... humanistic ideals. The Waste Land is a reckless experiment in poetry; its style and language are highly complicated and symbolic and full of erudite allusions. In 1936 the poet even attached Notes on the Waste Land to the edition in order to explain the work's many quotations and allusions. The publication won Eliot an international reputation of incontestable master of verse-making ... -industrialized America that the author of The Waste Land abandoned urbanism, which filled practically all of his works of the 1920-es, and started writing landscape lyrics. Along with the earnest philoso...

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... first three decades of the Nineteenth Century. Romantic literature departed from the traditional materials, form and style of preceding Neo-Classic literature, embracing innovation in these areas. Instead of the serious genres, high subjects, and elevated style and decorum of the Neo-Classic period, Romanticism heralded an era of social, political and literary revolution, new beginnings and "high possibilities". Blake and Wordsworth ... in "The Tyger" to describe the same life/death cycle. Wordsworth strove to use language in new and different ways to give insight into his ideas of self...

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... uses to describe them. They are described, for example, as "the light militia of lower sky" , an obvious reference to military formations that would have been a common feature of the classic epic genre. We see them also in their role as followers, Belinda's army, just as an epic hero would have his faithful servants we see how "To fifty chosen sylphs ... comment on the superficial values of the Augustan period. Furthermore, the undergarment seems a parody of the "glorious armour" of Achilles in Homer's "Iliad", and even more so with the seeming importance of the petticoat with its fifty...

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... , political and religious metaphors to emphasize the depth of her love for her husband. Although there isn't necessarily a "clear" volta in terms of its use as a "twist," something Paul Fussell notes as "indeed indispensable" due to its lack of execution, we see the seventh and eighth line summarize the metaphors in just one line as opposed to it being spread over ... ...

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... the emotions that generated this form of artistic expression was not on a par with the expression itself This is indicated by the last line of the poem, where the speaker notes that the piano player "slept like a rock or a man that's dead." The key word here is "or," for it denotes the imprecision of the speaker's understanding. What the blues articulates ... ...

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... time in the process of changing-self. In the final line of the poem Harwood uses the perfect tense, which emphasises its importance and again showing that it is too late for her to change. Like Harwood's "In the Park", Miroslav Holub's poem "The Door" shows the ... importance of time and attitudes towards changing-self. Through the constant repetition of the imperative "Go and open the door" the urgency of seizing the ... older then, I"m younger than that now" The speaker progresses through life and his perspective changes on specific issues, once he viewed them to be of extreme import...

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... reproducibility in print. Do you agree? This essay aims to identify some of the factors which have combined to generate this reproducibility, by trying to clarify what is meant by a classic and how and why these texts should be elevated to the ranks of the literary canon. The canon is often debated in relation to the biblical canon. For the purposes ... ...

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... with the complete lack of comfort offered in Experience's version. Here the sweep's unfeeling sanctimonious parents have clothed him in the clothes of death and taught him to sing the notes of woe. Religion is seen to be firmly on the side of the parents who are both gone up to the church to pray'. God himself is implicated in the ... ...

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... are generally very lyrical and of course, particularly in Donne's poetry, they are very witty. In the early to mid 19th century, Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote some rather subjective critical notes on the metaphysical poets and in particular Donne's poetry. He says "to read (the metaphysical poetry) you need only count syllables, but to read Donne you must measure time, and ... ...

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... imitations of reality, a reality that could be actual or potential. Indeed, their phrase for what we think of as "fine art" was "imitative arts", and great importance was attached to poetry as an integral part of the Greek education. Some questions naturally spring from this broad theory of art, for example: what exactly is being imitated by ... many of the parallelisms were consciously intended or not). Firstly there is the conceptual notion of form and matter as integral parts of objects of nature. Aristotle places much more importance on form than matter, in opposition to the majorit...

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... depth when we understand circumstances which prompted the writer to write. An author's experiences, along with many other factors, help to shape his writing. Furthermore, a work of literature holds more importance to readers if the writer has credibility for writing on a certain topic. For example, how seriously would we take a book about the woes and poverty of Mexican immigrants if it ... at forty-one will certainly make us pay attention to certain aspects of their poems we might otherwise have missed or considered unimportant (Kennedy 2174)." It is of the utmost importance that the r...

