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Eliot’s The Waste Land is often a confusing and difficult poem to understand. However, in terms of its style and content, it is clear that the poem speaks about the decay of the periods culture. The Waste Land is a eulogy to the decaying society of modern Europe post-World War One. Eliot’s use of fragmentation made him infamous in the literary world; and it is through this use of fragmentation that we the learned find it very daunting to appreciate. The poem consists of five sections, all of…

W.H Auden’s modernist techniques combined with his unique style of writing makes his poetry difficult to read and interpret. However, his eccentric use of words calls for the reader’s imagination to create images that help grasp the central idea of the poem. Such can be seen in “Law like Love” starting with the ironic nature of the title. Law, as we know it is something which has clear cut definitions and rules which many do not favour. Love on the other hand, is not meant to have boundaries and…

Throughout the history of the Spain and Latin America, there have been many remarkable Nobel Prize winners for literature. All of these Nobel Prize winners each had their different twist as to why they made won the Nobel Prize in the first place. These honorary authors and poets range from such people as Juan Ramon Jimenez, who wrote about the poverty of Spain in unique set of poems in “Platero and I” to Latin America’s Gabriela Mistral, who stood out for her the way should could emotionally…

casually used by them, but they have been handed down over centuries, burnished by use, and remade according to pattern. The wisdom first quoted in the poem as derived from Ezra Pound is repeated in the poem twice again, once in his own words, as if the speaker could not relish it enough. What was taught to him by Pound, by Lu Ji, and by Chen, he seizes to teach to Kai, in this providential moment. He is a disciple of archaic wisdom, a practitioner of it, and a teacher in his own right, using…

generation to be educated in precisely this manner” (Docherty) of a “sound classical education” that resulted in him adopting many poetic strategies. E.E. Cummings then attended Harvard University where he was introduce to the avant-garde writers of Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. These two writers influenced Cummings in such a huge way that Cummings himself became an avant-garde writer too by experimenting with different techniques and grammar in his poetry. In his two poems “Spring is like a…

The poem “America” by Walt Whitman has a respectful tone. Whitman appeared to have great respect for American Society. There are some words throughout his poem that contribute to the respectful tone. The first word that contributes to the tone is equal. Whitman observed that there were “equal daughters, equal sons.” Equality appeared to be important to Whitman, so the fact that America provided the opportunity for everyone to be equal was something that Whitman showed his respect in the tone of…

Poet A.E. Housman is believed to be an influential writer in the art of poetry. He is famously known for his book of poems called, “A Shropshire Lad.” The poems he wrote appealed to the late Victorian taste and to many early 20th Century writers. Housman was one of the most classicists of his age and has been ranked as one of the greatest scholars who has ever lived. One of Housman’s most famous poems is, Here Dead We Lie. This poem can relate to anyone who has lost a family member in a war.…

The Problems of Pennies MaKenzi Bowden Snow College English 2010 October 27, 2016 The Problem of Pennies The writers grandparents know that a penny is worth more than one cent even though it only costs one cent. They always pick up pennies whenever they see them and never leave them on the ground. Benjamin Franklin once said, “A penny saved is a penny earned” (BrainyQuote 2016). If you pick up every penny that you find, they eventually will add up sooner or later. Nowadays, there is nothing that…

Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Life is not always easy for everyone in this country. Miguel Pinero is a Port Rican writer, who is also a playwright, actor and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café. He was a leading member of the Nuyorican literary movement. His style of writing is unique. His life was not that great, but all he has been through really help him out along the way. His poems are very interesting. In both of his poems, “La Bodega Sold Dreams” and “Seekin’ the cause”, Pinero…

Larry Patrick Levis, as a poet of the contemporary Period, exemplified the best of the genre. Through his use of poetic devices, style and thematic, Larry Levis has given us some of the most iconic and universally appealing work. Particularly in his poem titled “___________”, we see examples of his most salient particularities and effective use of English language. Larry Patrick Levis then stands as one of the greats in the pantheon of American and World Literature. Larry Patrick Levis was…