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Different viewpoints exist among individuals regarding love and marriage. The difficulty in defining both love and hate can be attributed to various factors including background, personal traits, religion, and personal experiences. These aspects vary from person to person making it challenging to assign a single meaning to either emotion. Love encompasses different forms with romantic […]

The poet Robert Browning of ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ and the writer of ‘First Love’, John Clare, both delve into the complexity of love in many ways, some similar and others contrasting. The most apparent similarity is that both poems are written in the style of a monologue. Throughout these poems the reader is enlightened only to […]

Marie Curie, an honored woman. The first woman scientist to win worldwide fame, and in fact, one of the greatest scientists of the century. Curie played her role of significance for science, and for feminism. Marie Curie, or rather Marya Sklodowska, was born in Warsaw, 1867. She was the daughter of a secondary school teacher […]

The poem is about Marvell’s desire to bed the woman to whom he’s writing the poem. He is talking to the woman and the piece is essentially persuasive writing, the writer is writing to prove a point and to get his on way. He’s breaking into the woman’s emotions and using it against her. He […]

‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ can be looked at on many different levels but on a basic level it is about a knight that is infatuated with a beautiful women. ‘Remember’ is a poem written by a women who says when I am gone forget me and move on with your life. The poem portrays […]

Pre-1914, three love poems or sonnets were composed by writers who were vastly dissimilar. The poems in this collection each employ distinct styles in their representation of love. John Donny’s approach in “The Flea” employs clever language to entice sexual activity, while William Shakespeare places emphasis on the emotion of love itself. James Leigh Hunt, […]

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin supports the view that ‘tolerance, good temper and sympathy are more important than ‘Belief’ in a cause or ideology’ to quite a certain extent, however personally I think that those feature and belief were mostly parallel to each other and very similar and combined at the same time. Many characters in the […]

Unmatched in the history of our literature, the period of the late 16th century, specifically the last 10 to 15 years, saw an incredible surge in poetic activity. During a particular era in history, a significant amount of intelligence was devoted to crafting poetry – particularly in the form of Sonnets. These Sonnets frequently expressed […]

In this essay I am going to compare and contrast ‘The Sick Equation’ by Brian Patten and ‘Long Distance’ by Tony Harrison. ‘The Sick Equation’ is about how two parent’s intense arguing and general disrespect for each other had such a damaging effect on their son’s thoughts, personality and life as an adult. Stanza one […]

The memories that have left the biggest impression on me are those that engage my senses. Recollections of an evening breeze, the taste of milk chocolate, the sound of a hooting owl beneath a moonlit sky, and even something as simple as a cocktail stick resting on my finger all hold special significance to me. […]

Anne Bradstreet, the author of “To My Dear and Loving Husband” was a Puritan. This had great influence on the meaning and theme of her poem. This poem was actually not published until almost 40 years after she died. She lived in a harsh religious world where it was looked down upon for women to […]

Christina Rossetti’s poem “Promises Like Pie-crusts” explores the inherent riskiness of love and advocates for the safety of friendship over the tumultuousness of romantic love. The speaker acknowledges the many unchangeable factors that contribute to a relationship’s success or failure, and ultimately decides that it is better to remain friends. As the speaker puts it, […]

“The Rendezvous” is about a man who is waiting for his woman but she does not turn up, however he believes she will turn up. “To His Coy Mistress” is about a man who is trying to persuade woman to have sex with him, but she doesn’t want to. “Shall I compare thee to a […]

Donne’s love poem, “A Lecture upon the Shadow” intellectualises the idea of love and through his careful selection of words and images creating symbolism, addresses humankind and calls them to heed, “stand still” (line 1) and listen to “a lecture”, presented as a special interpretation of love, “love’s philosophy” (line 2). Donne contrasts love with […]

When you read either of these stories, three things stand out, culture, tradition and the theme of love. This story teaches us that sometimes tradition gets in the way of your life. It can control your life or not. In both stories the women hold on very tightly to these traditions. The author is not […]

In these poems each poet portrays love in a very different way, and each with a different attitude to love. As the saying says, “one word frees us all, of the weight and pain in life. That word is love. ” The two poems which I shall analyse and explore are, “Shall I compare thee […]

“The Great Gatsby” is chiefly concerned with the elusive Jay Gatsby and his role as a superficial socialite in 1920s New York. Everything in the novel is filtered through the romantic eyes of Nick Carraway (the main narrator) and so it is hard to come to clear judgement of the complicated character of Gatsby, the […]

Tom Buchanan, the incredibly wealthy husband to Daisy, is undoubtedly portrayed as a selfish and violent man in the novel and comes to represent the immorality and materialism of the ‘Jazz Age’. Tom had great sporting success at college, but now, having stopped, everything else feels like an “anti-climax”. Tom is prejudiced and not very […]

Fitzgerald employs a unique and captivating method to present one of the central characters of the book; Jay Gatsby whose name is persistently surrounded by rumours up until Chapter 4. He is an elusive image within the readers mind and his persistent determination to achieve the American Dream is a primary foundation of the novel. […]

Throughout the Novel, Fitzgerald builds up and embellishes the character of Jay Gatsby (James Gatz) in the reader’s minds so intricately it can be interpreted in many different ways. Many would say that in the novel Fitzgerald is creating sympathy for Gatsby in order to create a strong emotional response when eventually Gatsby is ‘rejected’ […]

Fitzgerald skillfully constructs Daisy’s character by connecting her with notions of light, purity, and naivety, despite ultimately revealing her true nature as the opposite. Similar to Gatsby, Daisy possesses a disposition of being a dreamer. Their shared attribute includes the romanticized perception of their initial relationship, which ultimately causes the present reality to appear lackluster […]

Both the ‘Great Gatsby’ and ‘A Dolls House’ contribute to the rich collection of books that have marked the 1800-1900’s, through their reflective theme’s of society of the time, depicted through fascinating three-dimensional characters. These two women, Daisy Buchanon and Nora Helmer have been specifically chosen, being the subservient and inferiorly treated possessions of their […]