By that time English literature had "stumbled", as it were, just marking time and making no headway, so to speak. ... These people were to reform the literature of their time and to shape modern language, literary styles, poetic diction and verse. ... Babbitt conveyed the ideas of anti-Romantic attitude to literature into young Eliot's mind. ... From 1911 to 1914 Eliot was back at Harvard, USA, reading Indian philosophy and studying Sanskrit, but then he returned to France. ... In 1936 the poet even attached Notes on the Waste Land to the edition in order to explain the work's many q...

• Word Count: 1915
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Robert Frost was considered the "most popular modern American poet of the twentieth century" (Literature Online 1). ... Nevertheless, he has, even after his death, remained as "one of the greatest, if not the very greatest, of modern American poets" (Literature Online 1). ... Frost spent many of his years farming, which is perhaps where he acquired his "Popular image as a farmer-poet" (Literature Online 1). ... He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature. ... "Frost may be a painter of charming postcard scenes and a front-porch philosopher dispensing consolation and crack...

• Word Count: 2122
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

However, upon further study, I found the poem is actually about a letter written by a Martian sent to his origins. ... Raine is encouraging us to appreciate the delicate wealth and richness, joy and sadness that literature can bring us and to not be void or lacking of emotion in our haste. ... The auther notes that the Martian does not know the words for "cry" or "laugh", and he uses metaphors to describe how the reader reacts to the effects of books "eyes to melt" (cry) and the "body to shriek without pain" (laugh). ...

• Word Count: 1520
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

However, upon further study, I found the poem is actually about a letter written by a Martian sent to his origins. ... Raine is encouraging us to appreciate the delicate wealth and richness, joy and sadness that literature can bring us and to not be void or lacking of emotion in our haste. ... The auther notes that the Martian does not know the words for "cry" or "laugh", and he uses metaphors to describe how the reader reacts to the effects of books "eyes to melt" (cry) and the "body to shriek without pain" (laugh). ...

• Word Count: 1520
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School