Modern day poet In spite of the Pastoral element that was predominant in all of Robert Frost’s poems‚ he was still considered a modern poet because the poetry that he wrote was well endowed with the many problems that men who lived in the modern world faced with Science and Technology. He was a contemporary and great friend to such modernist greats as Ezra Pound and Wallace Stevens. Although he resembled these modernist poets‚ Frost was quite different from the rest of the modern poets of his time
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E.E. Cummings- Defender of Individualism and Non-Conformity E. E. Cummings established himself as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century‚ triumphing in hundreds of poems that struck his readers with a sense of awe and imagination. Cummings’ poems stand out among other poems as amazingly unique. Cummings was a staunch advocator of the individual‚ going against the grain of traditional‚ conformist poet. Cummings experimented with words on a page to make pictures and called it poetry;
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John Donne (1572-1631) is considered the most prominent of all metaphysical poets‚ especially in the seventeenth century. Donne also spent some years as a lawyer‚ and as a preacher‚ earned a reputation for delivering enchanting sermons. Donne‚ as a love poet‚ wrote from personal experience‚ which fact made his poetry more accessible and compelling. His independent spirit was evident in his poems‚ to the point of him being called rebellious. His love poems were a remarkable conglomerate of divinity
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Thomas Hardy as a War Poet Thomas Hardy is one of the most famous and prolific British writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Most people recognize Hardy as an author of novels‚ but he preferred to write poetry. Both his novels and his poetry give a pessimistic view of the world. Subjects for his poetry include nature‚ love‚ and war. Most of his poems on war have tragic themes and present humans as having little control over their destinies. A major theme of Thomas Hardy’s tragic
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How To Write a Critical Paper Ask Four Basic Questions as You Read: 1) What is the book/story/poem/chapter about as a whole? Question to consider in description 2) What is the author saying about the food in detail‚ and how is it said? Question to consider in interpretation 3) Is it true‚ in whole or in part? Question to consider in criticism 4) What is the significance of the work? Question for the 4th parrt ELEMENTS OF A CRITICAL PAPER The following is a general structure to follow for
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A Braindead Country Called Lebanon By: Rasha Abouzaki Published Tuesday‚ June 26‚ 2012 http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/8933 The myth of superiority clearly has a grip on the Lebanese. They presume that they are the masters of science‚ civilization‚ and progress. But looking beyond this “chauvinist” posture‚ we find a country barren of any institutions that encourage achievement. The feebleness of Lebanese scientific research could be one of the reasons for Lebanese society’s ignorance of its
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Anne Bradstreet: The Heretical Poet Greg Saxon The purpose of this research is to discuss heretical elements in the poetry of Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672). This is not to imply that Bradstreet was a heretic in the sense that American religious reformer Anne Hutchinson was. Hutchinson (1591-1643) emigrated to Boston in 1634 and preached a doctrine of salvation through intuitive apprehension of grace rather than by works‚ and attacked the rigid moral and legal codes of New England Puritanism.
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literature. Romantic literature emerged through a movement called Romanticism. Romanticism can be defined as a movement in art and literature that revolted against rigid social conventions. In Frankenstein‚ Mary Shelly stresses the importance of individualism in Romantic Literature by developing various narratives of the story to generate perspectives of the same environment through different narratives. Robert Walton begins the novel through an epistolary frame for the actual story to build on. We
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The Importance of Individualism Every society consists of a group of individuals. Lawyers‚ garbage workers‚ fickle teenagers‚ and even infants all interact and produce a diverse‚ successful society. Each member of that society contributes in his or her own distinct way. But when individualism is repressed‚ humanity within the society is lost. The importance of individualism is satirized through exaggerated psychological and physical training‚ the implementation of an austere caste system‚ and the
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power of natureon the spirit of man. William Wordsworth as a Poet of Nature: As a poet of Nature‚ Wordsworth stands supreme. He is a worshipper of Nature‚ Nature’s devotee or high-priest. His love of Nature was probably truer‚ and tenderer‚ than that of any other English poet‚ before or since. Nature comes to occupy in his poem a separate or independent status and is not treated in a casual or passing manner as by poets before him. Wordsworth had a full-fledged philosophy‚ a new and original
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