Comparative Analysis

Both the poems I have been asked to read to about love and both poems are written by women. The speaker in the poem is constant always staying the same. The poems were written a long time ago so women’s views about men are much different and there is a more of an equal chain. […]

‘The Sick Equation’ is about a boy whose parents are constantly arguing with each other. Because of this, the boy began to believe that love did not really exist, as he had grown up around people who never loved each other.He thought that even if his parents did stay together, someone, maybe even him, would […]

In modern society there are different views on what love means: romantic, platonic, passionate and possessive love. The dictionary definition of love reads “to have great attachment to and affection for” and “to have passionate desire, longing feelings for” although every individual has a different notion of what love means, just as each of the […]

The poems ‘Cousin Kate’ by Christina Rossetti and ‘The Seduction’ by Eileen McCauley both depict situations where young girls are seduced by men and become pregnant. A common theme present in both poems is the anger and feelings of innocence lost, as well as a sense of betrayal by both the men involved and society […]

Across time, poetry has served as a means for individuals to express their innermost emotions and musings. The genre and form of poetry can vary significantly, with each poet holding unique interpretations of themes, as well as utilizing diverse literary techniques such as language and structure. Love remains a common theme in poetry. This comparative […]

The selection of poems I will be looking at and analysing are all based on “Love and Loss” All these poems are written before 1900, and all focus on four different aspects of love.The first ‘My Last Duchess’ by Robert Browning is about jealous love… The second ‘Villegiature’ by Edith Nesbit is about disappointment in […]

‘The Great Gatsby’, written by F Scott Fitzgerald, is undoubtedly a deeply tragic novel. There are many tragic elements about it, many of which I shall be looking at in greater detail. The title character and protagonist in the novel is Jay Gatsby, a mysterious and fabulously wealthy man living in a gothic mansion in […]

During the preceding month, we have examined and read two stories from a volume named “Stories then and now”. The initial narrative is entitled “Tony Kytes, The Arch Deceiver” and was created by Thomas Hardy in 1894. The second story is “Tickets, Please” by the author D.H. Laurence, and was written in 1924. Despite their […]

Written during the Victorian era, these two short stories share a common theme and setting in small village communities where news spreads quickly amongst tight-knit neighbors. Both tales delve into marriage during this period when views on matrimony differed greatly from contemporary perspectives. Examining historical societal norms, these stories captivate audiences today as well as […]

Both poets focus on different aspects of the fish’s lives. Heaney focus’s mainly on the sleek physicality of the trout and the fact that it is a guided missile, full of energy and this point reinstates the fact that it is very powerful, not dangerous or aggressive. It also contributes to the very militaristic style […]

The two books I have chosen to compare are The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro and A Fragment of Stained Glass by D. H. Lawrence. This essay will give a brief outline of both texts, I have studied, and show any similarities or differences, I have found between them. Kazuo Ishiguro wrote The […]

Representatives of the Victorian Era The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Dorian Gray The novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was written by Robert L. Stevenson and first published in 1886. The years from 1837 to 1901 are considered the Victorian Era, so the novel is considered […]

In my essay I aim to compare the similarities and state the differences between two poems, Sylvia Plath’s, ‘Daddy’ and Emily Dickinson’s, ‘I Felt a Funeral in my Brain.’ These two poems deal with intense emotions and extreme cases of anger from the writer’s own real-life experiences. Sylvia Plath had an extremely traumatic childhood as […]

A sonnet is a type of poem, which poets often use to express their feelings. The themes of most sonnets are subjects such as war and death or love and happiness. Sonnets are useful because the poet can tell the reader what they want to say in just fourteen short lines.The person who wrote the […]

Upon analyzing two different pieces of literature, it is evident that although they share various similarities and differences, they also possess numerous distinct qualities. By comparing and contrasting the short stories Two Kinds by Amy Tan and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, we can observe their similarities and differences. Both authors drew inspiration […]

This is the title that I have chosen to do my essay on; in this, I will examine three poems of Heaney’s and complete analysis of them. The poems I have chosen to look at are: Poem for Marie, At a Potato Digging, and Blackberry Picking. I chose to do Poem for Marie as it […]

Seamus Heaney authored both of the poems I examined, both of which address death, albeit in distinct ways. Two emotional poems, one set in the countryside, the other in the city, explore death’s impact. “The Early Purges” shows a clearing out of life in the country with kittens as innocent victims, while the other poem […]

‘Mid-term break was written by Seamus Heaney , a poet born in 1939 in County Derry, in Ireland. The poem is about the death of Heaney’s younger brother who is unnamed.’Funeral blues’ was written by Wystan Hugh Auden, also a poet. Auden was born in 1907 in York, in England. The poem is about the […]

Death is an inevitable reality that we all know will happen, yet we often don’t expect it to affect us personally. However, when death does touch our lives, it profoundly impacts us and those close to us. It also provides a deeper understanding of the brevity of life. The poems “Mid-Term Break” by Seamus Heaney […]

The popular and highly successful author Roald Dahl wrote the story “Lamb to the Slaughter”. The story was first published in 1954. The author Roald Dahl is a famous author and he is most famous for writing stories such as “James and the giant peach” and “The Twits” but as not a lot of people […]

This essay focuses on two stories: “The signalman” written in the 1800s and “Lamb to the Slaughter” written in the 1900s. In this text, I will analyze and compare two stories in terms of their style, content, and language. Specifically, Dahl’s “Lamb to the Slaughter” effectively uses descriptive adjectives to establish the story’s setting and […]

Roald Dahl, born on September 13, 1916, in Llandolf, South Wales, wrote the story “Lamb to the Slaughter” in 1995. He unfortunately passed away in 1991. Among his other notable works are “BFG” and “Willy Wonka”. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, born on May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh, Scotland, wrote “The Speckled Band”. He also sadly […]