Essays on Literary Genres

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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

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Becoming a Woman in The Missing Piece

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In Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat expands on the difficult role women must fulfill in a corrupted Haitian society. She portrays some of these requirements through the various transformations in the story, “The Missing Peace”. With this important text, Danticat indicates that maturity and sexuality are...

Fiction

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Being Brother's Keeper in Bad and Good Times

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There are certain foods that evoke emotions inside everyone. Some people, when they inhale the aroma of a warm soup, are taken back to cold winter evenings snuggled by the fire. Others, when taking the first bite of a PB&J, are reminded of childhood sandwiches,...

Novel

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Modernization Transition Has LED to Loosing Culture Identity

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During the late 19th century, the Meiji era in Japan paved the way for the Japanese to drift from their traditional values into modernizing western values. The influence of western powers, had a significant impact of the traditional ideals of Japan. Western influence had transformed...

Novel

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Nothing and No Situation Can Last Forever

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John Keats’ “Ode on Melancholy” is a complex poetic investigation into the equally complex emotions of pain and sadness. Melancholy is defined as a gloomy state of mind, a dejection, depression, or despondency. Keats urges the reader to view melancholy in a much more positive...

Poetry

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The True Nature of Reality in John Keats' to Autumn

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Keats’ “To Autumn” is an ode that concerns itself more with the true nature of reality than many of his earlier works. The Spring Odes—“Ode to Psych”, “Ode to a Nightingale”, and “Ode on a Grecian Urn”—are all representative of consistent searching. The speaker in...

John Keats Poetry

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Comparison of Tennyson's Ulysses and Keats' on First Looking into Chapman's Homer

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When we think about author and reader in tandem, a question or issue often comes immediately to a head: should the reader’s interpretation of a text take precedence over authorial authority? This question seems particularly pertinent with regards to both Tennyson and Keats’ poems which...

Poetry

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Analysis of Literary Form in John Keats's Poems

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Form as Strategy: Keats’s “On the Sonnet” and “Bright Star” 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 “On the Sonnet” is a poem that deplores convention, flouts convention,...

Poetry

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Freedom and Will of Expression

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William Blake and John Keats were both prolific English poets of the Romantic era. Blake, an early Romantic along with Wordsworth and Coleridge, produced a poem called “Night” in 1789, which is part of a series of illustrated poetry called “Songs of Innocence.” This poem...

Poetry

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The Dark Vision of Love in John Keats' La Belle Dame Sans Merci

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Keats is able to portray love in many different lights throughout the poem by linking ideas and meanings, like symbolism. His different uses of structure within the poem, come considered unusual for a ballad, also have connotations towards how love affects the main character. Unlike...

John Keats Poetry

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Adoration for Art in The Poems of John Keats and Christina Rossetti

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Introduction Both John Keats’s ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’ and Christina Rossetti’s ‘In An Artist’s Studio’ both tackle similar themes; adoration for art be it one’s own in Rossetti’s poem, or the art of another in Keats’s, with Keats admiring the translation of Homer...

Poetry

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Literary Analysis of John Keats' Poems

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Keats’s preoccupation with the inescapable procession of time and mutability is evident in all three poems: “Ode to a Nightingale,” the ode “To Autumn,” and the sonnet, “Bright Star, Would I Were as Steadfast as Thou Art.” In his “Ode to a Nightingale,” the bird’s...

John Keats Ode

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Relation and Contrasting Viewpoints of Life

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In John Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale,” a despairing speaker overhears a nightingale in the depths of a far away forest. The speaker yearns to leave behind his physical world and join the bird in its metaphysical world. The nightingale sings of a world where...

Poetry

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Association with The Supernatural Activities and Spiritualists

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Keats’ exploration of the nature of love is enhanced through his utilisation of the imagination and the overtly supernatural settings which he creates. Both Lamia, which relates the mystical story of a beautiful serpent who strikes a deal with Hermes in order to restore herself...

Poetry

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Literary Analysis of John Keats's The Eve of St. Agnes

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“The Eve of St. Agnes” tells the fantastic story of a bewitching night when two lovers consummate their relationship and elope. It takes place on the Eve of St. Agnes, a night when “young virgins have visions of delight,” giving the action of the poem...

John Keats Poetry

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Intricate Structure and Rhythm to Bring Day and The Season

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John Keats is known for his vibrant use of imagery in his poetry. At least twenty paintings have been rendered as a result of his expressive imagery. In Ode to a Nightingale, he uses synesthetic imagery in the beginning by combining senses normally experienced separately...

Poetry

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The Elegance and Beauty of The Autumn Season and Keats’ Love Poem to It

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Autumn is one of the most charming seasons due to a variety of reasons. People all over the world choose it as their favorite time of the year because of its mildness, quiet beauty, golden leaves, and grey sky, as well as exciting holidays, such...

Poetry

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The Concept of "Negative Capability" in John Keats's Poetry

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In an 1817 letter to his brothers, George and Thomas, John Keats describes a manner of thought that he calls “negative capability.” According to Keats, this is “when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”...

John Keats Poetry