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"Something there" is a poem written by the Irish playwright and Novelist Samuel Beckett. It was written in 1974 and first published in New Departures, Special Issue No 7/8 and 10/11 1975, and in '''"Collected Poems 1930-1978, . It is composed of twenty-six short lines that could be described in style as minimal, sparse, and with the use of repetition.  These stylistic elements can be included in the Modernist Poetry genre.

Early Career
After completing his BA at Trinity College, Dublin, and a brief career in teaching at the University level, he began his writing career in poetry with his debut Whoroscope, a dramatic monologue consisting of ninety-eight lines. It was written hastily so as to qualify for a poetry contest in which he won. After publishing a book of poems Echo's Bones and Other Precipitates he concentrated on prose. An early influence was the Irish writer James Joyce. These influences are found throughout his early work.

The War Experience
In 1942 France was invaded. Beckett had already been living in Paris and writing in French. He felt very strongly that he had to get involved and became actively involved in the Resistance in Paris. He narrowly escaped capture and remained in hiding unoccupied France. These years during the war had a big influence on Beckett, in the things he saw, and the tedium of hiding and waiting, and the conditions and loss of life. It was with this combination of rethinking the way in which Joyce had once influenced him. He abandoned everything about Joyce and went in the opposite direction from assimilation, integration and allusion...to the art of disassembly, disintegration and ignorance. After the war years Beckett would began the work that would put him in the list of the twentieth-century greatest writers with his trilogy, Molly, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable. Maurice Blanchot claimed the trilogy to be an understanding of modern writing. He felt that the future of Literature did not ‘’’”consist of truth, grounded in humanism, religion, history or philosophy, but instead is headed towards itself, towards its essence which is disappearance”’’’. Included in this period between 1946 to 1953, he wrote his most famous play, Waiting for Godot.

The Plays
It was extremely draining process for Beckett in writing his prose. He became very involved in bringing Waiting for Godot to the stage after it was published in 1952. His plays of the sixties and seventies became shorter and shorter. His plays became became more precise, formal and symmetrical. As a director, he was after exactitude from the actors. His dramas were highly stylized, using mathematical movement and pacing.

Themes
Throughout his novels, plays, poems, it is the human condition that seems to have preoccupied Beckett. The self is utterly alone. Loneliness, solitude, alienation were his recurrent themes in the late his later work. The narratives that stream his novels, characters trying to tell their stories, or a story they think is theirs, but could just as easily belong to someone else they cannot see or know. Caught in their primal experiences, immobile, dragging themselves through the mud, through a field, with one short leg, in a room, from a bed. Beckett’s work undermines the process of meaning. The search for meaning and the futility of finding it, or any identity of it is ongoing for his characters. Absurdity comes to mind and the category of Theatre of the Absured. Martin Esslin, a critic, coined this phrase to identify the playwrights who articulated the idea of absurdity in human existence and futility and lack of meaning. Eugene Ionesco was part of this Theatre of the Absured. Playwright Bertolt Brecht wrote non-realistic plays There is a quote that states ‘’’”There is nothing funnier than unhappiness”’’’.

Bio
Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1906. He was a top student throughout his academic career. His undergraduate studies were French and Italian at Trinity College in Dublin. He was raised in an affluent household with parents who supported him in everything. In spite of his childhood happiness, we went on to focus in very bleak subjects for the remainder of his writing career. He chose to write in French so that he could do away with all the rules and to say it in fewer words. He married Suzanne Descheveaux-Dumesnil at the age of 55. They lived in a cottage in Ussy near Paris. Beckett suffered from boils as a young man and was often sickly. There was sickness and deterioration within his family. His mother developed Parkinson’s disease. He suffered from a near-fatal stabbing in Paris from a stranger on the street. With all this he had a lot to reference in his writing. He won the Nobel Prize in 1969 but did not attend. Beckett’s last prose text was a poem, ‘What is the Word’ (1989). He died in the hospital St Anne in Paris on 22 December 1989. The Divine Comedy was at his beside.

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