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An Analysis of the Poem, Hide and Seek by Vernon Scannell (1052 words, 2 pages)

'Hide and seek' by Vernon Scannell is about a young, excitable infant playing the childhood game of hide and seek. It begins by revealing the juvenile excitement experienced by a child when playing a game - 'Call out. Call loud I'm ready! Come and find me!' Through the poets use ... Read More

The Misrepresentation of Love and the Potential Outcome (1319 words, 2 pages)

Love is one of the most furtive sentiments that ancient artists and poets had been attempting to manifest its explicit definition through aesthetic illustrations, even up till today. It approaches our daily lives in various ways affection, friendship, infatuation, passion and many others but these expressions never fails to contribute ... Read More

The Early Childhood and Experiences of Emily Dickinson (4313 words, 5 pages)

Not one of Emily Elizabeth Dickinsons readers has met the woman who lived and died in Amherst, Massachusetts more than a century ago, yet most of those same readers who have come to understand her through her work feel as if they know her closely. However it was her reclusive ... Read More

A Comparison of Mr. Keating and Jesus in the Film, Dead Poets Society (494 words, 1 pages)

Introduction There are many occasions in the film 'Dead Poets Society' where parallels can be drawn between Mr Keating and Jesus. An obvious parallel is Keating and Jesus both have saviour roles. Jesus Christ saviour of the world John Keating saviour of the boys. Keating is an instructor of English ... Read More

Carpe Diem in Dead Poets Society (560 words, 1 pages)

Carpe Diem In the film Dead Poets Society there is an environment created that was rigid and strict. At Welton Academy there were four pillars of ideals that students must attain to and follow. These were excellence, honor, tradition, and discipline. A new teacher was appointed to teach English. John ... Read More

Inferno by Dante Alighieri: Profoundly Medieval and Renaissance (244 words, 1 pages)

Dante's Inferno is a poem that is profoundly medieval and profoundly renaissance. As this poem was written during the middle ages, there are plenty of medieval qualities throughout the poem. The medieval qualities in this poem are that this poem is very narrow-minded. Without questioning, Dante puts souls in Hell ... Read More

An Analysis of Dante’s Reconciliation of A Loving God and a Horrific Hell (1550 words, 2 pages)

Dante's Reconciliation of a Loving God and a Horrific Hell Dante Alighieri, a great Italian poet, is most noted for a journey, which he wrote of in his Divine Comedy series. In these works, Alighieri sends a fictional Dante through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. The Inferno is a detailed description ... Read More

The Life and Literary Works of Dante Alighieri (812 words, 2 pages)

Dante Alighieri was one of the most renowned writers in world literature. His great masterpieces have influenced the world immensely. He was not only a great writer and poet but he also was a man that overcame great odds to write awe inspiring works of art. Dante Alighieri was born ... Read More

An Analysis of Dante’s Canto 28 (1632 words, 6 pages)

Dante's Canto XXVIII- Dante begins the opening of Canto XXVIII with a rhetorical question. Virgil and he have just arrived in the Ninth Abyss of the Eighth Circle of hell. In this pouch the Sowers of Discord and Schism are continually wounded by a demon with a sword. Dante poses ... Read More

An Analysis of D.H Lawrence’s Style of Organic Writing (769 words, 1 pages)

An English novelist and poet, D.H. Lawrence was born September 11, 1885, in Nottingham, England. He was the son of a coal miner and a school teacher. His mother, the school teacher, was socially superior. She constantly tried to alienate her children from their father. The difference in social status ... Read More

A Comparison of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson (1229 words, 4 pages)

After receiving five years of schooling, Walt Whitman spent four yearslearning the printing trade Emily Dickinson returned home after receivingschooling to be with her family and never really had a job. Walt Whitman spentmost of his time observing people and New York City. Dickinson rarely left herhouse and she didn't ... Read More

A Look into the Interview with Stephen Hawking About Cosmology (3767 words, 5 pages)

"I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This now answers many questions once asked of religion." Prof. Stephen Hawking, Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005 Cosmology is the metaphysical study of the structure and nature of the universe as a whole. ... Read More

An Analysis of the Three Movements Development (2158 words, 3 pages)

That these three movements developed in a period of technical expansion during the political, social and economic crisis that followed the First World War and the Russian and German Revolutions is no coincidence. Meyer Schapiro says 'the older categories of art were translated into the language of modern technology' (Texts ... Read More

A Comparison of Poems, Mariana by Alfred Lord Tennyson and La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats (2441 words, 3 pages)

Comparison of two 19th Century Poems Written in the Medieval Style In the early 19th century, the industrial revolution provoked a return to medievalism by the poets and painters of the age. They wrote about the medieval world as idyllic and harmonious a contrast to their own turbulent century. Although ... Read More

A Comparison of Archaeology and Literature (630 words, 1 pages)

archaeology vs literary Life in the ancient world has always been a great interest among scholars of the past and the present. In order to find out new information about the lifestyle of ancient Greeks scholars have used two types of evidence to better understand the people living in that ... Read More

The Strange Thing Called Love in William Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Sir Philip Sidney Astrophil and Stella (2571 words, 4 pages)

