Essays on Literary Genres

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The Heart of Glory: Children, Humanism, and Character in Greene’s Novel

5 pages / 2310 words

In Graham Greene’s dynamic novel The Power and the Glory, we follow the Whiskey Priest throughout his harrowing journey as he runs for his life, avoiding capture and death at the hands of the Lieutenant. This novel shows the development of the priest as he...

Humanism Literature Review Novel

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Hoppie's Heroism in The Power of One

2 pages / 985 words

In The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay, Hoppie Groenewald is a train guard, conductor and star welter-weight boxer. While reading the book, the reader will notice Hoppie does not have as extensive of a role as some other characters but is undoubtably the strongest...

Heroism Novel

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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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Mocking The Sonnet

2 pages / 924 words

When it comes to literature, individual stylistic preferences can differ radically. Some people like long, flowery, detailed pieces of elaborate writing, while others prefer short and simple ones. As a poet himself, Billy Collins is at times quite blunt about his tastes. In “Sonnet “,...

Poetry

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Nissim Ezekiel as a Poet

2 pages / 776 words

Nissim Ezekiel is generally known as a poet who has written in only language, and his example is often cited in contrast to the careers of other Indian poets who are often bilingually accomplished (for instance, Arun Kolatkar, Kamla Markandaya, Dilip Chitre and Kamla Das)....

Poetry

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The Presentation of The Queen’s Emotions in ‘i Grieve, and Dare not Show My Discontent’

3 pages / 1362 words

“I Grieve, and Dare Not Show My Discontent” is a three-stanza poem written by Queen Elizabeth I that allegedly features Francis, the French Duke of Anjou as her beloved. Throughout her reign, Queen Elizabeth I entertained many suitors to get what England needed, including English...

Poetry

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Between Nature and Earth: a Comparison of "The Long Tunnel Ceiling" and "The Burnt-out Spa"

4 pages / 1734 words

“As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world” – Richard Louv Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts online Get...

Poetry

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Comparative Analysis of The Poems "The Horses" and "The Thought Fox"

3 pages / 1151 words

In Hughes’s poetry, “racial memory, animal instinct and poetic imagination all flow into one another with an exact sensuousness” – Seamus Heaney Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts online Get my...

Poetry

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The Menacing Nature of Wind

2 pages / 880 words

Throughout the poem “Wind”, by Ted Hughes, there are two significant symbols. In the poem, the house (and its surroundings) is one of the main subjects and symbolizes a relationship between the writer and another person. The second symbol in the poem is the “menacing...

Poetry

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Ambiguity and The Undermining of The Feminine in "Leda and The Swan"

5 pages / 2331 words

The message of “Leda and the Swan” is often interpreted in drastically different ways due to the ambiguity of the text. Much of this ambiguity can be attributed to intentional contradiction by the author, William Butler Yeats. This contradiction emphasizes the nature of sexism, for...

Poetry William Butler Yeats

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Love and a Lack of Time: The Sonnet from Shakespeare to The Present Day

4 pages / 1995 words

Sonnets are traditionally fourteen line poems written in iambic pentameter. They often adhere to either a Shakespearean, Petrarchan, or Spenserian rhyme scheme, or they can contain a mixture known as a diaspora rhyme scheme. Many times, sonnets are about topics such as mortality, love, time,...

Poetry

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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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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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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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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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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...

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