Literature Essays

Read the poem “Stop all the Clocks” attached to this pack carefully and write a criticism in essay form. In general, the poem “Stop all the Clocks” written by W. H. Auden is about death of a dear person. When analyzing this poem in details, we see that the subject matter of first stanza is […]

“Beowulf” is a novel authored by Robert Nye and is about Paganism Beowulf and Christianity Beowulf that was written in England sometimes in 8th century that explains the time when the people were being converted to Christianity from paganism. Beowulf has both paganism and Christianity influences because the paganism and Christianity are closely interrelated in […]

William Faulkner holds a dominant position among Southern writers, surpassing all others in influence. However, his impact extends far beyond the region, as evidenced by the ongoing critical attention paid to his work. Referred to as William Cuthbert Falkner (though later he would add the “u” dropped by his great-grandfather), he was born on September […]

Born on March 17, 1958 in Fort Worth, Texas, Rick Bass was critically acclaimed writer in his own right. A son of a geologist, he also took up Bachelor of Science in petroleum geology in Utah State University. Married with Elizabeth Hughes, an artist herself, they decided to move in Yaak, Valley near Troy Montana […]

The short stories Everyday Use by Alice Walker, The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas` by Ursula K. Le Guin, and Greasy Lake by T. Coraghessan Boyle all speak about a form of transformation that has occurred due to an event that may be called the turning point of the characters’ lives. The transformation in […]

After analyzing my past two essays, which were respectively a narrative and an illustration, I have noticed both similarities and contrasts in my writing style. In each of my essays, I have employed a foundational writing structure. This structure consists of an introduction, a concise thesis statement, and well-constructed body paragraphs encompassing topic sentences, supporting […]

Robert Browning was one of England’s most celebrated poets from the Victorian era. His literary pieces mirror his strong confidence as well as his faith in the importance of human existence. In Pippa Passes, one of his verse plays, he articulated his conviction that the Almighty is His paradise and that everything is true with […]

Although they differ greatly in structure and subject matter, the poems “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost and “Woodchucks” by Maxine Kumin both touch upon a personal aspect of the poets’ lives and ultimately explore the theme of death, albeit with distinct approaches and intentions. The two texts cannot be simplified […]

Every reader is provided a vivid glimpse of the thoughts of Robert Frost, the poet laureate, through his poems The Road Not Taken and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. The I-persona in each is shown to have stopped momentarily in his travel and is contemplating a choice laid before him. Taken literally, the […]

A father’s special, often unappreciated love is the theme of “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden. It is a simple narrative that is as plain as its plot. The son as the narrator speaks out his feelings and thoughts about winter Sundays when everyone in the family can sleep late and snuggle under the warm […]

Robin Hood, the legendary English outlaw, has acquired the identity of a romantic fugitive in children’s literature and films. In collections of printed ballads reworked for over six hundred years, Robin Hood figures as an outcast in the forest, where he defends the downtrodden against unjust town-centered authority. Although the cycle of ballads does not […]

‘Araby’ is the last of the Dubliners epiphanic tales that intends to ‘unveil’ the layers that the theme of the story is consisted upon and which let the unnamed identities of the characters to live in the world of illusions which eventually seduce them into reality of their secluded unknown identities. This game of epiphany […]

Women roles in Charles Dickens’s novel A Tale of Two Cities are foundations to establish the superiority and manipulative power of women. Dickens showed how women can help men escape from their own shackles if life and how they made men act according to their will. Incorporation of women characters in the novel also became […]

From time immemorial, women have been depicted as the weaker sex. This stance is evident from the historical treatment of women and the laws that governed the people sometimes could show male bias. With passage of time we have witnessed women being treated with relative amount of respect. This is because of the modern research […]

Porphyria’s Lover is a story that has many literary elements, in my opinion it’s a sick and twisted story that uses a lot of imagery, metaphors and personification. This story is about a girl named Porphyria and her lover and Porphyria is on her way home from a rainy day and when she gets home […]

Released in 2009, The Secret of Kells follows the story of a boy who lived during medieval times and how he succeeded an important quest to complete a famous, historically-significant book. Brendan was a young, ordinary orphan who was living with his strict uncle, Abbot Cellach, in a remote abbey at Kells. His village was […]

Comparative literature is critical scholarship dealing with the literature of two or more different linguistic, cultural or national groups. We are going to use “Wife of Bath’s Prologue” and Tale and “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” as an example to talk about allegory. Allegory refers to figurative mode of representation conveying a meaning other […]

A relatively dark, isolated mini paradise best describes the setting of James Joyces short story Araby. North Richmond, Dublin, Ireland, (where Joyce grew up) is the setting of the story. The setting is dark and isolated, being a blind street, or street with a dead end. And yet the inhabitants of North Richmond Street, especially […]

A memorable idea is a concept that is thought about or remembered by a person because of the meaning that it may create. Slessor’s poems “Out of time” and “Beach Burial” convey the concept of memorable ideas. This is done through the thematic concerns of the poems, along with the use of poetic techniques. “Out […]

The narrator of the story “Araby” is portrayed as a youthful idealist, someone who personifies fantasy and confusion. Even in the midst of his everyday tasks, he manages to create a fantastical world around him. As he carries groceries through the crowded streets, he envisions himself on a heroic quest, safely navigating through enemies. His […]

“The Other Woman” is a short fictional story written by Sherwood Anderson during the 1920s. It focuses mainly on three unnamed characters: the man who tells his story, the other woman who is a tobacconist’s wife and the man’s fiancee who was a judge’s daughter. The story was about a man, who, days before his […]

Magic is the best illusion that a person can have. Not everyone believes in magic, there are only few people who would take their time in knowing and realizing such illusion. Among the people all over the world, perhaps, there are only a number from the large population of human beings who believes n magic. […]