The Importance of Play in Modernism

The opening line of eulacies by Emily Dickinson is one that i loved as a young writer. The author says modern literature suddenly becomes more autobiographical than ever before. Eulacy begins stately plump buck mulligan came from the stairhead bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed so we know eulacies begins in a tone of mock epic it's very melapeic, he says.