In using such an approach in his poetry, Hughes is making a larger comment about the nature of race, power, and American culture. ... So would his love of poetry, which he discovered at the same time. ... Hughes continued writing poetry throughout college and his travels. ... Hughes himself described it in less positive terms, sating that it was actually the time during which Harlem was briefly a fad. ... He describes these days as in terms of innocence and indolence. ...

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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 mind, with perception receiving the lion's share of attention.  ... He is neither too melancholic like Arnold nor too optimistic like Robert Browning, another contemporary, in terms of the tone, mood and theme of his poetry. ... Many nineteenth-century critics affirm that the romantic poetry tended towards egotism and ...

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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. ... Where in Plato there was a "quarrel between poetry and philosophy", by Aristotle's scheme poetry is more philosophic even than history (a chronicle of "real" events). ... In Book II of The Republic, Plato begins a discussion of poetry which is concerned with gods an...

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The Quartets, thus, display none of the fragmentation or collage-like qualities of Eliot's earlier poetry. ... "East Coker" is earth, "The Dry Salvages" water, "Little Gidding" fire, and "Burnt Norton" air, the world of thoughts, words, philosophy and poetry. ... Rather than exploiting bizarre combinatons of images or intricate formal devices, Eliot uses the gravity of terms like "past" and "present" to create a beautiful monument of ideas. ... The next two lines are also important because they deal with the same problem: If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable. ( E...

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While ecocriticism of Thoreau and Emerson has thus tended to dichotomize ecology and imagination in terms of the empirical versus the metaphorical, and in the service of sharply distinguishing Thoreau's ecocentrism from Emerson's anthropocentrism, it has neglected a rhetorical middle ground, the empirical figure of expression known as metonymy that plays a significant role in the natural history projects of both writers. ... On my reading, Emerson has his own more empirical, late natural history projects, work also left largely unfinished and generally neglected by critics because it...

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So that's how the poem is organized in terms of general structure, but how about line for line? ... If that sounds familiar to you, that's probably because it's the most common meter in English poetry. ... (In the poetry biz, a syllable pair that contains a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable is called a trochee.) ... Small substitutions like this are fairly common in poetry, so just be on the lookout for any metrical oddities. ... After all, the poem is celebrating patriotism and English-ness, and there aren't too many other forms of poetry more closely...

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He attended lectures by  Henri Bergson  and read poetry with Alain-Fournier. ... Though they were quite different, they shared a devotion to learning and poetry. ... In an attempt to keep poetry alive he gave the world extraordinary works of literature. ... His poetry broke all barriers, and touched its readers everywhere so profoundly.   ... Poetry For a poet of his stature, Eliot produced a relatively small number of poems. ...

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His poetry "masters with equal ease, lyric grace, and wrenching guilt" (Knight 209). ... Byron often associated self-realization with guilt in his poetry; a personal identity was both attractive and repulsive (West 53). ... As seen in his poetry, Byron was capable of several moods and roles (Safier 527). ... It captured guidance to the world of unconsciousness in poetry. ... His early Newstead, England poetry "glorifies an old world of 'mail-coated Barons' and heroic deeds" (MacCarthy 18). ...

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Poetry to 1945 Queen Victoria died in 1901, but most of the certainties of the Victorian age had disappeared long before. ... This was apparent in the poetry of the 1890s – the decade of Aestheticism and Decadence. It was largely a poetry of urban themes; the Romantic dependence on nature had already declined. ... Above all, poetry was not statement or felt sensation, but 'art'. ... Yeats himself quickly drew the lesson that 'We must purify poetry', which was to continue, through movements like Imagism and Vorticism, up to the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, the ...

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Wordsworth's poetry is not based on imitations but on past memories. ... This suggests that poetry, like all forms of literature, does in fact evoke emotions. ... Bakhtin "[views] language-especially literary texts-in terms of discourses and dialogues. ... Bakhtin's view of language can be summed up in two terms: addressitivity and answerability. Bakhtin discusses these terms as "a word is always addressed to someone and anticipates, can generate, a response, anticipates an answer. ...

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With the help of Mephistopheles who is his agent representing Lucifer, they negotiate the terms of their agreement and agree that Faustus will sell his soul to Lucifer the devil in exchange for 24 years of power, and Mephistopheles will remain his servant and he will satisfy his every whim. ...

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Alvarez's ever-evolving attitude and seeming confusion, so very evident in her poetry, fiction, articles, and interviews is painful to witness. ... An English professor at Middlebury College in Vermont, the publishing of a collection of poetry, Homecoming, brought the first taste of success in 1984 to Alvarez (Contemporary 1). ... Alvarez speaks of her cleaning poetry, claiming, "I was using the material of my housebound girl life to claim my woman's legacy (Homecoming 119)." Like much of her work, "Alvarez frequently blurs the lines between poetry and fiction and uses circular...

