Essays on Literary Genres

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Literary Analysis of The Poem Incident by Countee Cullen

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The poem The Incident by Countee Cullen is a perfect example of a lyric. A lyric is a brief poem that expresses a writer’s emotions and thoughts through shorts stanzas, and that he certainly does. While reading the poem you can recognize there are three...

Incident Poetry

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Pigs as a Symbol of Loss of Civility and Innocence in Lord of The Flies

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In the novel Lord of the Flies, Golding includes many characters or objects that act as symbols. Pigs are one example that symbolizes many concepts including the loss of civility, innocence as well as the inner desire and want in mankind. To begin, the obsession...

Lord of The Flies Novel William Golding

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Analysis of Carol Ann Duffy’s Poem Shooting Stars

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Carol Ann Duffy’s poem entitled ‘Shooting Stars’ originally published in her first anthology “The World’s Wife” in 1999 is an emotive recount of the treatment of Jewish prisoners of the Holocaust during WWII. Whilst Duffy was not personally involved in the events that she explores...

Carol Ann Duffy Poetry

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The Theme of Love in Two Poems: "To The Ladies" and "Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines"

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Poetry connects the conscious with the subconscious mind to produce a catharsis. The poem To the Ladies by Mary Chudleigh talks about how marriage turns a man evil and controlling back in the 1700s and that women were treated more like servants than wives. Tonight...

Pablo Neruda Poetry

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Theme of Courage in The Book Thief

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Throughout the years, humans have been known to stand up for what they believe in. As many people know, history tends to repeat itself. In the novel The Book Thief, written by Markus Zusak, he uses characters to repetitively show acts of courage in the...

Novel The Book Thief

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Symbolism in J.m. Coetzee’s Novel Disgrace

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Why does symbolism matter? Symbolism is used to reflect something else, to contribute to the development of meaning and emotion in a narrative. Symbolism is what makes the story so true to the audience in all novels. It is the perception of a person that...

Literary Devices Novel Symbolism

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Summary and Main Themes of The Novel Atonement

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Ian McEwan portrays a theme of architectural detail throughout his novel Atonement. Through the use of these descriptions, McEwan constructs the theme of guilt, and the quest of finding atonement, that follows through his main character, Briony Tallis. Briony, who is a writer, writes these...

Atonement Novel

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Themes and Literary Techniques in Atonement by Ian Mcewan

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Through a critical reading of an excerpt from the novel Atonement by Ian McEwan, many formal and stylised characteristics can be identified in assisting the success with which the novel delivers it’s themes to the readers. Some of the techniques used in this specific excerpt...

Atonement Literary Devices Novel

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Literary Analysis of Adrienne Rich’s Living in Sin

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Relationships reach its boundaries for a variety of reasons, the most common being that many people are searching for things that they will not find in that specific person, and when things begin to fall downhill, it leads to the ending of the relationship. When...

Poetry

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The Symbol of The Red Carnation in Paul’s Case

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People oftentimes get judged based on physical characteristics of their life. Whether through appearance or possessions, people desire to communicate an impressive version of themselves to others. In the short story “Paul’s Case,” Willa Cather writes about the story of a teenage boy’s desire to...

Short Story

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The Influence of William Shakespeare on My Understanding of The Value of Drama

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William Shakespeare has definitely paved the way I understand and appreciate the value of drama. Being able to grasp the audience’s attention, drama is a unique text form which also forces them to challenge their own interpretations and emotions. Previously I found plays quite boring...

Drama The Tragedy of Julius Caesar William Shakespeare

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The Themes of Nature and Civilization in Frankenstein

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In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley uses two themes: nature and civilization. She uses her text to describe the differences between nature and civilization and uses text to explain how civilization comes from nature. Nature and civilization are a huge part of everybody’s day to day lives....

Frankenstein Novel

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Depiction of War in Thomas Hardy’s 'The Man He Killed'

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In Thomas Hardy’s poem, “The Man He Killed,” the unnamed narrator depicts a time of when he killed a man during The Boer War of 1899 to 1902. The speaker is conflicted with the idea of fighting on the battefield and he even discovers the...

Poetry Thomas Hardy

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Deconstructing The Poem Legal Alien by Pat Mora

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The poem “Legal Alien” has been taken from the book Chants written by Pat Mora, an American writer and poetess. She uses metaphor, imagery, paradoxes, two languages, symbols etc. in her poem. It is written in free verse yet it points out the fixed and...

Literary Devices Poetry

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How Shakespeare Has Changed My Personal Understanding of The Value of Drama

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Introduction William Shakespeare has unquestionably changed my personal understanding and appreciation of the value of drama as his works have given me the ability to interpret the representations of humanity. As a teenager myself, I believe that the value of Shakespeare’s works is highly relevant...

Drama Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare

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The Use of Surveillance to Control People in George Orwel’s 1984

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George Orwell wrote his novel 1984 and showed what the world will become if the government is taken by totalitarian leaders. In 1984 there is demonstrated the government’s attempts, used to control people. In the novel, Oceanians, who were in the Party, had only one...

1984 Dystopia George Orwell

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Analysis of The Poem My Father, in Heaven, is Reading Out Loud

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The poem “My Father, in Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud” is written by Li-Young Lee. In the poem there is a father figure who is viewed as religious and has passed away. The son has different opinions on this father and misses him after he...

Poetry

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Analysis of Imagery and Other Literary Devices in Dover Beach

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“Dover Beach” is a poignant four-stanza poem penned by the renowned poet Matthew Arnold. The verses open with a serene scene, where the speaker stands on a moonlit shore, listening to the gentle lapping of the waves. However, as the poem unfolds, it delves into...

Literary Devices Matthew Arnold Poetry

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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Critique of Gender Roles in Rappaccini’s Daughter

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Gender expectations have been rooted in society for generations, creating an image of what the female identity should look like. In the 1800s, women in literature were often depicted solely as domestic caretakers; their sole purpose was to care for their children and husbands. Nathaniel...

Gothic Literature Nathaniel Hawthorne Novel