Essays on Literary Genres

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Two Types of Art in John Keats' Poem Ode on a Grecian Urn

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While the countless paradoxes in John Keats’s Poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn” could lead one to envision a battle between Classical and Romantic art, Keats tries to reconcile the two types of art through the form and theme of his poem. Made-to-order essay as...

Poetry

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Literary Analysis of John Keats' Letters

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After his death at the tender age of twenty-five, English poet John Keats left behind a legacy of hundreds of letters in addition to his published poems. These letters to family and friends feature a few common recipients, including his brothers Tom and George, his...

John Keats Poetry

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La Belle Dame Sans Merci: Examination and Evaluating The Work Done

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The cursory reading of this poem is that it is merely a story of a knight bewitched by beauty, who becomes abject slave to a fairy woman, and who falls asleep, waking up alone and dying on a hillside in the meadow. However it could...

Poetry

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Having Positive Thoughts in Love

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In “Ode to a Nightingale,” John Keats uses nature and a nightingale as figures for an optimistic view on mortality, and on the speaker’s life specifically. Throughout the poem, the nightingale itself is an figure for the beautiful and cyclical nature of life. The natural...

Poetry

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Fear of Death and Frustration in The Works of John Keats and H.w. Longfellow

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Introduction Throughout the analysis of the two pieces, “When I have Fears,” and “Mezzo Cammin” there emerges a similar theme, and use of language to portray it. The former poem was written by John Keats in 1818, just several years before his death. It expresses...

John Keats Poetry

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Nature and Emotions Portrayed in 'To Autumn'

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Much of the literary work that sprung out of the Romantic period centered around images of nature and the strong emotions that these evoked; the works of John Keats and of Percy Bysshe Shelley are no exception. Both written in 1819 and published in 1820,...

Poetry

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The Theme of Love in John Keats' Poems

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John Keats’ poems “When I Have Fears” and “Bright Star” are remarkably similar, yet drastically different at the same time. The Shakespearean sonnets share rhyme scheme as well as subject matter, yet deal with different facets of the same topic. Each describes love as something...

John Keats Poetry

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Literary Analysis of John Keats' Ode "To Autumn"

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Keats’ ode ‘To Autumn’ deals predominantly with the passage of time, described within the imagery of the season of Autumn. The ode is a celebration of change, involving life, growth and death. Keats makes use of many literary and textual tools, which will be detailed...

Poetry

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Indolence as Productivity Deconstruction: Foucault and Paradox in Keatss Negative Capability

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Michel Foucault, in his seminal essay, What Is An Author?, considers the relationship between author, text, and reader: “…the quibbling and confrontations that a writer generates between himself and his text cancel out the signs of his particular individuality.”(Foucault, 1477) Forms of discourse, and the...

Poetry

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Ironic Tragedy Evident in 'Lamia'

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As a Romantic, Keats maintained a tragic concern with the importance of dramatic irony – or, as noted by Schlegel, the ‘secret irony’ in which the audience is aware of the protagonist’s situation and his own ignorance of it. In ‘Lamia’, this notion is evident...

Tragedy

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Providential History Proved in 'Judith'

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Throughout the Old English poem Judith, the poet goes to great lengths to paint a clear and decided picture of providential history. A providential view of history leaves no doubt that God is involved and that He clearly favors one side over the other. In...

Poetry

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Dream Versus Reality in 'The Island at Noon'

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“The Island At Noon” by Julio Cortazar follows main character Marini, who works as a flight attendant flying over the Aegean sea and wishes to travel to an island he observes out the window. However, when he makes it to the island, while he finds...

Short Story

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Sexuality and Gender Role in 'Judith'

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In a dichotomy that continues to plague media representations of female sexuality to this day, biblical women have a strong history of falling into one of two unflattering characterizations: victim or villain. Particularly where sexuality is involved, these women often even manage to fulfill both...

Poetry

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Queer Nature Achieved in 'Jules and Jim'

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Perhaps the most iconic scene in Francois Truffaut’s Jules and Jim (1962) begins at 11:38. When Jules (Oskar Werner) and Jim (Henri Serre) and going to meet Catherine (Jeanne Moreau) to spend the evening together, and Catherine excites the scene by sporting a costume of...

Novel

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Technological Advancements in Modern Day Shown in 'Jurassic Park'

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An ancient world re-created on a private island. Plants and animals genetically engineered in secret. Man-made dinosaurs – living – towering as tall as buildings. Every once in a while comes a novel so enchanting that even the most skeptical of readers begin to believe...

Novel

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A Family's Woes Shown in 'Juno and The Paycock'

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Some stories depend more heavily on their environment to advance their plots and themes than others. Such is the case with Juno and the Paycock by Sean O’Casey. The play follows the plight of a working class family in Ireland during the civil war that...

Drama Literature Review

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Comparison of Juno and Mrs. Tancred

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Sean O’Casey’s drama Juno and the Paycock details the slow, painful degradation of the Boyle family in war-torn Ireland in the early 1920s. Juno remains strong and calm throughout the course of the play, even though she suffers from a drunkard, good-for-nothing husband, an illegitimately...

Drama Literature Review

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Importance of Education Proved in 'Joseph Andrews'

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Of the many themes in Joseph Andrews, one of the most complicated issues is the value of a formal education. Throughout the novel, Parson Adams is depicted as a man who has been educated in the classics, and a formal education is important to him....

Novel

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The Value of Irony in Joseph Andrews

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In his novel Joseph Andrews, Henry Fielding uses irony to express satire and offer social commentary. Irony “results when there is a disjunction between what an audience would expect and what really happens.” The dominant form of irony in Joseph Andrews is dramatic irony: Fielding...

Novel