How do you picture the end of the world?! A daunting question that could be answered with numerous outcomes. American poet, Robert Frost in his work has provided his own perspective to answer such a question. Born on the 26th day of March in the...
Claude McKay’s ‘America’ is a poem published in 1921, which examines the themes of love and hatred towards America within the black community. ‘America’ is a wonderful piece of literature, which uses symbolical imagery and the means of meter and rhyme in order to express...
In Sarah Orne Jewett’s “A White Heron”, a young heroine’s adventure is glamorized by exploring her characters essence before, during, and after her symbolic victory of the great, big pine tree. The adventure of Sylvia from the bottom to the top of the tree represents...
William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. He wrote a very...
John Donne’s metaphysical poetic work A Valediction: Of Weeping explores the emotional ending of a relationship between the narrator and his lover, specifically centered around their outward emotional response through crying to express their adoration towards one another. The poem additionally follows the speaker’s developing...
Too often in literature, novels surrounding a specific time period lack the authenticity of mise-en-scene for the reader. However, author John Dos Passos commits to unique and innovative writing techniques in his novel 1919 (one of the three entries in the U.S.A. Trilogy) to deliver...
Life and death are two sides of a coin that all humans must face. Life is a beginning, but its destination that we all human share, is death which is inevitable. The trip from life to death, is sometimes long and can be, rapturous and...
Orwell depicts a totalitarian fiction world, where freedom cannot be fought or dragged away from any sense of individual righteousness. In order to achieve this, the government suppresses people’s thinking and eliminate their freedom by creating fear through propaganda, strict laws, and incessant surveillances. Orwell...
In the essay entitled, “A Hanging,” the author, George Orwell, writes of a Hindu man preparing to be hanged in a Burmese prison by the warders. Orwell, who himself was part of the warders, had to witness the dreadful hanging and later wrote this descriptive...
Robert Frost’s poetry style associated with a more traditional approach to expressing himself through his work. How Acquainted with the Night was written was in the iambic pentameter and Italian format which consisted of at least 1-2 vowels in each ending sentences’ word. This poem...
The poem “If we must die” by the poet Claude Mckay stood out mostly because Mckay is well known for writing about racism especially when it was towards him. The poem was a response to the Red Summer of 1919, which involved a lot of...
Introduction The courtroom drama has been present for as long as there has been a concept of justice. From Oresteia to The Merchant of Venice to Law and Order, it has been essential in the public’s understanding of both the law and their rights as...
“Frostbitten Faithlessness” is a short story about a woman’s lack of decision making, and fidelity. Ann is the wife of John, and they live on a farm, presumably in Canada. She seems to be short tempered, and miserable when it comes to her marriage. John...
“Blackberry picking” by Seamus Heaney is a poem about time, greed, the limitation and struggles of life and the disappointments that follow. The poem is written retrospectively about an individual’s life. Although seemingly written in first person, Heaney is referring to life’s different struggles and...
Doing a research for this thesis there were found the important details pertained to the novel of Vladimir Nabokov, which will be described at the next chapters. These facts are showing on which foundation the novel was based. First of all, “The Real Life of...
1919, the year the poem was written, was a very difficult time. World War I had just ended, and several troops were returning home. At the same time the Black community was facing high rates of racially charged brutality. The Negro newspapers were morbid, full...
Literary devices are a foundation for any written work, they provide a connection from the writer to the reader through language. Details emphasized through literary devices enhance the conflict within the text and often serve to reference real life problems. In Reginald Rose’s screenplay Twelve...
In the book titled The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, by James Weldon Johnson, the topic of race and identity are discussed through the experience of a biracial American. When this man, the protagonist, is introduced the concept of race does not seem to affect...
An adolescent’s life no matter how distressed or stressful it may seem is always entertaining to watch from the eye of a third person as its packed with drama and is something a reader can relate to and empathize with. In the case of “Leopard”...
The short story, The Penal Colony, demonstrates various literary elements within the text. The three that I’ll be focusing on to explain in further detail includes the theme, the characters and imagery & symbolism. Although The Penal Colony was written in the third person, the...
In Alice Walker’s short story ‘The Flowers,’ the author depicts the story of a ten-year old girl named Myop growing up in a day. The story begins with Myop’s feelings of peace and happiness. Walker’s descriptions depict Myop skipping happily exploring the forest behind her...
In Three Day Road by Robert Boyden there are plenty of examples of effective language and form that contribute to creating an intriguing novel. Boyden effectively shows how Cree life was in the early 1900’s both in Canada and at war in Europe. In the...
“Volar” by Judith Ortiz Cofer is a first person narrative told from the point of view of a young twelve year-old girl, the daughter of parents from Puerto Rico, growing up in a poor neighborhood and dealing with self-image and emotional challenges that a girl...
Johnathan Swift was an Irish author, clergyman and a satirist was born in Dublin, Ireland in November 30, 1667, two months after the death of father, he lived with his uncle. He received a bachelor degree from Trinity college and then worked as a stateman’s...
Claude McKay’s work is an authentic representation of the Harlem Renaissance and the struggles of racism and prejudice in the 1920s. The poem “If We Must Die,” written by McKay in 1919, demonstrates the theme of fighting against oppression by using the symbolism of war,...
In I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud and Surprised by Joy (also commonly known as ‘Daffodils’), William Wordsworth uses figurative language to reveal that noticing the little things in life can change a person’s perspective. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud is a poem in which...
The true meaning of life has and continues to be one of the most intriguing mysteries. With numerous having disputed to why nature performs the way it is towards humans and how one experiences a different perspective. In William Wordsworth’s ‘I wandered lonely as a...
Children grow up believing that war and fighting for their country is the most honorable thing to do. In the poem Dulce Et Decorum Est, the author is saying that dying for your country is sweet and prideful. The poem shows the propaganda that dying...
The term ‘literary canon’ refers to any books, narratives and poems considered to be the most persuasive pieces of a particular time period or place. For instance take the 19th century American literacy, it is generally the exposure to a version of a group of...
How deep should you dig to change destiny? “From the tip of the steel blade to the end of the wooden shaft” would answer Stanley Yelnats, the character of the novel “Holes” (1998) of the modern American writer Louis Sachar. The story is full of...
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