... fact that he "single-handedly brought modernism to Portugal,"" is more closely aligned with a postmodern sensibility. According to Madun Sarup, modernism and postmodernism share many elements. Postmodernism is literally what comes after, or post-, modernism, and is grounded in a similar tradition. The elements of postmodernism that differentiate it from modernism can ... that we deal in depth only with the first three elements. In a letter to his beloved friend, Mario de Sá-Carneiro, Pessoa speaks of his despair and sorrow: "...I find myself today at the bottom of a bottomless depression...

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... scientific theories, such as Darwin's evolution theory', and the tension between the European nations that was to eventually escalate into World War One, called into question the existence of God and the rationality of Mankind. Modernism was a part of [this] disturbed, transformational period of European history [which] contained and incorporated its sensibility of transition and its rising sense of crisis, (Bradbury 13). The greatest ... works of the Modernist era were written around and during the time of the Great War (1914-1918) and conveyed the turmoil that transpired in European wa...

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... poetics. He rejects the melancholy strain of eighteenth century verse in which nature became merely a backdrop by which to express the morose sentiments of sensibility. For him, nature has its own "immortality", freed from the inaccurately projected human feeling that would "profane" it. Nature is joyous and should be used to inspire joy, rather than the gloomy emotions inherent in previous poetry ... emotion to remain. This plainness then reflects the truth that is so inherent and central to the emotion of the poem that any elaboration would seem unsuitable and unnecessary. Feeling and...

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... avant-garde, became a feature of twentieth-century literature. 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. To some writers, the alienation they felt and depicted was an exploration of the individual sensibility in a world which it was felt was becoming ever ... more standardized and uniform, an age of the masses. The First and Second World Wars (1914–18 and 1939–45 respectively) mark, in time and ...

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... vital Renaissance state, yet also a time of religious turmoil. He was a man engaged in the intellectual andഊreligious conflicts of his time, energised with vast ideas and imagination, making sense of the disorder. When it became clear that preferments would be open to him only if he entered Holy ... Browning, Tennyson). The sentimentality of poetry also increased from the 18th century. Essentially, this is a return to the sensibility to the Petrachan poets, only expressed in a more refined and sophisticated way. While Eliot sees that metaphysical poets have their faults, its is that t...

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... ] will write whatever needs to be written." Duffy commences the poem with quite a powerful and assertive statement: "Love is talent" The poet could be implying that love, in the greatest sense of the word, is a talent in itself. To further comment on this point, the reader could draw the inference that, in order for one to possess a "talent ... been noted in many of his works to possess a vested interested in understanding the mechanisms that propel the substance of dreams (Camden). Shakespeare's prolific sense of illusion and delicate fragility is imperative to the dreamlike qualities o...

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... that special point of view that belongs to the feminine sensitivity and which, we hope, will provide certain details of life in early America missing in the writings of her Puritan brothers."" (Rosenfeld 1970, 79). In fact, many critics believe that Anne Dudley Bradstreet's feminine sensibility has always attracted scholars searching for details of early American life ... direct relation with God than men had. In contrast, Jeffery Hammon proposes that for Puritan women, "social expectation coincided more closely with theological ideals of humility and self-deprecation, and this congruen...

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... that special point of view that belongs to the feminine sensitivity and which, we hope, will provide certain details of life in early America missing in the writings of her Puritan brothers."" (Rosenfeld 1970, 79). In fact, many critics believe that Anne Dudley Bradstreet's feminine sensibility has always attracted scholars searching for details of early American life ... direct relation with God than men had. In contrast, Jeffery Hammon proposes that for Puritan women, "social expectation coincided more closely with theological ideals of humility and self-deprecation, and this congruen...

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... poem, it moves quickly away from the particularity of the occasion, and without proposing the dead person as an example of tragic crisis in the human spirit or in human history. The American elegiac sensibility--in Cooper, Melville, Thoreau, Mark Twain, James, and others--is most strongly engaged by the sense of lost modes of innocence, lost possibilities of brotherhood, magnanimity ... , and freedom, lost sources of moral spontaneity and spiritual refreshment. The tone is of pathos, nostalgia, and despair. The emotions come to rest, if at all ... , in the personal virtues of forbearance...

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