Essays on Literary Genres

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A Literary Comparison of a Bear's Life and The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner

3 pages / 1778 words

Authors write using sentence structure and word classes to create environment and character in their stories; this essay will be analyzing and evaluating the differences between environment and character in two short stories. It’s A Bear’s Life and The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner....

Literature Review Short Story

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Symbolism, Satire, and Other Literary Devices in Animal Farm, a Novel by George Orwell

5 pages / 2236 words

Many literary authors use a number of literary devices in their writings. Some of the most common are devices such as similes, symbolism, satire, and alliteration. Many writers try to express their own ideas through their writing in hopes that others will one day read...

Animal Farm Literary Devices Satire

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The Use of Extreme Satire in Wilson's The Future of Life

1 page / 644 words

In Wilson’s The Future of Life, Wilson utilizes extreme satire to characterize how little each opposing group understands each other, and also underscores the the fact that each group’s rhetoric against each other’s point of views is deeply imbedded in misconceptions. By doing so, Wilson...

Satire

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Analysis of "Biographia Literaria" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

3 pages / 1665 words

The composed landmark of Coleridge’s basic work is contained in 24 sections of Biographia Literaria (1815– 17). In this basic disquisition, Coleridge concerns himself with the act of feedback, as well as, with its hypothesis. In his down to earth way to deal with feedback,...

Literary Criticism Literature Review Poetry

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The X-men Movie

1 page / 526 words

Out of the many villains in the X-men movies William Stryker is the only one to have his origin story rebooted from his comic origins. God loves man kills tells the story of a religious conservative figure—a televangelist by the name of reverend William Stryker—who...

Drama Film Analysis Society

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Analysis of Gerard Manley Hopkins' Poems

3 pages / 1287 words

Gerard Manley Hopkins is a rewarding and demanding poet, one of the three or four greatest poets of the Victorian era. His style was so radically different from that of his contemporaries. Without having a detailed knowledge of his life, beliefs and any other background...

Literature Review Poetry

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Analysis of The Poetry of Langston Hughes

4 pages / 1616 words

The poetry of Langston Hughes The poet laureate of Harlem, is an effective commentary on the condition of blacks in America during the 20th Century. Hughes places particular emphasis on Harlem, a black area in New York that became a destination of many hopeful blacks...

Langston Hughes Poetry

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Tessie's Revenge in "The Lottery" a Short Story by Shirley Jackson

1 page / 526 words

The crowd of villagers threw the stones at Tessie with all their might. “NO! Stop it! Please!” Tessie shouted with tears in her eyes. ”What’s happening?” Little Davy asked Mr. Hutchinson. With tears falling down his face, Mr.Hutchinson said “Oh, it’s nothing you have to...

Revenge Short Story The Lottery

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Mediocrity Vs. Mediocracy in Zone One

2 pages / 1084 words

Introduction Colson Whitehead has written an inordinately compelling post-apocalyptic science fiction novel centering around the zombie archetype. In Zone One, he deftly uses the zombie model to create a mediocracy—a populace of dependent thinkers who accept, without question, a system of existence that is not...

Fantastic Novel

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Analysis of Niko Kazantzaki's Novel Zobra The Greek

3 pages / 1251 words

Niko’s Kazantzaki’s “Zorba the Greek” is a bittersweet portrayal of a romantic idealist that delves into the complex and oftentimes mysterious nature of the human psyche. The novel examines the interpersonal relationships between the two principal characters, as well as more profound issues of human...

Novel

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The Transformation of Xan Meo in The Yellow Dog

3 pages / 1242 words

People may be self-centered and immature, however, the crisis of certain occurrences in life assists them in molding their personalities. Everyone in life goes through drastic life changing events such as marriage, starting college or traumatic events like losing a loved one. The course of...

Novel

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One for All in Yonnondio

2 pages / 847 words

In contrast to many other Depression-era novels, in which the teamwork of the common man is seen as society’s glue, Tillie Olsen’s Yonnondio looks with great admiration at one family’s struggle to keep above water. Through the travails of a coal-mining/farming family, Anna Holbrook becomes...

Novel

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Analysis of The Didactic Interludes in Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio

4 pages / 1690 words

The four didactic interludes present in Tillie Olsen’s Yonnondio: From the Thirties are vitally important in relation to the rest of the text. These narrative intrusions, as Constance Coiner prefers to call them, not only change but also deepen our understanding of the story. Through...

Novel

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Komunyakaa’s "Untitled Blues": Confronting Racial Injustice Through Poetry

3 pages / 1457 words

Although the majority of Yusef Komunyakaa’s poem “Untitled Blues” portrays descriptive and vivid scenes of music, dancing, and joy, these images are merely distractions from the deeper message that hides within the lines of the piece. Images of “tap dancers [who] hold / to the...

Poetry

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Back to The Future: Wordsworth’s "Ode to Duty" and "Elegiac Stanzas"

4 pages / 1612 words

A past attitude is reverted to and revised in Wordsworth’s “Ode to Duty” and “Elegiac Stanzas.” Employing geographic metaphors, both celestial and earth-bound, the poems climb over rocky Wordsworthian terrain that details his reconciliation between past and present and implications of the future. Though vastly...

Poetry Romanticism

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Two Interpretations of "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal"

2 pages / 1079 words

William Wordsworth’s poem “A slumber did my spirit seal” compels different interpretations with different readers. In this case, two critics, Cleanth Brooks and F.W. Bateson, analyze the poem and produce two contrasting interpretations. For the most part both critics focus on examining the same facts...

Poetry Romanticism

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Primary and Secondary Nature in Wordsworth’s "The Thorn"

2 pages / 739 words

It is not often that one would consider gossip, rumor, fear, and slander to be a part of nature, and yet it is; at least, of human nature. And as William Wordsworth is a poet of nature, one might ask of which form of nature?...

Poetry Romanticism

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"Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"

3 pages / 1343 words

Wordsworth’s pastoral poem “Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey” eloquently expresses the poet’s feelings of ambivalence regarding maturation, nature, and modern society. The poem is formatted in a distinct approach that serves to highlight the poet’s own conflicting emotions. Wordsworth initiates the composition...

Poetry Romanticism

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Wordsworth: The Young and The Wise

3 pages / 1143 words

“Resolution and Independence” and “Lines Written Above Tintern Abbey” respectively illustrate the difference between a young and nave poet-wanderer to a traveler who has found wisdom through time and nature. Furthermore, the two poems are also able to elucidate dissimilar types of acquired wisdom through...

Poetry Romanticism William Wordsworth