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    Auto Wreck Poem Analysis

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    toward technological determinism, the simple violence of machine against human being in which everyone participates by failing to be troubled or moved by such disasters as automobile wrecks. The tone of the poem is likely to be melodious which an imagism verse is. It is a short, lyrical narrative poem. The poem is described in first person narrative. The poet in short is trying to convey that life is not eternal so no one knows when the end time is going to arrive. So one must have the fear in…

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    WINIELYN C. DILOY DEC. 07, 2015 LIT 21B FINAL PAPER Brideshead Revisited -The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder By Evelyn Waugh The novel tells of a story of a middle- aged artist and a Second World War army Captain, Charles Ryder of his involvement with the Flyte family. The story started when Charles Ryder, an undergraduate of Hertford College, University of Oxford was befriended by Sebastian Flyte, the younger son of an aristocratic Lord Marchmain. Having been…

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    Throughout America’s history, writers/poets have contributed to what we now call the American voice. Their novels and poems have shaped Americans’ ideas and events. The American voice is a way for authors to come together and shape future generations of Americans to become “true” Americans. The American voice was shaped by events such as the end of isolationism in America. With this end, teens began to protest the “norms” of America- shaping the American voice of the 1950s-60s. Through the use…

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    Amy Lowell Influences

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    How did Amy Lowell shape contemporary trends in american poetry? A quote of Amy Lowell shows both her determined personality and her sense of humor: "God made me a business woman, and I made myself a poet." During her career that spanned only twelve or so years, she wrote and published over 650 poems, but she is most often recognized for her work to open American readers up to contemporary trends in poetry. "Poet, propagandist, lecturer, translator, biographer, critic . . . her verve is almost…

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    Contemporary Period Essay

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    Contemporary period is a big-mixed era in the world. Many materials and ideas all can put into music or art works. In this research paper, I will talk about the background of the contemporary era, composers of the contemporary period, the modernism and many different styles of music in this period. This piece I want to talk about, is the horn sonata, wrote by Paul Hindemith. This piece is a good piece to describe the music of the contemporary period because we still perform this at present, and…

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    Marianne Moore The Fish

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    have chosen to analyze, through the use of her imagery and syntax, Moore demonstrates the challenges humans have to comprehend emotions and detect truth while encouraging her readers to uncover the underlying, principle meaning beneath everything. Imagism was a movement popular…

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    Karl Beck son and Arthur Gang define the term “Synaethesia” as the intermingling of sensations; the sensing for example of certain sounds through colors or odors .(Beck son and Ganz,209) .Fogle , while amplifying Professor June E. Downey”s concept of synasthesia ,hints at the possibility of visual participation in some of the sensation clusters concerned : “ The function of all poetic imagery is to order ,relate, and unify desperate modes of physical, mental and emotional experience…

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    A leaf falls on loneliness and Starry Night are both famous works of art during the modernist period by two completely different artists, but portray the same message in my eyes, that message being ………….... A leaf falls on loneliness was written by E.E. Cummings written in 1958. It can be seen on the last page along with Starry Night. Starry Night was painted by Vincent Van Gogh in 1889. It depicted That message being: society is chaotic but beautiful, it is dying but will be reborn, it is…

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    works and reprise, incorporate, rewrite, recapitulate, revise, or parody them (Whitworth, 2010). As aforementioned, Avison has done this with her poem “A Story”. Modernist poems tend to also include symbolism, futurism, surrealism, expressionism, imagism and so on. The literary techniques can be seen various times in her writing. The poem “the Butterfly” is symbolic of a moth/butterfly that stands for hope and aspiration (Avison,…

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    The art of poetry is a vast discipline in which the creations of the poets take on a multitude of different forms. Not only are there a large number of poetic structures that an author can choose from, there are also many parts within those structures that can be modified to lead to an even more diverse array of final products. The author has a great many choice when it comes to choosing the structure of their poem, they can vary the number of lines per stanza, the length of each line, and the…

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