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* Eugene O’ Neill
            - He was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. 
            - Poetically titled lays were among the first to introduce into American drama techniques of
              realism earlier associated with Russian playwright.
            - His plays were among the first to include speeches in American vernacular and involve
              characters on the fringes of society, where they struggle to maintain their hopes and
              aspirations, but ultimately slide into disillusionment and despair. 


* GATT
            - General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
            - Tariff: a tax imposed on imported goods and services. It is used to restrict trade, as they
               increase the price of imported goods and services, making them more expensive to
               consumers. 
            - multilateral agreement regulating international trade

* Migrate vs. Immigrantion
            - Migrate: move from one region or habitate to another
            - Immigration: the movement of people into a country to which they are not native in
              order to settle there, especially as permanenet residents or future citizens. 
* Henry James
            - The art of fiction
            - his works shows the inner psychological live of privileged/wealthy upper-class
               characters 
            - middle class = business class man (live by own profession)
                        - urban factory worker
                        - low wages dangerous working conditions 
                        - salary (with specific contract) vs. wage (hourly)           - International theme (transatlantic theme) à freewill (a matter of choice)
                        - 呈現出的反映 (Cultural shock)


* Let it Snow (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN7LW0Y00kE)
            - Popping (popcorn)


* Naturalism
            - dark side of the reality
            - 1880s to 1930s
* Romanticism
            - 1812s to 1865s
* Realism and Revolt
            - 1865s to 1914s
* Regionalism
            - geographic

* Modernist poetry
            - Fragmentation
            - French symbolist
            - Sterns (Anecdote of the Jar) = story that is not told before, but is talking now
            - Robert Frost
                        - stopping woods on a snowy evening
                        - The road not taken
                        - most famous 政治暗淡期


* Ode on a Grecian Urn (John Keats)
            - Ah, happy, happy boughs
            - Piping songs (Pan, Dionysus) 豐收、春天來到
            - Beauty is truth, truth is beauty