... also confronted by the immemorial war between the body and the soul, strained through a subtle intelligence and a sensitive spirit. The -metaphysical style seems the natural vehicle for expressing a sense of the tensions between matter and spirit, faith and reason, between comfortable Aristotelian cosmology and disturbing -new philosophy, an inheritance from a century of theological, philosophical and political wrangling. ... Donne belonged to the philosophy of thought called -Platonism, in which the superiority of intellectual and spiritual relationships to mere involvement of the sense...

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... into question the existence of God and the rationality of Mankind. Modernism was a part of [this] disturbed, transformational period of European history [which] contained and incorporated its sensibility of transition and its rising sense of crisis, (Bradbury 13). The greatest works of the Modernist era were written around and during the time of the Great War (1914-1918) and conveyed the turmoil ... the feeling that something will happen at any moment, this is underlined by Owen's use of ellipsis dots at the end of every sentence in Stanza one, which allude to a sense of anticipation an...

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... a frame of reference, when reading Pessoa's poetry and prose, falls short. His work, despite the fact that he "single-handedly brought modernism to Portugal,"" is more closely aligned with a postmodern sensibility. According to Madun Sarup, modernism and postmodernism share many elements. Postmodernism is literally what comes after, or post-, modernism, and is grounded in a similar tradition. The elements of postmodernism that ... in the country."" Although the heteronyms shared the same time space as Pessoa (in other words, they were his peers), he was able to dip into their pasts with...

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... , and without proposing the dead person as an example of tragic crisis in the human spirit or in human history. The American elegiac sensibility--in Cooper, Melville, Thoreau, Mark Twain, James, and others--is most strongly engaged by the sense of lost modes of innocence, lost possibilities of brotherhood, magnanimity, and freedom, lost sources of moral spontaneity and spiritual refreshment. The tone ... ...

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