Literature

Jonathan Swift has suggested that “Satire is a sort of Glass, wherein Beholders do generally discover every body’s Face their own; which is the chief reason…that so few are offended with it.” Richard Garnett suggests that, “Without humour, satire is invictive; without literary form, and it is mere clownish jeering.” (Encyclopaedia Britannica 14th ed. vol.20…

Type of Work: Romantic narrative poem Setting Plymouth, Massachusetts; 1621. Principal Characters Miles Standish, a soldier and protector of the colony John Alden, his younger, bookish friend Priscilla, a young Puritan woman. On a spring afternoon in 1621, Captain Miles Standish, a short, powerfully-built man of middle age and a recent widower, stood in his…

Book She Walks in Beauty is one of the most famous works of poet Lord Byron (George Gordon) in the year June 12th, 1814. Lord Bryon (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) is a renown poet and politician of the Romantic Movement. Being born in England, he had a controversial life which most of…

Mother Tongue is by Amy Tan and it is a nonfiction passage that talks about her problems with where she stands on language ,her mother’s not so good English and their bond. Earlier in the story she talks about how she conversates with her mother and husband differently than she does when she giving a…

During the past few decades, many different authors developed unique writing styles that have changed over the years. Many books from the past are similar to modern day books, but many have changed as well. The novel, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald was set in the 1920s when World War One ended…

Introduction Literature consists of those writings which interpret the meaning of nature and life in words of charm and power, touched with the personality of the author, in artistic forms of permanent interests. It is a product of life and about life. It uses language as medium to express once own feelings and experiences. Literature…

David Foster Wallace, an American writer, “Good People” is a short story which is based on two young Christian couple set at the park nearby the lake. The couples, Lane A. Dean and Sheri Fisher, faced with an issue of unplanned pregnancy, which creates a situation of fear, choice between right or wrong and religious…

Symbolism In ‘Master Harold’ . . And The Boys Symbolism in ‘Master Harold’ . . and the Boys Ainsley Donovan 125055 English 110.6 Section 23 April 25, 1997 Athol Fugard’s ‘Master Harold’ . . . and the Boys is about Hally, a white young man, and the damage done by apartheid and alcoholism. The play…

The essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent” by T. S. Eliot incorporates many ideas sympathetic to those found in Pound’s poetry, thus allowing Pound to be comprehended more completely by one who has first read Eliot’s essay. If one were to read Eliot’s essay, he could in turn pick up ideas central to understanding Pound’s…

In Hawthornes Young Goodman Brown, the characters and settings are used to show allegory. The characters and setting are used in metaphor to represent something else. The whole story of Young Goodman Brown, represents the journey of everyman. Its path that everyone follows, or so Hawthorne seems to believe. The main character, Young Goodman Brown…