One of the strongest ways to voice political opinion is in interpretive writing. It is universally known that history is an integral factor of literature; sometimes‚ certain political events inspire poets and authors to cleverly voice their opinions regarding the event in ways that require much ambiguity and analysis to completely understand the author’s intentions. Poetic protest is best shown with careful choice of word‚ punctuation‚ and capitalization. The first example of political protest in
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Daniel Vasquez Ms. Perricone English 4 Period 6 3/4/11 The Irish Rebellion of 1641‚ his mother reading Irish folktales to him as a child‚ and William Blake’s use of fiction influenced William Butler Yeats to write “The Curse of the Fire and the Shadows”. Yeats is a huge part of 20th century English and Irish literature and one of the most important writers that started the “Irish Literary Revival” and was responsible for starting a his own literary club called “The Rhymers Club”. In addition
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Here is what I thought of the poem after reading and studying it. It is not so much an analysis of the poem‚ but an analysis of the devices used to convey the thesis of the poem. E. E. Cummings presents his views about life and how the individual is able to create more opportunities in life by pushing boundaries than if he were to conform to the demands of society by using sequential diction in an informal sentence structure through a weary tone. The weary tone gives the impression that the
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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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