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There are even parts of the Netherlands, called polders, where the Dutch have created new dry land along the sea by diking and draining it. A levee is typically little more than a mound of less permeable soil, like clay, wider at the base and narrower at the top. These mounds run in...
What is a universal theme that is carried throughout T. S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock? Give two examples from the work that illustrate this theme. What does the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock talk about?
What are two literary devices in ''Death of a Salesman'' that Arthur Miller uses to support the theme of the work? What is elegy Written in a Country Churchyard about? What is poetic diction according to Wordsworth? What are some of the poetic devices used in A.E. Housman'...
In April, I lived inside T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland. Some reflection. Last night, I participated in a reading of Eliot's iconic poem,The Wasteland. In preparation, I've spent the past month listening to recitations of the poem on Audible, various podcast episodes, and YouTube videos....
THE WASTEMAN (2024) marks the finale of Iranian director Ahmad Bahrami's "waste trilogy", with the first installment, THE WASTELAND (2020), winning the Orizzonti Best Film Award at the 77th Venice Film Festival. THE WASTEMAN (2024) continues the use of long takes and black-and-white pho...
The Hoover Dam is an engineering marvel. But if it ever failed, the consequences would be catastrophic. Stephen Simpson/Getty Images It might be the most impressive U.S. public works projects ever. We're talking about the Hoover Dam, the largest man-made reservoir and a feat of American...
The "Author to her Book" by Anne Bradstreet develops a complex story about a writer and her emotions towards her own piece of work. The controlling metaphor Bradstreet analyzes in the poem is the relationship between an author and her book to that of a nurturing relationship between a mother...
The deserts of souls whose blood runs dry Endless grey complacency to numb the festering and open wounds A harvest of pain sewn from all we deny Wars waged to sunder, to ravish with rage A wasteland of frightened faces fleeing for shelter, turned away ...
So much of it is now being knocked down and replaced with offices and/or extortionately-priced apartments – sorry, “regenerated” – that it’s disorientating. The landmarks of my past decade here –“I’m in this pub; I’ll meet you outside so-and-so” – are vanishing. Even ...