... work, and he had the chance to further the cause of poetic drama.The topic martyrdom attracted Eliot ,as did the nature of the events and its significance for a modern audience. That significance was brought out through the choruses, and the emotional structure of the play is based on them rather than on Thomas's exercise in self-analysis.For that was the point of the Festival;the ordinary human response to the exceptional events, the martyrdom which repeats and ... reminds us of Christ''s own sacrifice ... ...

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... of the twentieth century. While the authors of these works perceived themselves as extensions or augmentations of existing trends in art, they broke the founding concept with the public that artists were the representatives and interpreters of the standardized bourgeois philosophy and culture. Modernist markers in music, such as the introduction of an atonal ending in A. Schoenberg's Second String Quartet, expressionistic facets in the paintings of W. Kadinsky, the upcoming movement of fauvism, distinct writers such as T.S Eliot ... , F. Scott Fitzgerald, F. Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein (t...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate