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Death Of A Salesman Tragic Hero
2,734 wordsAbstract: The sober treatment of a lowly, unheroic protagonist in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman flatters the audience. The more obvious way that it flatters us is by alienating us from the protagonist in his downfall so that we watch his destruction from a secure vantage. Less obviously, the form of the play, typical of modern American tragedy, romanticizes the protagonist through what I call the audience's paradox, that tension created when a serious work of literature employs an obscure ...
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Wizard Of Oz Side Of The Story
1,243 words... d the different speech communities I found within the shows I discovered the three categories that James Britton discusses in The English Language: An Owners Manual. By the end of my viewing process I became very familiar with expressive, transactional, and poetic language. Both shows used each of these three categories, although it was in two very separate mannerisms. As Britton stated, expressive language tends to be spontaneous and unrehearsed, and it represents the closest association wi...
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Ability To Create Creative Power
906 wordsSamuel Taylor Coleridge, states that the secondary or poetic imagination is the power which, Reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualitiesofidea with the image (Coleridge 482). In, Resolution and Independence, Wordsworth attempts to create an image of the poetic imagination in a decrepit old man. In so doing, Wordsworth attaches his own fears of mortality and aging, and thus oversteps Coleridge's idea of the imagination with the imagery of his own fears. Wor...
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Cross Country Fantasy World
2,120 wordsNabokov's Lolita, Humbert's obsession Early reflections on Lolita conducted both by its admirers and detractors constituted the perfect mixture for revolutionary novel with praise for Nabokov's literary achievement and condemnation for its highbrow pornography. From the critical point of view, due to its immediate and continuous controversy, the majority of audience has encountered the novel with some preconception about its obscene content. Employing an image of his narrator, Nabokov introduced...
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Herbert Milton And Donne As Religious Poets
2,710 wordsHerbert, Milton and Donne as Religious Poets The genre of poetry had probably appeared as soon as people learnt to verbally express their emotions. It would be reasonable to suggest that poetry had been evolving simultaneously with verbal language. As human race celebrated the moment of its appearance on earth their verbal skills were rather limited and the whole spectrum of emotions has been mainly transmitted through the nonverbal devices of communication, such as gestures, mimics, body moveme...
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Sylvia Plath Ted Hughes
2,134 wordsSylvia Plath Sylvia Plath is described as a gifted writer, poet and verbal artist. Sylvia Plath was born in 1932 in the middle class family in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. She published her first work when she was eight. Sylvia entered Smith College in 1950. By that time she already had a umber of publications. When she studied at Smith College, she wrote more than four hundred poems. She spent some time in New York as a "guest editor" at Mademoiselle. When she returned home, she attempted suic...
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Rime Of The Ancient Mariner Kubla Khan
805 wordsHow does Coleridge in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan show the interrelatedness between mankind, nature and the poetic experience? Coleridge expresses many thoughtful and rather intense ideas in his poetry, through using either peculiar or common images of all forms of nature ie human, environmental or supernatural. His poetic expression is unique in its use of extraordinary imagery and transition of mood yet he what he creates usually conforms to numerous literary techniques. The...
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Nineteen Eighty Four Brave New World
3,744 wordsCompare And Contrast Dystopian Futures In Brave Compare And Contrast Dystopian Futures In Brave New World And 1984 Dystopian Futures in Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The existence created by Brave New World is very efficient however it lacks any meaning, humans have no real extremes in feelings, no love, hate, pain and suffering. They are conditioned by technology to accept these things as normal. People are mass-produced to serve the means of the sociality and have no individuality ...
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Contemporary Literary Criticism Detroit Michigan Gale
1,929 wordsOlufunmi Awonuga E. E. Cummings is an especially intriguing poet. At first glance his poems look unintelligible, you could almost go as far as saying that they look almost as if the were arranged by a man in a drunken state. Over the years people have grown to expect a poem to be set out in a certain format. When we think of a poem we often think of words set out in a column like manner or the words: Rhyme scheme. We hardly deviate from this form when writing. We have accepted the fact that poet...
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Gwen Harwood Poetic Devices
1,105 wordsGwen Harwood Gwen Harwood is a technically versatile poet, deeply interested in the materials of her art? in the poetic form, sounds, images, structures, voices and musical possibilities. Long After Heine and The Flight of the Bumble Bee use each of these poetic devices extensively, appealing to all of the readers senses in order to create meaning. In The Flight of the Bumble Bee meaning is created by the poetic devices and affirmed by the characters. The stanza? s and lines mimic the bumble bee...
