Introduction Graphic novels are stories illustrated in comic form but have the length of a novel. “The term graphic novel was invented in 1970 however, the time of its origin is not concluded yet” (“Levitz”). Graphic novels have been debated for decades since some readers...
Kofi Awoonor, a Ghanaian poet, has cemented himself as a legend in contemporary Ghanaian and African poetry through his great and incredible contribution. He spoke drastically on various topics and issues on numerous platforms. He strongly believed in the idea 'Nobody should be ashamed of...
The one work, which I find the most intriguing, that will be discussed in this paper is a sonnet Emma Lazarus wrote when she was asked to write a poem to aid in fundraising to support the building of the pedestal for the Statue of...
The American Dream, in simple terms is the idea that anyone, regardless of race, gender, age, or social class can achieve their own version of success. For many people, it consists of getting a good education, finding a job with decent pay, meeting the love...
On May 20, 2014, a professor of English, Ersula Ore, was stopped by a Tempe police officer next to the Arizona State University Campus for jaywalking on a public street. As video footage of the initial arrest emerged the public and University’s reactions were noted....
Atticus Finch, in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, reveals an interesting fact about people. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it” (Lee 39). Finch’s...
The poem “Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson is made up of four-line stanzas, and each of those stanzas has an ABAB rhyme scheme. That means that the first and third lines of each stanza rhyme, as do the second and fourth lines. This poem...
The key message in Truth’s poem, “If woman has a pint and man a quart—why can’t she have her little pint full?”is directed to men and delivering the message about men and their irrational fear that there is a finite supply of rights that exists...
Nature is a beautiful and mysterious entity. It is vast and can have you wandering and wondering until you are lost both physically and mentally. Just being surrounded by nature can have you feeling up or feeling down. The immensity of it all can be...
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night is a poem by Dylan Thomas. It is about how Dylan believes that people with old age and being on the brink of death should not just accept death immediately and should fight it no matter how...
Just as light overpowers darkness, actions overpower words. A wise man once said, “actions are worth 1000 words”, but we as humans tend to make mistakes in our actions that are significant, and against the word of humanity, but we repeat them anyway. In order...
In Tennyson’s “Crossing the Bar,” the author is describing his desired way to part from this world. His word choice helps create an illusion over the theme of his poem. As far with word choice, the author uses imagery to help paint a picture in...
Perhaps the most terrifying entity to humans is the concept of unstoppable death. We are all extremely aware that death will be our inevitable fate some day, but how one goes about coming to terms with this reality, or not, is entirely left to the...
Education. the pathway of understanding, the basis of knowledge, and the determinant of lifelong success. Education teaches self- discipline, self- application, critical thinking and problem solving. It is right for each and every human being, and it propels students into future opportunities. It is pivotal...
Literature allows the creators to portray expressive emotions behind masks of ink allowing readers to ponder the strategic placement of each phrase coupled with its meaning. Plath outwardly expresses her complex emotions and underlying feeling of conflict, contrasting to Teale’s depiction of Charlotte who expresses...
The language of poetry is distinctly different from other languages, it is condensed and concentrated form of literature. It must say quite a bit with a limited number of words therefore it tends to be intense, especially because “it concernes itself with all kinds of...
Walt Whitman was a well-known journalist and poet. He was considered one of the most influential poets in American history. He directed his writing into a more traditional epic and aesthetic approach to show the true beauty behind what he was writing. In 1855, he...
Langston Hughes poem “Song for a Dark Girl” portrays the heartache of a young black girl, from the South in America, who discovers the torturous death of her lover. The poem takes place during a time period where oppression towards people of color was very...
Imagine a world in which we had no pictures and nothing to look at. Now, imagine a world without music or melody, these two elements are necessary factors in our life and without them, we ourselves won’t be human. In the poem “Dream-Land,” the author...
The poem ‘A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman is a free verse poem that does not contain patterns of rhyme or meter. It has two stanzas and each comprises of five lines which makes it a quintet which is a five-lined stanza in poetry....
Each story has themes, and the analysis of different themes builds deepness to any story, especially if those themes are universal. I have chosen two poems, Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare and Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas are two...
The oxford dictionary states that death is the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism. In the three poems I have studied, death is portrayed in a completely different way in each of the poems. Death be not...
