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A Life Fragment edited by Victor Eremita. Either/Or ( Danish: Enten – Eller) is the first published work of Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. It appeared in two volumes in 1843 under the pseudonymous editorship of Victor Eremita ( Latin for "victorious hermit"). It outlines a theory of human existence, marked by the distinction between ...
Aestheticism. The Peacock Room, designed in the Anglo-Japanese style by James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Edward Godwin, one of the most famous and comprehensive examples of Aesthetic interior design. Aestheticism (also known as the aesthetic movement) was an art movement in the late 19th century that valued the appearance of literature, music ...
The poem was composed in response to a multi-page advertisement for the new $28 million hotel Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York. The Great Depression had begun to hit New Yorkers and disproportionately affected minorities in the city. [2] The disparity between the rich and poor was widening at the onset of the Depression and Jim Crow laws ...
The poem was published in Hughes's book Montage of a Dream Deferred in 1951. [4] The book includes over ninety poems [5] that are divided into five sections. "Harlem" occurs in the fifth section, which is titled "Lenox Avenue Mural". [6] The poems in the book were intended to be read as one long poem, but "Harlem" is often read by itself. [5]
"The Road Not Taken" is a narrative poem by Robert Frost, first published in the August 1915 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, [1] and later published as the first poem in the 1916 poetry collection, Mountain Interval. Its central theme is the divergence of paths, both literally and figuratively, although its interpretation is noted for being ...
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde[ a] (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his ...
A prolific writer, D'Annunzio's novels in Italian include Il piacere ( The Child of Pleasure, 1889), Il trionfo della morte ( The Triumph of Death, 1894), and Le vergini delle rocce ( The Maidens of the Rocks, 1896). He wrote the screenplay to the feature film Cabiria (1914) based on episodes from the Second Punic War.
The poem allows the reader to linger over the possibility of colors, strangeness and unusual dreams. Imagination that is absent from a mundane orderly life is represented by a dandified aesthete and an adventurous and exciting life by a drunken sailor dreaming of catching tigers in red weather. The poem's message is fairly simple.