Christopher Isherwood

Christopher Isherwood is one of the most creative writer and a remarkable force in the contemporary literary scene of twentieth century fiction. His novels are largely based on his own experience. they are monumental and autobiographical. They are social and spiritual chronicles of his time. The Gender issues has essentially been born out of inequality, discrimination, insecurity and violence against the same gender or the opposite gender across the world. Gender

lonesomeness is a magnified view of the city, where destitution predominates and one never fails to turn a deaf ear, to the midnight calls from the street corners. Isherwood ponders in the opening lines of Goodbye to Berlin, this idea of being a disjointed wanderer upon a sensitive landscape. In the section, ‘Sally Bowles’, Isherwood traces acutely the problematic disposition of a woman, who also breathes the foreign air of the city and decides to live. If that is all it takes to be herself. In this

where he also graduated to become a teacher. W.H moved to Berlin England to live for a year then returned home to become a teacher. His early poetry made his Reputation for his poems spread quickly. W.H collaborated with famous poets like Christopher Isherwood who was also a friend of his from grade school. As a young (The Light of Poetry John Johnson pages 45-46) Man he was influenced by Thomas Hardy and Robert Frost. Fame also came quickly For him by the second year at oxford he was the heart

The Bhagavad-Gita: The Song of God, translated by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, recounts a tale leading to a battle between the Pandavas and their relatives the Kauravas. Right before the battle begins one of the Pandavas, Arjuna, doubts the decision of fighting for a throne which would be won by the death of his men and relatives. Arjunas decision to surrender is contradicted by his charioteer, Krishna, who persuades Arjuna to fight to balance the events caused by the evil of the

could not have appeared any more of a haven to two gay British men, David Hockney and Christopher Isherwood, due to its standard of living, how the people there had a particular set of beliefs and attitudes, and the gay scene being different than that of London. Before Los Angeles, before their successful careers, David Hockney and Christopher Isherwood were both just two boys from England. Christopher Isherwood, who was born in the year 1904—roughly thirty years before David Hockney was born—was

The passage of time affects our memories of the past by the memory content that we experience in life which shows us that the more changing experiences we have, the longer subjective duration lasts for. The bigger and more intense memories have a greater impact on the memories that we tend to hold on to and remember for lifetime. For example, a weekend spent at home doing our usual routines passes very quickly. In contrast, a weekend when we travel to a new destination with a friend lasts much longer

Each individual has a unique way of coping with death, and this is evident throughout Christina Rossetti’s, “Remember” and W. H. Auden’s “Stop all of the Clocks”. In the first stanza of “Remember”, Rossetti allows the reader to explore the narrator’s thought about death. When she writes “……Gone far away into the silent land;/ When you can no more hold me by the hand….” the narrator believes that death is final because that connection cannot ever be re-established regardless of how much one wants

Arts W. H. Auden, living during 1907-1973, is a man of class. He loved to visit an art gallery, which was called “Museum of Beautiful Art” (In French: Musee des Beaux Arts). Like T. S. Eliot, he was both an American poet and a British poet. Going back to Auden visiting the art gallery, he stared at this one painting. He stared at it for an extended amount of time, trying to determine what the piece of art meant. The piece of art, which Auden was trying to decode, was called “The Fall of Icarus”

In the poem “Funeral Blues,” W. H. Auden, a twenty century British author also known as Wystan Hugh Auden, describes how people can go through denial during the loss of a person so dear to them. The person of whom the speaker speaks of was an individual who was a large part of the speaker’s life. His life would seize to exist without that person. The tragic death of a beloved soul shows how emotions of sorrow and grief dominate over any other feelings the speaker could have. He wants others to

In “Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone” by W.H. Auden the author uses different literary devices to portray the theme of overwhelming grief and loss. In the poem, the speaker is someone who has recently lost a loved one. The person is so distraught that they start issuing harsh demands. The speaker wants everything to stop and all noise to seize. He or she then starts revealing more personal details by telling how much the loved one meant to them. This poem is dramatic and successfully uses