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's major poets." and a leader of the modernist movement in literature T.S. ... This city had a monumental and life-altering impact on Eliot for multiple reasons, the most significant of which was his introduction to the influential literary figure  Ezra Pound. ... If one categorized Eliot's careers, he would probably be regarded as editor, dramatist, literary critic, and philosophical poet. ... His undergraduate ...

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What is literary study? ... On the other hand, literary study is knowledge about literature itself. ... But this effort replaced the pure literary criteria. ... Traditional literary works fulfill this nature. ... Literary work is not a simple object but rather a highly complex organization of a stratified character with multiple meanings and relationships. ...

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This comedic turn shows the difference between the noble, allegorical characters in the story (Alcyone, Juno, Seys) and the realistic, human characters of the poet's world. ... Nevertheless, in a common literary reversal, the narrator endeavors to tell the reader anyway. ... He describes her modesty, moderation, courtesy toward all, and the general integrity of her character. ...

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There are no extra elements in Poe- no sub-plots, no minor characters, and no distractions (except those that show the madness of deranged first- person narrators). ... Despite his surface simplicity, Poe's artistry can be appreciated only when a reader explores his use of literary devices. ... Poe masterfully combines many literary techniques to fully achieve this spooky feeling. ...

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Stavans describes the work, "The entire volume is a gathering of memories, a literary attempt to make sense of the past (Stavans "Daughters" 9)." ... "A second leitmotif also colors the plot - her indomitable need to describe, in literary terms, her feelings and immediate milieu (Stavans "Daughters 8)." Another believes that Alvarez's characters are "of an oral tradition, and even though they have moved onto a writing stage, the power of the voice is what carries them (Starcevic 11)." ... The irony almost reaching humorous, that it is the unmistakable definition of literary racism. ...

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From the constant movement of an array of colorful characters, shifting landscapes, social dramas are created which embodied the ideals of the beat generation.... A "howl" is a prolonged instinctive animal cry and Ginsberg's poem forcefully depicts the sense of a "sudden, angry eruption of instincts long thwarted, of the release of excluded human and literary energies"(Breslin, 227). "Howl" violated all the artistic canons of the period and provoked a literary, social, and even legal scandal. ...

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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. ... Finally, this section will also compare the two characters with that of Satan, the major character in the poem "Paradise Lost" by John Milton. ... Throughout th...

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Goblin Market is one of Christina Rossetti's major narrative poems. Rossetti tells the story of two women and their betrayal that arrives in a vast number of levels each with varying effects. These betrayals are background by false ideals spawned from the innocence of these women. Their innocence is the delusive obviousness to their mutability. As a woman, writing of the weakness of women, Rossetti certainly was one up on her fellow male poets of her time, and it could be said that Christina Rossetti carried the dawning of female poetic freedoms. ...

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One of the obviously fundamental aspects of poetry is the language used and the literary devices employed, and Rosetti's poetry is certainly no exception to this. ... To summarise this poem, the main theme is one of potential love and unbreakable devotion, however the fate of its characters does indeed suggest that Rosetti here could not prevent herself from her inclination towards death and suffering. ...

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A strong social ethic, continued from the Victorian times of Dickens and Disraeli, began increasingly to influence the political character of the country and its institutions. ... This led to the rapid expansion of a largely unsophisticated literary public, the rise of the popular press, and the mass production of 'popular' literature for a semi-literate 'lowbrow' readership. ...

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Shelley's motivation that created his characters and political attitude is that he experienced first-hand the French Revolution. ... Therefore, as a poet, Shelley's literary career had been politically oriented. ...

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Many nineteenth-century critics affirm that the romantic poetry tended towards egotism and excessive subjectivity, instead the Victorian project found literary and artistic means of bridging a series of what they considered to be binary oppositions such as: self and society, personal and political, subject and objective; it is what Tennyson did in his poem, that is to say finding public uses for very private experiences without becoming egotistical, combining the romantic subjectivity with publicly accessibility and social relevance. In the first four lines of the preface, there are thre...

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