The poems "Where I Come From" by Elizabeth Brewster and "A Different History" by Sujata Bhatt both evidently display the relationship between the past, present and change. However, "A Different History" shows changes from a cultural and religious perspective, whereas "Where I Come From" discusses th...
As a result, Europe saw a cultural and artistic hey-day, as symbolism and modernism in art and literature flourished throughout the continent, especially in France and Russia. ... Therefore, the new generation of poets rose in a protest against the cultural values and traditions of the Victorian Age, trying to give English poetry a new creative urge. ... After-war period Probably no other war in history had ever brought about such destructive spiritual crisis and total reappraisal of moral, cultural and social values as the World War I (1914 - 1918). ... It's ironic that it was in th...
Although separately, two of William Blake's poems of the same name, "The Chimney Sweeper," follow the conventions and traditions of the Romantic period, both poems together show the impact that Blake created by stark contrasts illustrated when the poems are compared side by side. Both poems are abo...
"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from." T.S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965), was an early twentieth century poet, dramatist, publisher, playwright and literary and social critic", one of the twentieth century's major poets." and a leader of the modernist movement in literature T.S. ...
Culturally too, increasing access to literacy, and to education in general, led to profound changes in the reading public. ... The twentieth century has seen more and more of this broadening of artistic trends, extending into the other cultural forms of radio, television, cinema and popular music. ... Isolation and alienation, together with experimental forms of expression, came to characterise serious literature, while cinematic techniques and the elaboration of popular genres came to dominate other forms of cultural expression. ... There is also the fact that there is much more literature, m...