Meaning in poetry is created from the reader making the connection between the literal and the metaphorical, and in doing so, "reading between the lines." ... These regularly reiterated ideas are clearly uncovered when analysis is applied to Yeats" poetry, which indeed, on first reading appears to be predominantly spontaneous emotion. ... "Long-Legged Fly" is clearly not a purely emotional poem and the unmistakably systematic structure of the poem, indicates that perhaps although all poetry may, on first reading, seem like a page of random emotion, it clearly does involve a number of ideas...

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As Perry Miller explains, in an era that subordinated women to men and men to God "women who stepped beyond their domestic defines through literature "by reading or writing "were considered dangerous to themselves and to society Puritans expressed considerable scorn for women who wrote or published- (360-61). On the other hand, Elaine Showalter offers the remark that "Bradstreet's writings [i.e. her important later writings] is more inflected by gender than by nationality; it is not American."" ... Jane Donahue Eberwein is one critic who points to generic debates about wome...

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As Perry Miller explains, in an era that subordinated women to men and men to God "women who stepped beyond their domestic defines through literature "by reading or writing "were considered dangerous to themselves and to society Puritans expressed considerable scorn for women who wrote or published- (360-61). On the other hand, Elaine Showalter offers the remark that "Bradstreet's writings [i.e. her important later writings] is more inflected by gender than by nationality; it is not American."" ... Jane Donahue Eberwein is one critic who points to generic debates about wome...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

His predecessors had relocated to New England among the first settlers in the late 17th century. ... These ideas would only deepen later on, as he got to know the works of British neo-Hegelian philosophers F.H. ... Alfred Prufrock, which was later included in Eliot's first volume, Prufrock and Other Observations (1917). ... From 1911 to 1914 Eliot was back at Harvard, USA, reading Indian philosophy and studying Sanskrit, but then he returned to France. ... From 1917 to 1920 Eliot also edited a small unprofitable magazine Egoist and later another quarterly edition, Criterion, which was t...

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He was particularly impressed by the sketches of Pablo Picasso, whose cubist techniques later helped shape much of his work. ... Cummings reached the height of his popularity during the 1940s and 1950s, giving poetry readings to college audiences across the United States until his death in 1962. ... The poems excised from the original manuscript that were later collected in XLI Poems and & are generally more erotic in content. ... In his late verse--XAIPE: Seventy-One Poems (1950), 95 Poems (1958), and the posthumously published 73 Poems (1963)--Cummings effects a softer, more elegiac no...

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They are, it can be said, a contemplation and overtly subjected response to a reading of a particular human condition. ... What becomes obvious in reading these poems is Keats's exploration of creative expression and morality within human life. ...

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Art is like a little society within the large society- a society of art within the society at large. Many artists have two ambitions – to gain artistic recognition within the society of art, and to have effects in the society at large social effects are also expected as part of art policy. The problem is that these ambitions are not easily reconcilable. The society of art has its own system of power,with norms that makes it difficult for artists to have effects in the society at large without its prior recognition. The society of art must balance its demand for full independence agains...

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Different authors use various figures of speech to present their characters in plays or poems. For actors, figures of speech usually help to determine the most prominent traits of characters. The first part one of this paper analyzes the character of Doctor Faustus who is the protagonist of Marlowe's play who was overwhelmed with the desire to possess power and the presentation of the character as a pure villain in the play. This will be compared with the character and the figure of Richard III in the eponymous play by William Shakespeare, while identifying the significance of his figure...

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