... have their specific concerns, they concentrate on a number of questions, such as the locus of literary meaning, the status of the text, the role of the reader, the function of language in the text, the relation between literary and society (history). It is certain that all theories have their strengths and weaknesses, but having a clear understanding of their theories and making ... . They pay particular attention to literary devices used in the work and to the patterns these devices establish. Formalists have generally suggested that everyday language, which serves simply to communicate...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... consciousness, and the relationship of the present to the past. Whereas The Waste Land and others of Eliot's early works take an interest in the effects of time on culture, the Quartets are concerned with the conflict between individual mortality and the endless span of human existence. Accordingly ... first quartet-Burnt Norton-from a manor house he once visited in Gloucestershire, England, because its grounds inspired the poem's central image-the ethereal rose garden. For each of the quartets, Eliot chose a place name and together they function as "objective correlatives." Each quarte...

• Word Count: 2598
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• Grade Level: High School

... lines leave the virgins to do as they please, but he departs them saying that should they not heed his warning, "they may forever tarry". Marriage is also spoken of in line 14, "Then be not coy, but use your time,/ And, while ye may, go marry;" implying that should these women "go marry" the marriage that they await will present itself ... Jews," which according to ancient tradition will happen just before the end of the world"(Hill 26). The phallic imagery in line 11 begins a new, more erotic, train of thought. The speaker mentions his longing to adore every part of her body. In line 1...

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• Grade Level: High School

... is lies and may be an imitation, but it is not an imitation of any truth and therefore must be condemned. Imitation proper appears in the Republic in Book III, where Plato begins to consider the more complicated case of poetry concerning men. He begins with imitation as it is incorporated within ... little knowledge of what he imitates so can thus have little conception of the inherent goodness or badness of his work. Rather it is their function to deceive: "the imitator seems all-wise because he himself is unable to distinguish between knowledge and ignorance and imitation" (Republic,...

• Word Count: 5585
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... the children not only makes a vision of innocence and play but creates the momentum, on the other hand, spaces between words, as in the three time repeated line "whistles / far and wee," halts the momentum and creates ambiguity to the atmosphere. The language has a nursery rhyme type quality where ... of "spring." The wide spaces separating the last three lines function as musical rests of varying length. The consequence is a great sudden stress on the word "spring," so that, in effect, it springs at us.... ...In a way which is, in the conventional sense of the term, clear--and yet poet...

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• Grade Level: High School

... only coma's to pause for breath, the narration continues. The poem contains eleven lines before the sentence ends with a firm period in the middle of the second to last line in the third stanza. By the time the reader gets to the end of this long sentence they need to take a breath physically ... written now "Dead Long Enough". Like the previous poem, this poem also has an exceptionally long first sentence continues through two verses into the 25th line of the poem which begins the third stanza. The reader can sense the purposeful stride of the narrator from the long length of this firs...

• Word Count: 3020
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... only coma's to pause for breath, the narration continues. The poem contains eleven lines before the sentence ends with a firm period in the middle of the second to last line in the third stanza. By the time the reader gets to the end of this long sentence they need to take a breath physically ... written now "Dead Long Enough". Like the previous poem, this poem also has an exceptionally long first sentence continues through two verses into the 25th line of the poem which begins the third stanza. The reader can sense the purposeful stride of the narrator from the long length of this firs...

• Word Count: 3020
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... we have not proofs of the existence of God. But in the following lines, the poet contradicts what he had said before in the first stanza, "we have but faith" and he writes that it is just for knowledge and trust that we believe in things we see "it comes from thee", moreover in line 22 when man has no fear, "we mock thee". Surely ... this cyclical time changes into a more linear time endowed by the immanence of death, represented by "the Shadow"; it is more explicit in another verse this concept of seasonal time "And every winter change to spring" in section 54 line 16. In my opinion...

• Word Count: 5237
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School