Essays on Literary Genres

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The Role of Father and Son Relationship in Shaping One’s Masculinity

2 pages / 936 words

Throughout Giovanni’s Room, Baldwin makes a series of references to David’s sense of fabricated manhood or masculinity impressed upon him by his father. In the first chapters, David alludes to the hollow jocularity between father and son. This hyperbolized masculinity from his father leads to...

Giovanni’s Room Novel

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Question of National Belonging in Giovanni’s Room

4 pages / 1703 words

James Baldwin’s work is often defined by an intersection of nationality and sexuality. In Giovanni’s Room, the motif of culture and country of origin is prominent, but difficult to interpret. A particularly dense passage occurs part two of this story, on page 292 beginning with...

Giovanni’s Room Novel

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Mighty Religion in Go Tell It on The Mountain

3 pages / 1472 words

In Go Tell It On the Mountain, James Baldwin discusses the power that can be found in secularity and in religion. The novel starts with John Grimes waking up to his fourteenth birthday in Harlem, 1935. The entire novel spans a few days, but as...

Novel

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Mrs. Alving’s Monologue on Ghosts in Henrik Ibsen’s Play "Ghosts"

2 pages / 940 words

Mrs. Alving: “But I’m inclined to think we’re all ghosts, Pastor Manders; it’s not only the things that we’ve inherited from our fathers and mothers that live on in us, but all sorts of old dead ideas and old dead beliefs, and things of that...

Ghost Literature Review

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The Poetry of G. M. Hopkins: The Symbolism of Nature

2 pages / 975 words

During the Victorian Era, most poets did not focus on nature and the divine world, but instead on cultural and societal issues occurring in England during that time. But Gerard Manley Hopkins chose to not pursue the path of his fellow poets, and took more...

Poetry

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Testing One’s Faith in The Poetry of Hopkins

4 pages / 2001 words

The central role of religion in Hopkins’ life gives it a similar significance in his poetry. The later poems by Hopkins, collectively generalised as the ‘Terrible Sonnets’, emphasise how religious doubt and faith, affected largely by personal circumstance, formed the foundation of Hopkins’ late work....

Poetry

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"Binsey Poplars": Elegy and Echo

3 pages / 1559 words

Elegy is a poetic form to which Hopkins continually returns. In one of his most famous poems about death, “Spring and Fall,” Hopkins’s speaker uses the occasion of “Goldengrove unleaving” to teach a child about her own mortality (2). In an earlier poem, “Binsey Poplars,”...

Poetry

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Gilead: Analysis of Narrative and Key Topics

4 pages / 1802 words

The narrative of Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead is expressed in the form of a long, heartfelt from a dying father to his young son. Intended to be read after his imminent passing, John Ames III writes to capture his moral sentiments and life advice through a...

Novel

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Childbirth in The Poetry of Gillian Clarke and Tishani Doshi

2 pages / 1098 words

Doshi’s ‘The Deliverer’ is set in Kerala in a centre designed to help the children that have been rejected by society due to their gender, deformities and skin. The immorality of the scene depicted by the description of ‘naked in the streets’ and ‘stuffed’ into...

Poetry

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Analysis of Racial Politics in Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

3 pages / 1409 words

Marilynne Robinson’s epistolary novel Gilead takes place during the Civil Rights Movement when racial issues are at their apex. After realizing that he is dying of a heart condition, the main character John Ames writes an account of his life for his seven-year-old son, but...

Novel

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Existential Ideas in in Giovanni’s Room

4 pages / 1883 words

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are — that is the fact. – Jean-Paul Sartre Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts online...

Giovanni’s Room Novel

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Shattering Self-identification in Giovanni’s Room

2 pages / 773 words

In James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room, the protagonist David grapples with his homosexuality, a part of him that he continually denies, and subsequently fails to repress. As David deals with his identity, he looks for and finds himself, his literal image, in mirrors, windows, and other...

Giovanni’s Room Novel

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Widely-accepted Poetic Rules: Tradition in Gardening in The Tropics

2 pages / 1013 words

In the poetry collection Gardening in the Tropics, Olive Senior instructs readers in the traditions of the Caribbean, like the traditional uses of Annatto and Guinep in her poem ‘Annatto and Guinep’ and the traditions of immigrants in her poem ‘Stowaway’, while abandoning the conventional...

Gardening Poetry

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Literary Analysis of George Crabbe's Poem "The Village"

4 pages / 1962 words

George Crabbe’s The Village has long been perceived as a response to the flowery pastoral poetry of the late Eighteenth century, a genre marked by its praise of the countryside and the simple lives of shepherds and peasants. Indeed, Crabbe presents his dreary country village...

Poetry

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Emotions and Inner Duties in "Denial"

2 pages / 741 words

In ‘Denial’, George Herbert presents a narrator appealing to God to help him reconfigure a disordered mindset, and yet the form of monologue is used to imply that there is little hope that the narrator’s pleas will be answered, hinting at his fate to remain...

Poetry

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Religious Spirit in Larkin’s and Herbert’s Respective Novels

3 pages / 1420 words

Philip Larkin’s ‘Church Going’ and George Herbert’s ‘Prayer’ present similarities in that they both explore the ambiguities of religion. The difference lies in their approach: Herbert contemplates the significance of religion, whereas Larkin, almost three centuries later, contemplates its very existence. The content and thematic...

Poetry

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Time to Get Ready

3 pages / 1336 words

A Time for Preparation 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 Cemeteries (and other places of burial) are terrestrial sanctuaries for the fragile remains of one’s mortal existence....

Poetry

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The Existence of Free Will: a Closer Look at "Genome"

3 pages / 1417 words

Introduction “Freedom equals the parts of our natures not determined by our genes.” (Ridley, 302) 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 Free will is not an illusion....

Free Will Science Fiction

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Opposing Perspectives of African-americans and Slavery in "Free Joe and The Rest of The World

2 pages / 863 words

Joel Chandler Harris’s short story “Free Joe and the Rest of the World” has long been classified as a prominent example of Plantation Tradition literature. Literature in this tradition often portrays African-Americans as clueless, “shiftless” beings who need white supervision to be happy and productive....

Short Story