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
Emily Bront and Wuthering Heights Art is part of its creator and authors poets singers and artists are part of the work they create Every idea has to come from somewhere and work is usually inspired by something in the creators life You can see an author in her characters her plot her setting and strewn throughout the rest of the novel Emily Bront was no different her writing reflected her as a person Many aspects of Bronts novel Wuthering Heights are based on the authors own life whether these
Emily Dickinson Poetry I heard a Fly buzz When I died and I died for Beauty but was Scarce are two very great poems that Emily Dickinson wrote We will talk about the theme imagery and tone of each poem The poems both talk about death and about how it is unexpected and how there can be some kind of hesitation There is hesitation even in death is the theme for I heard a Fly buzz When I died The theme is very unusual really It means that people can still be hesitant about death They can get distra
Endures the test of time According to the 18th century scholar author and critic Samuel Johnson Nothing can please many and please long but just representations of general nature Preface to Shakespeare p 210 By this Johnson means that no literature will endure the test of time except that which reveals and explores situations and characteristics that are recognizable that most of us share that are common to people across boundaries of time and to some extent place I have chosen two short storie
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love The Passionate Shepherd to His Love is a poem written by the English poet Christopher Marlowe in the 1590s In addition to being one of the most well known love poems in the English language it is considered one of the earliest examples of the pastoral style of British poetry in the late Renaissance period It is composed in Iambic tetrameter four feet of unstressed stressed syllables with six stanzas each composed of two rhyming couplets It is often used for s
THE POWER OF PERSUASION In the art of persuasive power we have learned a great deal Mark Antonys funeral speech is an exemplary masterwork of persuasion Had he stated at the outset what his intentions were he would have been ambushed and killed Rather he carefully adopted a cautious lateral approach adapted his approach by appearing to go along with the conspirators and ironically using Brutuss words to make it appear he accepts their justifications for the brutal slaying of Caesar To turn the
Williams use of Expression as an essential element of his drama Tennessee Williams is admired for the theatricality of his plays and for introducing literary devices into the theatre in particularly The Glass Menagerie In this drama he uses devices such as lighting and sound techniques to enhance the effectiveness of his themes Throughout this play the characters are tempted toward illusion when they find reality too painful Although the illusions of some characters are more socially acceptable
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
An Erotic Marriage Argument A Discussion of John Donnes The Flea A discussion of the John Donne poem The Flea in reference to the relation between the erotic and religious language found throughout finds relevance in almost every line of the poem The two seemingly opposite ideas exist in a congruent fashion without compromising the positions the entities stand upon Although Donnes agenda when composing The Flea is not certain the tone and the subject of his other work give the reader a good imp
ENGLISH ESSAY The full enjoyment of Frosts poetry lies in unpeeling layer upon layer of meaning and this can be clearly seen in the poems Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening and The Road Not Taken written by Robert Frost These poems are layered with surface meaning and deeper meaning and it requires the reader to contemplate Frosts emotions behind the words The surface meaning tells us what the poem is simply about The deeper meaning shows Frosts profound feelings through which he is conveying