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...Spiegelman's graphic novel In the Shadow of No Towers (Pantheon; 38 pages), but there isn't much education either. Spiegelman is also a Pulitzer winner, as it happens, for Maus, a bleakly beautiful comic about the Holocaust. In the Shadow of No Towers--the title is a bad poem in one line--is Spiegelman's very personal take on the destruction of the World Trade Center in 10 monumental (14 1/2in. by 19 1/2in.), full-color episodes. The attacks left Spiegelman in a traumatized, neurasthenic state. (MISSING, proclaims a poster, A. SPIEGELMAN'S BRAIN LAST SEEN IN LOWER MANHATTAN...
...with just one, enlarged strip per page, the A+J collection not only avoids this pitfall, but leaps over it. The bleak negativity of the message has its counterpoint in the constant variety of the form. The two combined make Mark Beyer's "Amy and Jordan" a beautiful visual poem to the miseries of modern urban life...
...many Muslims see the recent abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers not as a breakdown of the system but as typical of the West's depravity. Buruma and Margalit sometimes stretch the analogies between European antimodernism and Islamic fundamentalism too far - as when they compare a T.S. Eliot poem denouncing the ungodliness of modern cities to the frenzy that prompted the attack on the World Trade Center. Occidentalism might not provide a conclusive answer to the question "Why do they hate us?" But by relating how much of the rhetoric that fuels men like bin Laden came originally from...
Foil, Agarwalla explains, is a literary device “which refers to points in the poem where the poet does not directly praise the victor, but instead uses another topic or theme to create a contrast which then affects the praise...
...president’s words to the Class of 2004 remind me of what T.S. Eliot [’10] had to say about returning home, especially to our intellectual home,” Tatar wrote in an e-mail, referring to Eliot’s poem, “Little Gidding...