The cycle of life always ends in death, but the frightful aspect of death is not necessarily death itself, but the concept of timing and maybe how it happens. We all know that death will be our fate someday, but how we accept or how...
Edgar Allan Poe is a poet and critic of literature, born in America in 1809 and was famous for his romantic writings that may contain a lot of imagination, and in that period of time the writers began to try to know the relationship between...
Throughout his poetic career, Pablo Neruda’s uses of natural places were an important element of his poetry. During the 20th century, Pablo Neruda is a major poet in Latin America specifically for incorporating political statements into his poems. Another important element used in his poems...
Both Stevens and Auden incorporate similar understandings of death, as their poems portray a melancholy tone and the use of irony-based examples related to the characteristics of Modernism. In Stevens’s poem, “The Emperor of Ice Cream,” he evokes the theme of death, in which one...
“Fern Hill” by Dylan Thomas. “Fern Hill” recounts the story of a young man who has very happy memories of his youth. The piece utilizes basic yet expressive language and symbolism to bring out the cheerful time of youth. Worried about youth and sentimentality, it...
William Blake’s poems “The Chimney Sweeper” and Richard Crashaw’s poems “To the Infant Martyrs” highlight the harsh realities of society and the way people treated children during the 18th century in England. Through powerful imagery, Blake and Crashaw explore the themes of child labor, poverty,...
In the late twentieth century, after the rise of feminist and gender studies, there was a great interest in the literary works of women from the previous centuries, which was somewhat forgotten before. This increased intrest saved poets such as Christina Rossetti from neglect and...
Over the course of history, women were constantly expected to behave a certain way, both in the public and private sphere. Due to the traditions of a patriarchal, Puritan society, women in early America were held to a standard that was less than the men...
The Romantic period is generally considered to have stretched from the late 1700s to the early 1800s. William Wordsworth emerged as a leading figure within this movement which was renowned for its intense reverence of the natural world. Wordsworth’s polemic “The world is too much...
“Lycidas' by John Milton is a pastoral elegy which deals with the process of grieving the while in the midst of a picturesque landscape. Milton drew inspiration for “Lycidas' from his personal life, as the character of Lycidas embodies his good friend Edward King. The...
Introduction Oxford English Dictionary defines an epic as a poem, typically derived from ancient oral tradition, which celebrates in the form of a continuous narrative the achievements of one or more heroic characters of history or legend. It is defined and explained in a similar...
William Shakespeare was an English poet, dramatist, and actor often called the English national poet and considered by many to be the greatest dramatist of time (Biography.com Editors, 2014). I always read Shakespeare in Farsi, and it was a totally different feeling when I read...
Robert Frost is a prominent American with many well known poems under his belt. Some of these poems include Nothing Gold Can Stay and Stopping by woods on a snowy evening. When Frost writes, he likes focusing on his personal experiences and the human condition....
There were both similarity and difference between Don Quixote and King Arthur. The similarity was they both had roles which made them noble. Both of them wanted the best for those around them. Before acquiring a position of knight Don Quixote was a normal man...
Poetry is always used to narrate poet’s childhood experience and deliver the emotions to others. Theodore Roethke’s poem “My Papa’s Waltz” is a simple four stanza poem narrating his childhood incident of dancing with his drunk father. However, the poem is complexity with hidden meanings...
In this poem, “I Hear America Singing,” the people are given the freedom no matter their job to be able to sing the songs they want and still have an opinion. This poem describes people that make up America today such as carpenters, wives, mothers,...
John believed in the beauty of nature and what the human being entails in the world. He lived in London, England during the 16th and 17th Century and wasn’t just an ordinary man but a poet who managed to achieve his goals even though he...
Poetry is often inspired by the events and context of the time that it is created. During the 1900’s, racism was extremely prominent, and it inspired various authors to craft their work around the scenarios that people of color experienced. Racism comes in many forms...
Margaret Atwood has deeply involved with nationalism and the rise of independent cultural values in Canada. Although she has spent a lot of time in America but she has never thought herself as an American poet. She is a poetess with different attitude. She shows...
The poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks, which was influenced by her personal background and by the Harlem Renaissance literary period, has contributed to the American Literary Heritage. Ms. Brooks works are truly amazing. They have very profound meanings ahd you have to truly understand her writings...
