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Mia Yi Ms. Beskenis/ Mrs. Manley Pd 2 13 May 2016 Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School and he spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. As one of America’s most respected poet, Wallace Stevens’s rich and colorful life story, impact from early traditional writers and his parents, and his unique writing style all contributed to…

Robert Frost Robert Frost once said “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” Robert Frost was an American poet His unique work is loved by many people. Frost is a popular poet, and was honored frequently during his lifetime and received four pulitzer prizes. One of Robert Frost’s most famous poems is The Road Not Taken. Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco. He lived with his father, William Prescott Frost Jr., his mother, Isabelle…

Why is E.E. cummings so interesting? Can it be because of his different way of writing? E.E. cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894, he studied at Harvard University. When he went to Paris to join a World War 1 ambulance corps, he saw one of Picasso's shows, after seeing the show, he got interested in poetry and cubism. How does E.E. cummings use vision and hearing to create meaning? E.E. cummings creates meaning in his poetry by using visual techniques and auditory techniques.…

Robert Frost Modernism and a rich personal background had an enormous influence on the writing of Robert Frost, and are showcased in some of his most famous poems. Robert Frost was born on March 27, 1874, and his life was all about nature and the messages God sent through it. He wondered about these tiny marvels of nature and sought deeper meanings from them. For example, “The Road Not Taken”, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, and “Choose Something Like a Star”…

No two men are exactly alike, not even identical twins. Some attributes, appearance, and ideology may mirror, but no two men are alike. Differences in how the world is perceived will allow these individual to stand together, but appear far apart. The modernist method of writing allows for individuals to do exactly that, stand together but appear to be far. Writers Ernest Hemingway and T.S. Eliot demonstrated such disassociation in living deliberately in time and place of Nick and J. Alfred…

Chiara Dituri Final paper The modern literature “To the Light House” by Virginia Woolf and “The Waste Land” by T.S Eliot directly correlates the perspective of World War I and its effect on both life and death. Both authors use stream of consciousness as a way to show multiple perspectives on thoughts of confusion, trauma and chaos that World War I has impacted on many lives. The loss of loved once during war times, is a painful experience that can bring on psychological and painful events…

Introduction Throughout the twentieth century and beyond there has been a clear correlation between literary theory and scientific philosophical enquiry. Both have become intrinsically linked with each other, with this direct and complicated relationship being most evident in the field of poetry and poetic theory. Within this field there has been a continued but arguably fractured questioning of this enduring relationship. I propose that there have been within the modern age two main lines of…

Translating a contemporary love poem by Fawaz Allaboun turned out to be a challenging task. Allaboun is a Saudi poet and a Professor of Classical Arabic. He earned his PhD degree in Arabic language and literature at Al-Imam University. He published a collection of poems in a book called “Allabouniat.” Another collection of poems is forthcoming. The first problem that I encountered was in the different words that express the various degrees and state of romantic love in Arabic and the…

Evaluating the Intertwining of First Native Culture and Indigenous Literature: Richard Wagamese’s Indian Horse In English literature a formalist movement in the mid 20th century that emphasized the relationship between a text’s idea and its form - known as New Criticism - continues to strongly influence modern academic writing. New Criticism specifies that the object of study ought to be the text itself, not the response or the motivation of its author or readers. Rarely do New Criticism texts…

Is Yeats a good poet? - Angélique Dongo Yeats' excellency is clearly portrayed in his poems. His work is full of vivid, descriptive imagery and deeply analised personal feelings and strong political opinions which are evident in Lake Isle of Innisfree, Wild Swans at Coole, September 1913, Easter 1916 and Sailing to Byzantium. eats believed that art and politics were intrinsically linked and used his writing to express his attitudes toward Irish politics, as well as to educate his readers about…