It was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language, including "The Waste Land" (1922), "The Hollow Men" (1925), "Ash Wednesday" (1930) and "Four Quartets" (1945). ... Eliot wrote to Conrad Aiken on New Year's Eve 1914: "I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls...Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead." ... To me, it brought the state of mind out of which came "The Waste Land." ... Eliot" and a facsimile of the draft of "The W...

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Lines 2-3: The soldier wishes to be remembered for making a foreign piece of land "forever England." ... Dust is a metaphor for the speaker's relationship to nature and for the fact that he may soon be dead. ...

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Soul are in many respects sensitive to ways of speaking and thinking about the soul [psuchê] that are not specifically philosophical or theoretical. We therefore begin with what the word 'soul' meant to speakers of Classical Greek, and what it would have been natural to think about and associate with the soul. Psyche Although willing to provide a common account of the soul in these general terms, Aristotle devotes most of his energy in De Anima to detailed investigations of the soul's individual capacities or faculties, which he first lists as nutrition, perception, and mi...

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The word 'dead' is chosen to suggest that while the natural world is alive, the urban landscape is 'dead' in the sense that it is simple and restrictive, reinforcing the idea of urbanisation resulting in the loss of individualism. ... There is also a powerful image of the land 'ending' and 'distance' over the sea. ...

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He worked the land unsuccessfully for 11 years, supplementing his income by teaching. ... Make no parley "stop for any expostulation, Mind not the timid "mind not the weeper or prayer, Mind not the old man beseeching the young man, Let not the child's voice be heard, not the mother's entreaties, Make even the trestles to shake the dead where they lie awaiting the hearses, So strong you thump O terrible drums "so loud you bugles blow.... An old man bending I come among new faces, Years looking backward resuming in answer to children, Come tell us old man, as f...

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The Gladstone Parliament of 1880–85 was the 'no-man's land' between the old Radicalism and the new Socialism. ... Eliot even furnished footnotes to help the reader with his The Waste Land. ...

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The Mask of Anarchy: a Reflection of Shelley's Revolutionary Introduction Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was the only son of an aristocratic family: his father was an M.P. and his grandfather was a wealthy landowner. He educated at Eton College and entered the University of Oxford. There, he...

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