According to author Kenny Jackson Williams, during Gwendolyn Brooks’ school years she had attended three different high schools and 1 college all with different racial standards. Being able to attend all of these schools, Brooks was able to experience many different environments and events to...
In the late 18th and 19th century poets joined together to write about a cause that they felt deeply about. The Romantic Era started with a man named William Wordsworth who is also known as the Father of Romanticism. During this time, the world was...
Introduction Account of seasons coming to an end 'evening expired away' and 'think not of them' Wordsworth then Keats were romantic poets Poets write about discovery beauty and joy in countryside William Wordsworth and John Keats were great poets of the romantic period. After poems...
Throughout the years literature and art have always had a very close relationship however, deeper than this, is the link between poetry and painting. To discuss the reasons why one might value a ‘literary painting’ over other kinds of paintings, I will talk about the...
T.S. Eliot is a modernist poet who addresses issues within the modern world and society, he discusses many of the fears and worries that society at his time experienced about the evolving world in which they were living. Eliot’s own apprehension about the world stemmed...
Matthew Arnold said: ‘More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us.’ Discuss in relation to at least two Victorian Poems. Matthew Arnold believed that ‘all art is dedicated to...
Introduction Background Poetry is one of the literary works that express the feeling of the poet with beautiful words and meaningful. According to Hunt poem is “an expression feeling. Beauty, and power, consummate and describe conception with imagination and fantasy, and the set language on...
Born in 1794 and dying in 1878, William Cullen Bryant was an American romantic poet, writer, and longtime editor of the New York Evening Post, and the author of Thanatopsis, which means consideration of death. During the time Thanatopsis was written in the 1800s, there...
Death and all its obscurity seemed to be a recurring idea for William Cullen Bryant. In his young years, the American Poet wrote “Thanatopsis”, which was published in the North American Review in 1817 and after a revision published again in 1822, that had the...
Departure was a poem written by Genny Lim, she is a Chinese-American poet. This poem tells about the dying older sister of the writer, probably a Ginny Lim sister or family member. The point of view of the narrator of this poem is first person...
“I like for you to be still” by Pablo Neruda is a very meaningful and deep poem written from him to someone else. In summary, the poem is about how someone, referred to as I, pleads to someone to stop and hear him out. It...
Throughout his poetic career, Pablo Neruda’s use of natural places was an important element of his poetry. Neruda is also known for his poems having such depictive imagery. By combining these two main elements, Neruda’s poems are an effective tool at conveying messages to people...
“The Definition of Love” by Andrew Marvell is a metaphysical poem about a forbidden love that he can never acquire. He talks about Fate being the sole obstacle between him and his lover who are perfect for one another, yet Fate debars and interferes every...
Percy Bysshe Shelley's corpse was found on a beach near Viareggio. His sailboat had been wrecked in a storm ten days ago, on July 8, 1822, at sea off the Italian coast. In his jacket pocket, he had a copy of the last book of...
“To His Coy Mistress” is a poem by Andrew Martell (1621-1678), who was born at Winstead in Holness, in South Yorkshire, and died in 1678 at his house in Bloomsbury. His father was a clergyman (of Calvinist orientation), who then became lecturer at Holy Trinity...
In ‘Digging’ by Seamus Heaney, we are taken through the past, present, and future in a free verse poem, observing the lives of three generations in a family; the young speaker, his father, and his grandfather. The speaker identifies himself as a writer, who speaks...
Born in 1913 into a family which abandoned him, poet Robert Hayden grew up in a rough household and it was not until he was forty that he discovered his original name (Schlib and Clifford 318). Despite all the obstacles he faced, Hayden still went...
It is difficult for children to understand the efforts parents put into taking care of a family. They often do not see the love that is expressed indirectly towards them, but it is simply natural for a young child to be self-centered. Some parents do...
Eugenia Collier was born on April 6, 1928. Her parents raised her in a loving home, and she grew up influenced by her father’s love of poetry. Collier says that one of her happiest memories was sitting on her fathers lap as he read poems...
The three poetic genres under analysis in this essay will be the sonnet, the elegy and the ode. This essay will be focusing on the way the poets adhere and break away from the standard norms of a particular genre. This essay will also feature...
