Literature Essays

“Dover Beach” is well celebrated poem written by Mathew Arnold and is being regarded as one of the thought provoking poems written during the Victorian era and during the late 19th century. Arnold is long-familiar for revealing his social critical ideas and thoughts pertaining to modern world into this poem. “Dover Beach” by Mathew Arnold […]

Langston Hughes, a significantly influential poet and author in his time, played an essential role in advancing African-American literature. His remarkable journey from modest beginnings to attaining education is deeply inspiring. He authored poems and stories that genuinely depict the traditions and condition of his race. Despite coming from ordinary roots in Missouri, Hughes displayed […]

James Joyce in his collection of short stories entitled “Dubliners” draws the episodes from Irish life; exposition in this picture plays a particularly important role, as it is directly associated with plot in each short story. The present paper discusses exposition in “Araby” and “Eveline”. The exposition in “Arabi” depicts the atmosphere, in which the […]

I’ve just consumed two pages of exceptional and impressive literature from Rubinstein and Larson’s book, “Worlds of Fiction” (Pages 790-792). The blue eyes are symbolic of love, though this love is strange. A man’s mission to harm another for his own self-promotion! His goal to gain his love by crippling the vision of the other, […]

In Amy Tan’s novel of conflicting cultures, The Joy Luck Club, the narrators contemplate their inability to relate from one culture to another. The novel is narrated by and follows the connected stories about conflicts between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-raised daughters. Jing-mei, one of the daughters, has taken her mother’s place in a […]

“’Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had. ’” Daisy, Tom and Gatsby represent the upmost social class in author F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel, The Great Gatsby. It is through the shallowness of Daisy, Tom and Gatsby […]

Although Heathcliff in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights seems purely villainous, he is not. Heathcliff has his redeeming qualities. His undying devotion to Catherine is one and acts of self betterment are another. However, his acts of cruelty and revenge make some think otherwise. Heathcliff’s dedication to Catherine is an obvious positive quality of his. When […]

The poem “Tattoo” by Ted Kooser dramatizes how things of your youth are carried with you although so much else changes with your age. These are dramatized through the comparison of what the tattoo meant at one time and how after years, the old man is just as any other old man. The tone of […]

James Joyce was born in Dublin, in 1882 and subsequently became one of Ireland’s greatest writers with books such as Dubliners’ being hugely successful among many around the world. Still considered one of the greatest writers to this day, Joyce even succeeds in having a day dedicated to him named after one of his characters. […]

The text under analysis is taken from the book “Doctor in the House” written by Richard Gordon. Richard Gordon was born in 1921. He has been an anaesthetist at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London, a ship’s surgeon and an assistant editor of the British Medical Journal. He left medical practice in 1952 and started writing […]

How far would you go to fit in or feel like you were part of the “crowd’’ ? Some people will go as far as having suicidal thoughts. Turning to something so harmful for love, is insane to me because there’s no benefit from it. The author of this short story I will be introducing […]

In B. H. Fairchild’s poem, “The Dumka”, Fairchild utilizes imagery and symbolism to strongly contrast the past and present life. The parents, representing an old couple, “sit alone together” as they reminisce about their lives. As they sit on the blue divan” (line 2) with “Dvorjak’s piano quintet” (line 3) playing softly, it gives them […]

The urgent need to bolster the numbers of American Librarians and various Information Professionals (like archivists, museum curators, and others) is clear. There has been a significant focus on diversifying the career field and attracting the new generation of Americans. The introduction of a National Library Camp is indeed a timely initiative that has been […]

The Possibility of Evil is full of literary devices. The one that is mostly used throughout this short story is irony. A lot of things that appear to be one way, turn out to be another. This story leaves a feeling as if everyone can be evil… To portray this feeling the author uses three […]

Through his critique “On the Scarlet Letter”, D.H. Lawrence vividly portrays his perspective on Hester. He perceives her, stemming from her act of adultery, as a “demon” and perceives her as “the great nemesis of women”. His viewpoints are conveyed effectively through the use of literary tools such as sarcasm, fragmented sentence structure, and repetition. […]

Edgar Allen Poe is arguably the most famous American author noted for his writing in the horror and macabre genre. He has penned renowned short stories including “The Masque of the Red Death,” “The Gold Bug,” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”, among others. Besides these, Poe also crafted compelling poetry and criticism, along with the notable […]

In this paper I’m going to compare and contrast the poems “To a Daughter Leaving Home” by Linda Pastan and “At the San Francisco Airport” by Yvor Winters. Linda Pastan is one of the most notable contemporary poets and a winner of numerous literary awards. Yvor Winters is among the most influential poets of the […]

Brad Roberts’ song `Afternoons and Coffeespoons`, which alludes to T.S. Eliot’s poem `The Song of Love by J. Alfred Prufrock`, gives a great example of postmodern intertextuality invading our consciousness not only through the modern literature but through the texts of rock-songs as well. `Crash Test Dummies` leader, well-read and wit, refers to T.S. Eliot’s […]

Emily Dickinson’s “My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun” is a multi-faceted poem with distinct feminist and artistic themes. Despite Dickensons’s unique position as the only nineteenth-century American female poet to transcend typical sentimental poetry, her work indicates a strong feminine theme. This atypical perspective of feminism is also apparent in the aforementioned poem. […]

Dionne Brand’s “Blues Spiritual for Mammy Prater” opens with a note: “On looking at the photograph of Mammy Prater an ex-slave, 115 years old when her photograph was taken”. This note points attention to the still-life that is photography and poetry, the distances between subject, object, and artist that are already in place – set […]

In the poem’s “Ode, Intimations of Immortality” by William Wordsworth and “The Tyger” and “The Chimney Sweeper” by William Blake from Songs of Experience, the poets use light and dark imagery to give the audience a picture of life and, ultimately, death. The poems all have the idea of death in common but most importantly, […]

Some people live life like it is their last day alive, spending everything. Some other people save every penny they own. Which way of life produces a better life? What should people do with their money? In the fable, “The Ant and the Grasshopper” and the modern fable, “The Richer, the Poorer,” the main characters […]