Along with the death of innocence occasioned by what was then heartbreakingly referred to as the War to End All Wars, the gentility of American fiction passed out of fashion by the 1920s. Those elegant writers of elegant stories like Henry James and Edith Wharton were either dead or on their way to being out ...
Modernist writers use some very specific themes and poetic devices in their writing that sets it apart from other periods of English literature. According to the Modernisms powerpoint, Modernism is defined as “a periodizing classification that designates the wide range of cultural preoccupations, philosophical currents, and historical events that shaped the literature of the first ...
A sestina is a form of poetry, much like a haiku or sonnet, which has its own set of rules. While most people have never heard of a sestina, it can be a fascinating form to work with for both beginners and experts alike. This article will show you how to create your own sestina ...
Some challenges are fun to accept. Creating an original guide on how to write the poetry form sestina, including snippets about the history and composition, sounded enjoyable. Finding an example for the hyperlink took a bit of time, as some of the more famous sestinas are merely rants with foul language. History The famous French ...
As a child, I made many pacts with friends for extraneous reasons. “Don’t tell Tommy I like him.” The ever-popular “Let’s stay friends forever.” However, such pacts usually withered away and were soon forgotten as quickly as the person who inspired them. In Ezra Pound’s poem “A Pact,” the narrator, assumed to be Pound himself, ...
ABSTRACT PAINTING AND ABSTRACT POEM Abstract art is now generally understood to mean art that does not depict objects in the natural world, but instead uses color and form in a non-representational way.In the very early 20th century, the term was more often used to describe art, such as Cubist and Futurist art, that depicts ...
“Where is the life we have lost in living? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?” -T.S. Elliot Note: According to Measurement And Planned Development, who specializes in effective self-transformation, There are key ways to interpret and effectively enhance strengths and reduce weaknesses. The ...
Robert Lee Frost was a man of many words. Unlike most of mankind, however, Frost put his words to use in the form of America’s most popular poetry. Poems such as “The Road Not Taken” and “Home Burial” are among Frost’s most famous. Multiple volumes and collections of his poetry have been published both during ...
In “One Should Not Talk To A Skilled Hunter About What Is Forbidden By The Buddha,” Gary Snyder for some reason wants us to look deep into nature because that’s where the answer is, whatever it is that we are looking for, “Stomach content: a whole ground squirrel well chewed/plus one lizard foot.” And the ...
For the very reason that so many irrational and unattainable things exist in the universe, modern poetry exists; modern poets like Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, Stevens, Yeats, Williams, Eliot, and Pound, each contributed to the modernist era by trying to make sense of the irrational, trying to find light in the darkness, order in the chaos. ...
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