Essays on Literary Genres

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Prophetic Voice in William Blake's Poetry

2 pages / 915 words

In “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” (1793), Blake writes with a strong prophetic voice, bringing forth a new set of proverbs, a new poetics, twisting and flipping traditional wisdom. Blake challenges the status quo, questioning stagnant, conventional thought. As if standing before a gathering...

Poetry William Blake

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The Handmaid's Tale: Deconstruction of The Feminist Dystopia

7 pages / 3040 words

‘If I wanted to say just one thing to one person, I would write a letter.’ – Margaret Atwood 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 Given the...

Dystopia The Handmaid’s Tale

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"The Alchemist" by Ben Jonson as a Farce of a Moral Tale

4 pages / 1594 words

It does not seem a viable course of action to try to apply our modern developed ethics to a 16th Century mindset such as that which yielded Jonson’s The Alchemist. For example, as a civilisation would all at the very least, feel uncomfortable taking Kastril’s...

Comedy The Alchemist

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The Construction of Identity in Fight Club

7 pages / 2990 words

Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club is an unprecedented novel which is particularly concerned with the problem of forging secure identities in the face of modern challenges: consumerism, capitalism, emasculating white-collar work, an absence of fathers, and an absence of historical distinctiveness. The text’s protagonist is a...

Fight Club Novel

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Analysis of The Themes Portrayed in 2001: a Space Odyssey

2 pages / 891 words

2001: A Space Odyssey, by acclaimed science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, is a tale of human evolution as guided by a higher intelligence, making it a landmark in literary achievement. Rather than focusing on an isolated moment in history, 2001 spans the entire course...

Science Fiction

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The Erl King: Comparing Carter's and Goethe's Versions of The Story

2 pages / 849 words

When reading through Goethe’s version of “The Erl-King,” then Carter’s, it is striking how different many of the core elements are between the two stories. Major changes Carter has made include the introduction of a female character and the narrative voice which becomes first person...

Poetry

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Discovering Suicidal Themes in Dickinson's Poetry

2 pages / 1048 words

“A Death blow is a Life blow to some” says Emily Dickinson in poem 816 (Dickinson 816). Emily Dickinson did not commit suicide– she died of her numerous medical conditions at the age of 55 in 1886. Her personal life was famously enigmatic, as she...

Emily Dickinson Poetry

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Dickinson's Poetry in The Context of The Romantic Era

2 pages / 962 words

“Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon” (Dickinson, n.d.). At first glance, this utterance by Emily Dickinson conveys a negative attitude towards the unique and the new. However, upon second interpretation, this quote manages to perfectly encapsulate the...

Emily Dickinson Poetry

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Emily Dickinson's Views on Personal Identity in Her Poens

2 pages / 1030 words

Emily Dickinson once said: “We meet no stranger but ourself.” This quote relates strongly to the theme of identity within her poems. It can be taken to mean that it is easy for us to get to know others. To understand oneself, however, is a...

Emily Dickinson Poetry

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Deconstructing The Concept of Truth in Dickinson's Tell All The Truth But Tell It Slant

3 pages / 1256 words

Emily Dickinson’s poem “Tell all the Truth but tell it slant” speaks of the universal idea of truth and the notion that truth should be revealed gradually. The language is vague, however, and deconstructs itself in many ways. Lack of punctuation, blurred line structures, and...

Emily Dickinson Poetry

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Themes of Marriage and Gender Roles in Eliot's and Trollope's Works

3 pages / 1499 words

Emily Dickinson’s ‘A Bird came Down the Walk’ and Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ‘To a Skylark’ both utilise the bird as a symbol of nature, with Dickinson’s poem being a violent and abrupt view of the natural world, and Shelley’s poem being more lethargic and the...

Emily Dickinson Metaphor Poetry

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The Idea of Eternity Depicted in Emily Dickinson's Poetry

7 pages / 3399 words

Over the past few decades, a considerable number of comments have been made on the idea of eternity in Emily Dickinson’s poetry. The following are several examples: Robert Weisbuch’s Emily Dickinson’s Poetry (1975), Jane Donahue Eberwein’s Dickinson: Strategies of Limitation (1985), Dorothy Huff Oberhaus’ Emily...

Emily Dickinson Poetry

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Adjusting to Darkness in Dickinson's Poem

3 pages / 1330 words

In Emily Dickinson’s 419th untitled poem, more commonly known by its first line, “We grow accustomed to the Dark-“, the speaker describes two distinct situations in which people must gradually adjust to “darkness”. The first portion is fairly lucid, using concrete images to portray a...

Emily Dickinson Poetry

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Literary Analysis of Wilfred Owen's Poem on My Songs

2 pages / 910 words

In “On My Songs”, Wilfred Owen gives us an intellectual insight into the emotion of loneliness through the eyes of a young man, newly thrown into the world out of the arms of his loving mother. Owen also tells us of his idolisation of the...

Poetry Wilfred Owen

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The Theme of Rejection in The Poetry of Wilfred Owen and W.h. Auden

4 pages / 1727 words

As poets responding to the turmoil of war, authors Wilfred Owen and W.H. Auden both explore the causes and consequences of rejection. The two men in particular emphasise the psychological impact that war has on human beings who are unjustly cast aside from society for...

Poetry W. H. Auden Wilfred Owen

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Poetry Potential and Risks It Takes: "We Real Cool," "Next to of Course God America," and "Gypsies"

4 pages / 2014 words

In the present day, poetry is often viewed as an inaccessible literary form – one that is made by and for those with a certain education and class background. T. S. Eliot commented that ‘it appears […] that poets in our civilisation […] must be...

Poetry We Real Cool

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A Poetic Vision of Sexual Freedom in The Poetry of Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg

11 pages / 5134 words

Generations of readers and critics alike have denigrated the works of Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg, both equally brilliant poets, separated by a century, yet sharing a poetic vision of both political and sexual freedom, simply because the language and lifestyle represented in their work...

Allen Ginsberg Poetry Walt Whitman

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Allen Ginsberg’s America: Close Reading and Literary Interpretation

4 pages / 2024 words

Through a careful interpretation of A Defense of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Democratic Vistas by Walt Whitman, one can gain a holistic sense of poetry, what it is and what it does, that can be applied to literary texts of all times. One...

Literary Criticism Novel

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Civil War and Its Influence on Whitman's Works

7 pages / 3096 words

Introduction In the course of history, there are certain incisive incidents that mark a period, ring in a new era or alter people’s individual lives most drastically. One such incident is the American Civil War (1861-1865), fought over issues such as slavery, cultural differences and...

Poetry Walt Whitman