T.S..Eliot Essay

“Beethoven” by Shane Koyczan is a descriptive poem that uses vivid imagery to explore the theme of love. Beethoven was unable to find love at home, and suffered from severe physical and emotional abuse. Therefore, he found it very difficult to connect with others and in a way, isolated himself. In addition, he felt as if he was not loved at home and that forced him to find love elsewhere. He found that love in music. It was that love of music that helped guide him through his adolescence and…

Similarly to how sexual isolation pushes Prufrock farther away from people, Eliot uses nature images to increase the feeling of isolation. The nature imagery in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is stunningly beautiful; yet at the same time, it indicates isolation. In the third full stanza, a metaphor of a yellow fog that sounds like a cat is used. Cats only make themselves visible when they want something, otherwise they tend to be alone. Both fog and cats can come and go at any point…

2. The Crying of Lot 49: modernism or postmodernism? In my arguing that The Crying of Lot 49 can also be construed as a late-modernist text, I will turn to Harvey’s essay ‘The Cry from Within or Without? Pynchon and the Modern – Postmodern Divide’ where he fervently argues against McHale’s ‘claim’ that The Crying of Lot 49 is fundamentally a modernist text by presenting two core arguments relating to a) intertextuality and b) Oedipa’s search for truth. Before I will dispute any arguments of…

John Ruskin coined the term ‘Pathetic Fallacy’ in 1856 to “signify any representation of inanimate natural objects that ascribes to them human capabilities, sensations, and emotions” (Abrams 203). This idea of emotion being projected onto the surrounding environment till nature becomes a kind of mirror is epitomised in Lord Alfred Tennyson’s poem ‘Mariana’. The poem, published in 1830, was inspired from a scene in William Shakespeare’s play Measure for Measure, where Mariana waits for her lover…

Although written by the same poet, Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken” and “Carpe Diem” both reflect a vaguely different style and moral of the poem. Despite conveying an entirely different message beneath the unique stories, Robert Frost manages to use the same figurative languages for both poems, such as personification, repetition, and natural imagery. Each one of these figurative language used has their own significant within the poem, whether it is for delivering the message or reiterating…

Throughout Fyodor Dostoevsky’s work, Notes from Underground, the protagonist, the underground man, portrays himself as a spiteful, self-contradictory, and overly conscious melancholy man. He continuously over analyzes and questions everything, and this prevents him from taking any real action. The underground man is lonely and constantly vacillates between wanting society’s acknowledgment or to be socially desired and wanting to be completely isolated from society. He gives off the impression…

In his poem We Wear the Mask, Laurence Dunbar speaks rather elusively on the topic of human deceit. More specifically, the underlying message of the human tendency to hide emotions in suffering, reveals itself in the 15 line poem. Explored in the first two lines of the poem, Dunbar speaks about a figurative mask; a mask covering the face, hiding cheeks and eyes, with the mask taking over with its fake happiness, all a subdued lie. Continuing through the poem, the second stanza expresses grief…

As the novelist Haruki Murakami wrote, “Now, though, I realize that all I can place in the imperfect vessel of writing are imperfect memories and imperfect thoughts” (12). A work of literature is imperfect in the sense that it is more or less related to and restricted by the social context in which it is written and is a memory-carrier of its own culture. Sophocles’ Attic tragedy Antigone carries memories of sociopolitical concerns over the future development and fertility of the city Athens.…

A study of Rama Rao’s thirty-seven short poems evinces his fine creativity and one is enamoured of the values, which presently seem to have been lost in the mire of materialism. The poet sings about the loss of human ethics. The very first poem, ‘A Sigh and Relief’, is a satire on the political power. The politicians, these days, are mad with power and seem to have lost their ability to judge gold from dross. He, very aptly, argues that “Vice has limits / Death is not the only end”: human vices…

Introduction This essay is an analysis of the short story "Fountain in the rain," which is written by Mishima. Yukio Mishima was conceived as Hiroka Kimitake in Tokyo, Japan, in 1925. His predecessors were from the high society samurai. Notwithstanding its consideration in compilations and school syllabi, "The Fountains in the Rain" Mishima has gotten minimal basic consideration in English. "Rain Fontaines" with a legend if like numerous male characters Mishima welcomes further examination…