He interchanges the biblical symbols with predatory images: Christian dove for falcon; lamb for cannibal sphinx; and the Holy Spirit for the spiritus mundi, the spirit of this world. ... Symbolism proposes to disintegrate the traditional duality between the ...
The "Revolution" in Literature During the 19th/20th Centuries An influential English Modernist Virginia Woolf once said, "On or about December 1910, the world changed". This statement is regarding the drastic change in the culture of society with the beginning of exploration of the meaning of life and the patterns that society are prone to following. This brought about curiosity and the religious affiliated explanations were no longer sufficient. The dissatisfaction for many, and believing mindlessly in something with no real evidence was intolerable. Society's ...
