... . Indeed, it is true that readers need a background awareness of psychology, anthropology, history and aesthetics to master some of the literature of the early years of Modernism: T.S. Eliot even furnished footnotes to help the reader with his The Waste Land. But all through what might be termed the period of Modernism there were writers who kept working away in more traditional ... ...
... . The final line of the first stanza "A terrible beauty is born" foreshadows the terrible events to come. The second matter seems to address matters closer to the writer's heart. The footnotes refer to other poems and Pegasus, sometimes a used for poetic inspiration. There is also a reference to a Major who married the woman Yeats was in love with. Major MacBride's demise is ... ...
... "Robert Frost was quoted as saying that "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" contained all he ever knew and that he would like to print it with "Forty pages of footnotes" (Rosenberry 526). In Frost's poem the use of woods can be argued to have a much deeper meaning than the literal sense. Greiner points out that "the majority of Frost's symbolic ... ...
... (John Simkin 2)." Sandburg wrote a countless number of other great works but these are the most famous of them all. Most critics had objectionable viewpoints towards Sandburg for his "lack of footnotes and to his poetic method of imagining Lincoln's thoughts (http://door.library.uiuc.edu/rbx/sandburg.htm 1)." On the other hand, most literary critics "praised the work (http://door.library ... ...
