English in literature No truly human society could exist without the use of a natural human language. The word "literature" is etimologically related to "letters". The earliest English poetry wich has survived is written in Old English poetry many linguistic devices which de...

Lorca\'s use of language in Blood Wedding is very poetic. He uses lots of metaphors and moves from Prose to Verse within the play. In Blood Wedding, poetry and drama seem to become one as characters talk to each other in verse form. But verse is only used in the play at a heightened dramatic point o...

Allegory 1. The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form. 2. A story, picture, or play employing such representation. John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and Herman Melville's Moby Dick are allegories....

The great dancer, playwright, songwriter, poet, author, historian, director, performer, and civil rights activist known as Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928 her childbirth name being Marguerite Johnson. Growing up she underwent many hardships, including her parents divorcing and being sent to ...

John Dryden was a man of various trades and influenced the opinions of many during the Restoration. He was a poet, a playwright, a critic, and a translator of foreign works to English. Dryden was a prominent write from the time he was twenty-nine years old to the time of his death, at sevent...

What does Harwood say about change and changing self in her poems "In the Park", "Prize-giving" and "The Glass Jar"? How does she communicate her ideas?Change is just and ordinary event that every individual encounters many times over throughout their life's journey. Whether this change is as drama...

From POETICS Aristotle’s Poetics is considered the first work of literary criticism in our tradition. The couple of pages in the book mainly describe tragedy from Aristotle’s point of view. He defines tragedy as being an imitation of an action that is a whole and comple...

Much can be said about Pittsburgh. This city best know for its industrial boom prior to the 1980's when the after effects of Reganomics took the jobs of thousands and sent the working class out of the city. Judith Vollmer is a Pittsburgh poet. She gives an explicit look at Pittsburgh life. Her...

GEOFFREY CHAUCER AND HIS EFFECT ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGEGeoffrey Chaucer has been called the Father of the English language. He did for the English narrative what Shakespeare later did for drama. He was the first writer to use lines of poetry that had an appeal to those interested in nature and boo...

Reading Between the lines To help understand poetry better the reader must look at the poem in two different ways. The first way a reader should look at a poem is by denotation. This means a person must read the poem through and look at the actual or literal meaning of a poem. A second way a read...

Plato's three main objections to poetry are that poetry is not ethical, philosophical or pragmatic. It is not ethical because it promotes undesirable passions, it is not philosophical because it does not provide true knowledge, and it is not pragmatic because it is inferior to the practical arts a...

"WHY IS SHAKESPEARE REGARDED AS THE GREATEST IN ENGLISH LITERATURE, AND WHAT IS IT ABOUT HIM AND HIS WORK THAT DISTINGUISHES HIM FROM THE REST" In the process that it took to choose the topic, which I was supposed to write about, I had a couple of choices that I could've written ...

A monk becomes the brunt of vehement anger in Robert Browning's poem "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister." Using sarcastic remarks and cruel metaphors, the speaker directs his diatribe directly to Brother Lawrence, criticizing him for being impious, lustful, and greedy and comparing him to a swi...

Sidney David Garner Jr. ENG 1102 TR 11am Kluczykowski Unmentioned Love Poetry and love have been continuously linked side by side for generations of generations. The greatest poems in the world contain this famous theme of love. Love is a universal symbol of lust, forgiveness, happiness and a...

In "Colors" Yevgeny Yevtushenko uses the speaker, lots of imagery, and some metaphoric phrases. Each element is specially used to enhance his poem to tell a vivid story about a saddened individual. An individual with feelings. The poem's main purpose seems to reach out and grasp the a...

The term Modernism refers to a movement, which began to get under way in the closing years of the 19th century. The modernist movement affected poetry, fiction, drama, painting, music and architecture. The true birth of modernism in poetry is often dated to the publication of T.S. Eliot\'s \"The Lov...

William Cullen Bryant was born in Cummington, Massachusetts on November 3, 1794. His home in Cummington was surrounded by brooks, rivers, rocky hills, and woods. Bryant's mother was Sarah Snell Bryant. His father, Doctor Peter Bryant, was a strict Calvinist who loved poetry, music, and...

Dover Beach How can life be so wonderful, but at times seem so unbearable? This is a question that Matthew Arnold may have asked himself, while writing "Dover Beach." The poem, one of Arnolds best works, is about a beach that is truly beautiful, but holds much deeper meaning than what meets the...

T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" T. S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is a poem with many interesting points because the author was very young at the time he was writing this poem which is about a middle-aged man. It is a poem...

The concept of love is so complex and irrational that it is difficult to justly describe with regular prose. In La Vita Nuova, Dante dedicates an entire collection of sonnets and analyses to articulate the emotions he experiences from true love. From the moment he meets the gracious lady Beatrice...

QUEEN ELIZABETH'S SPEECHQueen Elizabeth's speech had the tone of bravery and loyalty. Everything she says in it leads to the theme of the piece which is; she will be there with her troops if need be and she believed they were fighting for a just and noble cause. Through her primarily complex sentenc...

T. S. Eliot once said of Blake's 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...

Upon looking at e. e. cummings's poem, "in Just-",perhaps, two features immediately become apparent: the use of white space between some words and lines, and the multiple use of a single word supporting an entire line. To a lesser degree, the poem's visual also featur...

Song of MyselfWalt Whitman was an American poet from Long Island. All through his life this prolific writer was considered an example of spiritual value and moderation. His most famous collection, "Leaves of Grass", has been regarded as one of the world's major literary works and stands as a revol...

In preparation for this paper I read over many different types and genres of texts, trying endlessly to find a text that I did not understand, but also one that intrigued me. Nothing that I read caught my attention and grabbed me from the first line. That is until I came to Edgar Allen Poe. Thi...