T.S..Eliot Essay

The seafarer is an old Anglo Saxon poem. This poem is told through the perspective of a man who is constantly traveling. The speaker seems to be in despair whenever he travels because he’d rather find a place for himself. He then goes on tangent about Fate and Faith. The tone of this poem is somber. His imagery is used to express his loneliness. For example, he foretells his experience by, “How the sea took me, swept me back, and forth in sorrow and fear and pain, showed me suffering in a…

“Text means tissue” Roland Barthes once stated, emphasizing that a text should not be viewed as a finished product “behind which lies, more or less hidden, meaning (truth)” but rather as a fluid entity which “is worked out in a perpetual interweaving” (64). Thus, a text does not hide one single truth, waiting to be discovered, but – in perpetual interaction with its readers – creates or at least permits a multiplicity of meanings. Symptomatic of the complexity of meanings woven into a single…

During Japan’s Ancient Period, culture and arts began to flourish. Poets were among the first important literary figures in Japan. Among them, Yamanoue no Okura stands out as a poet and once Governor of Chikuzen, a province located in Kyushu (Brittanica). Okura’s most notable poem is “Dialogue with the Impoverished” which was included in the Man’yoshu. In “Dialogue with the Impoverished”, Okura utilizes imagery and other rhetorical devices to describe the hardships of poverty in Japan’s early…

Larry Patrick Levis, as a poet of the contemporary Period, exemplified the best of the genre. Through his use of poetic devices, style and thematic, Larry Levis has given us some of the most iconic and universally appealing work. Particularly in his poem titled “___________”, we see examples of his most salient particularities and effective use of English language. Larry Patrick Levis then stands as one of the greats in the pantheon of American and World Literature. Larry Patrick Levis was…

Donne’s ‘The Flea’ was first published posthumously in 1633 and is a metaphysical poem. The poem has two main themes intertwining throughout; the theme of love and erotica, and the theme of religion and sacrilege. Due to the fact the poem plays hosts to both of these themes, we can infer from the beginning that due to the publication date, sex and religion were far closer linked together during the 1600s than they are today, therefore this inclusion of both of themes could reflect the thematic…

study of great works of the past, claiming it, "cannot be inherited, and if you want it, you must obtain it by great labour." Eliot asserts that it is absolutely necessary for the poet to learn past traditions, to have an understanding of the poets that preceded them, and to be well versed enough that they can understand and incorporate the so-called "mind of Europe" into their poetry. It stands to reason, then, that if a poet must be a master of literary tradition past and present to create a…

With this letter, I endeavor to present a sliver of my interpretation. For sake of brevity, this letter will only address the second stanza. This stanza impressed me more than Vallejo’s original because of a word in the third line: gray. Based on parallel comparison, I infer you use gray to stand in a la mala’s place in the original. However, unlike a la mala, gray accentuates the title of the poem, as gray is a color betwixt black and white. Remarkably, in examining a concrete sensory word, I…

Trash is a novel written by andy mulligan, about 3 boys whose lives change after finding a special bag. This novel has received a lot of recognition and has received many awards such as the 'Grande Prêmio do Cinema Brasileiro' for best visual effects. This novel also has many different themes and ideas that are developed through the book. I believe that these ideas are friendship, poverty, and hope, and they've been developed through the novel as they get stronger and stronger. For example,…

When going through life, the fear of being unlovable tends to go through every person’s mind at some point. J. Alfred Prufrock in the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” takes this fear to a whole new level. When reading the title of the poem, the reader would more than likely think that it was going to be a beautiful love song. Although, as the poem goes on its obvious that it is the exact opposite of that. T. S. Elliot takes what is a promise of a love song and turns it into more of a…

Defamiliarization in Mohsen Namjoo: A Marcusian Study of “Reza Khan” Estrangement: a short overview Mikics defines defamiliarization (estrangement) and as an example he cites Fredric Jameson, which is his accounts of Studying Gulliver’s Travels. It states: Defamiliarization in Russian, ostranenie: a term from the Russian formalist school of criticism, active in the early twentieth century. […] According to the Russian formalists, literary art devotes itself to the making strange (the…