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Thomas's florid view of the world around him is quite apparent in his extensive description and tendency to labour the point in his poetry. ... Also within the poem there is a satirical contradiction in terms, "..its statue an aviary". ... Though mentioned earlier as being exuberant I think this poem is an illustrious example of poetry, which possesses the ability to be both qualities. ... Florid also isn't a suitable word to describe Thomas's poetry. ... However, his poetry is extremely obscure in both senses of vagueness and obscurity. ...

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The Construction of the Palestinian Social Movement. In Order to remember I shall continue to carve All the scenes of my tragedy And all the stages of the disaster On the olive tree in the courtyard of my house. In order to understand the origin, developme...

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The Iliad, followed by Odyssey are the examples of epic poetry in the early Greek literature, they "emphasized the ideals of honor and bravery and had an enormous influence on Greek culture- (Myrsiades 1997). Greek epic poetry "had an enormous influence not only on "the Greek culture" but Western culture as well. ... Christian elements are present in "Christian poetry that drew inspiration from the Bible or lives of saint and dwelt on heroic deeds performed by great individuals heroic lays [which] praise the old heroic ideals of unflinching courage, magnanimity and obligations of service to ...

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Apollo also represents choral dance, singing, music, art, poetry, youth, sanity, moderation and entertaining in the Greek world. ... He was considered the chief cherisher and protector of the "polite arts. " He was had many glorious attributes ascribed to him, as he was still associated with light, medicine, eloquence, music, poetry and prophecy. ... In terms of Roman myths, the most famous is Apollo's quarrel with Jupiter regarding the death of his son, Aesculapius, killed by that deity on the complaint of Pluto. ...

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While Marinetti perhaps initially had intentions of following a legal career, his passion was for literature and poetry. ... By 1900 he had decided to devote himself entirely to Italian and French literature and poetry. He founded the international magazine Poesia (Poetry) in 1905 and published it in Milan from 1905 until 1909. Marinetti was on a personal crusade to liberate poetry and literature from the constraints of traditional punctuation and syntax and, from the very beginning, he used Poesia to launch the idea of verso libero (free verse). ... An innovative and brilliant publicist, h...

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A critic has said that 'A theme which dominates Larkin's poetry is that desire is ultimately unobtainable' Discuss two or three of Larkin's poems in the context of this statement. ... These derogatory terms convey Larkin's resentment towards them and the shallow nature of their desires. ...

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One of the theatre's great advantages as a means of communication over other art forms is the engagement of empathy, as Garcia Lorca attests "theatre is poetry that gets up off the page and becomes human. ...

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It also shows multimedia ability as it can be used in a song or in poetry to get a message across to the listener or reader. ... For example Americans value money, we have a lot of slang terms of money which all mean the same thing that is semantic domain. ...

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Hardy tends to use many of the literary techniques, but mostly those of kennings and aprorias in his poetry (poems). ... Another technique that Hardy used is an enjambment, which is a line of poetry where the thought does not end at the end of a line, but continues onto the next. ...

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To first consider the requirement, "beautiful in form" Goblin Market differs from the bulk of Rossetti's poetry in that it has a much less formal structure; the tumbling irregular meter employed in Goblin market is a rarity amongst Rossetti's work, her favoured form being the short lyric. ... He suggested, in a letter to her brother, Dante Gabriel, that: "Irregular measure is the chief calamity of modern poetry your sister should exercise herself in the severest commonplace of meter until she can write as the public likes; then if she puts in her observation and passion all will b...

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Another new critic is W.K.Wimsat gave two ideas: - Intentional fallacy - Affective fallacy New criticism discarded both terms. ... He said referential statements deal with poetry because they deal with the false statements and deal with emotions of the poet. ... In objective correlatively, approach Eliot showed, poetry should be impersonal and there should be no expression of biography. ... Propp presented two terms to solve this problem, the first is actor and the other is function. ...

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In terms of faith, Coleridge felt that it was a complete self-commitment, and made up the whole of hope, love, and other virtues. ... Instead of evil, Coleridge thought in terms of pain, arguing that the function of pain in the divine plan is to chasten man for his moral evil and return him to path of virtue. ... Even the story of Paradise Lost would become bald and uninteresting, if stripped of these ornaments of poetry."" ... Brett, who feels that he has spiritual Christian poetry and Anne Mellor, who feels that he views nature as more emotional, moral, and divinely (Annotations, 3). ...

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The present study tries to apply traces of psychoanalysis in the short story "The Oval Portrait" using specific technical terms of Freudian psychoanalytics including complexes, obsessions and disorders in human beings : Death Drive or Thanatos, Life Drive or Eros, Melancholy, Displacement, Dream Work, Fixation, Guilt, Sublimation and Traumatic Neurosis; all of which will be defined and discussed in due order. ... Freud's major ideas are as follows: The Conscious and Unconscious Mind The Id, Ego, and Superego Life and Death Instincts Psychosexual Development Defense Mechanisms ...

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