It would take an entire paper just to explicate all of the roles that women play today and how society has changed as a result. The point is that it has changed and that women play a much different role in literature today than they did even just a Continue Reading...
) "Sonnet 130" by Shakespeare and "Sonnet 23" by Louis Labe both talk about love, as so many sonnets do. Their respective techniques however, differentiate them from each other. Shakespeare uses a rhyme scheme that became known as Shakespearean rhym Continue Reading...
poetry class I have experienced over the past weeks, there were certain aspects of this course that were very interesting and had motivated my learning. Poetry is an art and any attempt to describe and immerse oneself in this art form will be led in Continue Reading...
POETRY Poetry: Compare and ContrastThe poetry A Poem for My Librarian, Mrs. Long written by Nikki Giovanni and Theme for English B by Langston Hughes have been composed by African-American poets who have been victims of racial discrimination since ch Continue Reading...
Last Duchess Jealousy, Rage, and Possession in Browning's "My Last Duchess" Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" emphasizes Victorian ideals of women and allows readers to understand how they were objectified. In this macabre poem, Browning uses th Continue Reading...
Romantic era poets like Coleridge and Wordsworth both relied heavily on nature imagery to convey core themes, and often nature became a theme unto itself. In "To William Wordsworth," Coleridge writes accolades for his friend using many of the tropes Continue Reading...
Sonia Sanchez Sonia Sanchez is a poet who specializes in giving focus to the black identity in works that combine socio-political elements with more maternal and matriarchal tones to effect a unique voice of blackness in America. Born in Alabama but Continue Reading...
Home Burial" And The Woman In Robert Frost's "Home Burial," the woman in the poem is grieved -- both haunted by the death of her child and by the lack of compassion that she senses in her husband's callousness. At least, she perceives it to be call Continue Reading...
The image of the two farmers on either side of the wall is also powerful because even while they are together, they are separated. This physical setting sets the tone of the poem, as the wall serves as an image of safety for the neighbor, who feels Continue Reading...
Postmodernism in Warsan Shire's Poetry Born in Kenya, Somali-origin writer Warsan Shire pens poems that are an uncompromising depiction of an African outlook. This London-based poet's work emphasizes the continent's culture, challenges, armed confli Continue Reading...
William Wordsworth: A Wordsmith for All Time Harold Bloom in his book Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds says "Wordsworth remains, in the twenty-first century, what he has been these last two hundred years: the inventor of a po Continue Reading...
The speaker of Theodore Roethke’s poem “My Papa’s Waltz” reflects on his abusive father. Using an ABAB CDCD rhyme scheme and fixed meter, the poet underscores the main motifs of music and dance. The titular waltz is a structur Continue Reading...
" It was then that the voice decided to take the 'road not taken': no explanation was offered for this decision; simply that, the person wanted to pass through the road where no one had tried before. From the onset, natural realism has taken its hol Continue Reading...
Again, he uses dialect that his fans can relate to instead of being concerned about 'proper English'. This is very effective at making the words identifiable to his audience. The more people can relate to what you are saying, the more likely they ar Continue Reading...
African-American culture flourished during the Harlem Renaissance. Although often characterized by and punctuated with the “double consciousness” of being both black and an American, the work of Harlem Renaissance writers and poets was va Continue Reading...
"Because I Could Not Stop for Death," Emily Dickenson shows that death is not the end of anything, but the beginning of eternal life. The poet addresses death directly, presenting death as a character without going so far as to anthropomorp Continue Reading...
Kipling & Paquin Kipling, Paquin and Adulthood Rudyard Kipling's poem If and Diane Paquin's poem On Growing Up both examine the difficulties one faces while transitioning into adulthood. If is a litany of the attributes one must acquire in orde Continue Reading...
Figurative Language in Robert Frost's Poetryand "The Metamorphosis" Robert Frost is one poet that always utilizes figurative speech in dramatic ways. By employing the literary techniques of symbolism and personification, Frost is able to craft many Continue Reading...
Whitman and Dickinson During the conflict and celebration period in America, different authors started to write differently than what had been written by other people. They embraced modern writing styles and broke them with traditional writing styl Continue Reading...
African-American Art Creative African-American Literature Were one to pause to give this subject consideration, it would appear that the vast majority of African-American artwork within the 20th century was organized around and largely revolved abo Continue Reading...