Robert Frost Robert Frost, a renowned American poet, was born on March 26th, 1874, in San Francisco, California. Later on, he became a celebrated poet and won several awards. One biography reports that Frost lived with his parents, William and Isabelle, but his father had...
During the Victorian Period, British society ultimately revolved around gender and class. Men were independent and active members of society while women were limited to the private sphere. Low-income families were at the bottom of society while middle and upper-class families were respected. Also, readers...
The poem extols the music of natural rain and the chastening effect it has on human emotions and imagination. The sounds and lyrics of rain are described in a rhythmic and alluring manner to help soothe and amuse the heart and mind. The poet is...
According to poet Reginald Vincent Holmes, “The earth has music for those who listen. ” (Wander the Wild). Holmes and countless other poets have been inspired by the earth’s music to compose exquisite poetry for generations. Through sensory and vivid depictions, these writers have created...
Introduction William Wordsworth was an English Poet who was born in Cockermouth in England. During his childhood, both of his parents died, which shaped the style of his poetry writing in his later ages. He also argued the pecking order of the epic poetry and...
Anne Bradstreet dedicated herself by writing about whatever she wanted to show her personal thoughts, emotions and experiences. This will be shown in relation to the way she was raised in a home that supports female literacy and how she rose with her poems through...
Carol Ann Duffy challenges traditional gender roles through the power portrayed of women who are in a relationship and by reinventing a classic fairytale. In the classic fairy tale of beauty and the beast we see belle, the female lead, as someone who loves to...
The poem "Psychopath" by Carol Ann Duffy is a haunting and chilling portrayal of the distorted perceptions of reality that a psychopath has. This essay provides an in-depth analysis of the poem, examining how Duffy uses language, structure, and imagery to create a unique and...
This is an analysis of Ozymandias, a poem written by one of the greatest Romantic poets in history, Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley never achieved fame while he was alive, but he did keep company with some extremely talented writers: his good friends included Lord Byron,...
Mental and emotional health are extremely important. They both affect a person’s thinking, feelings, moods and behaviors. Having good mental and emotional health is essential in stabilizing any irrational fears, anxieties or hostilities that one may have. Two significant parts of one’s personality is cognitive...
Poetry can deliver a special magnitude of given feelings and ideas, Poets do this by using extraordinary rhythms and styles; One of the most influential, intelligent, and admired poets in the 20th century was no one other than Sylvia Plath. This poet was considered massively...
Sylvia Plath was widely regarded as “one of the most celebrated and controversial post-war (‘feminists’)” writing in English” [Oates] in the twentieth century. In her ‘Ariel’ collection, Plath explores the gender inequality and expectations that plagued society at that time, and arguably today. Through her...
Writers and artists in breaking barriers develop new creative forms that challenge accepted perceptions and by doing so communicate their ideas and emotions. The divided opinions that surround fraught relationships is what paradoxically connects both British poets, Ted Hughes, with American poet Sylvia Plath. Sylvia...
‘London’ was anonymously published in 1748. This poem, written in 263 lines, was Johnson’s first major published work. It follows the eighteenth century Neo - classical tradition and is an imitation of Juvenal’s Third Satire. Juvenal’s Third Satire uses a narrator’s voice to describe Umbricius’s...
Emily Dickinson is known for her unique approach to poetry, often exploring themes of death, life, and despair in her works. These themes are recurrent in her poems and reflect her personal experiences and philosophical views. This essay will explore the themes of death, life,...
Thomas Hardy was born in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset. His first wife was Emma Gifford in 1874, and died from a heart failure in 1912. Thomas’s second wife was Florence Dugdale, in 1914. Thomas was an Architect, worked at London, and Dorset(Kirkpatrick page 689). He was...
This is the first book I read about by Thomas Hardy. It's one of the books I can call 'good reading'. Although I am not a fan of Thomas Hardy, I like this book very much. It is told the struggle to become a big...
Thomas Hardy and Edith Wharton have many similarities in their style of writing. Wharton is comparatively more of a modern writer than Hardy, however she admired Hardy and her writing style is influenced by his literary writings. The two given extracts are from classic realist...
The wasteland of Thomas Stearns Eliot, poems that was published in 1922, this poem would become the top work of the English author. We can notice in Eliot a modern poetic vision, despite the warnings in time. This poem presents many complexities that makes it...
