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Eunice Dsouza who at the beginning of the year introduced us to the poems of Dorothy Parker. It was just a brief glance, something not from within the syllabus and forgotten the next day. But Resume and War Song would not get out of my head that easily. Intrigued by the woman who famously said…

Eliot once said of Blakes writings, The Songs of Innocence and the Songs of Experience are the poems of man with a profound interest in human emotions, and a profound knowledge of them. (Grant 507) In these books of poetry and art, written and drawn by William Blake himself, are depictions of the poor, the…

How does John Milton portray Satan in his poem, “Paradise Lost”? In this epic poem, Satan’s traits include pride, treachery, and persistent spitefulness. I believe that these character traits compare to the leadership of Howe Military School. Satan commits many prideful acts throughout the poem. This shows when Milton writes, “what time his pride /…

Wordsworth use similes to give readers an idea of just how many of the flowers there were and how they were beautiful as the stars in his “I wandered as lonely as a cloud poem”: “Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way,”, Wordsworth is comparing the number of daffodils to…

Discovery is the process of experiencing something for the first time or rediscovering something that has been lost; it can allow new understandings and renewed perspectives to occur. Through Sean Penn’s film Into the Wild and Robert Gray’s poems Diptych and The Meatworks, the audience experiences how the personas’ perspectives in each scenario goes through…

Sharon Olds is famous for her many poems such as The Unborn, The Victims, and The End. Olds is a wonderful author/poet that has won many awards for her poems, these awards include: the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award, and the first San Francisco Poetry Center Award in…

When considering the importance of literature from the 19th century based on its value as a precursor of 20th century values, Arthur Rimbaud’s poem The Drunken Boat stands out. His symbolist contemporaries all made significant contributions through their development of the symbol as a means to evoke particular emotions and their progression of language. Where…

Wilfred Owen Poems Analysis 20th Century War Poems Analysis I think that your production of a new book “Anthology for a Warred Youth”, the content it should include is of three sections. The three sections should consist of “Sending Men of to War,” “Horror within War” and “After effects of War”. The five poems you…

In the poem “Dover Beach”,witten in 1867 Matthew Arnold creates the mood of the poem through the usage of different types of imagery. He uses a dramatic plot in the form of a soliloquy. Arnold also uses descriptive adjectives, similes and metaphors to create the mood. Through the use of these literary elements, Arnold portrays…

In the epic poem, “The Odyssey”, which is generally attributed to Homer, is about the journey of Odysseus. The protagonist, King of Ithaca and wife of Penelope, Odysseus has not returned from his homeland after the sacking and destruction of Troy. It took Odysseus 20 years, 10 from the Trojan War and another 10 years…