The idea behind literary merit is that specific works of literature have stood the test of time and the message(s) that the author imparts have timelessness and a relevance that goes without question over time. ... This piece of literature is a work of literary merit because it has a message that is timeless and one that has stood the test of time at the same time. ... Kapasi, the tour guide, thinks that he has fallen in love with the mother of the American family, Mrs. ... This is another piece of literary merit that is found throughout the pieces of literature that we have explored in class....

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A piece of literature will be acknowledged with acceptation into a literary canon. ... As with any topic in literature, there are negatives to canons. Sometimes when a piece of literature is placed in a certain cannon, there is an immediate interpretation based on the canon it is in rather than on the kind text within the literature itself. ... Similar to how a Canon can mold the interpretation of pieces of literature, pieces of literature can mold the form of a Canon. ... If not that, they contain a moral lesson that guides the reader into understanding what things one should avoid to prevent...

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The English Literary Canon is perceived as the paradigm of exquisite literature bound with key concepts fundamental to our understanding and exploration of societal and political values, rendering it to be widely admired by all. ... The English Canon acts as a guide for scholars as it provides a diverse range of sophisticated texts that are guaranteed to satisfy and enhance cultivated thinking. ... The English Canon is often seen as an authoritative list bearing handfuls of treasured literature renowned by all. ... Ultimately the English Canon supports treasured literature for many centur...

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By that time English literature had "stumbled", as it were, just marking time and making no headway, so to speak. ... These people were to reform the literature of their time and to shape modern language, literary styles, poetic diction and verse. ... In 1906 he was admitted to Harvard University, where he studied philosophy and European literature, mainly of the Renaissance period. ... Babbitt conveyed the ideas of anti-Romantic attitude to literature into young Eliot's mind. ... Eliot's study of the poetry of Dante, of the English writers John Webster and John Donne, and of the Fre...

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Romantic literature has three distinctive characteristics which include a persistent reference to Nature and her influence, intimate self-revelation of the poet's emotions, and the use of contraries. ... Now that he's older, he looks at nature as a mother, always guiding him and putting his heart at ease. ...

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While studying literature, you will notice that poems comes in many, many different forms. ... The growing history and influence of the poetry slam, especially on the younger generation of writers, suggest that the practice is not just a passing "fad. " The serious critic must cease treating the slam as a literary novelty and recognize it for what it is: a movement which combines the literary, the social potential of verse, and which does so with the audience as its judge and guide. ...

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Pope speaks of how the sylphs in the game of Ombre sit on Belinda's cards, guiding their mistress but still concerned with rank and hierarchy. ... In fact all satire is largely descended from the classical Greek and Roman literatures, something which one must find fascinating, given the particular nature of Pope's "The Rape of the Lock". ... In classical heroic literature the gods were intimately involved in the fate of heroes, something which Pope has carried off to great effect. ...

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During the period in which Bradstreet published her works, males were the driving forces in literature. ... Here, Dickinson acknowledges the role of authority men have in her society, but breaks free of it by using her imagination to guide the way. ...

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A bird serves as the poet's guide, bringing him into the garden, showing him around, and saving him from despair at not being able to reach the laughing children. ... A place of unattainable peace (and in this case insight) that is normally forbidden to mere mortals but that exists in memory and in literature as a standard to which everyday existence must be unfavorably compared. ...

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Soul are in many respects sensitive to ways of speaking and thinking about the soul [psuchê] that are not specifically philosophical or theoretical. We therefore begin with what the word 'soul' meant to speakers of Classical Greek, and what it would have been natural to think about and associate with the soul. Psyche Although willing to provide a common account of the soul in these general terms, Aristotle devotes most of his energy in De Anima to detailed investigations of the soul's individual capacities or faculties, which he first lists as nutrition, perception, and mi...

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