He is uncomplimentary towards these people suggesting that they are shallow in their desires. ... This desire for the isolation of the natural world isn't something he shares with other people. ... The people in the town are describes as being a 'cut-price crowd' and 'simple' . ... He criticises both the fact that the adverts lead people to believe that this perfect life is obtainable and the people themselves for allowing themselves to be manipulated by advertising companies. ... The phrase 'of how life should be emphasise the utopian society as something ordina...

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But as literacy increased after the 1870 Education Act and, asa result, many more people could read and write, the effect on literature was to expand its range, to fragment its solidity, to enlarge and profoundly change its audience, its forms and its subject matter. ... His poems are largely traditional in theme, form, and structure, and show a continuity with the Wordsworthian art of recording the impact of ordinary daily events on an individual and sensitive mind. ...

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"If becoming an adult is a trying process under ordinary circumstances, doing so within varying and often conflicting expectations can be even more bewildering and alienating." ... "This predicament is much more dramatic when people speak two or more languages, for the inner life can be like a United Nations debate, complete with simultaneous translations and awkward compromises (Echevarria 15)." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Writing about sex, (the) human body, many other "taboo" subjects and common objects and people, Whitman and Dickinson address the larger matters of life, namely death and religion. ... The negative account of other, pedestrian speech forms, like the admission of naturally superior discourse , is not only a way of recognizing (and sharing one's recognition) of a reality that lies beyond ordinary words, but also of communicating a sense of appropriate restraint in one's own writing " (Domhnall,2000). ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Literature "organized violence committed on ordinary speech" (Eagleton) While the definition of literature has been widely disputed throughout history, British literary theorist, Terrence Eagleton, attempts to make sense of it all during the introduction of his 1983 book, What is Literature. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate