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“Heaven” by Cathy Song, an Asian Writer

Since her grandfather worked on the railway, the poet imagines that their household was similar to the untamed West of the past and that he never imagined that this would be the place where he [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 843

“The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe

He entombs the corpse in the basement of his house, and when the police unexpectedly show up at his house, he inadvertently leads them to the corpse.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2254

Renaissance Poetry: Sonnets of William Shakespeare

Apparently, the wide variety of themes that he chose for his writings also contribute to their popularity: the complexity of human soul, its ability to rise and fall, wisdom and vanity, purity and vice, the [...]
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  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 3118

Importance of Literature in People Life

So the scope of influence of language is both verbal and intellectual. Therefore, the progress and continuity of language are linked to the continuity of literature.
  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 505

John Updike’s “A&P”: Themes & Conflicts Analysis Essay

The main character of the story is Sammy, a teenager who tries to rebel against the system and structure of social norms represented in the text in the form of rules and standards typical for [...]
  • 5
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1431

Walter Lee Younger: Character Analysis Essay

This promise is immature; Walter knows very well that getting the money to invest in his business remains a point of contention, yet he promises Willy that he would take the money.
  • 3.5
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1000

“Woman” the Poem by Nikki Giovanni

A great variety of cognitive metaphors highlighted in the poem outline a great desire of a woman to be loved and gain respect on the part of a man.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1812

Eveline James Joyce Analysis Essay

The future is uncertain to Eveline but very hopeful, she ought to embrace the future and break the chain of problems in her family.
  • 4.5
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 972

Importance of Anne Bradstreet’s poem “Contemplations”

The use of these devices is against the common Puritan practice that preferred the use of a simple and straight-forward language with the view of making the poems' divine messages more vivid to the audience. [...]
  • 3
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 577

“The Lady with the Pet Dog”: Oates & Chekhov [Analysis]

As aforementioned, the plot of the two versions of this story is the same; the storyline of the two versions carries a clandestine love affair between Anna and Gurov with a happy conclusion where the [...]
  • 3
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 883

Marriage in the Importance of Being Earnest: Analysis

Although Algernon's view on love and marriage is not known during the conversation with his butler, we get to know his thoughts on the subject in a monologue where he claims that marriage is an [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 879

“When I Was One-and-Twenty” by Housman

As for my personal opinions on the reading, I think that "When I Was One-and-Twenty" accurately and truthfully reflects the aspirations of the young generation to which I belong.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 790

Parallelism in the Declaration of Independence

This is the technique that Jefferson uses in writing the Declaration of Independence. In using this technique Jefferson enumerates to illustrate the patience of an oppressed people.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 556

Naturalism in “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane

Stephen Crane's The Open Boat revolves around four shipwrecked men: the captain, the cook, the correspondent, and the oiler. Thus the danger of the wind and the waves natural forces are so awesome that without [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1177

Wordsworth’s Romanticism in Tintern Abbey Poem

The tone of the poem is calm and meditative and Wordsworth describes the "landscape" and compares it to the "quiet" of the sky: "The landscape with the quiet of the sky"..
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 1051

Otherwise by Jane Kenyon

The title of the book is derived from the heading of one of the poems that were composed by Jane Kenyon in her poetic life.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1367

Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer, the father of English poetry, was the first who started writing in English, not in Latin, as writers and poets used to.
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 584

Dark Humor in The Cask of Amontillado Essay

The use of horror and humor in "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe is one of the literary features that the author uses to constructs the story.
  • 5
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 661

“The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst

The disabilities of the younger brother do not prevent him from admiring the world, while the elder brother is inclined to show more pride, and these differences form the basis of the story.
  • 5
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1120

“Doctor Faustus” by Christopher Marlowe

The play Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe can be referred to the genre of the Morality Play because it uncovers the theme of the Seven Deadly Sins.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 540

American Dream: “Fences” by August Wilson

The American dream makes it clear through its guarantee of the freedom and equality with the promise of prosperity and success as per the ability or personal achievements of every American citizen."Fences" reveals the obstacles [...]
  • Subjects: Concepts in American Novels
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1423

Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” Poem

With Eliot's description of Prufrock's thoughts and consciousness, the reader observes that Prufrock's personality and character are a representation of what most people experience as they advance towards old age.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 610

Fantasy in Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland”

The primary objective of fantasy is to provide a way of escape from the unexciting existence of daily living. In the case of Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, one of the purposes of fantasy is to [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1697

“Educating Rita” by Willy Russell: Literature Analysis

The author presents a solution to this question by demonstrating through the main character, Rita, that education can upgrade the diminished position and status of women in society. Education is Rita's expedition of self-realization to [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 840

Analysis of “Trumpet Player” by Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes, the author of the poem, was quite a significant person during the Harlem Renaissance a movement for the revival of the African American culture which took place in the 1920-1930s.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 783

“The Other Shore” by Xingjian Gao

Although the play had a religious connotation, it highlighted the government's failure and the inherent struggle by the people which aggravated the leaders, thus leaving the country and becoming a French citizen.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1108

Romanticism, Realism, and Modernism in Literature

Romantic literature is characterized by several key traits, such as a love of nature, an emphasis on the individual and spirituality, a celebration of solitude and sadness, an interest in the common man, an idealization [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 619

The Poem “Domestic Work” by Natasha Trethewey

This attitude of a hard-working woman, well-grounded in her Christian faith and yet longing for a change in her life, is illustrated through the imagery presented, the allusions to religious tenets and the changing meter [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 677

The Ghosts in Homer’s The Odyssey

I find the ghost one of my favorite because of the hope and information he gives Odysseus."The ghost reveals to Odysseus that Poseidon was busy punishing and killing the Achaeans ". From the encounter with [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 565

Masculinity in “The Kite Runner”

Because of this, Amir is constantly trying to live up to or prove his father's expectations of him as a son, and he does it by turning to his father, the father.
  • Subjects: Concepts in American Novels
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2266

“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou

I choose to analyze the poem from two perspectives that are; a poem denoting the life of Maya through the ups and downs of her life and from a bird's eye view, a poem describing [...]
  • 4.2
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1541

Women, Friendships, Marriage in Lynn Nottage’s “Poof!”

