Cleanth Brooks

Figurative language is the words or phrases that are different from the literal interpretation of the words. Cleanth Brooks argues that the paradox is the foundation of figurative language within poetry. A paradox is often contradictory language that requires further discovery to understand the meaning. Brooks examines multiple poems from his book “The Well Wrought Urn”. He examines Donne’s “The Canonization” which is a paradoxical poem that makes the act of death in love as true life. I aim to…

Larkin and Eliot vary in their view on time. For Eliot, time is ceaselessly present from the spiritual point of view. Through time, time is conquered .But Larkin believes that changes are predictable in time’s domain and the past is past and is never to be regained, “time and time over. “To the constant flux of time, man is in thrall and a victim” (Larkin, CP).So time is not an abstract idea but has “eroding agents” to bring out ill-effects in life. So time conquers man in its eternal flux.…

Robert Frost was born in California; however, critics would collectively agree that he identified with New England more than his California roots. He lived in California for eleven years until his father’s death. Frost was a farmer, which could explain his need to write poems that involved nature. He was a better writer than other occupations, so he moved to England in 1912 with his family and had great acclaim while there. When he returned, American critics also praised his work. Frost would…

Frost unlike Wordsworth is not a nature mystic. He does not see any affinity between nature and man nor does he find any spirit or power pervading it. Nor does he find any healing power in it which can cure the ills of society and man. For him nature is alien to man.Frost’s attitude to nature reflects the spirit of the present age whose attitude to nature, like all other things, is scientific and realistic. That is why he has not formulated any philosophy about nature. Nor do his poems display…

New Historicism is a reaction against the formalistic approach of New Criticism which is mainly concerned with the textual or close reading of the work of literature. The New critics focus their attention on the form of the work of literature. Cleanth Brooks, for instance, points out that '' form is meaning'' (45). Similarly, Allen Tate states that ''form is meaning and nothing than meaning'' (269). The New Critics are of the view that the work of literature should be studied without relating…

ANALYSES OF THE LOVELIEST TREES AND TO AN ATHLETE DYING YOUNG BY HOUSMAN Alfred Edward Housman was an English poet and one of the greatest classical scholars of all time. In this essay, I will analyse two poems “The Loveliest Trees” and “To an Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman from modern era in England. These poems call as modern poems. First of all, I want to mention about modernism, characteristics of modernism and characteristics of modern English poetry. Modernism is a literary movement…

Cleanth Brooks says that “One of Faulkner’s principal themes … is the nature of the heroic deed,”. One example of this is, after the wagon has been tipped and the family is now on shore, this is describing the heroism of some of the characters. Tull, Darl, and…

throughout its trajectory. One finds a similar depiction of Southern history in works of Faulkner. The sense of history in Faulkner’s novels is acute, to say the least. In On the Prejudices, Predilections and Firm Beliefs of William Faulkner, Cleanth Brooks observes that “Faulkner’s novels are drenched in history and his most thoughtful characters frequently speculate about its meaning . . . Faulkner’s historical concern is much more than an amiable antiquarianism” (148). It is noteworthy to…

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