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An Analysis of the War Poems by Rupert Brooke, Mc Crae, and Wilfred Owen (973 words, 3 pages)

Rupert Brooke was one of the early poets in the war. He felt privileged like many to fight for their country. He died of illness in 1915 before having seen any action. He wrote in a romantic style of optimists towards war. He is remembered as a "war poet" who ... Read More

The Symbol of Unique Women, Lost Love and Death in the Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (1697 words, 3 pages)

Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe was a poet who encountered the oddity of human nature and had a farfetched imagination about life. He writes with the intent that the readers experience each phrase, each word, and each stanza in a way different from anything ever read. The language tends ... Read More

A Comparison of the Holy Sonnet V: I Am A Little World by John Donne and On His Blindness by John Milton (1041 words, 4 pages)

Both sonnets present religious doubt between the narrator and his relationship to God. Each poet uses imagery to his advantage to create feeling of desperateness. Both language and biblical metaphors give each sonnet a personality and a voice. Miltons sonnet is a dialogue in the form of a question and ... Read More

Ideology and Classical Social Theory in Sociological Theory, a Book by David Ashley (880 words, 3 pages)

Ideology, History and Classical Social Theory Sociology is a very important discipline to study. When you ask yourself where the term, classical sociological theory derives from, the reading Sociological Theory written by David Ashley suggest that certain sociological statements are classical first because they have an ideological significance, and second ... Read More

The Oral Culture of the Poems (675 words, 1 pages)

It is possible, on the other hand, that some lesser use of the new technique of writing was the determining factor in the ability to compose such long and complex poems out of pre-existing and much shorter oral songs. Many critics do not accept this however. The huge gap in ... Read More

George Herbert and the Poetic Discourse with His God (634 words, 1 pages)

Herbert is a sincerely simple poet perhaps he should have confined himself to writing hymns instead of tying himself into knots in an attempt to claim profound poetic discourse with his God Discuss. George Herbert did not attempt to claim poetic discourse with his God. He claims poetic discourse with ... Read More

Robert Browning: A Dramatic Monologue Writer (506 words, 1 pages)

When discussing the poetic form of dramatic monologue it is rare that it is not associated with and its usage attributed to the poet Robert Browning. Robert Browning has been considered the master of the dramatic monologue. Although some critics are skeptical of his invention of the form, for dramatic ... Read More

An Analysis of Forefront of Literature in Sons and Lovers by David Herbert Lawrence (907 words, 2 pages)

David Herbert Lawrence As a twentieth century novelist, essayist, and poet, David Herbert Lawrence brought the subjects of sex, psychology, and religion to the forefront of literature. One of the most widely read novels of the twentieth century, Sons and Lovers, which Lawrence wrote in 1913, produces a sense of ... Read More

Hopkins and Wordsworth: A Paper on the Way Technology Changed Man (1032 words, 2 pages)

The way Technology has changed Man Hopkins and Wordsworth "Where do you want to go today?". We all know this slogan of the most advanced software company in the world, Microsoft. The question we will soon have to answer is were we cant go today. William Wordsworth, a quaint man ... Read More

A Review of Dante’s Canto XXVIII (1640 words, 2 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 Character Grendel in Beowulf (732 words, 1 pages)

Grendel Grendel is a symbol of evil in Beowulf. Grendel gave numerous symbols to show that he was evil, like his description, environment, actions, and words that others said about him. Grendels environment and description show him to be a symbol of evil. Grendel lived in darkness. Darkness symbolizes evil. ... Read More

Oral Examination of Awareness of National Identity Based on Kenneth Slessor’s Poem Beach Burial (1260 words, 2 pages)

AWARENESS OF NATIONAL IDENTITY ORAL EXAMINATION BEACH BURIAL KENNETH SLESSOR Softly and Humbly to the Gulf of Arabs,The convoys of dead sailors come At night they sway and wander in the waters far under,But morning rolls them in the foam. Between the sob and clubbing of the gunfire Someone, it ... Read More

Athens, Greece: Origins of Western Theater as We Know It (1977 words, 3 pages)

Between 600 and 200 BC, two thousand years before Shakespeare, staging and written techniques which define western theatre as we know it were being established in Athens, Greece. The ancient Athenians created a theatre culture whose structure, technique and terminology have survived to the present day in the form of ... Read More

Mandy McCurdy’s Review of Allen Ginsberg’s Poem Howl (2133 words, 4 pages)

Mandy McCurdy EN 372 3 May 2001 Angelheaded Hipsters What living and buried speech is always vibrating here, what howls restraind by decorum -Walt Whitman When Allen Ginsberg wrote his poem Howl in 1956 there were many reactions. To many it was shocking and profane, involving words and subjects that ... Read More

Comparison and Contrasting Walt Whitman’s and Allen Ginsberg’s Works on Themes of American Society and Its Values (2111 words, 3 pages)

Compare and contrast the work of at least two poets on the theme of American society and its values. Walt Whitman (1819-92) wrote, The chief reason for the being of the United States of America is to bring about the common good will of all mankind, the solidarity of the ... Read More

