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What is the significance of the wall? Often in literature, there are numerous meanings that can be differently interpreted by the reader. "Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville is a great example of how symbols and meaning can be interpreted differently as something metaphorical. Herman Melville uses walls as a symbol representing the monotonous routine of the scrivener’s job, with no bright perspective in the future, no excitement. Author uses walls to show how they keep people isolated…

Question 2: Formalism Rainbow Series Part Three: An Absolutely Ordinary Formalist Analysis The Text: An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow – Les A. Murray The Formalist theory requires readers to adopt a formalist mindset, understanding that the meaning of a text is derivative from its form; the two unable to be separated from each other. In the poem, An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow the form is constructed in stanzas and is analysed through its literary features which include style, rhyme, repetition…

As Nietzsche declares in The Birth of Tragedy (1872), “What a shame I did not dare to utter as a poet what I had to say at that time; perhaps I might have been able to do that!” : The “Epode” of Beyond Good and Evil (1886) concludes the book as it should not have been written as it was but as it should have been chanted. The reader might be surprised towards this unexpected lyricism that concluded the book, thus seen as an Orphic culmination of Nietzsche’s enterprise to drive forward the above…

So, back to Horace, Liberovici's aesthetic indifference touches his nerves. However he does not have the character of Don Quixote, he doesn't like confrontation, he prefers to gloss over. And looking at the Liberovici's scowl asking if the statue of the Unknown Policeman is strictly figurative he decides to nod vague and to divert on other topics. “Ehm, yes, figurative, more or less... So, excuse me, why did you summon me?” “We have urgent need of your services. Who knows, perhaps for the last…

In his short story “Greasy Lake,” T. Coraghessan Boyle uses setting to show corruption of a today’s youth, created desirable atmosphere, and really show the inner character. He does this by centering the story at the Greasy Lake and using the Lake as both a setting and character. Greasy Lake is described by the narrator in very blunt terms and tells you what to expect. However, the narrator see’s the lake as the cool place to hang out and forget about there boring college life. The lake is…

“Till human voices wake us, and we drown” (Bartle by). The sounds of the last line of T.S. Eliot’s poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Prufrock couldn’t be farther away from love. By analyzing the themes and imagery along with the overall form of the poem, we will see if this poem has a title that relates to what it represents – a love story. Although the main character in Eliot’s poem uses the word love, this poem is centralized around a human living in a modernized society. The Love Song…

The title of this poem is the first clue in which Eliot provides a characteristic of modernism. The title “suggest the kind of irony that is so typical of modern free verse” (Evans) as “love song” (Byam 822) and “J. Alfred Prufrock” (Byam 822) do not seem to fit in the same line of words. Along with the title, the epigraph, which “portrays a man in hell” (Güven 80), who “reveals details of his life” (Evans). He believes his words won’t be repeated on Earth. In the same way, the reader is…

The cliché, the more things change; the more they stay the same, applies to two poems, “The World is too Much with Us,” written in the 1800s and “Spirits in the Material World” which was written in 1981. The poems are both in response to the everchanging world. These poems use specific poetic elements to create force behind their arguments. Furthermore, each poem conveys a similar theme that materialism is going to ruin the planet for future generations. The first poem “Spirits in the Material…

In the poem of the “LoveSong of J.Alfred Prufrock,” T.S. Eliot uses a depressing and regretful tone to express a meaning; Don’t take life for granted and that life goes by faster than you expect. You shouldn’t mess around and wait. The earlier you begin your life, the easier it will be. Do not waste time because it’ll zoom right past you! Be aware of your age, or you’ll be regretting it later in life. J. Alfred Prufrock is getting older by the minute. He isn’t as young as he wished. “With a…

In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” T.S. Eliot tells a story of regret, love, and life. J. Alfred Prufrock has a hard time finding true love due to the fact that he has no idea what to do with the short amount of time that he has in life. It isn’t until the end that he realizes he’s getting older and he has wasted his life doing nothing for himself. T.S. Eliot uses Literary Devices in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” to express the meaning of life by using tone and imagery. T.S.…