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Quot Quot Vincent Millay
5,216 wordsMillay's Poetry In A Greenwich Village ContextbyMillays Poetry In A Greenwich Village Context Nina Miller In the 1920 s, Edna St. Vincent Millay was Americas most read, most beloved poet. Critical biographer Elizabeth Atkins gives some indication of Millay's nationally " intoxicating effect on people" in describing the reception of her second collection, A Few Figs from Thistles: To say it became popular conveys but a faint idea of the truth. Edna St. Vincent Millay became, in effect, ...
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Quot And Quot Quot Quot
2,391 wordsEugenia W. Collier In 1918, she published The Heart of a Woman, poems exploring themes especially meaningful to women. With this volume, Johnson became the first widely recognized African-American woman poet since Frances E. W. Harper. The Heart of a Woman is about love, longing, disillusionment, and loneliness. The poems reflect frustration with the strictures of womens prescribed roles. In 1922, she published a second volume, Bronze, which concerned racial themes. In 1928, she published a volu...
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Quot Quot Gas Chambers
5,875 wordsWhile On Holocaust Marie Syrkin While he was still obdurately producing more Testimony I urged him to use the technique of law cases for another project the Nazi extermination of European Jewry. Available were the records of the Nuremberg trials and other accounts. Remembering his moving " Kaddish, " written in the thirties, and various later poems I hoped for a lyrical threnody. But Charles was committed to his system. He refused to use any material from numerous first-hand witness re...
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3,957 wordsMary J. Carruthers This essay chiefly considers four volumes of poetry, three published in 1978 and one the previous year. They are Adrienne Rich's The Dream of a Common Language, Audre Lorde's The Black Unicorn (which includes poems published earlier in a chapbook called Between Our Selves), Judy Grahn's The Work of a Common Woman (a collection of poems previously published by the Feminist Press Collective of Oakland, California), and Olga Broumas Beginning With O. Among them, these volumes art...
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Muriel Rukeyser Quot Quot
2,301 wordsLouise Kertesz We are meant to hold these clusters of meaning in the mind as they reveal the fullness of reality. Some of the meanings the poet is allowing to expand into their constellations are these: in " Power" death is both finality and source of power; but in another sense, one cannot say that power has any source, any beginning or end thus the first line of " The Dam. " But that line is followed by Rises in the green season, in the sudden season the white the budded an...
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Quot Quot Nursery Rhyme
4,907 wordsGrover Smith Although " The Hollow Men" is not a mere appendage to The Waste Land, it may most profitably be read as an extension of the same design of quest and failure. The quest has already failed once when the poem opens. The history of Kurtz in " Heart of Darkness" conforms to the general pattern. Conrad may often be understood best through the study of primitive rituals of succession, initiation, and fertility. That Kurtz has been initiated into the tribe, becoming its ...
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J Alfred Prufrock T S Eliot
4,904 wordsJ. Hillis Miller Prufrock's paralysis follows naturally from this subjectivizing of everything. If each consciousness is an opaque sphere, then Prufrock has no hope of being understood by others. " No experience, " says Bradley in a phrase Eliot quotes, " can lie open to inspection from outside" (KE, 203). Prufrock's vision is incommunicable, and whatever he says to the lady will be answered by, " That is not what I meant at all. /That is not it, at all" (CP, 6). Th...
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Road Not Taken Quot Quot Quot
7,474 wordsWilliam H. Pritchard On December 16, 1916, he received a warm letter from Meiklejohn, looking forward to his presence at Amherst and saying that that morning in chapel he had read aloud " The Road Not Taken, " " and then told the boys about your coming. They applauded vigorously and were evidently much delighted by the prospect. " Alexander Meiklejohn was an exceptionally high-minded educator whose principles and whose moral tone toward things may be illustrated most briefly ...
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6,719 wordsJudith McDaniel The center of The Dream of a Common Language is a group of lesbian love poems, originally published as a separate booklet... [I]n these poems Rich shows us a glimpse of the power generated by love, specifically the love of women for women: Youve kissed my hair to wake me. I dreamed you were a poem, I say, a poem I wanted to show someone and I laugh and fall dreaming again of the desire to show you to everyone I love, to move openly together in the pull of gravity, which is not si...
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Influenced Greatly Allen Ginsberg
1,326 wordsBeat Poets By: James Degree The Beat Movement in modern literature has become an important period in the history of literature and society in America. Incorporating influences such as jazz, art, literature, philosophy and religion, the beat writers created a new and prophetic vision of modern life and changed the way a generation of people sees the world. That generation is mow aging and its representative voices are becoming lost to eternity, but the message is alive and well. The Beats have fo...
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