Part 2 |
Alienation of the Individual |
Robert Frost |
AUTHOR STUDY
"Acquainted with the Night"
"Mending Wall"
"Out, Out—"
"The Death of a Hired Man"
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John F. Kennedy |
"In Praise of Robert Frost"
Selected poems and a presidential commentary
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Ernest Hemingway |
"The End of Something"
Breaking up is hard to do.
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T. S. Eliot |
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
A man haunted by an "overwhelming question"
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Franz Kafka |
LINK ACROSS CULTURES
from The Diaries
The shrinking world of a bachelor
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Katherine Anne
Porter |
"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"
A haunting memory of rejection
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Richard Wright |
"The Man Who Was Almost a Man"
All the wrong moves toward maturity
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Sylvia Plath |
"Mirror"
The reflection of a woman's fears
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Anne Sexton |
"Self in 1958"
A disturbing sense of self
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