Essays on Literary Genres

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Growing Up and Growing Away: Linda Pastan’s "To a Daughter Leaving Home"

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Linda Pastan’s 1988 poem, “To a Daughter Leaving Home”, concerns the idea of children growing up and leaving, whether it be for college or simply riding a bike for the first time. The speaker of the poem starts out with a nostalgic feel, addressing the...

Poetry

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In Life Someone Needs Everyone to Survive

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Sometimes a stranger offers to help, sometimes a person is forced to ask a stranger, but when the car won’t start, odds are two strangers are going to meet. Linda Pastan’s 1984 poem, “Jump Cabling,” reveals how the simple act of jump-starting a car may...

Poetry

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The River and The Source

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Linda Pastan’s To a Daughter Leaving home and Margaret Atwood’s Death of a Young Son by Drowning both apply imagery and symbolism to exemplify the difficulties of being a parent. These poems describe the moments and instances that no parent wants to consider. They confirm...

Poetry

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Good Relationship with One Another

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Race played a huge role in determining a relationship with the police in London after the mass migration of non-caucasian individuals. The poem ‘Sonny’s Lettah’ by Linton Kwesi Johnson provides a clear representation of how the black race was treated on the streets, and their...

Poetry

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Media and Reality in Libra by Don Dedillo

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On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while touring downtown Dallas. The death of the president and the subsequent arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald marked the beginning of a national frenzy for information. The public wanted to know more: more about Kennedy’s...

Novel

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Need for Intervention from a Greater Power

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The Oresteia opens with a plea from a watchman: “I ask the gods for release from this misery” (3). This petition reveals the plight of many Aeschylus’ characters. The curse on the house of Atreus is one of corruption, and it is a curse that...

Literature Review Murder Tragedy

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Lack of Justice Leading to an Outdated Way of Revenge

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In the Oresteia, Aeschylus presents his three books (“Agamemnon”, “The Libation Bearers”, and “The Furies”) so that the narrative progresses from madness and lack of justice in “Agamemnon”, where Clytemnestra receives no penalty for her homicide, to Athena’s establishment of a justice system so that...

Justice Revenge Tragedy

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Importance of Sense of Justice and Molarity

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 “Les Miserables” by Victor Hugo is one of the most unique and powerful stories of redemption of all time. This story is unique in many different ways; from its diverse cast of characters to its meticulous blend of storylines. One of the truly unique aspects...

Novel

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Walt Whitman as a Poet of Democracy: Analysis of a "Song of Myself"

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Through his work in poetry, literature, and other media, Walt Whitman is often considered one of the most significant American writers and theorists. He arguably popularized all-American literature with his work, injecting American writing into an era where only genteel and European-traditionist literature was taught...

Poetry Walt Whitman

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Analysis of Walt Whitman's "Spontaneous Me" as a Natural Poem

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Walt Whitman’s “Spontaneous Me” (Norton 2151-2152) crystallizes his attempt to create poems that appear natural, impulsive and untamed. The natural effect is a carefully crafted technique that appears throughout his writing, hinting at a philosophy of life while seeming to simply offer observation. As in...

Poetry Walt Whitman

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Love as a Fundamental Principle for Humanity

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Love is one of the fundamental principles of humanity. It is what ties humans together as a people, and is vital to society. As such, it has influenced the world in countless ways, just one of which being through literature. Les Miserables tells the tale...

Novel

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Comparison Between Life of Struggles and Comfortability

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Les Miserables is a story of redemption, forgiveness, charity, salvation and moral obligation. The main character, Jean Valjean, enters the novel as a thief, having spent nineteen years in prison. He is given this second chance by M. Myriel, a prominent bishop, who offers Jean...

Novel

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The Ideals of Romanticism in Hygo's Les Miserables

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The Romantic era began with the desire to create something new and pleasureful, and to leave classicism in the past. Parker explains that “Romanticism is the art of presenting to people the literary works which …are capable of giving them the greatest possible pleasure; classicism,...

Novel

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Comparison of The Poems "Ant Farm" and "Running Out of Choices"

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“Ant Farm” and “Running Out of Choices” express two distinct ideas. The first is how experience, knowledge, and instinct can influence our actions or view of things. The second is that a life with restriction may be more satisfying than the burden of choice. When...

Poetry

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Feminist Critisism of La Belle Dame Sans Merci

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“La Belle Dame Sans Merci”, or in translation, “the beautiful lady without pity” is a phrase appropriated by John Keats as the title of his 1820 poem depicting the story of a seductive and deceitful woman who tempts men away from the world of masculinity...

Feminist Literary Criticism Poetry

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A Real Woman Waits for The Perfect Man for Her

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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu wrote “The Lover: A Ballad” in an effort to dismiss the sexist attitudes of several male poets from the period. John Donne (“The Flea”), Andrew Marvell (“To his Coy Mistress”), and Robert Herrick (“To Virgins, Make Much of Time”) attempt, through...

Poetry

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Gender Roles Nd Sexuality in Lady Audley's Secret

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Romance and sexuality are not unfamiliar concepts to the typical Victorian sensational novel. Reversing and deconstructing these themes, however, marks a more sophisticated sensation novel and makes for a more enduring literary work. This technique is intriguing to a postmodern audience, but to a Victorian...

Novel

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The Theme of Deception on Lady Audley's Secret

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s sensation novel Lady Audley’s Secret presents the astonishing and cynical notion that the “sort of surprise at the fictional company one is keeping, or at the view of the world… is central to a whole genre of fiction” (Introduction). In the story...

Novel

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Analysis of Lady Audley's Character in Braddon's Novel

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In Lady Audley’s Secret, Braddon portrays the character of Lady Audley as a truly complex one. She is shown to be intelligent and manipulative when she supposedly kills her husband George while also manipulating her new one, Michael, for his wealth. However, despite such cruelty,...

Character Novel