The Strange Thing Called Love Despite the complexity of the sonnets that William Shakespeare and Sir Philip Sidney create, one is left with a feeling of total admiration for the rich language in each poem that forces its reader to pay very close attention to detail. The sonnets differ in ... Read More

A Look Into Chapmans Translations of Homer (837 words, 2 pages)

Discovery On First Looking Into Chapmans Homer, is made of two distinct parts. In the first part of Keatss poem the speaker is expressing his experiences prior to reading Chapmans translation of Homer. At the beginning of the poem the speaker says, Much have I travelld in the realms of ... Read More

The Life and Works of Mademoiselle Gabrielle Chanel (1387 words, 5 pages)

Who established and founded "Chanel"? Mademoiselle Gabrielle Chanel (also known as Coco Chanel) established and founded "Chanel" in 1914, at this stage they were a small unknown shop that sold Ready-to-wear clothes, Accessories and Perfume. One of Mademoiselle Gabrielle Chanel's most popular creations was "Chanel No.5" which was made in ... Read More

An Analysis of Censorship in Education in the Book Nine of the Republic by Plato (1026 words, 2 pages)

Censorship in Education Plato writes in Book nine of The Republic, that in a good society there should be censorship, which should be determined by the ruler. Plato has a very strict view on what should be censored in education. For example, Plato believes that many sections of the Odyssey ... Read More

An Analysis of Carpe Diem (355 words, 1 pages)

Carpe diem Carpe Diem seize the day capture it by the ears. Dead poets society the movie focuses on this phrase. Suck the marrow out of life according to Mr. Keaton this phrase meant to not ever let a day pass with out you. Problems such as death of a ... Read More

An Analysis of Canterbury Tales by Chaucer (1248 words, 2 pages)

Near the turn of the fourteenth century the art of composing romantic poetry entertained the inhabitants of northwestern England. Many highly educated men participated in this art and form of entertainment. Most created tales, termed epics, were also very important to the history of the individual author's nation or race. ... Read More

A Biography of James Joyce (904 words, 2 pages)

Described as "a thoroughly chilling and unsettling story" (Porter), The Lottery was written by Shirley Jackson in 1948. In a letter to poet Howard Nemerov, she wrote, "...I have always loved to use fear...I delight in what I fear" (Guran). James Joyce was "born into a well-off Catholic family in ... Read More

A Biography of Paul Mariani (379 words, 1 pages)

Paul Mariani was born in New York City in 1940 and began his childhood in Long Island. He was the oldest of his seven brothers and sisters from a middle working-class background. Mariani had received his bachelor's degree from Manhattan College, New York and a Master's Degree from Colgate University. ... Read More

A Biography of Homer the Man Who Composed The Iliad and The Odyssey (668 words, 1 pages)

Biography of Homer Beyond a few fragments of information, historians and classicists can only speculate about the life of the man who composed the Iliad and the Odyssey. The details are few. We do not even know the century in which he lived, and it is difficult to say with ... Read More

A Biography of Gwendolyn Brooks (739 words, 1 pages)

Gwendolyn Brooks was born in 1917, in Topeka, Kansas, but was raised and lived in Chicago until her death on December 3, 2000. As a child, Gwendolyn aspired to become a writer, with the support of her parents. At the tender age of 13, she wrote her first poem that ... Read More

A Biography of John Clare (896 words, 2 pages)

John Clare was born in the village of Helpstone, Northamptonshire, England in 1793. He was the son of an agricultural laborer and he himself was a hedge setter, day laborer and was gardener at Burghley House from 1810 to 1811. He had no schooling so instead he studied James Thompson's ... Read More

A Definition of a Bohemian (1220 words, 2 pages)

BOHEMIAN A person with artistic or literary interests who disregards conventional standards of behaviour. These said "bohemians" have featured as the central characters for two widely recognised and influential musical performances. Giacomo Puccini's 1896 classical opera La Boheme, and exactly 100 years later in Jonathon Lander's rock musical RENT. The ... Read More

An Analysis of Rise of the Anti-Hero as Society Changes (1285 words, 2 pages)

The Rise of the Anti-Hero As society changes, so does the media. The conception of the anti-hero, a protagonist with little or no redeeming qualities, has become a true example of this change. America's growing acceptance of a violence-oriented society, untraditional lifestyle, and emphasis on materialism has created the increasing ... Read More

A Book Analysis of Aesop’s Fables by Aesop (1619 words, 3 pages)

Aesop. Aesop's Fables. Ed. Laura Harris. New York Garden City Books, 1954. Famous Greek fabulist Aesop has written Aesop's Fables. This novel contains approximately 370 fables. There are lots of stories that are known worldwide, especially The Hare and The Tortoise, The Boy Who Cries Wolf, The Old Man and ... Read More

Comparing and Contrasting Female Authors Anne Bradstreet and Anne Sexton (473 words, 1 pages)

Anne Bradstreet vs. Anne Sexton When one thinks about women in literature, the names Anne Bradstreet and Anne Sexton come to mind. They are two very passionate women who wrote about everyday life while making it seem extraordinary. However, they didnt quite express themselves in the same way. These women ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013