using reticence and simplicity. "Poet Ezra Pound is credited for bringing the techniques of literary modernism to the United States in the early 20th century"(Modernism, 894). However, the Modernist Era arose in the 20th century and throughout WWII. Modernism was inspired by the experimentation of: new literary techniques, forms, subjects, and structures. "Modernists reavealed important emotions and ideas with understatement and irony"(Modernism, 895). Rather than declaring the meaning of their…
character who drowned herself after Hamlet had accidentally murdered her father, Polonius. When placing the woman’s farewell against Ophelia’s death, the meaning is shifted, the woman’s “Good night” now develops a darker and cautionary tone rather than a simple ending to an evening out with friends. With Ophelia in mind, the women in the bar are expressed as unhappy and dissatisfied with their existence, unable to find meaning or fulfillment. Eliot’s main qualm with post-war modern existence is…
In accordance with Virginia’s Woolf’s essay titled “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown,” the idea that human relations changed circa December 1910 is explored. In Woolf’s words “in or about December 1910 human character changed” (Woolf 2). This change, which she asserts was “not sudden and definite,” (Woolf 2) leads the reader to believe it was gradual. The Victorian and Georgian Era are stark in contrast regarding the everyday individual (and said individual’s relationships). Where the Georgian lived a…
C.S. Lewis is a well-known British writer and ordinary layman from the 20th Century. Being a soldier from World War I, a broadcaster and a apologist are but a few of the titles deemed to him. Lewis was a former atheist but converted to Christianity after failing to disprove the Christian faith and it’s doctrines. He wrote to the goal that others would read his works and be able to make cognitive parallels between the objects in his books and the doctrines of Christianity. He combines both fable…
writing; Andrew Marvell is an English poet, a clergyman and a parliamentarian, he was concerned with politics for a very long time, also, Marvell was called a nature poet and he was one of the best metaphysical poets. Even though Marvell wrote less than some other famous poets like Donne and Jonson, his range was greater, “as he claimed, both the private worlds of love and religion and the public worlds of political and satiric poetry and prose, his overriding concern with art, his elegant,…
PROSE STYLE OF Dr.S.RADHAKRISHNAN Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan A good prose-style is both a matter of choice of the words and their arrangement to form a complete meaningful sentence. Dr. Radhakrishnan is one the eminent philosopher of India who was a literate with special knowledge in handling prose style. Dr.S.Radhakrishnan was one of the most influential and recognized Indian thinkers in twentieth century. I wish to explain some important features about prose style just to explain how…
makes further connections as to how a nation's history effects poets of that nation. Past poets are also by the tradition comparison, among the dead." (Eliot 27) which also adds Eliot's view on that any person is judged by their predecessors. Eliot than goes on to say how the present affects the past as the past affects the present and by doing this, strength is added to the deep connection which they both…
amazed the people of the 1800s. However, many things happened before Carroll became successful. Strange relationships with young girls and thoughts of “sin and guilt” surrounded Carroll’s reputation and his mind. Even his meeting with Alice Liddell (better known as the star in her book Alice in Wonderland) caused several whispers among critics and other writers. After making several relationships with small children, Lewis Carroll wrote poems using literary devices such as imagery and…
The theme of this poem is the poet thinking of what may happen if he took the other road will it be better or if he made the wrong decision going to the road he went to. The theme is him thinking of the many things that came into his head. This poem mainly talks about making good and bad decisions and how they reflect. In the first sentence of his poem…
(Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism). Imagery in literature refers to use of descriptive terms in the hopes of making the reader experience the scenery of the text in their mind. Symbols are utilized mainly works such as narratives to represent something greater than what is actually mentioned. Personification is the device most often used by authors writing fictional works to refer to an immobile object as a live being. Robert Frost is recognized poet most known for his recurring mention of…