The first section of The Waste Land takes its title from a line in the Anglican burial service It is made up of four vignettes each seemingly from the perspective of a different speaker The first is an autobiographical snippet from the childhood of an aristocratic woman in which she recalls sledding and claims that she is German not Russian this would be important if the woman is meant to be a member of the recently defeated Austrian imperial family The woman mixes a meditation on the seasons w
The Brain is wider than the Sky For put them side by side The one the other will contain With ease and You beside The Brain is deeper than the sea For hold them Blue to Blue The one the other will absorb As Sponges Buckets do The Brain is just the weight of God For Heft them Pound for Pound And they will differ if they do As Syllable from Sound In the poem The Brain is wider than the Sky Emily Dickinson uses intense imagery non standard punctuation and a clear firm tone to present her thesis of
Ethan Frome written by Edith Wharton is a marvelous novel that contains countless numbers of themes that touch the lives of people even today Set in the odd gloomy desolate town of Starkfield Ethan Frome explains ones need for affection and belonging in society sometimes only brought about by tragedy The themes of the novel solely surround the main characters of Ethan Frome Zeena Frome Ethans wife and Mattie Silver a distant cousin of Zeenas The most important theme in this novel deals with the
Its interesting to think about the things people might carry with them if they were forced to go to war Would you sacrifice a little extra weight to bring a good luck charm or an extra gun and ammunition to provide more safety In Tim OBriens The Things They Carried much of the story is spent describing the certain weapons materials and emotional burdens the men in Viet Nam carried Even though some soldiers such as Mitchell Sanders carry extremely heavy objects like the PRC 25 radio a killer twe
the Epic of Gilgamesh In the Epic of Gilgamesh the title characters companion Enikdu undergoes a transformation from beginning to end of his life first as a wild man of the forest who lives as an animal and eventually becomes the kings equal His influence on the imperious king of the ancient city of Uruk is one of great impact and result in the Mesopotamian tale of friendship and coming of age As we first meet Enikdu as a hairy beast like being who drinks from the streams of the forest alongsid
SONNET ARGUMENT PORTRAYING DONNES WIT AND SYMBOLISM HOLY SONNETS VIII AND XVII The two subjects in which John Donne went deepest are those which try the understanding most love and religion mentions George Williamson Furthermore he pointed out From these twin sources flow significant currents in English poetry Love poetry could never be quite the same after him and religious verse that is also poetry descends from him Many critics for years focused on one of these currents The Songs and Sonets
Death of a Salesman is a play that has come to redefine the concept of modern tragedy The Greeks first defined dramatic tragedy it is evident that the Greek tragedies were a profound influence on Arthur Miller He was drawn to the Greek tragedies for their magnificent form the symmetry Aristotle wrote a significant thesis on tragedy in his Poetics His analogy was that there are four crucial elements that must be present in order to define a play as a classical tragedy Namely the play must incorp
The Many Roles of Beloved In Toni Morrisons Beloved we can see that Beloved is a complex character that serves many roles and is used to retrieve the repressed history of slavery in America Usage of the past and present events both serve to reinforce the idea that the past is still alive in the present For that reason a 124 ghostly character Beloved suited this role and represented the incarnation of Sethes dead daughter and also a representation of slavery victims When introduced in the novel
Compare and Contrast Tale of Two Cities and the French Revolution In the novel A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens there are many references made by Dickens to the French Revolution At times some of these references can be considered questionable The references that I have researched include the storming of the Bastille the guillotine and the aristocracy The Bastille was a fortress and state prison in Paris until its demolition which started in 1789 On July 14th 1789 between eight and nine
A Tale of Two Cities Essay In the novel A Tale of Two Cities Miss Pross is a foil of Madame Defarge They contribute to the theme of good versus evil because Miss Pross loves Lucie and would do anything for Lucie but Madame Defarge is amused of hatred and vengeance Madame Defarge is Dickens prime example of selfish hatred She will do anything to avenge her sisters death including killing Lucie Manette Miss Pross on the other hand is the prime example of selfless love She is willing to give her l