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Ernest Hemingway A Biographical Criticism Introduction Ernest Hemingway was among the most significant authors in the 20th century. Hemingway’s publications, in form of short fiction and novels left imprints on the literary system of not only the USA, but the entre globe as a whole (Ebersole,143).Currently, the author who is also a Nobel prize winner, is considered among the greatest novelists and is especially renowned for famous works among them A Farewell To Arms and The Old Man And The Sea…

Brooke Lambert and Katherine Scarborough Mrs. Suggs ENG-232-ND1 16 October 2017 Edgar Lee Masters Edgar Lee Masters was a famous American poet/lawyer. His works were part of the new writing movement known as the Modernist. His most popular work, Spoon River Anthology, gained a lot of support as well as criticism from the general public and other writers. His new and untraditional way of writing caused more conservatives to become angered by his writing do to the scandalous ideas. Masters is a…

Ernest Hemingway is seen as the best modern writer in literary history, and his famous novel, the Sun Also Rises, really withstood the test of time. His legacy that he has developed still lives on to this very day. His writing styles are known to be the voice of the Modern Era. While he written his literary work outside the United States and written in a way that can be difficult to comprehend, his literary style is one of a kind and his mastery of the English prose makes him one of the voices…

Robert Frost said, “Freedom lies in being bold.” (Brainy Quote 22)He quickly became one of the most well-known, most celebrated, and most loved poets in the world. His poems tell in detail from the point of view of the average simplistic farmer. Rejection was often a record that would play in the radio of his life. Breaking through what is usual for poets to create. Robert Frost changed the face of American literature, by stepping outside of what is traditional. Robert Lee Frost was born in San…

The Modernist writers were aware that they were living in an age which was undergoing massive change. Virginia Woolf famously said “on or about December 1910 human character changed.” Awareness of this change radically affected their writing. The investigations of Freud, Marx and the new developments in the empirical sciences influenced their worldview and their works of art. The stable worldview that writers like George Eliot were used to was changing. The idea of the organic growth of an…

Charles Simic Few survivors of the monumental World War 2 have survived to pass on their tales, and even fewer of these share their experiences through poetry. Charles Simic is a rare gem in the poet community, whose work is reflected by the span of countries, time periods and life lessons he has experienced. A figurehead of the surrealist movement in poetry, Charles Simic has established a firm reputation for his poetry in the United States. Born on May 9, 1938 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Simic…

William Carlos Williams' poetry generally appears to focus around the subtleties in life, things that would normally be overlooked by the common eye. In his poem "This is Just to Say", he gives us an empty apology for eating plums that were being saved for breakfast. An apology written for a couple of plums stolen from the ice box would seem excessive to most but to Williams the plums were only one of many problems in his lifeless marriage. "Lifeless marriage?” you say. How did we come to this…

Robert Frost is arguably the most renowned American poet of all time. He used a simple conversational language to portray powerful messages. However, like many artists and writers, his success was not immediate. He faced many hardships and excessive grief along the way, including the untimely deaths of many family members, significant financial struggles, and his continuing battle with depression. Despite his obvious talent, the delayed publication of his works forced him to pursue jobs he…

Elusive and transitory in nature, modernism is less of an artistic genre, and more of a philosophical movement that rejects understood notions of the traditional while redefining literature, art, and their boundaries. Seeking to make sense of a changing world, the early modernist revolution saw drastic departures from traditional forms of art, literature, architecture, religion, philosophy, social values, and the sciences. Moreover, among the many factors that shape modernist art and literature…

(Weeks Jr., L. E., 1980) The themes of “Hills like White Elephants” are the “choices and consequences” of an unmarried couple in the midst of a disagreement about abortion, which the American believes in the choice for abortion will free them to what they were before and Jig believes more realistic consideration of the choices and consequences. “Doubt and ambiguity” is another them that covered through the whole story, which the American is not careful of how he communicate with Jig, and Jig is…