Category: Literature 5177
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The Glass Menagerie and the Idea of the Escape
Table of Contents Introduction Happiness Comes at a Price The Importance of Pursuing Adventure Reconciliation Conclusion Works Cited Topic: The Glass Menagerie and its idea of pursuing adventure or sticking to one’s duties. Thesis Statement: The Glass Menagerie suggests that a person should not make a choice between chasing one’s dreams or staying put because…
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Shakespeare’s “Sonnet CXXX” Analysis
Love poems are usually filled with admiration for the author and exaltation of his or her romantic feelings, or vice versa, with the pain and despair of the cruelty of love. However, Shakespeare’s “Sonnet CXXX” has no such elements that make the reader doubt its sincerity. This sonnet can be perceived as an ironic parody…
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“Shooting an Elephant” and “Stranger in the Village”
The themes of oppression, alienation, and identity often permeate the well-known pieces of modern and classic literature. Conflicts that are understood on an instinct level are often engaging for the reader and broad with possible meanings. The basic issue at the core of a story can be expanded and turned into an extensive commentary on…
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“Goblin Market” Poem by Christina Rossetti
Table of Contents Introduction Feminism Sexuality Conclusion Works Cited Introduction The goblin market is a poem published in the 18th century by Christina Rossetti. The poem unfolds the story of two sisters, Laura and Lizzie, who enter the Goblin market when men are selling their fruits in the streets. The fruits represent sexual activities advertised…
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“Every Poem Is a Momentary Stay Against the Confusion of the World” by Frost
Poetry is one of the literary texts which gives the writer full control over what they wish to write. Unlike prose, a poem is well shaped and has a logical order which begins with delight and finishes with wisdom. Robert Frost’s essay, “The Figure A Poem Makes,” written in 1939, expounds more on the pleasure…
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Layers in “Riders to the Sea” by John Synge
Table of Contents Introduction John Millington Synge and the Irish Literary Revival Riders to the Sea in the Context of the Revival Riders and the Uncaring Nature Riders as a Political Piece Riders and the Religious Uncertainty Conclusion Reference List Introduction “Riders to the Sea” was written by John Millington Synge as an attempt to…
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The Collection of Short Stories “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri
Interpreter of Maladies is a collection of nine short stories written by an American author Jhumpa Lahiri. This writing presents its readers with stories about the experiences of Indian Americans who learn to live in the conflict between two distinct cultures. Therefore, in order to understand the life of these people better, the following essay…
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Kakinomoto Hitomaro’s Poems 29 and 30
Conveying the feelings of poets, their works reflect not only the life of the poets’ souls but the state of the culture at a certain period of time. Poems by Kakinomoto Hitomaro included in Man’yoshu implement all the main theoretical achievements of Japanese poetics of the seventh-eighth centuries and illuminate the themes popular among the…
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Spencer’s “One Day I Wrote Her Name” Sonnet Analysis
This work presents the 75th sonnet by Edmund Spencer and belongs to the sonnet cycle “Amoretti,” which can be translated from Italian as “admiration.” Spencer’s poetic speech is distinguished by its originality both in terms of national coloring and its form and symbolism. It is an example of an English sonnet consisting of three quatrains…
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“The House on Mango Street” Book by Sandra Cisneros
Introduction The House on Mango Street is a novel by Sandra Cisneros and tells the story of a young Latina girl, Esperanza Cordero who is brought up in a Chicago neighborhood full of Chicanos and Puerto Ricans. Residents in this neighborhood are so impoverished and full of social ills; everyone in Esperanza’s family sleeps in…