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Jeanette Winterson perspective of T.S.Elliot, to a high extent is a very close reflection of Elliot’s poetry, mainly seen in “Preludes and the “Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock. Elliot’s Poetry offers an exploration into the thematic concepts of isolation and social change and their implication on the understanding of Elliot’s life. “Preludes” explores the impact of isolation over periods of time. This is emphasised through the visual imagery in “ The grimmy scraps/ of withered leaves about your

In “The Conjurer”, by Maura Stanton, the writer creates a bizarre atmosphere by blending the fantasy with the reality. Post-modernism and the time period in which she wrote in had an affect towards the writing style she used in her poem. Throughout “The Conjurer”, Stanton uses ambiguity, imagery, and characterization to convey a fantastical world to the readers. In 1975, Maura Stanton wrote Snow on Snow, a book which contained several poems. One of the many poems was called “The Conjurer”. The

Sterling Allen Brown was born on May 1, 1901 in Washington, DC. He is the sixth child of Adelaide Allen and her husband Sterling Nelson Brown. He graduated as the valedictorian from Dunbar High School in 1918. Growing up, he followed the footsteps of his father which led him to attending Williams College on a scholarship where he studied French and English literature and graduated cum laude with a Phi Beta Kappa award in 1922. Also, he won the graves prize for an essay on Moliere and Shakespeare

Claude Monet’s Impressionist Sunrise is known as one of the most stunning paintings. The colors are incredibly vibrant and capture quintessential characteristics for the Impressionist movement. Monet painted this painting to express nature that was contemporary and not idealized. This marks a major shift in the style of paintings for the 19th century. Ekphrastic poetry vividly describes a work of art or an event. The poem “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by W.B. Yeats is a fantastic example of an ekphrastic

Dave Eggers was born on March 12, 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts. Eggers was the son of a lawyer and a school teacher. Although he was born in Boston, Eggers was raised in Lake Forest, Illinois. Eggers went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to study journalism, but then tragedy struck for the young college student. Both his father and mother both became ill with cancer and died a short time later. After the death of Eggers parents, he decided that he had nothing left in Illinois and

The Modernist period in history was a time of great change in society and politics. E.E Cummings was a poet who wrote radical Modernist poetry. Two poems which reflect some of his radical ideas are “I sing of Olaf Glad and Big” and “O sweet spontaneous”. These poems openly criticise aspects of society most people at the time would have been afraid to question. Cummings satirises the government, science, religion and philosophy over the course of these two poems. Cummings uses not only the content

War and Japanese Identity Indiana University Bloomington Ziyan Huang War and Japanese Identity The sound of hammering was written in January 1947 after the end of World War II which saw Japan surrender in August 15 1945. The soldier, the protagonist, in the story tells of a story that paints the level of destruction war had created and the effect of the war to him. The sound of hammering is used to show the magnitude to which the soldier’s life has been affected by the war. Hammering is

“Anyone lived in a pretty how town,” a ballad by E. E. Cummings, was first published in 1940. Cummings is commonly associated with his peculiar ideas about punctuation; he lacked punctuation and structure frequently. Being one of the best known poets of all time, Cummings creates a language that is relatable to just about anyone. I think this poem is about a small community where everyone is concerned with his or her own actions, never caring about neighbors or other members of the community.

Along with William's engagement with Ezra Pound and the Imagist Movement, his poetry was influenced by his many different travels. His travels around Europe and the United States was the true reason that his poetry was a great success. On his travels throughout Europe, Williams met other poets, and saw different ways in which poetry had been written. One major travel of Williams was his trip to London in 1910. Williams visited his friend Ezra Pound in London, to receive literary advice on his poems

So, I had to find a work of literature out of my text book and, from the text, connect a controversy. Having trouble finding a text that provides not only a controversy that I feel capable of discussing, but also provides enough context to support it, I came across the short story “Teenage Wasteland” by Anne Tyler. The story presents a simple and common scenario where a support system fails to actually provide any real assistance, much like our many broken programs in America. “Teenage Wasteland”