Essays on Literary Genres

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A Comparative Analysis of "The Piano" by D.h. Lawrence and "The Gift" by Li Young Lee

2 pages / 835 words

One of the most potent works by the writer D.H Lawrence is The Piano, a poem that explores the role of memory in life. A similar idea is explored in The Gift by Li Young Lee. These two poems show that memory plays a complex...

Piano Poetry

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The Role of Father in "The Gift" and "My Papa’s Waltz"

3 pages / 1259 words

Both the speakers in “The Gift” by Li-Young Lee and “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke look up to their fathers with wide-eyed admiration. Comparing these two poems, we can say that what stands out the most is the similar theme – each boy has...

My Papa’s Waltz Poetry

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"Mother Deluxe" from Li Young Lee’s Behind My Eyes: Using a Card Game Metaphor to Come to Terms with Life Experience

4 pages / 1860 words

Famous Romantic era poet Percy Shelley once noted that “a poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds”. In his 2008 poetry anthology Behind My Eyes, IndoChinese-American author Li Young Lee sings thirty nine different...

Poetry

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The Work and Life of Lucille Clifton: a Biographical Approach

2 pages / 1127 words

“You can walk in another’s shoes, the saying goes, but you cannot walk in his skin.” -Tracey Mishkin Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts online Get my essay Lucille Clifton is...

Poetry

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Analysis of "A Nation’s Strength" by Ralph Waldo Emerson in The Context of National Consciousness

6 pages / 2939 words

Poetry is arguably the most democratized art form. It is written by the common man, for the common man. As a result, it becomes an effective medium to express sentiments of nationalism which lie in the deep consciousness of the ordinary man, but are not...

Poetry Ralph Waldo Emerson

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An Analysis of "Eve’s Apologie": Religion and Its Significance

2 pages / 793 words

Aemelia Lanyer was the “first” established Englishwoman to have asserted her identity as a poet through her single collection of poems. Eve’s Apologie by Lanyer is essentially a subversive text that questions dominant assumptions about the role of women in society. It delineates the idea...

Poetry

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Skin in The Pillow Book

4 pages / 1744 words

In the opening sequence of The Pillow Book, a small Japanese girl sits before her father on her birthday while he paints on her face and the back of her neck with calligrapher’s ink. As he writes on her he chants in Japanese: “When God...

Drama Film Analysis

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The Context of Aeschylus’ Original Production, and The Effect on The Structure and Message of ‘the Persians’

4 pages / 1893 words

Aeschylus was writing his tragedy ‘The Persians’ in a period of peace following a particularly violent series of wars between Greek and Persian forces (499-449) which eventually ended in Greek victory, as the Persian fleet was defeated in the straits of Salamis, and this can...

Tragedy

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Theme of The "Little Man" in Gogol’s The Overcoat and Diary of a Madman

2 pages / 961 words

Though rather simple in plot and structure, Gogol’s short stories carry deep moral messages, which are urgent beyond time and place. One of these is a theme of a little man, who is a poor person, is not respected by those with higher ranks, and...

Short Story

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Wart’s Most Valuable Lesson

2 pages / 881 words

Absolute monarchies have carried a negative connotation throughout history and have been the source of many rebellions and wars. However, if an absolute monarch learns to be just and execute his power rationally, then his or her reign can be pleasant and the nation can...

Fantasy King Arthur

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A Shot in The Dark: The Allegory of Respect in "Bullet in The Brain"

3 pages / 1376 words

Tobias Wolff’s “Bullet in the Brain,” tells the story of a disrespectful literary critic who gets shot in the head by a recounts one last memory before his gruesome death. Wolff’s story probes readers to not only challenge but contemplate their thoughts regarding life’s ability...

Short Story

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Madness in The New York Trilogy

3 pages / 1169 words

Author Philip K. Dick once said, “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.” The theme of the source of madness is explored in all three stories that form Paul Auster’s novel The New York Trilogy. The three relatively short detective stories...

Novel Postmodernism

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How Social Deviance Shaped The West in Bret Harte’s Fiction

2 pages / 919 words

Bret Harte’s fiction contributed largely to the development of the Western as a literary genre. One of the earliest authors to fictionalize the American West, he spun humorous yarns depicting the offbeat gamblers, prostitutes, miners, and outright outlaws of 1850s California. These social deviants take...

American Literature Short Story The West

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Desire Vs. Expectation in George Gissing’s The Odd Women

3 pages / 1315 words

The Odd Women, by George Gissing, is a story that centers upon the decisions that people make in life and the outside factors that influence these decisions. Gissing examines the situations of five different women and utilizes their lives to make observations about both the...

Novel Victorian Era

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Vision Through Voice: The Poetry of Basho in The English Language

2 pages / 1066 words

In Narrow Road to the Deep North, Japanese poet Basho expresses himself masterfully through the traditional forms of haibun, covering themes of nature, folklore, faith, and journeys both physical and spiritual. All these stories and sentiments are contained within a haibun—a short piece of prose...

Poetry Voice

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Language and Humor in V.s. Naipaul’s The Mystic Masseur

5 pages / 2160 words

V.S. Naipaul’s first published novel, The Mystic Masseur, can correctly be described as satirical given the extensive manner in which it employs language in the form of irony, hyperbole, caricature and other techniques to tell the picaresque story of Ganesh Ramsumair, which the frame narrator...

Novel

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Relationships, Marriage, and Complexity in The Namesake

4 pages / 1690 words

Within The Namesake, Lahiri presents the relationship between men and women as heavily shaped by their environment, heritage and socio-economic background. The relationship between the Ratliffs, Maxine’s parents, Gerald and Lydia, is directly juxtaposed against the relationship of Ashoke and Ashima as being more loving...

Marriage Novel

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Setting and Adaptation in The Namesake

2 pages / 962 words

In the novel The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, the main character, Gogol, is forced to adjust to many different environments as he ages; including Calcutta, the different apartments he occupied throughout college, and his ex-girlfriend Maxine’s house. Gogol’s parents, Ashima and Ashoke, were born in...

Novel

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Overcoat Symbolism in The Namesake

3 pages / 1226 words

Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake is a story that is parallel to Nikolai Gogol’s short story The Overcoat. Gogol’s work is commended and mentioned countless times by Lahiri in her writing. The Overcoat is about a man named Akaky Akakievich, who, at first, is content with...

Novel Symbolism