Ezra Pound

Most consider democracy to be the best form of government. Like all other forms government, it still requires a certain amount of faith to be placed in the officials’ elected, though, in democracy, people have a greater role than in other forms of government. A democracy also requires an informed population on issues within politics, which is generally provided by the press. This point in history marks an especially divisive era between ideologies and a movement of populism. Candidates from both…

The Waste Land invokes a feeling of nostalgia for a time gone by coupled with a sense of dissonance for what the world has become. The last vestiges, like the fragments stand as reminders that we can never go back. This embrace of the fragmentation offers no resolve but rather demonstrates a sort of encumbered acceptance of the world as it is now with ever so brief glimpses of hope, which come and go. Even the structure of the poem itself is as presented as fragmentary, a reflection of the…

FitzGerald, and Gertrude Stein. In the 1920’s Hemingway joined The Lost Generation. The Lost Generation consisted of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, E.E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish, Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, T.S Elliot, Ezra Pound, and many other amazing writers. Although Gertrude Stein was credited for the term Lost Generation, Hemingway made the term widely known. The Lost Generation helped Hemingway come with his unique writing style. Hemingway decided to cut…

Poetry has been prevalent for centuries, present in all cultures. There is a grand variety of styles that poetry can be represented through. There are some types of poetry where one follows rigid guidelines like sonnets, where one follows a specific rhyme scheme and an iambic pentameter, or a haiku, which has three lines and the first and last line have five syllables while the second line has seven. Additionally, some poets follow no requirements, and write as they please, like free verse…

The restaurant was named after the Minetta Brook which ran southwest from 23rd Street to the Hudson River. Throughout history, the tavern was frequently visited by various well-known people such as Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Eugene O’Neill, E. E. Cummings, Dylan Thomas, and of course, Joe Gould. It was a hub for writers and poets. Today, the restaurant has been described as as Parisian steakhouse meeting a classic New York City tavern, and has even been awarded a Michelin…

lived in Paris, and sold their work to the United States for a large sum of money. These people referred to themselves as “The Lost Generation”, and contained a multitude of influential people Ernest Hemmingway, Gertrude Stein, T.S. Elliot, and Ezra Pound. In particular, Ernest Hemmingway had an extreme impact on Fitzgerald, and even once wrote to his editor saying “I 'd look him up right away. He 's the real thing.” Thus, the other artists and authors in Fitzgerald’s generation had a profound…

Yellow Fog and Indecision The term “modernism” refers to a movement which started in the late 1800s, following immediately after World War I, and was prominent past World War II into the late 1940s, when postmodernism began to take hold. The modernist movement included poetry, fiction, drama, painting, and music. As with any movement, it’s time table of influence is gradual and hard to pinpoint. In any case, the true birth of modernism in poetry is frequently noted as starting during T.S.…

Hemingway experienced war firsthand and in 20th century he wrote a lot about war, no other American writer wrote more about war than Hemingway. He worked as a journalist and served in World War I before he published his book called ‘In Our Time.’ In 1951, Hemingway wrote ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ it became his most famous book and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1952. In 20th century Hemingway was the most significant American author, his novels have left a mark on literary production around the…

Ernest Hemingway was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He lived a very unique life and he carries that over into his writing. His writing intrigues me in the fact that he has such an abrupt writing style, but it was also simplistic. Many experiences that Hemingway went through in his life was evident in aspects of his writing. Hemingway was a patriarch of American Literature. He was awarded for being a war hero and later he received awards for his writing. Eventually his…

artists, for they are sometimes influenced by the era of art before them, the modernists. The era of modernism was around for the first half of the 20th century. Its distinguishing feature was its determination to dispense with the past (Taylor). Ezra Pound used the phrase "to make it new" to describe this period of art. Post-modernism emerged after World War…