... mystical, dream-like quality to it. The second main phase of Yeats's poetic career was dominated by his commitment to Irish nationalism, and it was Irish nationalism which first sent Yeats in search of a consistently simpler, popular, and more accessible style. In the final phase of his career, Yeats reconciles elements from both his earlier periods, fusing them into a mature ... lyricism. The poetry is less public and more personal. He develops his theories of contraries and of the progression which can result from reconciling them, ... subject in literary discourses and many writers ha...

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... darker, wavelength than others. Poe made many contributions to Western Literature. In fact, he wrote nearly seventy short works of fiction. He is credited with creating the detective story genre and with transforming the Gothic mystery tale of the Romantic Period. Poe developed a theory that he applied ... psychological or spiritual effect upon the reader. The theme or plot of the piece is always subordinate to the author's calculated construction of a single, intense mood in the reader's or listener's mind. There are no extra elements in Poe- no sub-plots, no minor characters, and ... n...

• Word Count: 2508
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• Grade Level: High School

... . He was first published in magazines, and his work was later anthologized into book form. Hughes was considered one of the most influential figures in the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement of the 1920s that saw a surge of African American cultural expression in poetry, art, literature, and more across the urban Northeast and Midwest. Hughes himself described it in less positive terms, sating that it ... was actually the time during which Harlem was briefly a fad. In order to understand the context and imagery of "I, Too," it is also necessary ... he hated himself, too, for being ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... philosophical speculation, Romantic fantasizing and even occasional verse. Through the analysis of some sections of this poem, it can be taken into account the relations to the romantic vision of nature and religion in Wordsworth's poem. First of all, it is necessary to introduce the Victorian four elements in the total situation of a work of art: the artistic product itself, the universe representing nature, the ... audience and the artist. Many nineteenth-century critics affirm that the romantic poetry tended towards egotism and excessive subjectivity, instead the Victorian projec...

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• Grade Level: High School

... stage concern is how emotion is aroused. It starts from the reader's view point, but it is more scientific. Ransom doesn't agree with Richards. He says that the primary task of literature is to deal with the objects. Language has meaning, language has reference to objects. If we have objects, the feelings will spontaneously attach to it, it is personal experience, so ... 't originate language; we inhabit a structure that enables us to speak; what we perceive as our originality is simply our recombination of some of the elements in the pre-existing system. Hence every text, and every sent...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... hair in return for the fruits. This can be viewed as an act of rape; the goblins cut her hair for payment, when, at the time, a woman's hair was a somewhat sacred thing. The fallen woman is a common figure in literature, however, because she comes from the creative mind of a female poet the representation comes to have a few problems in its interpretation. Yet still ... , Laura receives her salvation, from her sin of eating the fruit, through the self-sacrificing actions of her sister. Lizzie plays the male role of redemption. This sacrificial offering of Lizzie's, her offering of hersel...

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... The four locales also stand for the four elements. "East Coker" is earth, "The Dry Salvages" water, "Little Gidding" fire, and "Burnt Norton" air, the world of thoughts, words, philosophy and poetry. The Quartets taken together, then, embody a journey from the ignorance of time to an awakening in eternity. "Burnt ... an abstract principle. The first section combines a hypothesis on time, that the past and the future are always contained in the present, with a description of a rose garden where children hide, laughing. A bird serves as the poet's guide, bringing him into the garden, showi...

• Word Count: 2598
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School