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- 1901: An Explication Of Love Poem
- ... romantic love. This type of poetry is so popular; it has become a separate genre called ‘Love Poems.’ Traditionally, love poems render the beloved as an ideal of perfection, placing the lover on a pedestal. John Fredrick Nims’s “Love Poem” however, beautifully contradicts this tradition by describing a love that transcends human faults. The poem is written to, and about, a woman who possesses this kind of love, and the ... of people's minds and hearts; if the beloved were absent, all who know her and depend on her kind heart would surely be as lost and broken-spirited as children whose toys are broken. John Frederick Nims’s “Love Poem” exposes a woman for who she really is. Nims portrays her as reckless, destructive and downright inept. He tallies up her shattered glasses and maimed bed sheets to present a ...
- 1902: A Separate Peace - A Journey T
- The novel A Separate Peace includes many important themes. The author, John Knowles, was able to make the book more realistic because of his personal experiences. Knowles, like the characters in the book attended a boarding school. Many of his dilemmas were similar to those of Gene ... Finny. Fifteen years later Gene was able to terminate his perennial guilt and forgive himself. Gene had finally matured from an insecure child to a self-accepting adult. Each theme in A Separate Peace by John Knowles has a major impact on the reader. All teens experience the good and bad elements of friendship, conformity, and growing up. This novel helps us all realize that accepting yourself and being true to ...
- 1903: A Farewell To Arms
- A Farewell to Arms John Stubbs' "Love and Role Playing in A Farewell to Arms" John Stubbs' essay is an examination of the defense which he believes Henry and Catherine use to protect themselves from the discovery of their insignificance and "powerlessness...in a world indifferent to their well being..." He ...
- 1904: A Separate Peace - A Journey T
- The novel A Separate Peace includes many important themes. The author, John Knowles, was able to make the book more realistic because of his personal experiences. Knowles, like the characters in the book attended a boarding school. Many of his dilemmas were similar to those of Gene ... Finny. Fifteen years later Gene was able to terminate his perennial guilt and forgive himself. Gene had finally matured from an insecure child to a self-accepting adult. Each theme in A Separate Peace by John Knowles has a major impact on the reader. All teens experience the good and bad elements of friendship, conformity, and growing up. This novel helps us all realize that accepting yourself and being true to ...
- 1905: A Farewell To Arms 3
- A Farewell to Arms John Stubbs' "Love and Role Playing in A Farewell to Arms" John Stubbs' essay is an examination of the defense which he believes Henry and Catherine use to protect themselves from the discovery of their insignificance and "powerlessness...in a world indifferent to their well being..." He ...
- 1906: Metadrama In Shakespeare
- ... metadrama can be said to openly question how narrative assumptions and conventions transform and filter reality, trying to ultimately prove that no singular truths or meanings exist. In respect to the plays of Shakespeare, critic John Drakakis supports this notion arguing that Julius Caesar may be read as a kind of metadrama: by figuring Caesar, Brutus, Cassius and others as actors, self consciously fashioning Roman politics as competing theatrical performances the ... to pose questions about the relationship between fiction and reality" BIBLIOGRAPHY Scholes, Robert. "Metafiction." Metafiction. Ed. Mark Currie. New York: Longman, 1995 (Shakespeare’s Tragedies - ‘Fashion It Thus, Julius Caesar and the politics of representation’ John Drakakis, MacMillan Press London 1998) (Jefferson. Ann. "Patricia Waugh, Metafiction The Theory and Practice of Self-conscious Fiction." Poetics Today. 7:3 (1986): 574-6.) Hamlet, New Swan Shakespeare Advanced Series. Ed. Bernard Lott Longman ...
- 1907: The Power And The Glory
- John Nejman October 4, 1999 The Power and Glory writing assignment “The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak”.(Matthew 26:41) These words of Jesus are thematic in both the novel, The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene, and the poem, “Batter my heart, three-personed God”, by John Donne. Both the whiskey priest and the speaker of the poem are involved in a battle between their sinful flesh and their spirit, which seeks the Divine. They also admit their sin and commit themselves ...
- 1908: Walt Whitmen
- John Bell Mrs. Taylor English 2 May 30, 2000 All Alone Walter Whitman was an American poet of the 1800’s. Walt was arguably one of America’s influential and innovative poets of his time. Whitman ... or even have a good life. The poems in Calamus are some of the best poems that show Whitman’s true feeling of his friends and lovers. Many don’t even understand how Whitman felt. John Burroughs say, “Whitman is so hard to grasp, to put in a statement. One cannot get to the bottom of him, he is bottomed in Nature, in democracy, in science in personality” (Loving 1).
- 1909: THE GRAPES OF WRATH
- farm subsidies: a necessary evil? Subsidies are payments, economic concessions, or privileges given by the government to favor businesses or consumers. In the 1930s, subsidies were designed to favor agriculture. John Steinbeck expressed his dislike of the farm subsidy system of the United States in his book, The Grapes of Wrath. In that book, the government gave money to farms so that they would grow and ... on the decline. Subsidies are impractical in the economic and the social aspects. Despite perceived benefits, farm subsidies are an inefficient and dysfunctional part of our economic system. Their goal, nonetheless, is noble. Writers like John Steinbeck made people aware of the plight of the small farmer, and subsidies were the only solution he government could think of. If there is some way to prevent the decline of small farms that ...
- 1910: Isaac Asimov
- ... called “Little Brothers.”(12) Asimov’s first published story was in 1939 it was entitled “Marooned Off Vesta”. This story was featured in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction. The astounding publisher of this magazine was John W. Campbell Jr. He and Asimov had a close relationship and it was this that gave Asimov his beginning of a prosperous career. Asimov wrote mainly science fiction stories about robots. His themes of his ... 1999: pg. 3. On- line. Internet. 21 May 2000. Available WWW.Angelfire.com/wi/mikebru/alps.html. Magill, Frank N. ed. Critical Survey Of Short Fiction. Vol. 3. New Jersey: Salem Press, 1984. O’Neill, John. “A Brief History of Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine.” 1998: 2 pg. On-line. Internet. 21 May 2000. Available WWW.sfsite.com/columns/asimov.html. Seiler, Edward. “Frequently Asked Questions about Isaac Asimov.” 2 ...
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