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The Death Of The Knight: The Relationship Between British Heroic Art And Literary Tradition To The First World War, Madelynn Hobson
The Death Of The Knight: The Relationship Between British Heroic Art And Literary Tradition To The First World War, Madelynn Hobson
Senior Honors Theses
Art and literature are tools that can be used to gauge the mood of a particular time. Paintings, poetry, and other works hold clues which tell popular opinions and ideals of the era. Leading up to World War I, British art and literature defined the heroic figure as one who resembled the chivalrous knight of days gone by. Warriors were to be virtuous and fight for the vulnerable, upholding peace through their God-given quests. During and after the war, however, British art and literature painted the warrior to be a bleak, even disfigured and incomplete, character. The Great War's severity …
Post-War Europe: The Waste Land As A Metaphor, Semy Rhee
Post-War Europe: The Waste Land As A Metaphor, Semy Rhee
Senior Honors Theses
This thesis analyzes the mindset of twentieth-century Europe through the perspective of a modern individual that T. S. Eliot creates in his poem The Waste Land. Although The Waste Land is the greatest modernist poem, it is often criticized for its esoteric nature. A thorough examination of the poem is useful in understanding and appreciating Eliot’s masterful demonstration of the modernist philosophy. This study analyzes the poem in light of the definition of modernism and the poem’s metaphorical nature. It also aims to reconcile the two most confusing elements of the poem—its allusive content and fragmented structure—to the design …