Essays on Literary Genres

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The Soul in The Jewish Marriage, as Embodied by Daniel Deronda

5 pages / 2287 words

The first few books of Daniel Deronda focused on Gwendolen Harleth, who shines as a self-centered, domineering young woman. In becoming trapped by marriage to Grandcourt, she develops growing fascination with Daniel, an attraction that began with their encounter in the opening pages of the...

Novel Victorian Era

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The Voices of The Voiceless: Comparing The Poetry of Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen

4 pages / 1751 words

As two key figureheads in what is now deemed the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen served as voices for a previously voiceless population. Their poetry speaks of the enduring struggles of being an African American, and the effort required to merely survive in...

Poetry Voice

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Eating Crow: Analyzing Biblical Imagery in The Life and Songs of Ted Hughes’s Crow Poems

5 pages / 2364 words

Ted Hughes’s book, Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow, is a collection of 67 disturbingly dark poems that explore the evil aspects of life, and human tendency towards violence. The book, dedicated to Hughes’s dead second wife Assia Wevill and his daughter...

Poetry Song

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Survival of The Broken: Analyzing "My Faithful Mother’s Tongue" and "Leningrad"

2 pages / 1036 words

“The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.” – Paolo Bacigalupi Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts...

Poetry

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Theme of Obsession in Balzac's "Cousin Bette"

3 pages / 1259 words

Honore De Balzac’s Cousin Bette is a novel about obsession, but what makes the premise so fantastic is the manner in which each obsession is related to the others. The characters are obsessed with art, but the bourgeois universe of post-Napoleonic Paris is unoriginal. The...

Novel

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Kit as The True Heroine in Cue for Treason

3 pages / 1166 words

In Cue for Treason by Geoffrey Trease, a story of injustice, betrayal, and love is delivered from the perspective of Peter Brownrigg. Peter is a fourteen year-old Cumberland farm boy in the Elizabethan times, who ran away from home chased by the county nobility and...

Novel

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A Formalist Critical Approach to "Heritage" by Countee Cullen

4 pages / 1963 words

The speaker in “Heritage” expresses profound emotions regarding an African-American perspective of the motherland. Countee Cullen writes in an irregular meter throughout the piece, consistently using seven syllables in each line. The speaker is effectually declaring the pains of the slave trade to be innocuous...

Poetry

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Manipulation and Appreciation in Coraline

2 pages / 768 words

Neil Gaiman’s Coraline introduces the story’s antagonist far before that very antagonist’s evil intentions are revealed. In the novel, a young girl Coraline has just moved into an old home. She feels ignored by her parents who are too busy working to pay attention to...

Novel

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The Blues of Corregidora

2 pages / 826 words

“Yes, if you understood me, Mama, you’d see I was trying to explain it, in blues, without words, the explanation somewhere behind the words. To explain what will always be there” (Gayl Jones, Corregidora, p 66). Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each...

Novel

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The Importance of The Prologue: Poetry and Politics in "Confessio Amantis"

2 pages / 1110 words

Having subdivided the text into three distinct parts, namely, the State, the Church and the Commons, Gower’s Prologue addresses all three estates from its stylistic “medial” point. Although initially dedicated to the king, this poem addresses all people – the “lewed” as well as the...

Poetry

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Portrayal of a Natural and Exuberant Sense of Life in The Lyrical Ballads

4 pages / 1989 words

‘Lines’ opens with a celebration of natural life and its exuberance, ‘the red-breast sings from his tall larch’. Here the singing robin is portrayed through metonymy giving a sense that it is something accessible and familiar to the common people. The singing ‘red breast’ and...

Poetry

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"This Lime-tree Bower My Prison" and The Essence of Romanticism

2 pages / 975 words

The zeitgeist of Romanticism, while notoriously broad in its philosophy, had definite universal views upon the concepts of the individual, nature and imagination; which constitutes the basis of what today are known as the main aspects of the movement. Such aspects, addressed in Samuel Coleridge’s...

Poetry

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Bishop and Moore: an Exploration of Magic Realism

6 pages / 2954 words

In The Golden Bough, Sir James George Frazer argues that contemporary science, while evolving from magical and religious attempts to understand and control the natural world, eclipses these frameworks[1]. To Frazer “magic” in the 20th century “is a spurious system of natural law as well...

Poetry

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The Elimination of Gender Roles and Expectations

9 pages / 3899 words

The poems “Marriage” by Marianne Moore and “Home Burial” by Robert Frost demonstrate a clear separation between men and women. Equality between genders is a controversial issue today, but truly began to arise during the late 1800’s and early 1900’s when Modern American poetry was...

Poetry

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Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in The Novel Comfort Woman

3 pages / 1423 words

Comfort Woman, written by Nora Ojka Keller, tells the fictional story of two women, a mother and a daughter, bound by their genetics and torn apart by their varying cultures and experiences. Keller explores not only the past experiences of Akiko the mother, a Korean...

Novel Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

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Coleridge’s "Hymn": New Perspectives on Book Six of The Prelude

5 pages / 2343 words

During the first weeks of August 1902, Samuel Taylor Coleridge toured the hills of England near Scafell on foot. Ironically, the lines that “involuntarily poured forth” into a “Hymn” did not end up describing Coleridge’s ascent of Scafell, but rather a hypothetical scene in the...

Poetry

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Analysis of Samuel Coleridge's Conversation Poetry

4 pages / 1892 words

Coleridge’s Poetry in “Conversation” 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 Nothing about Samuel Coleridge’s “conversation” poems is conventionally conversational. These poems do not create a dialogue between...

Poetry

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Samuel Coleridge’s Lime-tree Bower Through The Lens of Wordsworth’s "Nuns Fret not at Their Convent’s Narrow Room"

2 pages / 1131 words

In Samuel Coleridge’s “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison,” the speaker views the lime-tree bower he sits under as a prison, despite its beautiful description. He wishes to venture out with his friends and see the beautiful nature they will see, and as a result of...

Poetry

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Coleridge’s Philosophy of Imagination

2 pages / 943 words

Coleridge’s Philosophy of Imagination 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 February 1, 2005 In Kubla Khan, Samuel Coleridge depicts the great Mongol ruler Kubla Khan creating a...

Poetry