1. English Literature in the Twentieth century
... ) is a pervasive feature of his poetry. Whereas full rhyme would inappropriately underscore a sense of pattern and completeness, the use of half-rhyme reinforces a sense of things not fitting and being incomplete. The First World War saw the death of millions of men; it saw the death of Victorian forms of poetic expression and the radical questioning of liberal values. But it ... . Eliot's poetry went much further than that of the War Poets, however. His poetry was formally more experimental and innovative, and intellectually more complex and philosophical. Instead of the traditional lyri...
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