Theme of The Waste Land ‘The Waste Land’ is primarily concerned with the theme of barrenness in the mythical 20th century wasteland. The earth having lost its fertility, and nothing of use can grow there; animals and cultures have forgotten the true meaning of their reproductive function, intended to rejuvenate the earth. The negative the …
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INTRODUCTION William Wordsworth, the greatest poet of the 19th century Romantic Revival, wrote The Prelude, a long autobiographical poem in fourteen books, in 1800, when he was thirty years old and at the height of his poetic talent. If Matthew Arnold is correct in his observation of him, then Wordsworth’s best poetry came for ten …
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On the Sublime is a work of Greek artistic feedback from the Roman era dating from the 1st century AD. His creator is unknown, however he is referred to as Longinus or Pseudo-Longinus. It is seen as an exemplary work on the style and impacts of good written work. The treatise presents cases of good …
Chaucer’s preface to the Canterbury Tales within his vast writing career, as a social commentary of the age, is the first work of these opening lines to provide a physical setting and thus an inspiration for the Canterbury pilgrimage. Chaucer’s original plan, each pilgrim had two stories told because of Canterbury and two more on …
What is renaissance The Renaissance, (French: “rebirth”) was organized in European civilization shortly after the Middle Ages and traditionally characterized by an increase in interest in classical scholarship and values. Renaissance writing as an example of Renaissance writing is also in the form of a new song, the Renaissance also saw the invention and exploration …
Spiritual poetry The term “metaphor,” for seventeenth-century English and continental European poets, was employed by Augustan poets Dryden and Johnson to repeal those poets for their “unnaturalness”. As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote, “unnatural, that too is natural,” and thus metaphorical poets must still be studied for their depth and originality. Together with similar but …
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Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience as precursors of the romantic era. Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience as forerunners of the Romantic Era Poet, painter, printmaker and visionary Blake worked to bring about a change both in the social order and in the minds of men. Although during his lifetime …
Who were the Pre-Raphaelites? Critically appreciate any poem from this age / movement and highlight the characteristics of the movement. Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of young British painters who banded together in 1848 in reaction to what they saw as the unimaginative and artificial historical painting of the Royal Academy and who allegedly seek to …
Introduction Post structuralism is based on a member of basic assumptions/positions. These include: 1) putting all phenomena under one explanation, 2) there is a transcendental reality which overarches all other reality. Post structuralism is also critical of the concept of man as portrayed and developed by Enlightenment thought. The Enlightenment view that the individual …
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It was in the nineteenth century that class as a category came to be recognized as a relevant concept in explaining social theories, ideologies, social movements, social structure, and social change. The heuristic potential of ‘class’ was particularly important in the context of social stratification. In fact, class was identified as one of the most …
