Edward Estlin Cummings‚ also known as E.E. Cummings was a avant-garde poet that defied the rule of the English language. During the first World War‚ Cummings was under arrest for three months under false grounds. His experience in jail inspired the thought about authoritarianism and modernism. Gertrude Stein’s syntactical and Amy Lowell’s imagistic experiment inspired Cummings’ work by using incorrect grammar‚ spelling‚ and poetry structure. Humans tend to be cynical about facing problems in life
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In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”‚ T.S. Eliot reveals a song of a split between shyness and passion. He gives his point of view about the frustration of living in a “fantasy world” being. While T.S Eliot took this poem as more to a man feeling insecure I took this poem as a love failure‚ as if a love that never happened and that would not ever happen because of lack of courage/bravery. The insecurities of the man took him to feel humiliated and rejected because of his age. This poem starts
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E.E. Cummings is known for his incredibly experimental-in-style poems which test the boundaries of poetry. l(a is one of E.E. Cummings more famous poems in his experimental portfolio. In a simple description of the poem‚ it is the word “loneliness” separated with the phrase “(a leaf falls)” after the first letter of “loneliness.” Written in 1958‚ this poem was published in the last years of his life‚ for he died in 1962‚ a mere 4 years apart from its publication. Throughout this poem‚ Cummings expresses
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Frost’s poems could be considered pessimistic or realistic. I think that the poem was expressing reality. It was balancing negative and positive aspects. For example in the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay”‚ it shows the beauty as a rarity but also demonstrates that it existed. Another example is the poem “Birches”‚ which the boy took time away from his life filled with tasks to have fun climbing the birches. Also in the poem “Design”‚ it expressed the basic form of the food chain. Walt Whitman said
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Aatmya S. Talati Prof. Mary Helen O’Connor ENGL 2112 Rabindranath Tagore The first Asian Nobel Prize winner for Literature‚ a cultural hero‚ and an international figure‚ Rabindranath Tagore was born on 7th May 1861 in Calcutta‚ India. Tagore speaks to an optimistic assortment of the ripened Indian custom and the new European awareness. Globally‚ Gitanjali is Tagore ’s best-known accumulation of poetry and Tagore was granted the Nobel Prize in 1913 for his book "Gitanjali"‚ which contains the essence
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The poem I am choosing to examine is T.S‚ Eliot ’s The Waste Land emerging from the Modernist poetic movement. The modern movement occurred after World War one (1914-1918). This war marked momentous changes on a global scale. Before 1914‚ English literature and it ’s ideas were in many ways still harking back to the nineteenth century: after 1918 Modern begins to define the twentieth century. Among the influences of Modernism were the rapid developments both socially and technologically. Also new
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From How to Read Literature Like a Professor Thomas C. Foster Notes by Marti Nelson 1. Every Trip is a Quest (except when it’s not): a. A quester b. A place to go c. A stated reason to go there d. Challenges and trials e. The real reason to go—always self-knowledge 2. Nice to Eat With You: Acts of Communion a. Whenever people eat or drink together‚ it’s communion b. Not usually religious c. An act of sharing and peace d. A failed meal carries negative connotations 3. Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires
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Where Will You Find Inspiration Tonight? Strong imagery is a key component to a good poem. A poem without imagery leaves the reader unable to relate to the work‚ and it’s hard to enjoy a poem that one can’t relate to. “A Supermarket in California” by Allen Ginsberg is a great example of a poem with a strong sense of imagery. Ginsberg has a way of digging into the senses and making the reader experience the poem‚ rather than just read it. Interpreting this poem through a formalist lens answers any
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An interesting section of T.S. Eliot’s "The Wasteland" is that headed "Death by Water‚" a section that has engendered some argument about its meaning and about whether or not the death of Phlebas is intended to be real or symbolic. The poem uses sound in an interesting way to draw ideas together and to create a musical lilt. In the first line‚ the repeated "f" sound carries over to the first word of line two‚ evoking the idea of death‚ the image of the sea‚ and a connection between the sea and the
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The Profound Meaning in the Nature Poetry of R. Frost Abstract: This article is focusing on investigating the multidimensional nature in the eyes of Robert Frost. For him‚ nature is more than a friend or an enemy‚ sometimes it’s the human being ourselves. From some of his poem we can feel that the human intelligence might have a limited horizon which turned out to be a bar for the development between the nature and human beings. Key Word: R. Frost nature limitation ambiguity Once people
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