Genre Essays

Brother Dear Short story written by Bernice Ferries pug. 25 “Brother Dear” features a young female narrator recounting her brother’s visit home from university and the family conflict that results. Read the first three paragraphs of the story. 1. With a partner: Read the first three paragraphs of the story. Identify whether the narrative is […]

Introduction to West Indian Poetry (B): Selected West Indian Poets Essay Title: The examination of the ways in which Eric Roach and Martin Carter demonstrate their awareness of the importance of poetry to the region, and their own role in shaping it to the region’s needs. Submission Date: Tuesday 26th March, 2013. Question: “The poets […]

Criticism can be made regarding the forecasting method that involves using new subscriptions data from the previous three months to project future numbers. This approach may result in an inaccurate representation as it fails to consider the cyclical nature of illnesses. For example, during winter, the flu virus may cause more people to fall ill. […]

Poem Essay By Oil Grand “Poetry opens a window on worlds we imagined we already knew’. Poetry is more than a group of miscellaneous words with no apparent meaning. Analysis of the denotation and connotation of a poem can establish an in-depth understanding of the meaning of the text; therefore there are no hidden meanings […]

Truth versus Immortality in John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn” In John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” the speaker admires the immortality and excitement of life depicted on an urn, before realizing that the truth of life and mortality is preferable to static eternal existence. The speaker suggests that the young figures depicted […]

It would be an understatement to say that Sylvia Plath was a troubled woman. She was a dark poet who made several suicide attempts, spent time in a mental institution, and went through a divorce while raising two children. Her confessional poems explored themes such as fetuses, reflection, duality, and the female experience of life. […]

The text here presented is an essay written by William K. Wimsatt, Jr. which was included within his book named The Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry published in 1954. The author introduces to us the concept of “The intentional fallacy” which describes the error of interpreting a work of art by second-guessing […]

Leon Battista Alberti once stated that painting possesses divine power because it not only brings the absent into the present but also almost revives the dead. This statement effectively encapsulates the main idea of William Butler Yeats’ poem, “Sailing to Byzantium,” which highlights how human imagination can transform nature and its raw materials into something […]

Emily Dickinson’s poems “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”, “I Heard A Fly Buzz-When I Died”, and “I Felt A Funeral In My Brain” all deal with one of life’s few certainties, death. Dickinson’s intense curiosity towards mortality was present in much of her work, and is her legacy as a poet. “Because I […]

The Manipulation School: Andre Lefevere On every level of the translation process, it can be shown that, if linguistic considerations enter into conflict with considerations of an ideological and / or poetological nature, the latter tend to win out. (Andre Lefevere) One of the criticisms that has, sometimes, been levelled at the polysystem theory is […]

The poem ‘‘The Jaguar’’ is written by the former British Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes. It is written in the third person perspective, describing the animal’s attitudes in the zoo. The speaker of the poem is unknown, but one could assume that Ted Hughes is the speaker himself. The poem describes the lifestyle of animals at […]

The poem “In Exile” was written by Arthur Nortje in the 1960 – 1970 period. There could be different interpretations to the meaning of the title “In Exile”. Arthur Nortje won a scholarship to study at the Jesus College at Oxford University. Arthur became one of the privileged few “chosen” to further their education outside […]

Robert Frost, a poet, icon, and legend, had a deep passion for literature. His parents, Isabelle Moody and William Prescott Frost Jr., were educators who introduced him to the writings of Shakespeare, Wordsworth, and Burns at an early age. On March 26, 1874, Frost was born with a strong connection to nature and rural settings. […]

What a Kiss Means I recently read some interesting short stories titled The Kiss by Kate Chopin and Dante’s Inferno by Dante Alighieri. Both these stories are alike and different in different ways. A comparison of these two short stories is presented throughout this paper. Although, I enjoyed both stories one was easier to picture […]

Philippine literature, which is written in Filipino, English, Spanish, and various Philippine languages (Cebuan, Ilocano, Tagalog, Hiligaynon, Pampangan, Hanunuo-Mangyan, and Bontok), has been shaped by colonization, economic and social structures, religion, and political movements. Despite these influences, an oral tradition still persists in the form of epics, riddles, poems, and legends among the approximately sixty […]

Voices of Dramatic Monologues – A Poetry Comparison Nearly all of Rita Dove’s poetry deals with aspects of history. Shakespeare, Boccaccio, and Dove’s grandparents are topics of her poetry. Dove puts a light on the small truths of life that have more meaning than the actual historical facts. In a time when African-American poetry has […]

Morris’ wry sense of humor is especially present in the second stanza where he alludes to the language of (Grimms’? ) fairy tales (superscript) to describe the only way that a three year old boy could see or understand his father’s actions: The ogre towers above you, that grim giant, empty of feeling, a colossal […]

Introduction Emily Dickinson’s poetry is classified by editors as poems about nature, love, death, religion and others. Though some critics suggest that Dickinson’s poetry should be read chronologically, her poems can be read according to their themes. Since she was the daughter of a preacher her poems are often about God and Christianity, and in […]

A Black Man Talks of Reaping Figure of Speech In Arna Bontemps’ poem, “A Black Man Talks of Reaping”, he uses many figures of speech like metaphor, personification, overstatement and synecdoche. Metaphor is the tool Bontemps uses in his poem. For instance, “Wind or fowl” (line 3) metaphorically refers to white race who are every […]

In “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” by Wallace Stevens, the theme of self-questioning is explored. The poem is divided into thirteen sections, each offering a different perspective centered around the symbol of a blackbird. The blackbird represents human consciousness, emphasizing that each person has their own unique way of perceiving the world. This […]

“I have wasted my life. ” That is the last verse in the poem, “Lying In a Hammock…. ” by James Wright, about a retired man who scrutinizes the atmosphere around him. Many great writers require their readers to look deeply into their words in order to draw the hidden meaning of their work. Using […]

“Leslie Marmon Silko is a famous novelist, poet, and short story writer whose work is primarily concerned with the relations between different cultures and between human beings and the natural world. ” [ (Fajardo-Acosta) ] Silko was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, under Laguna Pueblo, Plains Indians, and Anglo-American decent. Known as the Old Laguna, […]