Poems of W.B. Yeats: The Tower is a long poem in which the speaker confronts his old age and inevitable death. The poem, which has a more modern style with simple language rather than an ornate Romantic style, begins by mocking the idea of aging, and recounts events from the speaker's life. It then shifts to a passionate defense of his pride, and declares the author's faith in the power of poetry and the love of women. This poem explores themes of solitude, youth, manhood, and love.
You were born a man raised by the best of parents excelling at every aspect of life You were confident yet humble Your life was skidding just below the line that is called perfection Although you are a genius at everything one particular subject drew your attention from all else and that was writing When you put pen to paper words flow out like water going down a calm peaceful river and the end result of each masterpiece was something that would captivate and control readers for ages However af
Life and death are opposing forces of nature that one can not escape In the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight the poet uses natures forces to represent procreation which is the giving of life and destruction which is the dealing of death The poet expresses through out the poem how these two forces life and death are interconnected In the beginning of the story King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table were celebrating the New Year until the Green Knight sent by Morgan Le Fay Arthurs sis
Lena Grove a pregnant teenager has made her way to Mississippi in search of her babys father She hitches a ride into the small town of Jefferson which is home to a planing mill One of the workers at the mill Joe Christmas is a brooding racially ambiguous man who appeared suddenly at the mill one day in search of a job After gaining employment he was soon joined at the mill by another man named Joe Brown The two formed a partnership making and selling liquor illegally and eventually quit their j
All throughout history society has ruled and the individual has tried to overcome its power This is shown in two works of literature and one film In the works Anthem by Ayn Rand Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and V for Vendetta directed by James McTeigue the success of the society over the individual is portrayed In Anthem the society is the overall winner because it forced Equality Prometheus and Liberty Gaea out of the society However the twist is that the society did nothing to make them l
To the Lighthouse By Virginia Woolf To The Lighthouse is a so called stream of consciousness novel one of the particularities of this modern genre is that they have no real plot Plot always refers to action it indicates the special arrangement of its elements In the stream of consciousness novels however there very rarely is any action at all the few things that happen in the world around the characters are mostly only devices to influence the mental processes of the characters Written in a ful
Graham Greene s The Quiet American is a story about love The main focus of this love is from Pyle and Fowler to Phuong Through the novel Fowler and Pyle battle for this women s love but the reality is that Phuong s love is not obtainable The two men even speak of her in the third person which reflects their idea of her as an object Phuong sells herself to the highest bidder and is just looking for the best situation for herself Phuong s whoring personality is seen through her relationships with
The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Tenysson is a poem about an isolated artist trapped in her own pieces of work She can not escape the life she lives because of a curse set upon her when she was born Tennysons theme is that no one understands the world in the same way as the artist does because the artist is too distracted by desire to participate in the world this is shown greatly through tone imagery and symbolism in The Lady of Shalott Tone is the authors attitude towards the subject In the begi