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- 821: Analysis of "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"
- ... about the topic at hand. As a result of the writing of the poets of the nineteenth century, readers are given many different ways of regarding various aspects of life. Works Cited Adventures in American Literature, Pegasus Edition. Ed. Francis Hodgins. Dallas: HBJ, 1989. 330. American Literature: The Makers and the Making. Ed. Cleanth Brooks. Vol. 2. New York: SMP, 1973. 1250. Davis, Thomas M. 14 by Emily Dickinson. Dallas: SFC, 1964. 101-18. Farr, Judith. The Passion of Emily Dickinson. Cambridge ...
- 822: The Poetry of William Blake
- ... that by recapturing the imagination and wonderment of childhood, we could achieve the goal of self- awareness... the poems thus present views of the world as filtered through the eyes and mind of a child." (Literature, The English Tradition, p. 606) Thou can also infer that evil can bring forth the loss of innocence. Therefore, one existing similarity is that they both concern the loss of innocence. Many poems from each ... similarities in these works by William Blake. Works Cited 1. William Harmon, Top 500 Poems (Mew York: Columbia University Press, 1992) 2. Frederick W. Shilstone, British Poetry (Middletown, NY: N&N Publishing Company, 1988) 3. Literature; The English Tradition, Prentic Hall, New Jersey, 1991.
- 823: The Yellow Wallpaper, A Descen
- "The Yellow Wallpaper", A Descent Into Madness In the nineteenth century, women in literature were often portrayed as submissive to men. Literature of the period often characterized women as oppressed by society, as well as by the male influences in their lives. "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman presents the tragic story of a woman s ...
- 824: Heart Of Darkness - Colonization
- ... time produced works criticizing the process of colonization. Two of the most significant works in this area are Joseph Conrads "Heart of Darkness" and Jonathan Swifts "A Modest Proposal." Although these pieces of literature both criticize colonization, they have different themes. The theme of "A Modest Proposal" could be described as the negative effects of colonization on the colonized, while the central idea in "Heart of Darkness" is the ... over again. Bibliography Works Cited McMinn, Joseph. Jonathan Swift: a literary life. New York: St. Martins Press. 1991. Phiddian, Robert. "Have you eaten yet? The Reader in A Modest Proposal." SEL: Studies in English Literature (Summer 1996) : 603-621. Watt, Ian. "Ideological Perspectives: Kurtz and the Fate of Victorian Progress." Joseph Conrad. Ed. Elaine Jordan. London: Macmillan Press. 1996. 32-47.
- 825: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... was not one that would give a person much desire to continue on its path. As a young man, Poe attended the University of Virginia. This could have taken him to a quick success in literature, but Poe suffered from a gambling problem. His problem worsened in the course of one year and his support from Allan, his foster father, was withdrawn19. He later enlisted into West Point but found that ... foster father. There can be little doubt that the tension between the proud, dour, forceful Scot (John Allan) and his sensitive, imaginative adopted son produced one of the greatest tragedies in the history of our literature. It is in any estimation of Poe s life impossible to overestimate the dominating influence of John Allan; their lives were intimately connected for more than thirty years - ending with Allan s death.24 Another ...
- 826: Critical Analysis of "The Indifferent" by John Donne
- ... lust, and then uses his point of view to portray a portrait of love that is completely opposite of what Donne wants the reader to get from the poem. Works Cited Cruttwell, Patrick. "John Donne." Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 24: 153. Hunt, Clay. Donne's Poetry: Essays in Literary Analysis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954. Machacek, Gregory. "Donne's The Indifferent." Explicator [CD-ROM] 53.4 (Summer 1995): p. 192, 3 p. Availible: Magazine Article Summaries Full Text Elite. Item Number: 951025812. McNees, Eleanor J. "John Donne." Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 24: 207.
- 827: Blake's "London" and "The Garden of Love"
- ... In every voice, in every ban, / the mind-fog manacles I hear": Blake turns to the root of the problem in the next stanza as he brings the church and state into the poem. In literature, the church is usually expressed in white symbolizing purity and often in contrast with children. These two ideas form a double negative image symbolizing the church when Blake writes about the . . .blackened Church. . ." and the ... for the transparent depth of thought which constitutes true Simplicity--they give us glimpses of all that is holiest in the Childhood of the World and the Individual" (Wilkinson 13:163). Works Cited Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism.Vol.13.Detroit.Gale Research Co.,1986 The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American
- 828: Understanding "Porphyria's Lover"
- ... comparing dramatic monologue, and other techniques used by Browning in poems like "Porphyria's Lover," to situations and events, like our modern legal institution, it is possible to better understand it and its importance to literature. Because, according to Lucie-Smith, " Robert Browning, more than any other Victorian, is responsible for the direction taken by our own literature, and foreshadowing many of its characteristics" (29).
- 829: Character In A Good Man Is Har
- ... Find in the hopes of portraying to the reader the racist views of the time: many of the ideals possess a kind of holy madness or beauty. (Kirszner 238). These are the words mentioned in Literature, and express the emotions that O Connor made the grandmother experience in the story. The story takes on a sort of irony throughout to provide a comedic look at old values and traditions, displaying to ... saint, but we later discover the truth about just how perverse she is. The beauty and holy madness is evident throughout the entire story and illustrated best when the characters interact. Works Cited Mandell, Kirszner &. Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing Compact 4th ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt College, 2000. Evans, Chris. Site visited January 20, 2000. http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/msgspool/evans/309/amlit/841779875.html. 2000. Babycenter. Site visited January 20 ...
- 830: The Tower of Babel
- ... has been sought after over and over from the beginning to the end of time. This goal can be summed up into one phrase, "Why can't we all just get along?" In much of literature, many authors have addressed this issue of racialism, and with persistence and much sweat, it has been realized that these practices of racism are morally incorrect, and that the mentality of the public must be ... s growing cultural tolerance and open- mindedness has come to mark his coming-of-age, appropriately noted in the end by the recovery of his estate. This book can be marked as a milestone in literature, for Stevenson, after his realization of the malignant disease called racialism. He used his pen to conjure a compromise between two feuding cultures and brought together two sides of the same culturally diverse coin rendered ...
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