Genre Essays

With my unfortunate otaku habits, I have had several attempts to talk my parents into allowing me to attend Animazement. These conversations do not often go well and often require me to tell exactly who I will be with and who I’m staying with. I also make promises that I won’t talk to strangers nor […]

It’s always hard to pick a single favorite movie, because there are so many good ones. Sometimes people have different opinions whether a particular movie is good or not. The movie I like the most is “Batman: The Dark Knight” by Christopher Nolan. The whole movie is action packed, while still retaining drama, a love […]

Steamboat Willie is attributed as being the very first cartoon with sound. Although today, this may not be remarkable as much, it was a bold step for Walt Disney. Today, this cartoon is considered as a masterpiece creation and a timeless classic. A fear in encountered during the production of this cartoon is how sound […]

Entertainment can be enjoyed in various ways, and one such form is Manga and Anime, which originated in Japan in the 19th century and has since gained global popularity. Manga, commonly known as graphic novels, presents stories in a comic book format (CITE KIMBERLY BOLAN). In the article “Manga and Anime: Fluidity and Hybridity in […]

“Go go power rangers” should be the theme song of The Avengers…. For the $220 million budget was a complete waste when the result are cheap Halloween like costumes, The Dark Knight on the other hand used it $250 million budget wisely. It’s hard to compare these two movies, for it’s a shame to compare […]

Why are nerds and geeks perceived so negatively in society? Nerds and geeks are known for their superior intelligence and social awkwardness. Whether a person is considered a nerd or a geek, that person has been given grief for as long he or she can remember. Since grade school, nerds are constantly teased and tormented. […]

Everyone has different views of life. In our real society, there are people who want to be somebody, and people who just want to be nobody. From the songs of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, we can see how they choose to become somebody or nobody. Walt Whitman in “Song of myself” presents a large […]

The poem “Annabel Lee”, written by Edgar Allan Poe, expresses mainly the emotion love. But also inscribed within it is grief, sadness, death, and jealousy. “Annabel Lee” consists of six stanzas, three with six lines, one with seven, and two with eight, with the rhyme pattern differing slightly in each one. The poem uses repetition and […]

Comparing the effects of an identified or unidentified narrative voice in two or three works of literature studied has highlighted the importance of this feature. It plays a crucial role in shaping how the content of a poem is presented. It is common for poets to utilize identified personas to express unfavorable viewpoints, as seen […]

Lycidas is a popular, well-known poem, which was written in the early 1630s by John Milton. The poem is written in the style of pastoral elegy and is dedicated to Edward King a friend of John Milton who drowned out at sea. About 100 years after the poem had already been well known, Samuel Johnson […]

In this poem, the speaker wrote in the perspective of the hawk, revealing the nature of this animal, that it is confident, superior and arrogant. It gives the readers a numb feeling towards the cruelty of the hawk and yet sympathy when the speaker seems to be making a compare of the hawk and human. […]

“The Song of Roland” is a renowned epic-poem in world history, which depicts events during the first Crusade in the reign of Charlemagne around 778 A.D. This poem showcases the oral tradition utilized in epic poetry. Although various versions of the poem have been found, it is not necessarily a definitive version, and “The Song […]

This is a list of modern literary movements: that is, movements after the Renaissance. These terms, helpful for curricula or anthologies, evolved over time to group certain writers who are often loosely related. Some of these movements (such as Dada and Beat) were defined by the members themselves, while other terms (the metaphysical poets, for […]

Drawing on your understanding of the poem as well as the critical perspectives that you have gathered regarding Plath’s work, to what extent does Plath use poetic language to subvert the stereotypical image of womanhood and motherhood in her poems “Morning Song” and “The Applicant” ————————————————- The poetry of Sylvia Plath reflects the entrapment of […]

In his essay, “The Philosophy of Composition”, he analyses his work and explains what is significant in poetry. He especially scrutinizes “The Raven”. He believes that length, “unity of effect” is an imperative consideration for good writing. Poe believed that all literary works should be short. “There is”, he writes, “a distinct limit.. . o […]

The background of Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886) Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet of the 19th century. Her writing style is quiet weird at that time. Here is a description of Emily Dickinson from the book The recognition of Emily Dickinson: selected criticism since 1890[1], “Her poetry is not like any other poetry […]

Comparison and Contrast of Sappho’s Poems with Egyptian Love Poems The ideas of love in the Egyptian love poems are almost similar to Sappho’s idea of love, but there is a difference in the way they approach it. In the Egyptian love poem, love is portrayed more erotic and passionate and the reader sees things […]

By looking closely at Donne’s “The Sunne Rising”, and at one other appropriately selected poem by either Donne or another poet, examine the methods the poet or poets use in exploring different kinds of love.N.B. Equal marks are available for your discussion of each poem. ‘The Sunne Rising’ by John Donne is a celebration of […]

Romantic poetry expresses the self – originating and emotional poetry of the Romantic period. In William Blake’s life, he had an ever so mind changing an occurrence. After William Blake became married, he had an altercation with a man, John Schofield. After Schofield pressed charges and Blake was acquitted, Blake carried the burden of the […]

Some people say that John Betjeman does not write seriously about religion, love or death. There are many examples of poems when he is not writing seriously but there is still real faith and sincere emotion.The first poem I am going to write about is ‘Devonshire Street W1’. Devonshire Street is the street next to […]

The title of the poem is lamentable and affectionate. The narrator in the poem is Aunt Helen’s nephew since Eliot states in the first line, “My maiden aunt”. The poem is much like a eulogy for Aunt Helen. The form of the poem consists of one stanza containing thirteen lines. The poem is one line […]

From the outset MacCaig uses shocking images to create sympathy for the beggar. The first image occurs at the beginning of the first line, which induces a feeling of shock within the reader. The beggar is described as a “dwarf”, and goes on to say his “hands [were] on backward”, which is at the end […]