Essays on Literary Genres

2072

Deconstructing Phallogocentrism in Rich’s Poems

2 pages / 1125 words

As a continuum that approaches the limit where we can hear Her voice independent of male discourse, A Wild Patience celebrates a new consciousness as Rich attempts to build an Amazon Utopia, a no-man’s land free from a phallocentric language structure, a female utopia fantasy...

Poetry

2073

Inhuman Politics in Yukio Mishima's "The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with The Sea"

3 pages / 1444 words

‘The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea’ was written in 1963 by Japanese author Yukio Mishima, known as one of the most controversial yet celebrated writers of Japan. One could argue the novel has many links to Japan’s history, hinting at various aspects...

Fiction The Seafarer

2074

A Reflection on The Poem "When I Consider How My Light is Spent" by John Milton

1 page / 386 words

After reading the poem, When I consider How My Light Is Spent, written by John Milton, my initial reactions regarding this poem produced a sense of confusion on the point Milton was trying to get across due to the analytical elements being used. The figurative...

John Milton Poetry

2075

Ezra Pound - One of The Most Notable Poets of The 20th Century

3 pages / 1647 words

Many influential American poets throughout the 20th century partook in different poetry movements. Although many of these movements concerned traditional styles of poetry, there were modern movements that favored new styles of writing. Ezra Pound founded the Imagism movement. Pound rebelled against old standards of...

Poetry

2076

A Struggle Between Greed and Lack of Wisdom in Esther Forbes' Novel Johnny Tremain

1 page / 433 words

In the story“Johnny Tremain”,by Esther Forbes, the main character, Johnny Tremain, struggles with his arrogance and selfishness prior to the Revolutionary War. Several concepts, like pride, disillusionment, and loss, are introduced by events that the protagonist encounters such as his work as a silversmith,his crippled...

Book Review Novel

2077

A Look at The Theme of Power Change in The Novels The Leopard", and "Memed, "My Hawk"

3 pages / 1253 words

The novels, “The Leopard” by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, and “Memed, My Hawk” by Yashar Kemal, both involve back stories of power changes, that is changes to the class systems. Yet each novel is told from a different point of view – The Leopard from...

Book Review Novel

2078

The Dualities of Belonging in Cisneros' "The House on Mango Street"

6 pages / 2878 words

The quest for a belonging in life is something that everyone wants to achieve. Throughout our experiences, we discover new lessons that teach us about who we are in this society and what we strive to be in this life. With all these lessons that...

Novel The House on Mango Street

2079

A Comparative Analysis of Langston Hughes's The Negro Speaks of Rivers and Sandra Cisneros's House on Mango Street

4 pages / 1966 words

The House on Mango Street History repeats itself in more ways than one and this statement reigns true for almost all aspects of life and this especially holds true with war. Over and over again we see destruction promises of repair and then many decades...

Langston Hughes Poetry The House on Mango Street

2080

A Comparative Analysis of Zadie Smith's White Teeth and Anita and Me by Meera Syal

6 pages / 2871 words

Smith and Anita and Me by Meera Syal Zadie Smiths White Teeth is about three different cultures, and three families spanning three generations. Characters include Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal, best friends who spend their teenage years together and raise families in the Cricklewood area...

Novel White Teeth

2081

Analyzing Human Craziness as Depicted in The Novel Neuromancer by William Gibson

2 pages / 922 words

Randomness and Manipulation To define information as a probability function[…]implies that randomness always already interpenetrates pattern, for probability as a concept posits a situation in which there is no a priori way to distinguish between effects extrapolated from known causes and those generated by chance...

Book Review Novel

2082

May Days: a Literary Analysis

10 pages / 4427 words

May Days I liked putting these poems together because the choosing of them took me over and over the old bound volumes, and in doing that I discovered a continuity–and a severance. That is, I stepped back abruptly through the looking-glass into a literary and...

Poetry

2083

Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale": Don't Let Bastards Get You Down

3 pages / 1294 words

“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum…Don’t Let the bastards get you down” (Handmaid’s Tale 186-187). This Latin phrase is cherished by main character Offred throughout Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Before discovering the meaning of the phrase, Offred becomes fond of the carving on the floor of...

Novel The Handmaid’s Tale

2084

Analyzing The Plot, Order and Use of Conflict in Stephanie Soileau Short Story The Boucherie

3 pages / 1401 words

“The Boucherie” is a short story by Stephanie Soileau that was published in the StoryQuarterly. Stephanie Soileau is a lecturer at Stanford University and she has written numerous short stories, she is also a Truman Capote Fellow in the Wallace Stegner Fellowship Program. She is...

Short Story

2085

A Study of The Ethical and Manly Nature as Illustrated in The Panchatantra's Fable

1 page / 450 words

A fable is a timeless piece of wisdom presented in story form. The Panchatantra contains three fables which teach about morals, but they also offer insights into human nature. We will identify these insights contained in the Panchatantra and analyze them. Made-to-order essay as fast...

Fable Literature Review

2086

A Study of How Yunior Hides from Reality as Highlighted in Junot Diaz's Book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

5 pages / 2076 words

The novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, crosses boundaries between truth and fantasy. Junot Díaz take the reader through a complex story narrated through many voices while supplying the reader with many facts and references, but also embedding magic and myth to the...

Novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

2087

A Literary Analysis of Philip Pullman's Northern Lights(the Golden Compass)

3 pages / 1206 words

Northern LightsThe Golden Compass (US) Author Philip Pullman Cover artist Philip Pullman & David Scutt Country United Kingdom Language English Series His Dark Materials Genre(s) Fantasy, Steampunk Publisher Scholastic Point Publication date 1995 Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Pages 416 pp ISBN ISBN 0-590-66054-3...

Book Review Fantasy

2088

Dr. Strangelove: a Look at The Threat of Nuclear War

1 page / 582 words

Dr. Strangelove is a 1964 political satire of the Cold War between the united States and the Soviet Union. It mainly focuses on the fear, at that time, of nuclear war. Within the story one witnesses a rogue U.S. Air force general who calls a...

Literary Criticism Satire

2089

An Analysis of The Final Chapter of Ralph Ellison Novel Invisible Man

1 page / 633 words

In the final chapters of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, the reader may encounter many different obstacles, all of which lead back to the on-going issue of race and white supremacy in the 1930s. Specifically, in chapter 20, an issue is presented that, fifty years later,...

Literature Review Novel

2090

A Comparative Analysis of Ted Hughes' Wind and Ode to The West Wind

2 pages / 824 words

A comparison of Ted Hughes’ Wind and Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind The notion common to both Hughes’ and Shelley’s poems is that of the wind as a tremendous, uncontrollable force, and the need to reconnect humans with the natural world. There is a...

Ode