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The Different Themes Within Shakespeare’s Comedic Play a Midsummer Night’s Dream
Themes are central to understanding A Midsummer Night’s Dream as a play and identifying Shakespeare’s social and political commentary. Love The dominant theme in A Midsummer Night’s Dream is love, a subject to which Shakespeare returns constantly in his comedies. Shakespeare explores how people tend to fall in love with those who appear beautiful to…
Literature,
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William Shakespeare
Elizabeth Bishop
Why Elizabeth Bishop was Considered to be Dickonsonian in Her Writing Style Poet Elizabeth Bishop was as simple as she was complex. The lucid and uncomplicated images she created with her seemingly elementary style were anything but; in fact, the complexity that resides within her characteristically simple prose, which demonstrate a purity and precision like…
Achievement,
Art,
Emily Dickinson,
Literature,
Poetry,
Writers
Sound In Poetry
Sound In Poetry Poems usually begin with words or phrase which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem. Every poem has a texture of sound, which is at least as important as the meaning behind the poem. Rhythm, being the regular recurrence of sound, is…
Poetry
Robert Frost Proposal Essay
Frost is often referred to as a poet of nature. Words and phrases such as fire and ice, flowers in bloom, apple orchards and rolling hills, are all important elements of Frost’s work. Remove them and something more than symbols are taken away. These benign’ objects provide an alternative way to look at the world…
Humanity,
Nature,
Poetry,
Psychology
The Rape of the Lock
A very empty trifle without any solidity or sensible meaning’ (John Dennis, a contemporary critic of the eighteenth century). Was he right? A ‘trifle’ is defined as being ‘something of little importance or value’ (www.dictionary.com). Thus, ‘a very empty trifle’ would appear to be near devoid of importance or value. Criticism as bold as this…
Culture,
Literature,
Poetry,
Rape
Explication Of The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufro
Alfred PrufrockExplication of “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” In T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” the author is establishing the trouble the narrator is having dealing with middle age. Prufrock(the narrator) believes that age is a burden and is deeply troubled by it.. His love of some women cannot be because…
Literature,
Poetry,
Song
Apostrophe ; Personification: Poetic Comparison
Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem, “Ode to the West Wind” and Sylvia Plath’s poem “Mirror” both employ the poetic tools of apostrophe, the address to something that is intangible, and personification, the application of human characteristics to something inanimate. However, they form a paradox in the usage of these tools through the imagery they create. Both…
Death,
Literature,
Poetry
Poem Analysis: Robert Frost’s Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
The poem “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening”, by Robert Frost, is a short, yet intricate poem. What appears to be simple is not simple at all. What appears to be innocent is really not. The woods seem pristine and unimposing, however, they are described as being “dark and deep”, and it is…
Books,
Literature,
Poems,
Poetry,
Responsibility
The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd
The poem “The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd”, is a look into the mind of a realistic (or some may even say pessimistic) person. It was written as a response to the more idealistic poem, ” The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”, by Christopher Marlowe. “The Passionate Shepherd..” is the story of a man trying…
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Literature,
Poems,
Poetry
Dorothy Parker Enough Rope
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…
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