What does it mean for one to be silent? What does it mean for an entire race to be silent? For Langston Hughes, to be silent was to not exist. The twentieth century’s prejudice toward an Anglocentric literary canon subsisted on the burial and silencing...
Beowulf is a hero that changes through time in a way that is unique to his story. As the poem goes, he faces three different monsters. From each monster to the next, Beowulf has different motivations and fighting styles that reflect the situation, how prepared...
Emily Dickinson was born December 10, 1830 in Massachusetts. As she grew up, she surrounded herself with very few people and seldom left her house. By the1860s, she had completely isolated herself from the outside world. This had a huge impact on her poetry and...
Creative and intellectual life flourished in African American communities in the North and Midwest regions of the United States in the 1920s, but nowhere more than in Harlem. The neighborhood of New York City, just three square miles away, is full of black artists, scholars,...
Seamus Heaney’s poem “The Forge” from his second collection of poetry Door into the Dark, is a carefully crafted sonnet representative of Heaney’s own fascination with the art of creativity while also paying homage to and celebrating the traditional rural craft of a blacksmith. This...
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), probably the greatest English poet of the twentieth century whose unusual creative potential was readily apparent as a young man, especially to his Irish contemporaries. He showed a great affinity towards mystical abstraction. His poetry is characterized by its intense lyricism,...
William Blake uses Visions of the Daughters of Albion to emphasize how important it is to use pure knowledge in the face of oppression. Blake uses marriage to illustrate female oppression, while simultaneously referencing slavery. The poem begins with the rape of the main character...
Robert Frost was born on March 26th, 1874 to his father, William and his mother Isabelle. Roberts’s father, William, worked as a reporter, while his mother stayed home. Robert was born in San Francisco with his family, until his father passed on May 5th, 1885....
Poet, painter, engraver, and visionary, William Blake worked to bring about a change both in the social order and in the minds of men and Maya Angelou is an acclaimed American poet, storyteller, activist, and autobiographer. As a black woman, she is an extraordinary hero...
Into the early 19th century, even with sonnets, metaphysical poetry, and romantic poetry at their pinnacle, the epic poem was still the major form of poetry. In fact, the 19th century produced almost 60 epics, topping most other centuries. With epics being written that often,...
“Hope” was written in 1845, and was published in 1846 in ‘Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell’, which was a volume of poetry published jointly by the three Bronte sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne, who had to publish their poems under male pseudonyms to...
Lanval was written by Marie De France in the twelfth century and according to Pepin, “the twelfth century was a prolific era of anti-feminist literature” (659). Hence, it can be argued that Marie De France’s Lanval is protofeminist as the usual male eminent plot is...
The poem starts out with the title “The addict”, giving the reader a chance to fill in the blanks as there are many addicts in the world. Addicted to alcohol, medication, drugs and food are just some of the addiction the average reader will know...
Nikki Rosa is poem about someone’s (Nikki Giovanni) childhood being poor but making the best of it and relying on family to be happy regardless of their circumstances, although colour plays a major role growing up in this black suburbs of Cincinnati Ohio. The poem...
‘The worst injuries of war are emotional not physical.’ Compare and contrast Wilfred Owen’s poetry and Pat Barker’s ‘Regeneration’ in light of this quotation. Firstly, Barker and Owen focus on the visceral imagery of eyes emphasizing the physical brutality of war. In ‘Regeneration’ Barker introduces...
How does Emily Bronte convey a sense of sadness in Cold in the Earth? This poem is about the loss of her husband, and the emotional and physical pain it has inflicted on her. This poem is a lament and therefore has a consistent sense...
In Robert frost's work,” Desert Places”, nature is a central theme that the entire poem plays off of. Frost uses the idea of nature, in particular snow and space, to represent the blank white emptiness of humanity, however within his own mind lie even emptier...
Poetry is an undervalued form of expression in the modern world. Oftentimes we choose to value length and complexity over simplicity and intent. This alters our perceptions of writing, implanting the idea that writing cannot be good or worthy unless it is complex to the...
From the poems studied so far, three of Yeats main concerns are change, beliefand pessimism that life and the future does not hold joy. The notion of change ispresent in all three poems, but different kinds of change are examined such aspersonal change (The Wild...
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