Advice to a son by Ernest hemingway
movement DiscriptionThe Lost Generation was a group of writers who had experienced life in Europe during World War I and when going back home to the U.S. thought of their peers as a disappointed postwar generation characterized by lost values, lost belief in the idea of human progress, and a mood of futility and despair leading to arrogance and self-pride. They returned back to Europe as a way to escape typical America. A community of these young writers such as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald formed in Paris and by looking at an America from afar, they created a new literary movement that captured the demoralized spirit of the Roaring Twenties. Ernest Hemingway made famous the term "Lost Generation” in his novel "The Sun Also Rises." F Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" captures the hedonist attitude of the Jazz Age with the exploration of the moralities of the wealthy.
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poem ANALYSISIn the poem Advice to a Son the poet is talking about what to do in life. Also I believe that this poem is very stereotypical on how people are and how they act. In the poem it states, “Never trust a white man” this sounds to me like the person has had a bad encounter with a white man that made him have hatred toward all white men.
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LITERARY DEVICESIn the poem “Advice to a son” the literary devises that are used are Alliteration, Allusion. These literary devices were used to show how at the time this advice could come in handy. Alliteration is used by the poet when he repeats the word “Never” at the beginning of almost every line. Allusion is used because to my understanding there is a reference to the Great War (WWI).
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