Genre Essays

The poet and writer I am studying is Thomas hardy (1840-1928). His first successful novel was called ‘Far From the Madding Crowd’. His poem that I am studying is called ‘A Wife in London’ (December 1899). It is a bout a woman in London who is waiting for her husband to come back from the […]

Charge and Exposure of the Light Brigade Differences   These two war poems, although written about the same subject, are very different. The Charge of the Light Brigade is about honouring the brave soldiers that were brave enough to go to war, whereas Exposure almost tells the story of these soldiers that went to war, […]

Henry David Thoreau was a man of individualism, and democracy, quoting in an essay entitled Civil Disobedience, “The government that governs best, governs least.” The quote shares the idea that man is capable of self-government, and shuns the idea of any over imposing power that may decide what is best for the people, rather then […]

Survival has been a part of Australian history and culture since the beginning. When white man first settled on Australian soil, it was a survival of the fittest. From the many wars that Australian diggers fought in (and won) to the Great Depression to the present in this economic crisis, Australia has been surviving through […]

This descriptive poem, “Ode to Man” reflects the usage of power by man in society. The writer uses natural imagery, diction, personification and the structure of 4 lines per stanza to indicate and ensure how the poem and society can reflect between each other and its conflicts. It vividly explains how man became powerful with […]

The possession of patriotism is a common attribute among the citizens of a country, while some believe that it has a poetic quality, making it a suitable topic for poets to explore. E. E. E. Cummings expressed his perspective on patriotism through a poem that, initially, may appear disordered and bewildering. E. E. Cummings expressed […]

Identity and distinctiveness has habitually been subjected to in most of John Donne’s poems, in this case the “Holy Sonnet IV”, as has been questioned in Carol Ann Duffy’s “Originally”. In these poems, which have been written centuries apart, both poets display well the loss of identity suffered by them and the great impact of […]

Intended for Year 4 students, this unit of work aims to foster their knowledge, skills, and understanding of using line, tone, and colour in their own artwork. To stimulate their imagination, the students are exposed to different stimuli including music, studying artists’ work, and experimenting with different mediums. The inspiration for this unit emerged from […]

“Design”, by Robert Frost, contemplates fate and the role it plays on the lives of every living thing, regardless of size. By definition, design is the purposeful or inventive arrangement of parts or details ( Webster ). The poem starts with the description of an observation made of a spider that has caught a moth […]

Vladimir Propp, a Russian literary theorist and critic, carried out an analysis of one hundred Russian folk tales in the 1920s. Published in 1928, The Morphology of the Folk Tale by Propp revealed a standard set of character classifications applicable to characters in traditional fantasy stories. Propp’s theory accurately predicted the role of these characters […]

The ballad form is one of the most ancient ways known of expressing feelings, events, myths, etc.; even before writing was discovered, the possibility of transmitting these things from one generation to the next existed. Ballads are a form of oral poetry known worldwide and traditional to many countries; although at first glance no apparent […]

Although Kelley’s covariation theory has come under criticisms since it was first published in 1967, it seems to have stood the test of time and is one of the most popular theories of causal attribution today. Before evaluating the theory though, an outline explaining the background and the major principles of Kelley’s theory will be […]

During the early fourteenth century there occurred an imperative stylistic change in music, now commonly known as the “Ars nova” period. The term “Ars nova” means quite literally “new art” when translated from the Latin and refers to the new way of thinking of composers at his time. The term itself was initially used by […]

The period from 1914 to 1918 was known as the Great War, which became notable for its literary importance. This was because of the need for a large number of volunteers, where literature like posters proved to be an efficient method of motivating eligible men to join the military. War poems sprang from the war […]

The poetry of W. H. Auden is by no means extraordinarily complex or hard to understand, but often an in-depth discussion of a poem can bring to light meanings or qualities a reader may have otherwise overlooked. One may even find a common thread running through a group of poems, such as in this one.In […]

Emily Dickinson’s poetry can be described as ambiguous and enigmatic. The description given in the question is much like Dickinson’s poetry, and hence, itself requires some interpretaion. The main subjective part of the question is the ‘jewel-like world’, which I will adress later. But, more prominently is the fact that Dickinson’s poetry is the anthetis […]

“Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two beautiful people in a Mercedes” is a poem written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a poet born in New York City in 1919 and spent most of his life living in San Francisco, so some would call him a ‘city boy’. This poem shows the contrast between two […]

This composition will focus on three melancholic poems by Thomas Hardy penned during the late 1800s and early 1900s, towards the end of his life. The poems share common themes, and their somber tone unites them seamlessly. During a difficult period in Thomas Hardy’s life, his poems captured his mood and emotions. The absence of […]

1. IntroductionThe England-based Georgians had been attacked by the modernists as “unoriginal and slack in technique, shallow in feeling, slight in intellect… and weekend escapism” (David 1976, p.204). The American-based Genteel Mode, on the other hand, was also criticized as “… in its Romantic spiritual elevation it did not grapple with experience…”(David 1976, p.204). Modernist […]

Predominantly found in Keats’ poetry, there are noticeable contrasting relationships between reality and ideals, rationality and imagination, as well as physical sensations and logical reasoning. Keats experienced a pronounced dichotomy between the allure of aesthetic beauty and physical sensation versus intellectual clarity and reason. For Keats, genuine perception involved pure sensation devoid of mental limitations. […]

In Week 1, Professor Sally Shuttleworth delves into Middlemarch and the Victorian Period. The novel was written shortly after the passing of the second Reform Bill and is set during the time of the first. Looking back to the 1830s from the early 1870s, George Eliot explores prominent issues of the Victorian age such as […]

Exploring the suppressed subconscious elements of the human identity, the ‘dark side’ can focus attention on the intuitive subconscious realms that may create both creative and destructive forces. In her 1862 poem ‘Goblin Market’, Christina Rossetti examines this duality through Lizzie and Laura, delving into politics surrounding their suppressed female desire and its commodification in […]