Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between people, and their beliefs — in religion, literature, […]
Ode on a Grecian Urn is a romantic poem that addresses beauty as an essence that attributes to the happiness of human beings. Keats talks about the urn and some of the image on it. The poem has five stanzas each of which talks about varied figures and forms of beautiful nature of art. Time […]
Rivkin and Ryan describe Mikhail Bakhtin as one of the most influential thinkers…for literary and cultural studies and that his theory shifts emphasis away from individual literary works and toward the intertextual world in which individual literary works are set” (p.674). The key feature of his theory is that “all words exist in dialog with […]
Macbeth is a drama of great tragedy. Written by William Shakespeare in the Elizabethan era, the themes of the play relate to many instances of today’s society, including: ambition, fate, deception and treachery. The play begins with three supernatural characters, known as the ‘Witches’, who confront the tragic hero Macbeth on his victorious return from […]
When the war broke out in 1914, everyone expected it to be over quickly, yet it lasted for four long years, claiming the lives of millions of young soldiers. Never had anyone seen such a brutal destruction before, and it was commoly referred to as the “Great War”. It had shaken whole Europe, affected the […]
Great and irrevocable changes have swept this land of ours in the last few years and out of these changes a new art is springing. Historically art gives a picture of contemporary life, philosophically it contains within it the germ of the future…short stories, essays, plays and poems fills both these roles; in them is […]
In the Scandinavian play Hedda Gabbler by Henrik Ibsen and the Greek Tragedy Medea by Euripides, the two protagonists have an independent-mind on not following the common standards imposed by society regarding the rights of women. Even though Medea took place in ancient Greece and Hedda Gabbler in Norway in the 1900’s and did not […]
Anne Bradstreet was a puritan poet in the 17th century. She experienced hardships throughout her life, but she did the best she could to live by God. She often expressed her thoughts and emotions throughout her poetry. In terms of puritan ideals Bradstreet’s poetry closely reflected her personal faith in God and the kingdom. Anne […]
As ‘The Monkey’s Paw’ was published in September, 1902, by the author, WW Jacobs. Jacobs creates a sense of horror, suspense and tension very effectively in ‘The Monkey’s Paw’ by using variety of literary techniques. It firmly abides by the Gothic Horror genre which can be defined as a theme which combines elements of both […]
1. ‘Twentieth-century women poets are acutely aware of their poetic grandmothers.’ Do you agree? Discuss a selection of poems in support of your argument. The place of women’s writing within the poetic tradition has always been one of great uncertainty. Women’s poetry has frequently been marginalised, and it has even been suggested that the ‘”woman […]