Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Frost wrote Nothing Gold Can Stay in 1923. Frost wrote this poem out of fear the word would end. He did not publish the entire poem and instead modified the first section. The first section was a featured in print. By not publishing the whole thing this makes me he was scared to voice his full opinion. Yes it was written in enhlish, and no,it was a single poem. a narative poem that compares nauture to reality. With him keeping it short he packs a lot into his 8 lines. "Nothing Gold Can…

In Andrew Marvell’s poem “Damon the Mower,” the protagonist describes his heartbreak after Juliana rejects him. Though readers never hear Juliana’s voice in the poem, Damon freely speaks of her thoughts and actions. His monopoly of narration allows him to exploit gender roles and tell his biased side of their story. He portrays Juliana as a masculine, superhuman creature by aligning her with the typically male Sun and describing her through the use of three symbolic gifts he gives to her.…

In the short story “The Witness for the Prosecution”, author Agatha Christie enjoys teasing her readers by not revealing the solution until the end. The story is about a man named Leonard Vole that kills a wealthy old lady when he finds out that the will of the old woman was put under his name. Christie shows how she can confuse the readers easily by including red herrings, a type of writing that purposely misleads the reader. At the end, the jury sets Leonard free and Romaine, Leonard’s wife,…

A dream is just something everyone gets automatically, it is a thought in the back of your mind that is somewhat wanted even though it would never come true, but is it? In Of Mice and Men characters like Lennie, Candy, and Curly’s wife prove that a dream is more than just an idea in your head, it is what they live for. It is what helps them get through hard times and keep persevering when nobody else believes in them or listens. These three characters, especially, have it hard but they have…

I will firstly discuss “The Rape of the Lock” and how Pope here makes effective use of the mock epic through the course of the poem. The opening of this poem is a letter written to the actual subject matter of the poem Mrs Arabella Fermor, in this opening letter he discusses why he wrote the poem, what inspired him to do so, why he published this piece and also his reasoning for dedicating it to Arabella. The poem is split into five canto’s. The poem begins with Belinda the heroine of this story…

“No Second Troy” is a poem by W.B. Yeats about his love relationship with a beautiful Irish woman called Maud Gonne. The poem is one of the greatest literary love stories of the twentieth century. It indicates how beauty can cause a tragic distraction with the reference to Helen of Troy. “Leda and the Swan” is another poem written by W.B. Yeats, it retells the fantasy from the Greek mythology of how Zeus - the most powerful god of all - raped Leda, the daughter of the king of Sparta, taking the…

It is these three Christian themes of love towards God, free will, and suffering that are significantly present in Dante’s Purgatorio. Dante Aligheieri was an Italian poet from Florence, who wrote his most famous poem, the Divine Comedy, in exile. Dante wrote the Divine Comedy for his idealized love, Beatrice, who appears in the trilogy as a goal for Dante. He traverses Hell, Purgatory, and even into Heaven to find and be with Beatrice. In the first part of his poem, titled Inferno, Dante, led…

Have you ever fallen in love with someone? Poetry is an understandable language that expresses feelings and reading poetries make people feel better. Love is the person’s heart who get warmth and it’s the deepest feelings that mostly everyone fell in love with. I decided to use the topic of “Love” because it’s romantic and understanding poems. “ I Love You Except Because I Do Not Love You” by Pablo Neruda was explaining the feelings of anyone could possibly feels. “ Remember Me” by Macia A.…

William Wordsworth is considered as the real pioneer of romanticism all over the world so he published a lot of romantic poems which reflect the beauty of nature to all readers. He had established effective relation with Samuel Coleridge for emphasizing the romantic context of poetry in the 19th century. They both revolted against the norms of classical movement which dominated Europe until the end of the 18th century. Romantic poets adopted a new approach of poetry writing as they avoided the…

The Theme of Beauty and Emptiness in Wordsworth’s poem ’Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey’ Reading Wordsworth’s poem “Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey”, it is obvious that someone looking back and remembering what he once experienced differently. In the poem we can find two major themes represented: beauty, and emptiness. In this essay I will focus on beauty and emptiness. In several lines of the literary work Wordsworth talks regarding beauty or refers to one thing…