Essays on Literary Genres

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The Sublime in The Poetry of Keats and Coleridge

2 pages / 1028 words

The philosophical concept of The Sublime, though typically hard to define due to its complex nature, is most often described as an object or a surrounding which evokes a feeling of profound awe when viewed. The key difference between the concept of The Sublime and...

Poetry

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The Dawn is Coming: "Frost at Midnight’s" Hope for The Next Generation

2 pages / 923 words

It’s a common hope in the life of parents that their children will go on and live more successful lives. That their child will learn the lessons their parents taught them and the road their parents laid out for them to lead them to a...

Poetry

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The Symbolic Themes of Mystery and The Supernatural in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Rime of The Ancient Mariner

3 pages / 1504 words

In Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” considered by many scholars as the quintessential masterpiece of English Romantic poetry, the symbolic themes of mystery and the supernatural play a very crucial role in the poem’s overall effect which John Hill Spencer sees as...

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

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Critical Literary Analysis of Coleridge's The Rime of The Ancient Mariner

3 pages / 935 words

Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is a profound exploration of loss, guilt, and the human condition, articulated through the experiences of a mariner trapped in a liminal space between life and death. This critical literary analysis delves into the complexities of the mariner’s...

Poetry The Rime of The Ancient Mariner

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Rosebuds and Sinuous Rills: The Romantic Fragment of Orientalism in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s "Kubla Khan" and Citizen Kane by Orson Welles

4 pages / 1782 words

The debate over the fragmentary nature of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “Kubla Khan” has continued from the time the poem was written in 1797 to the present day. Some critics believe “Kubla Khan” to be a complete work in its totality, while others argue that...

Citizen Kane Poetry

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Emotion and Reason in Coleridge's "The Visionary Hope"

3 pages / 1297 words

With “The Visionary Hope,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge romanticizes the overpowering state of yearning without excluding the turmoil it causes in human life. Coleridge develops for the reader an almost picturesque cluster of emotional impulses and handicaps far from abstract, and obscure only in the question...

Poetry

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Intersectionality in Literature from Postcolonial Countries

7 pages / 3067 words

Sacrifice in women’s writing often revolves around two different definitions of the word. The first definition is to voluntarily give something up of value, while the second definition is to offer or kill, often in a ceremonial fashion. Women’s writing has a recurring motif of...

Novel

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Cockroaches and Snowmen: Liminal Spaces as Liberating Mechanisms in Hage and Atwood

5 pages / 2448 words

Although optimism does not lie on the surface of Rawi Hage’s Cockroach and Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, the texts are existential discussions of the validity associated with the ‘hope for humanity’. Hage’s unnamed narrator, a suicidal immigrant, is a psychoanalytic experiment left to wander...

Novel Oryx and Crake

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Values of Romanticism: Wollstonecraft, Coleridge, and Shelley

3 pages / 1471 words

The Romantic period was a time of exceptional change, emphasising the power of imagination as a window to transcendent experience and spiritual health. Lasting from the late 18th to early 19th century, the transitory period of Romanticism challenged engraved societal paradigms, moving from a time...

Mary Wollstonecraft Poetry

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Cloudstreet Analysis: Place and Identity in Winton’s Narrative

3 pages / 1154 words

Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet (1991) is a fantastical and vivid exploration of the lives of the 20th century ‘Aussie battlers’ whose reputations fabricated the Australian identity present in today’s society. The novel resonates the idea that this identity was forged through hardship, tragedy, faith and luck...

Fiction

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Mr. Tough Guy: Understanding Kolya’s Character

2 pages / 1119 words

It’s impossible to determine all the complexity of a character just based on first impressions. This is especially true for the character Kolya in David Benioff’s novel City of Thieves. On the surface, Kolya appears to be a fearless, comedic, womanizer who is careless and...

Fiction

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The Interplay of Reason and Passion in "Hero and Leander"

3 pages / 1433 words

“The dominant mode of ethical thinking in the Renaissance argued that the passions should be governed by reason to ensure good order in society.” Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts online...

Poetry

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Modernism in The Poetry of T.s. Eliot and Christopher Okigbo

8 pages / 3585 words

Christopher Okigbo’s poetry has often been compared to that of T. S. Eliot, partly because Okigbo uses Eliot’s signature linguistic devices such as exploiting metaphor to create a densely symbolic dimension to his poetry. In addition, he also appears at times to be consciously invoking...

Poetry T.S. Eliot

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Christina Rossetti's Attitudes Towards Death in "Song" and "Remember"

3 pages / 1318 words

In both ‘Song’ and ‘Remember’, Rossetti articulates several different attitudes towards death, avoiding any one set approach. In ‘Song’, she uses techniques involving the structure and tone of the poem to communicate that she is in fact happy to be out of the relationship. However,...

Christina Rossetti Literature Review Poetry

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Body as Commodity: Gendered Markets in Rossetti’s "Goblin Market"

7 pages / 2958 words

Thomas Richards, in his 1990 critical exposition, The Commodity Culture of Victorian England: Advertising and Spectacle, 1851-1914, states: “In the mid-nineteenth century the commodity became the living letter of the law of supply and demand. It literally came alive.”(Richards, 2) The “commodity” adopts a corporeal...

Christina Rossetti Poetry

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Discussion of Rossetti’s Poetry: ‘remember’, ‘a Birthday’, and ‘amor Mundi’

2 pages / 878 words

Christina Rossetti’s poetry is a profound exploration of human emotions, particularly through the themes of loss, joy, and the complexities of temptation. This essay delves into three of her notable works: “Remember,” “A Birthday,” and “Amor Mundi.” Each poem presents a unique perspective on the...

Birthday Christina Rossetti Poetry