His constant use of the firs person "I" also shows the strong independent streak in Whitman's character and poetry. "Song of Myself" makes it very clear that this independence is not born of ego, nor does it desire or require isolation. Rather, the Continue Reading...
At first the child is presented with a mental image of an ordinary site, such as a person wondering why people are looking at them. But then, with a line such as "I just wink my middle eye," the reader is suddenly forced to alter their normal mental Continue Reading...
As contrasted with "Singapore," the poem "In Creve Coeur" by Rosanna Warren symbolizes "our tarnished, everyday, ramshackle world of loss, anguish and sacrifice," much like the tone of "Singapore." As a poet, Warren "inhabits... A realm of classic Continue Reading...
Walt WhitmansO Captain! My Captain! is a poem by Walt Whitman. It is an ode to the fallen Abraham Lincolnor, better yet, an elegy for President Lincoln, who had been assassinated the previous year. Whitman was a strong supporter of Lincoln and his pr Continue Reading...
Robert Frost and Edwin Arlington Robinson capture the loneliness and isolation that can come from life in the modern world. In Acquainted with the Night, the speaker toys with self-obliteration, drawn to the darkness. He hides his fears and sadness, Continue Reading...
Billy Collins' poem is a lyric poem because mainly it expresses highly personal emotions and feelings. Many lyric poems involve musical themes or tones, and in fact in Shakespeare's era the word "lyric" meant that the poem was accompanied by a musica Continue Reading...
This is an interesting device because it indicates the author was looking at every aspect of the poem and thought long and hard about how to use words to convey meaning, emotion, and loss. In contrast, Parks does not worry about rhyme; he simply us Continue Reading...
More a synopsis of emotional entanglement than a treatise on gender or sexuality, T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” encapsulates the ennui and numbness of the modern world. The speaker reveals gender only tacitly, a Continue Reading...
Poetry and Art of William Bake Infant Sorrow Guide and Exposition of Illustration Used Infant Sorrow was one of the poems written by William Blake. It talks of a child being born into a world they aren't familiar with. The poem captures the experi Continue Reading...
(Leaves, 680) Similarly Whitman informs us: Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun…there are millions of suns left, You shall no longer take things at Continue Reading...
Sonnets What comparisons does Shakespeare make in Sonnet 15? In what ways does the language of the poem reinforce these comparisons? How do these comparisons relate to the central theme of the poem? Shakespeare compares the growth of men to the gro Continue Reading...
Poetry of Othello Emilia is the person speaking, and she is the wife of Iago. She is speaking to Desdemona, and she is discussing the faults of men, and how they tend to blame them on women. Desdemona replies that one must not counter bad with bad, Continue Reading...
Q1. How does the grandmother’s world differ from the speaker's at school? What details especially reveal those differences? The poem “Snapping Beans” by Lisa Parker draws a distinct contrast between the world of the speaker&rsq Continue Reading...
Robert Hilles, a Canadian poet (now living in Thailand), is a work that dates from 1976 and looks backward on boyhood memories, which in this case are not particularly uplifting. In fact, Hilles' poem is a kind of questioning paean in an oblique uni Continue Reading...
Onetti, Juan Carlos. The Shipyard. Originally Published in 1961. Plot Summary The Shipyard tells the story of a man in his fifties whom once worked as an owner of a brothel and now has cultivated the higher aspiration of becoming the owner of a ba Continue Reading...
Poetry, and Drama because I do not have all the information I needed to do so. I also did not have the page annotations for the numbering of the book so I numbered the pages in the parenthetical citations with the number of the page in the story its Continue Reading...
Plath then mentions the Luftwaffe or German Air Force and her father's "neat moustache" and "Aryan eye, bright blue" (lines 42-44) which symbolizes the well-groomed appearance of German officers with their blue Aryan eyes. She then calls her father Continue Reading...
Ulysses has experienced his share of adventures and journeys however he is still not at peace with himself. Because of his perseverance in the quest for knowledge, he wants to continue his quest for knowledge even in old age Summary and the main the Continue Reading...
Westopia: An Epic Narrative Describing the History of the West post-Reformation and the Rise of New Peoples and Places in Conflict with the Old In anno domini 1650, the God of the West -- of the World -- was banned in Maryland. The Pure had come, ha Continue Reading...