Reed Landers’ Flawless Mediocrity among Geniuses in The Ordinary Son by Ron Carlson (306 words, 1 pages)

In "The Ordinary Son", Ron Carlson has created one of the blandest characters ever put on paper, and therein lies the story's peculiar power. Reed Landers is the son of a NASA scientist and a grassroots poet. In a family of geniuses, he is alone in his commonness. Nothing particularly ... Read More

Display of Poets Concerns in Norman Nicholson’s Rising Five (957 words, 2 pages)

How Does The Poet Display His Concerns? "Rising five" by Norman Nicholson is a poem based on humans and youths in general regarding how they are always looking towards and focusing on the future rather than the present tense perspective. The poets concerns are people not living the present and ... Read More

Free Verse in Gabriel Okara’s Poem Piano and Drums (615 words, 1 pages)

Among many contemporary poets, Gabriel Okara makes his stand as one of the most influential Nigerian lyricists. Okara speaks of the same impressions of the controversial novelist Chinua Achebe. In the poem "Piano and Drums," Gabriel Okara shows the contrasts between the past life and the modern world. Some aspects ... Read More

The Personalized Poetic Romanticism Methods Utilized by Wordsworth (1320 words, 2 pages)

Wordsworth did not write by using lofty, eloquent language, and great issues and personalities as subjects. This childlike quality was typical of Romanticism. Wordsworths along with other poets such as Blake, Coleridge, Byron, Shelly and Keats were all poets of this historical period (1780 1830). During this period these poets ... Read More

Significant Factors Observed In “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving (928 words, 2 pages)

Washington Irving was an American author, short story writer, essayist, poet, travel book writer, biographer, and columnist. Irving has been called the father of the American short story. He is best known for "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", in which the schoolmaster Ichabold Crane meets with a headless horseman, and ... Read More

A Biography of Sir Walter Scott, a Scottish Novelist and Poet (603 words, 1 pages)

Biography on Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Walter Scott was a Scottish novelist and poet. He worked as a translator, editor, biographer, and critic, and wrote novels and poems, making him one of the most prominent figures in English romanticism. He was born in Edinburgh, August 15, 1771. He was trained ... Read More

A Paper on Style in Vergil’s Aeneid (2103 words, 3 pages)

While on the surface the Aeneid could be seen as a Roman epic meant to glorify Rome and rival those of the ancient Greeks, the author was engaged in a struggle. Virgil had to satisfy the cultural demands of his work, the political demands of his time, and his own ... Read More

A Depiction and Analysis of Portrait of Doctor Gachet, by Van Gogh (643 words, 1 pages)

What was the artist work about? Portrait of Doctor Gachet Perhaps one of the most fascinating figures in the history of Impressionism, he was a doctor who specialized in homeopathy, a psychiatrist, an engraver, a Darwinian, a Socialist and a consistently helpful and generous patron and friend to all those ... Read More

A Comparative Study of Appreciation of Tradition in Scotland, Italy and Finland (1298 words, 3 pages)

Studying abroad helps you to get in contact with a different culture and this makes you think and reflect about the habits and behaviours. After a while you get to know more and more about the people, the place and especially the tradition. Can you then understand where do these ... Read More

An Analysis of David Pellicane’s Work (779 words, 1 pages)

David Pellicane, the writer of the essay "My Eleven Minutes of Fame on the Open Mike," worked as a high school English teacher at an American-style school in Damascus, Syria. For most of his life, he had also been an amateur musician in his free time - amateur in every ... Read More

Satire in the Poem The Unknown Citizen by Wystan Hugh Auden (714 words, 1 pages)

"The Unknown Citizen" is a poem written most probably by the poet after visiting the Marble Monument. The speaker of this poem seems to be someone from the state committee or an official from the State. He is someone who works according to rules and regulations. He ensures that the ... Read More

The Chrome (1476 words, 2 pages)

The Sound of a Memory Poetry allows people to express their feelings in ways that regular texts cannot. By carefully choosing each word and arranging them on a page, like an artist blending together colors on his canvas, a poet can make readers see, and feel, things that a normal ... Read More

A View of Archetypal and Feminist (844 words, 2 pages)

An Archetypal and Feminist View of The Roofwalker by Adrienne Rich Adrienne Richs The Roofwalker is a wonderful piece of literature. The reader can read this poem from an archetypal critical approach or a feminist critical approach. Both these approaches can find evidence to sustain their critique, yet both can ... Read More

An Essay on European Renaissance (792 words, 3 pages)

The Renaissance was a period of European history, considered by modern scholars as that between 1300 and 1600. Many dramatic changes happend during the Renaissance. The Renaissance was a period of new inventions and beliefs. The Renaissance was drastically different from the Middle Ages. During the Middle Ages the church ... Read More

A Short Essay on the Trojan Horse Virus (293 words, 1 pages)

Merriam-Webster defines a Trojan horse as "a seemingly useful computer program that contains concealed instructions which when activated perform an illicit or malicious action". When you hear the term "Trojan horse", it brings to mind the story of the Iliad by the Greek poet Homer. In this story, a large ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013