Essays on Literary Genres

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Sandburg’s "Fog" and The Imagist Movement

3 pages / 1192 words

Out of all of the poems written by Carl Sandburg, an early twentieth-century poet of the Imagist school, “Fog” may be his most famous. This may seem surprising; it’s a deceptively simple poem, only six lines long, with no real discernible meter or rhyme scheme....

Poetry

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Representation of Men and Women in Duffy’s "The World's Wife"

3 pages / 1207 words

Introduction Carol Ann Duffy wrote ‘The World’s Wife’ in order to scrutinize the representation of both men and women, inspired by her strong feminist views — reconstructing, for example, many of the ‘voiceless women’ from throughout history. As Duffy expressed it; ‘like sand and the...

Carol Ann Duffy Poetry

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The Intertextuality of Carol Ann Duffy’s "Salome"

2 pages / 1011 words

“Salome” is a poem taken from Carol Ann Duffy’s collection of poems The World’s Wife; most of the poems share a common feature: a historically marginalized narrator retelling the story from personal perspective. Salome’s character originally appeared in the New Testament and over the centuries...

Carol Ann Duffy Poetry

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The Presentation of Suffering in "Remains" and "War Photographer"

4 pages / 1735 words

Within Remains, Simon Armitage, who is widely known for focusing on physiological health and for creating a documentary of young soldier in the height of the conflict occurring in Afghanistan, presents the theme of suffering through the personal view of a young, regimented soldier, by...

Carol Ann Duffy Poetry

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Caleb Williams: Realism Out of Romance

2 pages / 1000 words

In William Godwin’s Caleb Williams, the titular protagonist Caleb is purportedly writing to prove his innocence after his former master, Mr. Falkland, destroys his reputation. However, in the postscript, once Falkland has died after being convicted for his crimes, Caleb appears to regret his actions....

Character Novel

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Eros, Thanatos and Oceanic Oneness in Henry Roth’s Call It Sleep

2 pages / 1058 words

In Chapter IX of Henry Roth’s Call it Sleep, David achieves a rudimentary understanding of the intrinsic connection between sexuality and death. He is confronted with the reality of death for the first time in his short life when he sees a row of funeral...

Novel

3845

The Importance of Setting in "By The Waters of Babylon"

2 pages / 769 words

In the short story, “By the Waters of Babylon” by Stephen Vincent Benet, setting is a very important element of how the story is portrayed. Although readers are introduced to a setting that feels like thousands of years ago, the reader later figures out that...

Short Story

3846

The Deconstruction of Opportunity: Danticat’s Narrative of Disempowerment in Breath, Eyes, Memory

3 pages / 1537 words

The narrative of disempowerment is one that is woven extensively through Edwidge Danticat’s postcolonial novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory. Placing great emphasis on the politics of the domestic sphere and the stories told between women, the novel spans the childhood and young adulthood of Edwidge’s main...

Book Review Gender Identity Novel

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Good Vs. Evil in Brighton Rock

4 pages / 1915 words

The conflict between good and evil is a prevalent theme in literature. Graham Greene incorporates the conflict throughout the text of his novel Brighton Rock. In order to do this he uses two prominent characters, Ida Arnold and Pinkie Brown. Ida represents “good” and is...

Book Review Good and Evil Novel

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Analyzing Windows as Metaphors in Broken April

3 pages / 1580 words

While windows are technically supposed to show a viewer the outer world, in Broken April they are used to give the reader a peek into the inner feelings of the main characters. When ‘Bessian put(s) his head close to the glass’ and ‘stay(s) a long...

Novel

3849

Maternal Problematic: The Painful Struggle for Individuality in Three Different Novels

7 pages / 3018 words

All human beings spend the first nine months of their lives in their mother’s womb. From the moment of birth, we wrestle with the notion of “mother”: we love this woman and feel intense connections to her, and yet we inevitably need to separate ourselves...

Novel

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Scouting for Identity: Interpreting Bridget Sprouls' Poem

3 pages / 1569 words

Life, in essence, is a search for belonging, purpose, and meaning. However, humans often do not possess enough wisdom to determine what is of worthy pursuit in life. While double-digit years of life experience may appear a period of time long enough to justify taking...

Literature Review Poetry

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The Human Experience in Bruce Dawe’s Poetry

2 pages / 795 words

A poet who energetically contemplated the world around him, Dawe wasn’t just a devoted Australian wordsmith with a dream that his work would one day be analysed. He was a book full of ideas, complex ideas, often about the essence of life and beyond. Through...

Poetry

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Truman Capote: a Child’s True Nature in "Miriam"

2 pages / 1055 words

Two people, one name: an inconspicuous, plain woman versus a poised young girl. A line is drawn between imagination and reality, but that line is blurred. In “Miriam” by Truman Capote, symbolism is incorporated to show that Mrs. Miller is living through the past in...

Short Story

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Bread Givers: The Limits of The American Dream

3 pages / 1154 words

For many immigrants, coming to America was an opportunity to leave their home country in hopes of finding a better life in a new land. In this vein, Anna Yezierska writes about the struggles of an immigrant Jewish family living in New York’s Lower East...

American Dream Novel

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Sara Smolinsky’s Journey to Fulfillment in Bread Givers

5 pages / 2308 words

Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers is the story of Sara Smolinksy, a young Jewish girl, growing up in New York City in the early twentieth century. Even as a young girl, Sara rejects the Orthodox Jewish teachings of her father, a rabbi. She refuses to accept...

Character Novel

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Reb’s Positive Influence on Sara in Bread Givers

3 pages / 1332 words

In 1925, American author Anzia Yezierska wrote the book Bread Givers. The story follows a poor immigrant family living in the lower east side of 1920’s New York. Throughout the novel, the family’s four daughters are treated merely as wage-earners by a father (Reb Smolinsky)...

Novel

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The Appropriation of Perrault’s "Bluebeard" in Carter’s "The Bloody Chamber" and "The Piano"

4 pages / 1749 words

The fairy tale of Bluebeard has fascinated writers, filmmakers, photographers, and artists throughout history and across national boundaries. Coming from the European oral tradition, the first, and most famous, written version is Charles Perrault’s La Barbe Bleue, published in 1697. Developing a tale of a...

Fairy Tale Piano The Bloody Chamber

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The Beautiful Ambiguity of Blankets

2 pages / 815 words

“The Beautiful Ambiguity of Blankets: Comics Representation and Religious Art”, written by the University of Florida’s Benjamin Stevens, provides a great deal of insight into Craig Thompson’s 2003 autobiographical graphic novel Blankets. Stevens’ analysis focuses on characteristics of the novel such as style, the search...

Novel