This "rebirth" in his poetry is essentially illustrated through his use of devices and his expression in meaning. ... My interpretations of the poems "The Sunne Rising" and "Batter My Heart" encourage the idea that in Donne's poetry one is influential over the other. ... Techniques are just one of the elements that make up Donne's unique style in Renaissance poetry. ... Rickey argues that this geographic description is intentional and that Donne chooses to praise his mistress beyond physical terms. ... It is the stylistic techniques as well as the content in his devotional poet...

• Word Count: 994
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The Quartets, thus, display none of the fragmentation or collage-like qualities of Eliot's earlier poetry. ... "East Coker" is earth, "The Dry Salvages" water, "Little Gidding" fire, and "Burnt Norton" air, the world of thoughts, words, philosophy and poetry. ... Rather than exploiting bizarre combinatons of images or intricate formal devices, Eliot uses the gravity of terms like "past" and "present" to create a beautiful monument of ideas. ... The next two lines are also important because they deal with the same problem: If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable. ( E...

• Word Count: 2598
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He attended lectures by  Henri Bergson  and read poetry with Alain-Fournier. ... Though they were quite different, they shared a devotion to learning and poetry. ... In an attempt to keep poetry alive he gave the world extraordinary works of literature. ... His poetry broke all barriers, and touched its readers everywhere so profoundly.   ... Poetry For a poet of his stature, Eliot produced a relatively small number of poems. ...

• Word Count: 4134
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• Grade Level: High School

Our Whimpering World The world is a wasteland harboring hollow men "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality" -T.S. ... Shape without form, shade without colour, Paralysed force, gesture without motion; To describe the cellar in terms of binary oppositions Eliot wants to emphasize its unnecessary qualities. ...

• Word Count: 1435
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

1 Let us go then, you and I, 2 When the evening is spread out against the sky 3 Like a patient etherized upon a table; 4 Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, 5 The muttering retreats 6 Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels 7 And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: 8 Streets that follow like a tedious argument 9 Of insidious intent 10 To lead you to an overwhelming question ... 11 Oh, do not ask, "What is it?" 12 Let us go and make our visit. 13 In the room the women come and go 14 Talking of Michelangelo. 15 ...

• Word Count: 6460
• Approx Pages: 26
• Grade Level: High School