Maybe Loureen and Florence treat their problems a little differently depending on the fact of having children or the degree to which the husband's attitude can be tolerated. The general opinion about women and their [...]
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 554

Miranda July’s “The Swim Team”

The girl invents a story about her being on a swim team in high school to strike a conversation with Elizabeth, Kelda, and Jack-Jack and convince them that she has coaching skills.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 599

William Blake’s A Poison Tree Essay

At the end, the persona in the poem justifies the tittle of the poem that trying to conceal anger is like cultivating a poison tree.
  • 4.3
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 581

Blindness in Oedipus Rex & Hamlet

Therefore, in this play, the sighted like Oedipus and Jocasta are 'blind' to the truth whilst the blind like Teiresias can see the truth.
  • 4.7
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2788

The Main Characters and Themes of The Bluest Eye

This essay discovers the child's view of the problems of racism, poverty, incest, and the inability to love. Cholly's Projection of Pain Cholly is the father of the Breedlaw family and the one who took [...]
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1152

I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud Symbolism Essay

The title and the first stanza of the poem highlight the first symbol in the poem. Through the personification of the clouds, the speaker is able to express the extent or impact of his loneliness.
  • 3
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 832

Supernatural Elements of Act I and II in Macbeth

In the play, the supernatural things are central to the plot of the play as they provide a basis for action as Shakespeare meant them to fit in putting the play together.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 635

Gawain as a Hero

Gawain is not aware of the plan but is wise enough to find his way out and by so doing he proves to be a hero again, as he is strong enough to avoid the [...]
  • 5
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1378

Poems with Disabilities by Jim Ferris

This is good evidence for the argument of the need to eliminate the issue of ableism. Language evolves gradually, and countering the issue of ableism is a long-term goal.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 579

“Sex Without Love” by Sharon Olds

Olds uses enjambment to quicken the pace of the poem, and employs repetition both these stylistic devices are used to denote the rhythm of sex: "How do they come to the / come to the [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 954

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

This essay will examine the key themes of the story and the historical context, provide a brief analysis of the main characters, and give an overall reader's opinion about the novel. The idea of friendship [...]
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1143

“The Lady and Her Five Suitors” Story

The woman decides to place a petition and hence dresses to her best and moves to the king's palace where she encounters four men who were the senior person in the state and were in [...]
  • Subjects: Romantic Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1003

“A Red, Red Rose” by Robert Burns

Therefore, the poet's intention is to foreground the element of time in love relationship and show the ambiguity inherent in it. The greatness of the poem is in its literariness.
  • 5
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 653

“Araby” by James Joyce Literature Analysis

The character of the boy is obliquely revealed in the opening setting of the short story. The boy realizes that he put all his optimism and love in a world that is not real except [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 899

“Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley

The monster then travels to Geneva and meets a little boy called William in the woods, where he hopes that the young boy who is not yet corrupted by the views of older people and [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2158

The Poem “On Imagination” by Phillis Wheatley

The author personifies Imagination to describe best the state of mind that people experience when they are dreaming. Moreover, the poetess notes that Imagination can transfer people to places not available to the common mind.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 218

Holy Thursday by William Blake: Poem Analysis

In the poem, the author delivers the details about the theme by stimulating the reader's imagination, mind, and perception. In the poem, the author uses epithets and metaphors to stimulate the readers' imagination and describe [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 662

Life without Principle

Though it is hard to define one concrete thesis of Henry David Thoreau's Life without Principle, the point that this thesis somehow connected to money and its power in the world is evident."This world is [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1254

Themes in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Works

His works are especially noted for the use of moral allegories tinted with Puritan inspiration and sharing the features of the great Romantic Movement, more specifically with the Dark Romanticism. Loss of innocence is the [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 662

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer has also been able to write quite a good number of poems such as The Book of the Duchess, House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowls and The Legend of Good Women.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1566

“Patron Saints of Nothing” Novel Analysis

This fact adds to the already uneasy perception of Jun's death and shows that the guilt is not only in the lack of connection but in the absence of attempts to support his cousin.
  • Subjects: Concepts in American Novels
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 835

The Poem “Daystar” by Rita Dove

The readers are encouraged to reflect on everlasting truths and the role of a common woman in her daily life as a mother and wife.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 925

“My Secret Life as a Black Man” by Anthony Walton

He feels that he is living two lives his real life and the other as a black man, struggling with a history of his own racial identity and the expectations of the society around him.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 283

Homosexuality in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

However, at the same time, these breaks from the traditions incited a response reaction in favor of more traditional social roles in other areas, such as the refutation of male sexual relationships to the extent [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2502

“The Guest” by Albert Camus: Analysis

In the short story "The Guest" by Albert Camus, the theme of self-determination is represented in the actions of the two main characters, Daru and the Arab.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 558