Essays on Literary Genres

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Lamentation in "The Seafarer," "The Wife’s Lament," and "The Wanderer"

2 pages / 979 words

In principle, the Anglo-Saxon poems entail those developed using the Old English of the British history, especially between the Norman Conquest of 1066 and the mid-fifth century. The authors focused on the orally transmitted literature with the intentions of oral performances. For example, the poem...

Poetry The Seafarer The Wanderer

1750

Our Town by Thornton Wilder: The Message to Appreciate Life

3 pages / 1147 words

In Our Town, Thornton Wilder develops the idea of appreciating life because what’s taken for granted will eventually be taken away then you ended up missing what you least appreciated. The play takes us to a small town and we see how simple life is,...

Short Story

1751

Review of The Novel De Niro’s Game by Rawi Hage

1 page / 454 words

“De Niro’s Game” was an engaging novel to read. Rawi Hage’s style of using blunt,quick sentences, as well as occasional poetic flourishes was able to successfully set the scenes of the story, as well as giving each character their unique identity. Made-to-order essay as fast...

Literature Review Novel Writing Experience

1752

Plot Summary of Maggie: a Girl of The Streets by Stephen Crane

2 pages / 726 words

The novel opens with a fight happening amongst a boys from Devil’s Row and Rum Alley, two different parts of town. A young boy named Jimmie is in the center of the fight, and he is one if the main characters in the novel. While...

Literature Review Novel Plot

1753

Plot Summary and Review of Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

4 pages / 1735 words

In this novel, we learn a lot about Emma on how she really feels and what she really wants. From what I have read, I personally think she is extremely selfish, inconsiderate and definitely crazy. Emma’s need for stimulation which may include sex or maybe...

Novel Plot

1754

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls: The Character of Father

2 pages / 901 words

In the memoir, The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, she reflects back on her indigent and malnourished life. Due to unfortunate circumstances, Jeannette never had a real childhood and was forced to mature at a very young age. Constantly moving from city to city because...

Character Drama Literature Review

1755

The Use of Metaphors and Imagery in When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats

1 page / 674 words

William Butler Yeats, “When You are Old”, is a three-stanza poem, that consists of a constant rhyming scheme. Yeats uses of metaphors paired sometimes with sets of poetic imagery. He exercises them well in the poem. They are significant, detailed, and well understood. Yeats illustrates...

Poetry William Butler Yeats

1756

Literary Analysis of The Poem Borrowed Time by Ruth Fainlight

2 pages / 985 words

Most poems always have a pretty vague underlying story line leaving the direction of the mood up to the readers discretion. Hardly ever can a person actually relate to a poem in the context that is meant. In the poem Borrowed Time by Ruth Fainlight,...

Literature Review Poetry

1757

The Importance of Poets in Society

3 pages / 1313 words

Poets have remarked on the affairs of the contemporary world, advocated for the victims of tyranny and even became the pioneers of social change. Plato, a philosopher in Classical Greece, while responding to the complexity of poets, concludes that they are impersonators of the world:...

Muslim Poetry

1758

Analysis of Methaphors Usage in Poetry by Seamus Heaney

3 pages / 1290 words

Metaphors are commonly used in poetry to enhance deeper meanings underneath the text. Authors employ these literary devices as a way to convey overarching messages by making comparisons to simple ideas that readers can comprehend. Often times, poets incorporate extended metaphors throughout an entire poem...

Literature Review Poetry

1759

In Between Perfect and Imperfect: Review of Alexander Pope's Poem

1 page / 514 words

“An Essay on Man A” Alexander Pope A Understand yourself as god will be able to accept you and begin to study you. Humans tend to believe they are the best but not quite. A man is just worthless, not understanding how much that impacts...

Alexander Pope Poetry

1760

Analysis of Rudyard Kipling's Novel Kim: Plot and Themes

5 pages / 2443 words

Kim by Rudyard Kipling There are many literary works that are entirely centred around the Empire and its’ colonies. One of the most notable is Rudyard Kipling’s Kim, the novel set within the British Empire, therefore highlighting how some books were highly representative of it....

Novel Plot Rudyard Kipling

1761

Crossing by Mark Slouka: Rebuilding Relationships

1 page / 424 words

Broken relationships, trust, joy, fear – these are all aspects of life that everyone can relate to in some shape or form. They are all emotions we all have to deal with at some point in life. Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it...

Short Story

1762

The Issue of Friendship in "The Yellow Birds" by Kevin Powers

2 pages / 1009 words

Kevin Powers’ ‘The Yellow Birds’ is a novel concerning modern warfare and the pressures soldiers undergo during and after the war. It is also a novel about the friendship between two men: John Bartle and Daniel Murphy. They both come from Virginia, and despite not...

Friendship Novel

1763

Michael Avenatti – a Legal Mercenary of America

2 pages / 1042 words

The best way to describe Michael Avenatti would be with the phrase “legal mercenary”. The California native is an attorney who always seems to be embroiled in some of the hottest legal squabbles of the past decade or so. The controversial attorney has lent his...

Short Story

1764

The Characters of Father and Son in "Powder" by Tobias Wolff

2 pages / 1120 words

Powder by Tobias Wolff: summary Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff is best known because of his short stories and memoirs based on his own life. The famous author was born on June 14, 1945 in Birmingham, Alabama from Rosemary Loftus and Arthur Samuel Wolff, when Wolff’s...

Character Literature Review Short Story

1765

No More Clichés Poem by Octavio Paz: a Note of Love for Women

1 page / 668 words

Paz starts the poem with the phrase “Beautiful face” because he wanted to begin the poem by mentioning what a man usually sees first in a woman, his face. In the second stanza, he says “Enchanting smile” “Oh beauty of a magazine” implanting a stereotype...

Beauty Poetry Woman

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Antigone by Sophocles: The Themes of Tragedy, Rebelliousness, and Free Will

3 pages / 1138 words

Introduction The concept of “free will” in Greek philosophy lacks a precise definition, yet its implications can be both positive and negative. Essentially, free will entails the ability to make choices based on one’s own understanding of what is morally right or appropriate. It empowers...

Antigone Sophocles Tragedy

1767

House Taken Over by Julio Cortazar: Transformation in Gothic Literature

1 page / 591 words

The idea that you could transform into something evil scares us all, therefore gothic literature uses this as a common tactic to induce greater fear. In “House Taken Over” by Julio Cortazar we can see the transformation of fear in the siblings daily lives, which...

Gothic Literature