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War is like a photograph. It’s beautiful and fascinating until you realize it’s completely staged and not what your eyes made it out to be. Wilfred Owen’s poem, Dulce et Decorum Est, is a piece of art written during World War I. He shows us the truths about war using imagery to make our minds run free and find the pictures he is trying to show us. There are parts of the poem that show us a “brought to life” side of the poem and a side that unsuccessfully shows the audience the life of World War…

Discoveries made by individuals will undoubtedly transform them, where it be a positive or negative transformation. This can be seen in the poems by Robert Frost, namely ‘The Tuft of Flowers’ and ‘Stopping by woods on a snowy evening’, and also in the short story ‘Big World’ by Tim Winton. In ‘Stopping by woods on a snowy evening’ the speaker makes a discovery on his own perceptions of the world round him and how he must change in order to fulfil his responsibilities. Similarly, in ‘A Tuft of…

How is love like a story? Love is like a story because of one’s expectations in a relationship, and the things that happen in their life to form this story. Love follows a literary progression. We have a beginning, middle, and end, and have plot, characters, and themes. Relationships are based off how a partner and the relationship correspond to a partner’s ideal love story. If certain aspects are missing or completely different from how they thought it out to be, the relationship may fail. With…

Death holds such endless fascination to people that it has permeated nearly every aspect of human culture – we write songs about it, strategize when to best trim back our gardens around its inevitability, and even base religions off of how to even slightly evade it. The idea of “something more,” an afterlife, is incredibly important to many people; along with fatality, that is one of the subjects of intense scrutiny of Wallace Stevens’s poem, “Sunday Morning.” “Sunday Morning” brushes on a…

Erich Heckel was also part of the Die Brücke group. He was one of the more simple artists in this association. His works often showcased psychological insight and lyricism (Arnason 118). Many of his works were made out of woodcuts. Heckel created a colored woodcut entitled Standing Child in 1910 (Arnason 119). It is another work that features the young Frӓnzi Fehrmann. Ernst Kirchner’s Seated Girl is very modest compared to Heckel’s Standing Child. For this work, Frӓnzi is pictured fully nude…

Smith 1 If” An evolution The poem if by Rudyard Kipling is a poem that ultimately gives an inspiration telling people ways of dealing with diverse situations in life that young people are faced with. The poem talks about winning this life and mostly how to become a better person. The significance of the poem is to make the reader enthusiastic in knowing what will happen when all the conditions are met thus it retains the inquisitiveness and interests till the end. “If” is an educational poem, an…

Naturalistic Play Synopses The Father (W: 1887; P: 1887) Strindberg, August (1849-1912) Translated by Edith and Warner Oland 1912 Source- Strindberg, August. The Father. Edited by Edmund R Brown. Translated by Edith Oland and Warner Oland, Boston International Packet Library, 1912. Characters- Eight cast members total. Three women, four men, and the orderly’s gender is never specified. A Captain of Cavalry Laura- his wife Bertha- their daughter Doctor Östermark The Pastor The Nurse…

Robert Frost is a much appreciated poet of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to whom today’s commonly seen techniques are attributed. Many authors’ goal is to provide a contribution to society and influence the literature field in which they primarily work. To some, leaving a recognized impression is one of the highest rewards in literature. For authors similar to Robert Frost, a poet in the 19th and 20th centuries, they accomplished this goal with, what seems like, little effort or…

Poetry is one of the literary genres that is used to pass a hidden message to the readers creatively. Poems are usually imaginative and metaphorical as the poet will often use common words to infer something different from what is commonly known. Various issues of the people can be drawn from a poem by understanding its language and setting. For example, the poem ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’ by John Keats brings about the concepts of beauty and truth. Although short, it is full of…

Love poems in Japanese classical literature from 10th-century Japan have unique characteristics and varied dimensions. Its unique characteristics stem from the contemporary societal acceptance of norms in expressing tender feelings and varied dimensions which reflects on the poems. Moreover, most of them were not flat and direct, and used parallels that were mostly varied forms of nature. Love poems in ‘The tales of Ise’ and ‘The Tale of Genj’ are examples of literary excellence and art. They…