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... explaining how one action developed. And removing any one action should not disturb the unity of the rest of the actions that lead to the main point. Probability is of importance because, as Aristotle puts it, "It is not the use or absence of meter which distinguishes poet and historian; the difference lies in the fact that the one speaks of ... as a result of the arbitrary and fortuitous, since even chance events make the greatest impact of wonder when they appear to have a purpose."" Aristotle goes on to comment on the importance of reversal, or the complete swing in the direction of ...

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... a reflection of the "fluxes and refluxes" of the active imagination. This adds validity and credibility to the plight of the shepherd and the agony of his loss. It is the importance of the human voice and diction, then, that remains the inherent link between the poems of the collection. The two framing poems of the collection, the Ancient Mariner and Tintern ... with simple diction used. The intentional archaisms of Coleridge are not identifiable with the common speech of Wordsworth. Yet the particularities of the narrative voice are those which remain of importance and input power into...

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... person, "you", is told not to do. In contrast, the octave describes a personal experience, which validates what the poetic voice has previously presented as well as highlights the importance of experience in the process of knowledge. Notice how the volta of the sonnet stresses the transition between the sestet and octave, for it signals the move from proposition to ... ...

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... imitation is natural to man, for not only does man learn his first things through imitation, there is a sense of personal enjoyment involved with imitating others. Aristotle further emphasizes the importance of reversal (peripetia) and recognition (anagnorisis). According to Aristotle, the change of fortune (reversal) for the hero should be an event that occurs contrary to the audience's expectations and that ... ...

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... a group rather than an individual. G. W. F. Hegel, a German philosopher, rejected the rational philosophy of the 18th century because he believed in "Idealism". This involved looking at life in terms of the importance of ideas, not thought the narrow tunnel of greed and wealth. Although Romanticism was maybe traditional in nature, every member of this swift and silent movement could enjoy in his ... ...

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... Shakespeare. Petrarch believed that Italy should continue in the cultural tradition of the Roman Empire and wrote in both classical Latin and Italian. He also believed in the study and importance of the Greek and Roman classics as great works of literature. Petrarch was born on July 20, 1304, in Arezzo. He lived in Tuscany until he was eight, when he ... ...

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... , that we see her pain and Bishop's continual fight to hold on to her control. She is threatened by this loss, therefore we see a pause (" ""), which only heightens the importance of the final stanza. By putting parenthesis around the most intimate part of the poem she covers the grief the loss has caused her and suppresses it by saying "I shan ... ...

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... sermon is still very effective, as the thought of divine judgment always seems to scare its audience into straightening up. Letter writing was another form of rhetoric that gained a new importance in the medieval period. In "Rhetoric in the Middle Ages," Murphy states that "the ars dictamuinis [the art of letter writing] is truly a medieval invention. It marks a sharp break with ... ...

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... enters Gary's hospital room, Gary defends his entry in front of the nurse, "He's my brother. Can't you see the family resemblance?" The humour employed by the composer shows the importance of the moment where their brotherhood-like friendship is confirmed. Gary lifts his fist to his friend, alluding to the famous Jesse Owen black freedom poster which was the cause ... ...

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... edge of the heavy woods in the distance, he saw trees of white flowers- (21-24). The color "white- appears for the second time in line twenty-four suggesting some importance. White seems to represent a shift among extremes in the widow's observations; the color that once embraced and inspired her is now the color that cages her spirit and inspires her ... ...

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... himself. Chandler is fond of poetry not because they are an artistic emblem of truth, or beauty. They are the creations of respected, and worthy men, holding an order of importance in life that Chandler will never have. Chandler muses on his "poet's soul" as he walks to meet with Gallaher, and Joyce deliberately does not include a line of poetry in ... ...

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Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), in his Essays, wrote that "Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance." He failed to go on to explain his point, but his meaning is clear. Poetry differs from prose and other genres by that has formal devices and techniques used to ... ...

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... through imagery; the intimate moment of a young girl practicing a dance step, and the history-changing burning and destruction of Troy. The effect of this contrasting imagery is to emphasise the importance of the intimate. The idea present in "Long-Legged Fly" is that the mundane and quotidian moments in life are vital in building ad contributing to character, and may have ... ...

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... what society has to offer. "The Door" itself is a metaphor for change, so by the usage of the grammatical imperative "go and open the door" the poet is suggesting the importance for the need to embrace change and the need to be "open" for it. In the first stanza, the combination of the word "Maybe" with the image of "a magic city ... ...

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