Subodh Bhattarai (English & Communication Notes - BBA/BBS/BBBS/BHM/BIM/BMS/MBA/MBS & +2)

T.S Eliot & Modern Poetry Thomas Stearns Eliot (T.S Eliot (1888-1965) is an American-born writer, regarded as one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri as the youngest son in a large, prosperous, and distinguished family. Eliot's father was a successful businessman; his mother wrote prose and religious poetry. Eliot was educated at Milton Academy (a private boarding school outside of Boston, Massachusetts) and at Harvard University. He earned his undergraduate degree, after three years of study, in 1909. He then continued at Harvard, studying philosophy under George Santayana. Eliot received his M.A degree in philosophy in 1910, after which he studied literature and language at the Sorbonne in Paris, France; as a fellowship recipient in Germany; and at the University of Oxford in England. After leaving Oxford, Eliot stayed in England. He became close friends with America poet Ezra Pound, who was also living abroad. Throughout the...

William Carlos Williams According to Brueghel when Icarus fell it was spring a farmer was ploughing his field the whole pageantry of the year was awake tingling near the edge of the sea concerned with itself sweating in the sun that melted the wings’ wax unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning Poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright William Carlos Williams is often said to have been one of the principal poets of the Imagist movement. On September 17, 1883 , William Carlos Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey. He began writing poetry while a student at Horace Mann High School, at which time he made the decision to become both a writer and a doctor. He received his MD from the University of Pennsylvania, where he met and befriended Ezra Pound . Pound became a great influence on his writing, and in 1913 arranged for the London publication of Williams’s se...

Wallace Stevens I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill. The wilderness rose up to it, And sprawled around, no longer wild. The jar was round upon the ground And tall and of a port in air. It took dominion everywhere. The jar was gray and bare. It did not give of bird or bush, Like nothing else in Tennessee. Wallace Stevens (1879-1955); is an American poet, whose works deal mainly with the individual's interaction with the outside world. Stevens used sensuous, elaborate imagery and elevated, precise word choice to express subtle philosophical themes. He frequently contrasted the bleakness and monotony of modern industrialized life which the richness of nature. Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, Stevens was educated at Harvard University. He then worked a journalist in New York City before attending New York law school. Stevens was admitted to the bar in 1904 and in 1...