Essays on Literary Genres

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Role of Dreams in The Lover by A.b. Yehoshua

7 pages / 3052 words

"[She] starts to sort it out, to turn over the day, scraps, feelings, words and laughter, all are like a thin layer of rubbish that [she] gathers up and throws into the basket" (9). In A.B. Yehoshua's novel The Lover, Asya utilizes dreams to release...

Literature Review Novel

2909

The Unreachable Prufrock

4 pages / 1808 words

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is at once a comic poem as well as a trenchant satire on the low aspects of urban life. Its speaker, a man going bald and self-conscious about his every gesture, represents a sexual as well as spiritual...

Poetry The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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Analysis of Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

4 pages / 1641 words

In T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Prufrock is a man who is emotionally in conflict with himself. Although Prufrock is growing old, he feels the need to attract women but scares of being rejected or having an unstable relationship as in...

Poetry T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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Evolution of Attitude in Eliot’s "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

3 pages / 1224 words

Evolution of Attitude in Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” 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 T. S. Eliot’s notoriously opaque “The Love Song of...

Poetry Song The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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The (modernist) Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

3 pages / 1406 words

T. S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock demonstrates several Modernist ideas. In particular, by frequently employing imagery, repetition, alliteration, assonance, rhetorical questions and references, creatively shaping lines and sentences and weaving in ambiguity and uncertainty in his words, Eliot includes Modernist characteristics...

Book Review Poetry The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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A Close Reading of T.s. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

5 pages / 2461 words

T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is a modern journey into and dissection of the mind of a society man, J. Alfred Prufrock. Prufrock is pushed in two opposite directions by his desires: his desire to have the favor of the woman...

Poetry T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

2914

Sum of Parts in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

3 pages / 1271 words

These twelve lines capture the essence of all that is phenomenal about the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and the author T.S.Eliot. In these lines we see the carefully chosen allusions, repetition, lyricism, and maintenance of ambiguity that distinguishes Eliot from other...

Literature Review Poetry The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

2915

The Depiction of Nationhood Within The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

4 pages / 1815 words

Alexander Crummel once said that “a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things” (n.d.). This is a concept which is explored within Heinrich Boll’s 1975 novel The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum as Boll demonstrates the way power has been...

Novel

2916

The Theme of Alcoholism in "The Lonely Passion" of Judith Hearne

3 pages / 1586 words

In the novel The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, Brian Moore closely examines the theme of alcoholism and its effect on the protagonist Judith Hearne. Moore highlights Hearne’s loneliness in the novel, which appears to be the source of her alcoholism. Although Moore seems to...

Alcoholism Literature Review Novel

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Admittance into Afterlife in Walter De La Mare's Poem The Listeners

3 pages / 1461 words

As humans, we are configured to strive to get the most out of our lives, no matter how that may be. However, that often means we succeed at the sacrifice of others. Humans are not perfect, however the mistakes that many people make at some...

Poetry

2918

The Theme of Self-identity in C.s. Lewis' Works

4 pages / 1802 words

Both C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Ursula Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea tackle the idea of the child-protagonists having to go on a type of journey to defeat their respective foes and partaking in a search for their self-identity...

Character Fantasy Sula

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Comparative Analysis of Helen De Witt's The Last Samurai and David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas

7 pages / 3169 words

It seems almost clichéd to note the distracted, disparate plurality of a certain contemporary consciousness that has developed alongside personal computers and the blogosphere, with its roots in television and cable. But it is just such an overexposed, impatient populace that is not only increasingly...

Novel

2920

A Wonderful Day in The Haberhood: Exploring The Power of The Individual

4 pages / 1843 words

In The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Le Guin utilizes the unique power struggle between George Orr and Dr. Haber to assert that a single person is not capable of addressing all negative aspects of a society. Many individuals may argue that those who have...

Science Fiction

2921

The Hurdles in The Journey of Love: Genly Ai’s Character Development

2 pages / 1096 words

“Neither man nor woman, neither and both, cyclic, lunar, metamorphosing under the hand’s touch, changelings in the human cradle, they were no flesh of mine, no friends; no love between us” (229). Genly Ai doesn’t think that he will ever be friends with the alien...

Science Fiction

2922

Review of Ursula Le Guin’s "The Left Hand of Darkness"

3 pages / 1138 words

Book analysis In Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, protagonists Estraven and Genly Ai embark on a bleak journey across the Gobrin Glacier only to discover that they will fail without the balance of light and shadows. In response to Estraven falling into...

Science Fiction Sula

2923

The Undermining of Feminine Roles in Le Guin’s Genderless Novel

5 pages / 2225 words

Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, published in 1969, describes a utopian world in which there is an absence of gender. The novel takes place in Karhide, where winter is the nation’s only season and its inhabitants are Gethenian’s — androgynous beings....

Science Fiction

2924

The Portrayal of War in ‘attack’ and ‘anthem for Doomed Youth’

3 pages / 1456 words

Both the poems ‘Attack’ and ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ (AFDY) portray Word War 1 from a negative perspective. Although they are written in slightly different ways, the two create a clear image about the indignity of death in battle. In ‘Attack’, Sassoon focuses more on...

Poetry

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Bisclavret: Marie De France’s Manipulation and Why We Hate The Wife

2 pages / 1129 words

Bisclavret is the only lai of Marie de France’s that deals with a couple falling out of love (Creamer 259). The lycanthropic theme is used by the poet as a test of love and respect for one’s husband, as the baron’s wife doesn’t approve of...

Poetry Renaissance The Lais of Marie de France

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Comparing Tombs and Lays in "Marie De France Laustic" and "Yonec"

3 pages / 1543 words

In both Yonec and Laustic, Marie de France describes tombs that house the unfulfilled love of her characters. The tombs function to preserve the physical bodies of a love that could not be fulfilled during the characters’ lives. In both lais, the tombs are overwhelmingly...

Poetry Renaissance The Lais of Marie de France