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The book Jonathan Livingston Seagull is a Christian Allegory. What is an allegory you might ask, let me better inform you. An allegory is a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms; figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another, a symbolical narrative. An example of an allegory […]
The movie Avatar depicts the similarity between the treatment of Native Americans by the pilgrims. It is set on the planet Pandora, inhabited by natives called the Nava, who resemble the native Americans in their use of bows and arrows. The Nava treat nature with great respect, similar to how the Native Americans worshipped and […]
An allegory of the story can define the representation of ideas, events, or characters. Gabriel Garcia Marquezâs, âA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsâ, gives two good examples on symbolic and allegory meanings through the characters and their action. This story is blended with normal humanity, fantasy, and magical realism. The story can bring different […]
Introduction The Allegory of the cave is a symbolic story by Plato about prisoners in a cave who have been chained in a cave since their infancy; they have been chained to the floor with by their heads such that there is nothing they can see apart from the front wall of the cave. Behind […]
Woodstock is considered a pivotal moment in rock music history during the 1960s, symbolizing an era characterized by free love and drug use among hippie youth. It marked the end of a century filled with various changes in rock music genres, including pop, folk, and acid rock. Some argue that rock music died along with […]
The title Limbo suggests to me that the poem is about the traditional dance form the West Indies which originated from the 1800’s. The dance was invented by slaves aboard the slave ships to keep fit and healthy during the long journeys across the sea. The word Limbo can also be treated as a place […]
âA Giftâ by Rahila Gupta, is a short story about a two homosexuals, which traces fragments of the feelings and emotions of a chaste and somewhat intellectual relationship between two women, one being the dominant partner and the other the submissive one. She uses a vast variety of figures of speech, such as alliterations, metaphors […]
The speaker starts the poem with the first gold of spring. It is inferred the setting is spring because of the description of the first greens of nature. Also, the use of the words green and gold allow the reader to picture a peaceful spring morning when the sun has just risen and given the […]
I have been given four depressing poems to study, looking at the way different poets display their or their persona’s feelings. The poets in the four poems I have read write about different experiences of frustration and anger and the different effects these have on their emotions. In this study I am only mentioning 3 […]
The prevailing mood of melancholy, obscurity, and hopelessness characterizes both Tennyson’s “Morte d’Arthur” and Byron’s “The Prisoner of Chillon.” Both poets use settings, character emotions, pathos, and contrasting atmospheres to achieve a melancholic mood. In “Morte d’Arthur,” King Arthur’s decline and preparations for death with the help of Sir Bedivere is the focus. Meanwhile, “The […]
The poem is written as eulogy to the poet’s wife, and the somber tone is instantly evident. However, the title suggests the unearthing of a mislaid youth. The speaker of the poem speaks of sorting through old belongings, and he seems to take sentiment from things that at the time were just part of every […]
âDeliberateâ by Amy Uyematsu is a satire of American teenagers who adopt African-American youth culture in a bid to deny their own backgrounds. The form of âDeliberateâ is extremely naturalistic. The poet uses enjambement throughout the poem which effectively makes the poem one sentence. In addition to this, the poet uses no end rhyme and […]
âThe Red Wheelbarrow,â by William Carlos Wiliams, is a very short poem, consisting of four stanzas. Each stanza has two lines and a total of four words. There are three words on the first line and one word on the second line in each of the four stanzas. âThe Red Wheelbarrowâ has no apparent rhyme […]
The title âThe Day Millicent Found the Worldâ is about the day a young girl named Millicent discovered the world around her. The title is significant as well as symbolic. The title gives the poem a deeper meaning and gives the readers deeper insight into what they should expect. In this poem, the author, I […]
The poem âSeasonâ written by Wole Soyinka makes use of various poetic devices and techniques. The poem is set in the time spent waiting between autumn and winter and is seen through the eyes of corn garnered. In the poem, Soyinka depicts the feeling of the corn garnered and the fields he occupies. Primarily, this […]
Say how far you agree with the views that Drummer Hodge is presented in a romantic, idealised way, and that Graves’ German soldier is presented with stark-realism. Hardy wrote ‘Drummer Hodge’ as a poem depicting the way in which a young drummer boy from Dorset dies and is then buried without ceremony, on the South […]
The immediate thing that strikes me, when comparing Tennyson’s “eagle” and McCaig’s “sparrow”, is the great contrast in length between the two poems. In just two verses, Tennyson manages to convey the pure majesty of the eagle in its natural habitat, following the instinct that has driven it to hunt its prey like countless generations […]
Love is a common theme in poetry and it has been written about for hundreds of years. Two of the most famous poets in history are William Shakespeare and W. B. Yeats. Both of these poets used the love theme very often in their poems. William Shakespeare was born in 1564 and died in 1616. […]
Carol Ann Duffy has written many poems and many of them are linked but in different ways, to substantiate this I am going to refer to three of her poems and compare them with one another. The poems that I have chosen are ‘War Photographer’, ‘Valentine’ and ‘Before You Were Mine’. My first impression of […]
‘Night of the Scorpion’ is a poem by Nissim Ezekiel that utilizes Indian English to capture the essence of Indian culture and ideology. The poet employs the ‘Poetry of Situation’ style to depict the selfless maternal reaction when bitten by a scorpion – ‘Thank God the scorpion picked on me and spared my children’. This […]
I Hear America Singing SUMMARY In the poem “I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman, the reader envisions a country of people working for the greater good of mankind. These people come together as part of the whole society developing industry and production. Each person has a different occupation, but each job is important to […]
It has been well documented that children in order to cope with surrounding miseries and hardships often create make believe worlds, where they can somehow retreat and learn to cope with the events that may be affecting their lives. Such seems to be the case for the primary character in “Pan’s Labyrinth”, named Ofelia.Ofelia is […]
