Imagism was a movement in the 20th century that focused on having a clear message and description in poems in order to provide vivid imagery for the reader. These poems often did not rhyme‚ had irregular beat‚ and depended on the power of an image to convey an emotion. It has been described as one of the most influential movements in English poetry. Two common and popular Imagist poets at the time and even today are: William Carlos Williams and H.D. (Hilda Doolittle). Both of these writers knew each
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Bones In The Waste Land English Literature Essay In the movie Spiderman 2 (2004)‚ Peter Parker‚ aka Spiderman‚ gets in to a conversation with Dr. Otto Octavious‚ the scientist‚ who later morphs into the super villain Doc Ock. Dr. Octavious tells Peter about his fiancée‚ a literature student‚ when they met in college and how she attempted to learn science for his sake and how he tried to learn literature for hers. She was more successful and he less‚ as he explains to Peter‚ “She was studying T
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Walt Whitman Walter "Walt" Whitman was an American poet‚ essayist and journalist. A humanist‚ he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism‚ incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon‚ often called the father of free verse. His work was very controversial in its time‚ particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass‚ which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality. Walt was born in Westhills‚ Long
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the final version of "The Waste Land" is significant. At the time of the poem’s composition‚ Eliot was ill‚ struggling to recover from his nervous breakdown and languishing through an unhappy marriage. Pound offered him support and friendship; his belief in and admiration for Eliot were enormous. Pound‚ like Eliot a crucible of modernism‚ called for compression‚ ellipsis‚ reduction. The poem grew yet more cryptic; references that were previously clear now became more obscure. Explanations were out the
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Modernism An Anthology of Sources and Documents. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 366-375. Eliot‚ TS‚ 1923. ULYSSES‚ ORDER‚ AND MYTH. [Web Essay] Available at: http://people.virginia.edu/~jdk3t/eliotulysses.htm [Accessed on 3rd May 2012]. Imagism Moore M. 1926. New Poetry Since 1912 In: Kolocotroni V‚ Goldman J‚ Taxidou O eds. 1998. Modernism An Anthology of Sources and Documents. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University 429-433. Whitman W‚ 1855. From preface to Leaves of Grass In: Kolocotroni V‚ Goldman
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and Dickinson are entirely opposite. Second‚ while Walt Whitman ’s voice is quite loud‚ clear‚ and boastful in “Song of myself‚” Emily Dickinson ’s voice is quiet and modest “[I’m Nobody! Who are you?].” In her poem‚ it is obviously that he is very pound of himself. One of the evidences is that he names the poem‚ “Song of Myself.” On the first sentence of the first stanza‚ he says “I celebrate myself” (Lauter 1225).From this note‚ Whitman creates his own image that he is great and he implies his life
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The Black Prince is structured as Pearson’s apologia to his editor and friend P.A. Loxias. This allows Murdoch to address an audience directly‚ pausing for philosophical musings‚ without engaging in the post-modern trick of acknowledging the reader. Loxias and Pearson both write forewords to the main text. Pearson and four other characters offer competing postscripts. Two deny Loxias’s existence. This fulfills early premonitions about Pearson’s unreliability as a narrator. The first significant piece
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‚ T.S. Eliot appeared on the scene of 20th century English poetry as a wonderful innovator with these lines of his The Love-song of J. Alfred Prufrock on the pages of the Poetry magazine in 1915: “Let us go‚ then‚ you and I When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table". These lines immediately revolutionized the intellectual climate of English poetry. Eliot initiated a new brand of poetry of the city‚ poetry essentially cerebral‚ impersonal‚ predominantly
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“A recurring characteristic of Modernism is the estrangement of the individual from his/her world: the outside world becomes unreal‚ uncanny‚ a place in which the individual can no longer feel at home.” What evidence do you find of such estrangement in the writing of the period? The late 19th century and early 20th century were times of great spiritual and social upheaval. It was an era in which many external values of the previous century were being challenged; faith in the government was in
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Current critical debate discusses contemporary poetry in terms of the Pound‚ Stevens or Williams’ era‚ forgetting T. S. Eliot‚ the poet who presided over the literary scenario for almost half a century. Eliot’s bookishness‚ political conservatism and religious leanings‚ together with the Modernist cultivation of an erudite‚ culturally charged idiom‚ have constituted a serious source of critical discontent. For the adepts of Marxist hermeneutics‚ his work came to represent “a privileged‚ closed‚ authoritative
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