English Literature

This poem by Yeats tells about a certain mythological scene between Zeus, the head of all Gods in Greek mythology , and Leda, a mortal woman. It is first published in 1928 and uses  the A-B-A-B rhyming scheme all throughout the story. It is said that Zeus changed himself into a swan in order to seduce Leda, who, as a result of this brutality becomes the mother of Helen of Troy-the woman who is credited with starting the Trojan War.  The idea of the poem is to simply express the destruction...

It is without a doubt that Daisy Buchanan and Mytle Wilson are the two women that largely shape the novel The Great Gatsby by F. ScottFitzgerald, it is but fitting  to give a clos analysis of the two. During the 1920’s women start making bold leaps and forays into roles that were unheard of (Donaldson, 1984 p.43). This is obviously what the novel wishes to highlight and chronicle. The basic similarity between them is their outward characters. Seemingly foolish, callous and shallow; however,...

While both are considered great American writers with brilliant works and sterling contributions to literature, they have voices that are in some ways, similar enough to strike at a common chord, and at the same time different enough to sound off their own unique look at certain subjects, style, attack, perspective and delivery. To even begin to understand the similarities and to even being to compare and contrast the work of the two great poets, it is very important to start with brief biographies...

Mathew Arnold was an English poet and a cultural critic and worked as an inspector of schools. He was born in 1822 by Thomas Arnold, a renowned headmaster of Rugby school. He later passed in 1888 at a time when he was to meet his daughter. Arnold was a scholar in the Rugby school where he managed to win various scholarly prizes due to his English essay writings, Latin and English poetry. He was good in poetry in a way that at one time his poem “Cromwell” won the Newdigate prize (Faverty, 12). He...

Emily Dickinson is one of the finest poets of the 19th century. She was something of a recluse, perhaps because of the problems that she had with her vision. Emily wrote for herself and her poems were a medium of expressing her inner most thoughts and feelings. Her poems were publicized only after she passed away in 1886. And it was only in the 1950s that her ‘Complete Poems’ a three volume edition were published. She was highly regarded by her contemporaries for her unique lucid style of writing....

In the pursuit of writing, it is important to attain and maintain effective means of communication so as to completely convey a specific message towards readers. In particular, it may be most appropriate to evaluate a specific piece of literature or passage in terms of how strategies such as cause and effect, descriptive detail, and narration are successfully applied. Therefore, in order to gain further understanding and appreciation regarding the proper use of such strategies in effectively sending...

Core American values are those that identify Americans from the rest of the people in the world. However, most of these values will over time shift from applying to just Americans and apply to the whole world. For instance, Americans believe that they can go to any lengths to save their fellow Americans. This is something that might change in this century as this value will change from caring for the fellow Americans and care for everyone in the world.This value goes hand in hand with liberty,...

Significant bedrock of the principle of human rights is the fact that each and every human being was born free with equal rights and dignity. Persecution and discrimination of human beings based on ethnicity and race are violations that are very clear going against this fundamental principle. Discrimination based on race can assume several forms, from the institutional discrimination and severe discrimination to other forms that are covert whereby certain ethnic and racial groups are barred from...

Everyday around the world people always find a reason to protest about an issue that they care about. It can be personal like the daughter protesting against a new curfew rule set by her parents, a community issue like the opening of a big store that threatens the existence of independent ones within the town, to something global like protesting against nuclear testing. According to Soren Kierkegaard, loud and violent protests will not bring the results that will change things so it is better to...

The article entitled “On Imagism” by Amy Lowell, which is also referred to as the Imagist Manifesto, sets up and explains the major principles of Imagist poetry. One of the positive points of the manifesto is the principle that requires the use of simple language and exact words. As Lowell writes, “The language of common speech means a diction which carefully excludes inversions, and the clichés of the old poetic jargon […]” (Lowell, 1917). The logical continuation of this guideline is “To produce...

Although at first glance, Robert Browning’s monologue My Last Duchess seems the story of a deep love articulated by the speaker, Duke of Ferrera, of the woman on a painting, Browning’s use of literary elements in the poem reveals differently and reinforces themes of jealousy, power, self-predominance and control, including Marxist and feminist readings into a story that culminates with the demise of a former wife.  In his search for a new consort, the Duke manifests indirectly in flowery speech...

    In the novel Autobiography of my mother by Jamaica Kincaid, Xuela is seen to embrace her sexuality as her weapon of seduction to achieve power, self-control and sexual pleasure. In the novel, sex is used as tool for gaining pleasure and psychological satisfaction more than even life of a fetus that she carried as a surrogate mother to a white family. Consequently, the extent of colonialism and racism power over a slave are satirical illustrated in Xuela’s power over her body.  ...

    A deeper study on the nature of graffiti would make anyone see that it is something that should not just be reduced as merely a series of random lines and colors written or imprinted on a wall or surface. They should also not be regarded only as something nonsense. They would not be written on the walls for no purpose.  Graffiti and tags are a form of art because they both make use of creativity to deliver a message. The role of graffiti writing in the members of different...