bell to create a network of long-distance communication nationwide with a commercially viable cost-structure. In 1899‚ the company in turn acquired the assets of American Bell in order to bypass Massachusetts corporate law that limited the capitalizations of corporations. By 1915‚ long distance telephone
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Priscilla Grunauer Period 3 3-27-07 3. The evening in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is compared with “a patient etherized upon a table‚” the “evening is spread out against the sky.” T.S. Eliot has compared his lonely night to a patient who is under an anesthetic‚ completely numb to all that surrounds him. “The evening is spread out against the sky‚” gives a very distinct image lending itself to another image; a patient spread upon an operating table completely subdued. 7. The obvious
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