In the annals of the writing world, there is a legendary group of artists who came from post-war America to transform the written word. These artists were known as The Lost Generation. In the time between World War I and World War II, these artists existed in various states, but many of them congregated at a house in France to share ideas. These individuals were responsible for creating the modernist movement. Their art continues to inspire authors, painters, and poets to this day. In this post, we examine the modernist movement.
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Analyzing “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by W. B. Yeats
W.B. Yeats was an immensely popular poet in his time, and for good reason. His poems resonate with readers for their beauty and themes. In fact, his poem, “When You Are Old,” very simply identifies aging in a creative way. These themes include universal ideas of nature, solitude, and peace. In this post, we examine his poem “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” which discusses these ideas. While one of his most popular, the poem is eternal in its meaning.
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Strange Tales of Mystery and Imagination, A Formative Read
I have a lot of books that played a role in my literacy voyage. These include Roald Dahl’s Young Adult/Adult novels to R.L. Stine’s Goosebump series and others. But there are a few that really got me rolling on loving horror and the occult. One of which was Strange Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Alex Hamer.
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Living or Acting? The Search for Meaning in ‘My Dinner with Andre’
How do we approach life in the modern era with our eyes wide open? In My Dinner with Andre, two men sit and have a conversation about this very thing over dinner. It is a long conversation, and they cover many topics, but the theme stays the same: we are all living in a dream. I suppose the film can be construed as dull, but I believe it has important artistic value, and it’s a movie that has the power to change one’s life.
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Poetry on Aging: Exploring Life’s Challenges Through Verse
In completing poetry research about aging, we find that many poems can be bitter or sad. Poets try to pull at our heartstrings and affect us if they can. Yet, within the shuddering darkness, we can find a few optimistic relics from time to time. In this post, we are going to analyze a few poems about aging that give us some insight into the matter.
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Folklore: The Horrific Crimes of the Sawney Bean Family
If you have ever seen The Hills Have Eyes (1977) or Wrong Turn (2003) then you have some background knowledge as it relates to the contents of this post. Why? Because it features a deranged family, murder, and cannibalism in the form of the Sawney Bean Family.
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Turn of the Screw: Chapters 11-15 Summary
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Turn of the Screw: Chapters 1-5 Summary
In this post, we introduce the first part of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw: Chapters 1-5 (1898). It is a gothic novella that is about a very peculiar haunting at Bly Manor. Meanwhile, the reader is left to question the narrator’s motives and reliability throughout the novella. This is a classic of the ghost story genre, so reading it and understanding it is crucial to writing good ghost stories.
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