Eliot Ness

Title: The Lonely Soul Poet: Raphael Ernest Grail Armattoe Literature: Ghanian Literature Theme: The poem revolves around loneliness and being alone Point of View: The poet used the first person point of view Plot Summary: At first the speaker talked about the woman he met, a woman just by herself, fooling herself just to conceal the pain she feels inside. The speaker also talked about a man who is also with sorrow, and just like the woman, living with pain and loneliness brought by having no…

‘The Wasteland’ has been psycho-analytically studied to understand the poet’s psyche, the metaphor of images, symbols, etc. for new untouched and unexplored findings in the genre of practical criticism. The poem has been deciphered on the basis of three psychoanalytic models (a) Lacan’s ‘Language and Unconscious’ (b) C.G. Jung’s ‘Collective Unconscious’ and (c) Northrop Frye’s ‘Archetypal Criticism’. Lacan’s ‘Language and Unconscious’, attempts to read ‘The Wasteland’ in the likeness of…

Our World Today (An analysis of Hollow Men…) “Consisting in the theme, implicit throughout the latter, of debasement through the rejection of good, of despair through consequent guilt” (Smith). The poem Hollow Men was written by T. S. Eliot. In this poem, there are many life lessons that can be extracted and applied to our lives. Through this poem, it is easy to realize what can be learned as we experience this life. Because of this, it is easier to rely on the poem to create a new way to live…

Boredom is the feeling of lack of arousal in the world, it is the lack of feeling to engage in a topic. Some examples include David Foster Wallace’s This is Water speech, The Pale King, Soren Kierkegaard's Either/Or-Crop Rotation, and finally Terrence Mallick’s Knight of Cups. They all express boredom in different ways, explain it with different analogies and think of it differently. They see the world in the light of boredom. In Wallace’s speech This is Water he explains that people determine…

5. How is the outer rain symbolic of Paul’s inner experience? (164) I believe the rain is symbolic of Paul’s dreams always being crushed, or unattainable. We know, “Paul had often hung about the hotel, watching the people go in and out, longing to enter and leave schoolmasters and dull care behind him forever” (Cather 164). We know Paul does not fit in at school, he tells lavish stories about events and friendships that are not real, and acts out towards his teachers. Paul feels trapped within…

Content Summary The book, The Great Divorce, was written in 1945 by C.S. Lewis. Lewis wrote the book as a response to William Blake’s book, Marriage of Heaven and Hell. In many ways, it is a refutation of Blake’s book; there is no marriage of heaven and hell. The book begins in a sad, dark, desolate place. The reader is led to believe that this place is hell. The narrator takes the reader throughout the streets of this peculiar place. Eventually, he stumbles upon a bus station, along with many…

In the poem “Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson, a man is viewed highly by the people on the streets. On one calm summer night Richard Cory went home and ended his life by shooting himself in the head. The tone of the poem is ironic. There are three types of irony, the three types of irony are verbal, situational, and dramatic. This poem expresses many examples of situational irony. Situational irony is when the reader expects something to happen but something totally different happens.…

Men” was written by poet T.S. Eliot during the 1920s in London when World War I was taking place. “The Hollow Men” describes the world of godless despair without the promise of salvation. T.S. Eliot was born on September 26, 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri. He was educated at Harvard University then later attended school at Sorbonne in Paris, France. He later went on the marry an Englishwoman named Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot who was a governess and writer at the time. Eliot then went on to become an…

They Don’t Need No Man The role of women from the realism time period to the modernism time period changed dramatically. In the realism period, women still have not gotten any equal rights, including voting, being in politics, and even being in any workplace. This caused many women to go against their husband or any other man. The stories in the realism time period that portray this is “The Revolt of Mother” by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, and “A New England Nun” by Mary Eleanor Wilkins…

One’s thoughts are personal to them, and once they are asked to externalize it, they often subconsciously or consciously filter out what they are thinking. Each of the personal circumstances in Tillie Olson’s “I Stand Here Ironing”, Dorothy Parker’s “A Telephone Call”, and T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” inhibit the narrators to externalize their thoughts because of the fear of judgement and self-blame that each feel. Many do not want to express their innermost fears to others…