Imagining of Literature

Some say Robert Frost is one of the most significant poets in modern American literature. Some critics push him in the margins of American literature. In a sense, Frost stands at the crossroads of nineteenth-century American poetry and modernism. He is either modernist but never innovator or his poetry is traditional but in original way. One of the most popular of his poems and usually anthologized is called “Fire and Ice”. The poem was originally published in December 1920 in Harper’s Magazine. And then added into Pulitzer prize winner poetry book New Hampshire. Simple as a theme, mirror like in verse and thought to be inspired by Dante’s Inferno, this poem may as well be read as subjective piece of art inspired by popular theory at that time that regards the end of the world. The main focus is in the emotional aspect of the poem, which makes “Fire and Ice” all time classic and highly preferable piece to read. In the very beginning of the poem a conflict is stated, a conflict ...

Ever since “Homo Ludens” we are comfortable to think humans as accustomed to playing. Playing is one of the most complicated activities. And the play is a tradition with long historical roots in shaping the mankind thinking. Nowadays we naturally link plays with theatre and the physical activity called playing with sports. The idea that there is infusion between sport and theatre or the acting/playing co-relation is not new at all and it descents directly from ancient times when amphitheatres held both plays and athletic events. One of the most influential (at least for me) and one of the most popular point of view regarding the theme is in one of Roland Barthes’ essays in Mythologies - the opening one and one of the most significance,  called “The world of wrestling”( Actually the essay first  appeared in Esprit). In a very punctuating, very exact manner the French structuralist managed to outline the similarities between acting and playing. One of the important conclusions...