case of Innokenty Annensky‚ whose definitive collection of verse‚ Cypress Box‚ was published posthumously (1909). Sometimes cited as a Slavic counterpart to the accursed poets‚ Annensky managed to render into Russian the essential intonations of Baudelaire and Verlaine‚ while the subtle music‚ ominous allusions‚ arcane vocabulary‚ and the spell of minutely changing colors and odors in his poetry were all his own. His influence on the Acmeist school of Russian poetry was paramount (New World
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into practice. Modernism is prevalent in the field of arts. The concept of post modernism looks at the ideas behind modernism and questions whether they really exist. (wikipedia) Modernism began in the early 1800’s. It emerged with Manet and Baudelaire in painting and literature respectively. It was initially called "avant-garde" and today it means to change the current state of being. In the late 1800’s developments in science and technology dominated most of modernist thoughts. Some of the leading
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In Romantic art‚ nature—with its uncontrollable power‚ unpredictability‚ and potential for cataclysmic extremes—offered an alternative to the ordered world of Enlightenment thought. The violent and terrifying images of nature conjured by Romantic artists recall the eighteenth-century aesthetic of the Sublime. As articulated by the British statesman Edmund Burke in a 1757 treatise and echoed by the French philosopher Denis Diderot a decade later‚ "all that stuns the soul‚ all that imprints a feeling
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CRITICAL APPRECIATION OF ELIOT’S WASTELAND T.S.Eliot was born in the United States in 1888 and was educated there and in France before settling down in England and at length adopting British citizenship. He published his first poems Prufrock and other Observations in 1917 and all his work is strongly individual and creatively personal. With The Wasteland(1922) he established the reputation which made him the leading living poet of the English speaking world‚ though his output for some years was extremely
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How Far Does T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land Present a Realistic Picture of London After the First World War? Eliot’s 1922 poem The Waste Land is unarguably a poem about the decline of western civilization in general. It is for this reason that the reader would not expect to find many specific references to time and place. Surprisingly‚ however‚ there are a large number of particular references to London – though‚ interestingly‚ only one to the recently-concluded World War One: the demobilisation of
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Bibliography: Paul Smith: “Manet‚ Baudelaire‚ and the Artist as Flâneur.” Impressionism: Beneath the Surface. New York: Harry N. Abrams‚ Inc. 1995. pp. 40. tot: 176 ISBN 0-8109-2715-2 Stephan Kern: “Meeting.” Eyes of Love: The gaze in English and French paintings and novels‚ 1840-1900. London:
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<center><b>The Fog of Substance Abuse</b></center> <br> <br>As the fog descends around the Tyrone ’s summer home‚ another fog falls on the family within. This fog is that of substance abuse‚ in which each of the four main characters of Eugene O ’Neill ’s play‚ Long Day ’s Journey into Night face by the end of Act IV. Long Day ’s Journey into Night is a metaphoric representation of the path from normalcy to demise by showing the general effects of substance abuse on human psychology and family dysfunctions
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Photographically Changing the World What is the first thing you do when you want to remember an important moment in your life? You don ’t stop and write about it or quickly sketch what is going on‚ you snap a photograph of it! Photography can take you back in time‚ transport you to other countries and catalog discoveries. Without photography you wouldn ’t have an easy‚ reliable way to document your life! The invention of the camera‚ by Joseph Niépce‚ may be one of the most important technological
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them. “Mock-epic is a developed form not so much of sarcasm as of euphemism: it has a paradoxical willingness to ‘extract from contemporary life its epic dimension‚ showing us… how grand and poetic we are in are cravats and highly polished boots’ (Baudelaire).” (Childs and Fowler 2006: 144). The Rape of the Lock is an example of an evolved form of a mock-heroic epic. As Broich says (1990: 113)‚ in comparison to works of Boilaeu‚ Garth‚ or Crowne it has developed its own distinctive style in the aspect
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