As a human being, we cannot live alone in this world. This life is better and more livable if we have many friends.Getting a friend is easy and you can choose someone who can be your friend,but getting a best friend is too difficult to find.Best friend is different from a friend in every way.Because she/he is not only our friend but also she/he is our mirror.We share our private problems with them. Everyone has a best friend in their life. They can be from his/her school or they can be neighbour
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Tradition and the Individual Talent (1920) by T. S. Eliot Introduction Often hailed as the successor to poet-critics such as John Dryden, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Matthew Arnold, T.S. Eliot’s literary criticism informs his poetry just as his experiences as a poet shape his critical work. Though famous for insisting on “objectivity” in art, Eliot’s essays actually map a highly personal set of preoccupations, responses and ideas about specific authors and works of art, as well as formulate
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The Romantic Age was a period between 1820 and 1865 where many writers began to stray from European models. They began to write with their own beliefs and views of life. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, and Washington Irving are all authors from this age. Literary works such as "Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment" by Hawthorne, "The Raven" by Poe, and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Irving are representative of their literary age because they employ numerous Romantic age characteristics. "Dr. Heidegger's
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During the Romantic Age a new form of American literature began to emerge. Many writers of this time period incorporated ideas of the supernatural, great use of imagination, an emphasis on the individual person rather than God, and many other elements. Writers like Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Washington Irving are representatives of their literary age because their works exhibit these Romantic ideals. In the short story "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe, many romantic
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In the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the significance of the line on the equator is a defining point in which the climax takes place, and where interpretations of the text provides an understanding of the Mariner’s troubles. The line is a literal representation of the hero’s journey when he is passing back out again from his home to the South Pole. Without the line, one cannot see the dichotomy between the supernatural worlds, and the natural world, and the hero’s
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Through the late eighteenth century to early nineteenth century, Romanticism became a prevalent literary style used by emerging novelists. Nature, a pivotal element of Romanticism, is intended to emphasize major ideas, descriptions and images to the reader. Nathaniel Hawthorne, a gifted author heavily influenced by Romanticism during the nineteenth century, uses nature as a romantic source for critiquing Puritan beliefs in his novel, “The Scarlet Letter”. Hawthorne’s Romantic philosophies invariably
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One of the most productive ages of literary creation in European history is the Romantic Period. Many scholars believe it began in 1776, while others believe it was 1783. Never the less, it is a time when early Romantics like Lord Byron revolutionized poetry by making it controversial and creating unforgettable heroes. His values of individuality and rebellious actions against literary and social conventions produced creative and emotional works. Lord Byron sets the mood of the poem in his first
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“The philosopher should lay his hand on the secret of creative force and perhaps make new worlds for himself.” (Hawthorne 1) Romantic literature was a new idea of writing, revolting against the classical era. While the classicists were reasonable and conservative, the romantics’ interests were in the supernatural and nature. Nathaniel Hawthorn, an early American romantic, wrote many short stories with this idealism, such as “The Birthmark.” His writing focused on man attempting to sate his desire
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The revolutions created an atmosphere of change that resounded through the ages. The people of these changing societies could not help but be affected by the new ideas that came about as a result. Samuel Coleridge was the first Romanticist from Europe to delve into the supernatural, but Edgar Allan Poe took that supernatural element and expounded on it time and time again. The Age of Reason had its influence on the Romantic era too. However, it existed
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him with a sense of guilt that deepened his poetic inspiration and resulted in an important theme in his work of abandoned women. Wordsworth’s first poems, Descriptive Sketches and An Evening Walk, were published in 1793. The next year, he met Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the two of them grew very close. He was also reunited with his sister, Dorothy in 1794. Wordsworth and his sister moved to Somerset, a few miles away from Coleridge’s home. Wordsworth and Coleridge produced Lyrical Ballads which
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