“Compare the ways in which Larkin and Abse write about time and it’s passing.” In your response, you must include detailed critical discussion of Love Songs In Age and one other poem by Larkin. Many poems in Philip Larkin’s ‘The Whitsun Weddings’ are connected through one common factor: Larkin’s rather dismal attitude towards time and the passing of it. In many of his poems Larkin presents time as a menial entity resulting in an inevitable mortality. However, on further examination Larkin reflects back on time in a nostalgic manner. In order to emphasise Larkin’s outlooks onto time and it’s passing, one can highlight the similarities and differences between Larkin and Abse’s poetry.
David Crystal’s 2b or Not 2b discusses the controversial issue of abbreviations in text messaging and it’s effect on contemporary English. In the beginning of the article he provides quotations from well-known authors and scholars who have had nothing but negative things to say about texting and it’s long-term effects. For example, John Sutherland of University College London stated “texting is penmanship for illiterates” (335). This is only the beginning of the criticism. Crystal then proceeds to argue each negative criticism he has come across in regards to texting.
Critics view The Rocking-Horse Winner as an example of Lawrence's most accomplished writing. Lawrence is considered a modernist, a member of a literary school opposed to the literary conventions of nineteenth-century morality, taste, and tradition. Evident in The Rocking-Horse Winner is Lawrence's disdain for conspicuous consumption, crass materialism, and an emotionally distant style of parenting popularly thought to exist in England during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Thus, the story is considered by many to be an example of modernist prose. Author’s Biography David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published as D.H. Lawrence.
During our lives we will have to take many journeys some happy, some sad, and some tougher than others. I was asked to read Gilgamesh written by Stephen Mitchell and Beowulf transcribed by Seamus Heaney. There are many differences and critical comparisons that can be drawn between the epics of Beowulf and Gilgamesh. Both are historical poems which shape their respected culture and both have major social, cultural, and political impacts on the development of western civilization literature and writing. Before any analysis is made, it is vital that some kind of a foundation be established so that a further, in-depth exploration of the complex nature of both narratives can be accomplished.
In his essay "The Poet," Ralph Waldo Emerson called for a poet who could move beyond artistic trivialities and capture the true essence of the American spirit. Heavily influenced both by Emerson and the Transcendentalist movement, Walt Whitman answered this call in his poetry collection entitled "Leaves of Grass." Though it was the source of much controversy during its time, "Leaves of Grass" has had a foundational impact on modern American poetry and continues to shape the poetic form to this very day. Whitman's early career can be quite frankly described as inconsequential. From his late teens to his mid-thirties, Whitman worked at various editing and teaching jobs while dabbling in freelance fiction and poetry.
ARCHETYPAL AND MYTH CRITICISM IN EMILY DICKINSON’S ”I died for beauty, but was scarce” AND ” The brain is wider than the sky” Since ancient times, readers have debated and critiqued literature from a variety of perspectives. They were considering how values are represented in a text, evaluating a poem in terms of its form, or even looking at literature to see what it might be saying about our lives in society, our political or power relations, gender roles, or sexuality. In this essay, I will be talking about the archetypal and myth criticism and focusing on two of Emily Dickinson’s poems : ”I died for beauty, but was scarce” and ” The brain is wider than the sky”. ”Archetypal literary criticism is a type of critical theory that interprets a text by focusing on recurring myths and archetypes in the narrative, symbols, images, and character types in a literary work. [1]” An archetype is an original model or pattern from which other later copies are made, especially a character, an action, or situation that seems to represent common patterns of human life.
‘Why is Sixty Lights worthy of critical study and inclusion on the HSC Prescriptions List for module B- Critical Study of Text?’ The novel Sixty Lights has been included on the HSC Prescriptions List for Module B because it is worthy for critical study as it is a diverse piece of literature covering significant topics that have been ignored in the modern world. We enter the lyrical and image-laden world of Sixty Lights. It’s a tale, resplendent in colour and imagery, set across two worlds - the constrained and stilted world of Victorian England, and the chaotic danger and abandon of India. Gail Jones creates literature, like Shakespeare, but in this particular piece explores the significance behind photographs and what they represent.
Archibald MacLeish “Calypso's island” I. Introduction The collaboration of modernist poetry and Greek mythology is the bedrock of my choice for the assignment. Provided the fact that myths themselves possess the ambiguity of fiction, religion, fairytale and history, one can only be prompt to dive in the endless pool of factual and fictional, and the reflection of the morals and customs of that time and the modernist approach to the myth offered by Archibald MacLeish. The themes and motifs that run through the poem as a parallel to the original myth of Odysseus (or Ulysses) are ones that spark public controversy and are problems of the present day. Patriarch society and the view of the woman as an irresistible allure that threatens to lead men astray and corrupt them.
In Modernist literature, much like painting, there is experimentation with form: narration style, tone and plot line. Instead of having Kurtz tell his story, or Marlow recite the tale of his journey; the actual narrator in the Heart of Darkness is an unknown passenger on the Nellie. Verisimilitude becomes of much importance when characters are not well defined. Unlike the renaissance period, Modernism spawned literature that questioned the existence of absolute truth; perfectly suiting this novella as through language power can be gained, yet most truths and realities can be seen to be lost in the “haze”. Language within the land of the “brutes” acts as an extremely powerful tool to aggrandize civilization above the “pilgrims”, and put Kurtz in possession of great power: “must necessarily appear to them [savages] in the nature of supernatural beings—we approach them with the might as of a deity…By the simple exercise of our will we can exert a power for good practically unbounded” In response to this, Marlow admits, “it gave me the notion of an exotic Immensity ruled by an august Benevolence”.
Hints of racism in ‘ Othello ’ Throughout the history of literature, lots of famous Works by outstanding writers and poets have been examined by specialist critics from various aspects with regard to their images and messages that lay beneath their surface. The meanings of the words and statements in literary works have always bothered the critics in different ways and they have tried to construe the phrases and they have tried to relate the work with the creator of it. In fact a literary work reflects the thoughts of its creator. The most famous writer in English literature, William Shakespeare, must be very unlucky to have been being investigated so thoroughly by critics. I, in this essay, am trying to find answers to some important questions about the hints of racism in one of the most known plays of Shakespeare, Othello.