1. Macbeth: Tragedy or Not?
While other writers of the era conveyed modern ideas in form and style, such as William Faulkner's multiple narrators and stream-of-consciousness format displayed in The Sound and Fury, Thomas and Auden radiated modern thought through their ideas and subject matter. ... Thomas writes, "And Mister they called Hey mister the truant boys from the town running when he had heard them clearly on out of sound past lake and rockery laughing when he shook his paper hunchbacked in mockery dodging the park keeper" (lines 15-23). ... Upon final analysis, perhaps one thing is certain: the poems simu...
- the room is immediately transformed into a battle ring, and the men into savage animals, fighting for survival and spurred by the blinding fury of masculine pride (339). ... [and] there was heard the . . . sound of blows . . . out from between the tight teeth of one- (343). ...