Literature Essays
Literature can be a lot of fun to write, but it can also be a lot of work. To make the process easier, you can get information online. Literature essays are more common in college, but you may be assigned to write one for high school as well. There are several sites where you can get examples of essays on literature from these websites.
Writing literature essays involves three steps. The first step is to decide what type of essay you want to write. There are five common types of essays: expository, descriptive, narrative, compare and contrast, and persuasive. You can find examples online for all types of literature essays. You can further refine the many subtypes within the five main literature essays. You may seek professional help if you feel unsure about writing your type of essay.
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‘Perhaps’ by Brittain and ‘A wife in London’ by Hardy, both deal with the subject of the loss of a loved one through the destructions of war. Both poems are written from the point of view of a grieving female who has lost her husband, there are however two major differences that could affect how […]
“In Flander’s Fields,” written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae during World War I, is to this day, one of the most monumental war poems ever composed. Created as a legacy of the horrifying battle in the Ypres salient in 1915; this very vivid poem gives its reader the sense of death, while its beautiful images […]
In the First World War people wanted the young men to go to war, but no-one really knew about conditions of the fighting in the war. Wilfred Owen was one of the people who wanted to tell the public what war was really was like. He tried to do that through his poetry. One of […]
In this essay I will be analyzing the title question and find out what my view is on the opinion that all war poetry is violent and depressing. I will be studying two poems by William Shakespeare and two poems by Wilfred Owen; this will incorporate pre-1900 poetry and post-1900 poetry in my essay by […]
In 1798 a new era began in English poetry called the Romantic age. This age provoked the thinking of new radical ideas and thoughts and the writing of these ideas in poems. The poets included Samuel T Coleridge, Alfred Lord Tennyson and William Wordsworth. Some of their ideas and thoughts include: 1) Rebellion against tyrannical […]
Throughout Yeats’ early poetry, the theme of love is one of utmost importance, especially in his earlier works. What we must note and remember is that at the time in which Yeats was writing his earlier poetry, he had two main obsessions- Maude Gonne and Irish culture. Maude Gonne was a very well sought- after […]
Later in his career, Yeats experienced a significant change in his style. The once romantic and dreamy quality of his early poetry transformed into a more concise, sharp, and masculine manner. This shift became evident in his new volume of poems, “The Green helmet and other poems,” which was published in 1910. It became even […]
Being one of the greatest poet in the modern world and a major figure devoting to the Celtic Twilight, which is a trial and a “popular desire for a revival of Irish traditional culture” (Kelen 32), William Butler Yeats died in January, 1939. Meanwhile, it was only eight months before the outbreak of World War […]
Two poets who are influenced by different individuals yet both come together to produce poems which expose the same image, the struggle of man, are William Butler Yeats and Wystan Hugh Auden. W. B. Yeats, born in Dublin and the son of an Irish painter, hastily revealed, after returning from his childhood life in County […]
The poems ‘Dulce et decorum est’ by Wilfred Owen and ‘The charge of the Light Brigade’ both focus on war, yet they express different themes and ideas. The former provides a vivid depiction of the Crimean War and the Battle at Balaklava while the latter gives a direct narrative of World War One’s terrifying experiences. […]
Both of the poems named above are about war. They are on the different aspects of war from two peoples’ point of view. ‘Joining the Colours’ is by Katherine Tynan, a woman who did not go to war and stayed at home. She did not know what life was like in battle but wrote her […]
The Poems “Who’s for the Game” written by Jessie Pope and “Dulce Et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen were written during World War 1, both of these poems have different views on the War. Jessie Pope was born in 1870 and died in 1941 she was best known for her World War 1 poems but […]
In this piece of writing I’m going to discuss Wilfred Owen’s portrayal of the First World War, focusing in on his use of language and his attitudes towards the war. I think to be able to draw a stronger conclusion at the end of the essay, it’s only right I briefly summarise the background of […]
The poem ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ was composed by Wilfred Owen and published during the war, shortly before he lost his life in battle. The poem itself possesses bitterness and irony, conveying the message that war lacks glamour, and believing that it is a cause for celebration is to disregard the fallen soldiers. The title […]
The purpose of this essay is to compare and discuss three poems from the Great War. Each poem is written by a different author: ‘In Memoriam’ by F. A. Mackintosh, ‘Death Bed’ by Siegfried Sassoon, and ‘Dulce et Decorum est’ by Wilfred Owen. Initially, I’ll examine F. A. Mackintosh’s poem ‘In Memoriam’. The title suggests […]
War has given writers much material to use in books, short stories, descriptive essays, poems etc. Sometimes these merely narrate incidents and bring them up to story form. For instance Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy’s masterpiece, War and Peace, tells the story of five families during the Napoleonic Wars, “The Great Escape” by Paul Brickhill which […]
In the poem, Thomas makes quite a few references and allusions to war. He uses the nature and weather described in the poems as metaphors for various aspects of the war. The blizzard that is mentioned in the poem could be interpreted as a metaphor for either death or war. “In France they killed him; […]
The romantic tale of ‘Romeo and Juliet’, known universally as one of the greatest love narratives, portrays the amorous bond between two youthful “star-crossed lovers” who belong to quarrelling families. This play, composed over four centuries ago, has endured through time and is expected to persist. The bodies of work by Shakespeare have perpetually aroused […]
Examine the differing viewpoints on war presented in the poems “Fall In,” “The Soldier,” and “Dulce et Decorum Est”, all of which are centered around World War 1. This task will involve exploring the different viewpoints on war as presented in Harold Begbie’s ‘Fall In’, Rupert Brooke’s ‘The Soldier’ and Wilfred Owen’s ‘Dulce et Decorum […]
Lord de Tabley, a poet, published a collection of poems called Rehearsals in 1870. One of the poems in this collection is ‘The Knight in the Wood’, in which the poet expresses his emotions towards art and specifically towards one sculpture. The poet devotes the initial section of the poem to drawing a comparison between […]
Howard’s end is a symbolic novel. The novel deals with conflict of different social class and human relationship. Ruth Wilcox is very important character as I am going to discuss the role and influence of Mrs. Wilcox. Ruth Wilcox is representing the conservative English. Although, she is alive only for a short time. Her symbolic […]
Many poems have been written on the basic theme of parent-child separation. I have chosen to write about two poems. The first of these is “The Slave Mother” written by Frances E. W. Harper, written in the mid 1800’s. It explores the idea of a black slave mother having her son stolen from her. The […]
