Category: Literature

Table of Contents Introduction Cummings’ verbal acrobatics The third stanza The fourth and fifth stanzas Conclusion References Introduction For years, E.E. Cummings has been the “bad boy”, the nonconformist, the rebel with a cause, confusing librarians by giving his volumes uncatalougable titles like is 5 (1926) with the end given making readers pay attention and…

Table of Contents Information about the author The plot of the story Analysis of the story General conclusions Works Cited Information about the author Andrew X. Pham is a Vietnamese-American writer. His family moved to the United State when the Vietnamese Conflict was in its prime. When Andrew X. Pham was a child, he dreamt…

In Browning’s Porphyria’s Lover poem, the persona is giving a narration of what led him to kill his lover by strangling her with her hair. He begins the poem with a description of the weather, which reflects the persona’s mood. The overall descriptions that Browning uses to compare the persona to his lover Porphyria to…

Fiction, written by Lu Hsun, the father of modern Chinese literature, is a critically realistic work that mirrors the societal veracity of his time. Lu Hsun was a brilliant writer who had a clear insight into the social history of the country and understood the Chinese culture and society impeccably. His writings are found to…

The narrative by Robert is very sound in its intentions. His main objective is to try and prove that once an individual is guided by a principle and a desire, he is going to achieve what he has aspired for. There are several experiences that the author of the article underwent. He is trying to…

Table of Contents Introduction Main body Conclusion Introduction Hyperbole is a figure of speech that serves as a poetic exaggeration of an event, characteristic, or phenomenon. This figure of speech is widely employed by Andrew Marvell in his poem “To His Coy Mistress.” The artistic piece revolves around a male narrator who declares his love…

The last line of this poem seems to express guilt, but it is more a statement of conviction that not all change is good, and we mourn what is lost: if she only felt guilt she would not have written the poem. This line is certainly powerful, and there is likely some guilt, but mostly…

The September 11, 2001 attacks gave way to numerous publications criticizing the policy of the American empire. The work Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky is one among others that throw light on the United States’ foreign policy problems. The author of the book claims that the United States’ present…

Three Men in a Room written by Seymour Lachman is a good summary of those events, which some of us have already read in the newspapers, or for those, who had no time for that. But, nevertheless, it is worthy to read. This book brings up to date about indifference in State legislature and Lahman’s…

Table of Contents Paraphrasing Analysis Work Cited Paraphrasing The day the explosion happened / there was a foreboding of an accident / and the sun was the foreteller. Men were coming to tunnels / coughing and smoking / and breaking the silence. They were going through fields / and one of them found lark’s eggs…