Before 1914, English literature and ideas were in many ways still harking back to the nineteenth century: after 1918, Modern begins to define the twentieth century. ... What went out was narrative, description, rational exposition; what emerged focused on stream of consciousness, images in poetry (rather than description or narration), a new use of universal myth, and a sense of fragmentation both of individuality and of such concepts as space and time. ... Narratives gave way to lyrics, above all to 'impressions', capturing the sensation of an immediate scene or moment; a developme...

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Keats's poetic strength did not lie merely in unfolding vast narratives of Gods, but in his ability to record with "thin skin sensitivity" (Watts 1988:15) these heightened moments of personal experience. ... This Ode, it has been claimed, most directly show the personal anguish that was such a contributing factor to his work (Pettet 1957:259) and that which articulated his profoundly divided self. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

During Alvarez's very personal attempt to blossom, her mother was busy behind her with mop and broom, wiping away all the shameful changes. ... Like much of her work, "Alvarez frequently blurs the lines between poetry and fiction and uses circular, rather than chronological narrative structures (Contemporary 1)." ... One critic remarks, "The idea of "losing" one's accent is nothing but a metaphor: a symbol of cultural abandonment." ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from." T.S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965), was an early twentieth century poet, dramatist, publisher, playwright and literary and social critic", one of the twentieth century...

• Word Count: 4134
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• Grade Level: High School

All these distinctions between literature and non-literature: personal expression, realization, lack of practical purpose and fictionality are restatements within a framework of semantic analysis of age old aesthetic terms such as: unity in variety, aesthetic distance, framing, invention and imitation. ... This is because art was held to be an imitation of nature or reality, and Plato and Aristotle's theories on nature and reality were widely different, as were their ideas on the mechanism of imitation. ... Here Plato shows a preference for straight narrative, in that by simply narrating ...

• Word Count: 5585
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: Undergraduate