Chinese poetry

Think of something beautiful like the stillness of the morning before the first glimpse of sunlight makes its presence known, or the gentle smile of a stranger passing by on the street. Some individuals would argue that there is absolute beauty in these things. Still, for some individuals it is difficult to identify the elegance of what may seem to be everyday trivial life. In his poem, “California Hills in August,” Dana Gioia creates a speaker that imagines how a foreigner would find the dry,…

Melivia Mujica February 22, 2018 Prof. Ms. Haight English 1302 The comparison of the Raven and Ode to Nightingale “The Raven” and “Ode to a Nightingale” both use birds as central symbols/images. To give the reader a better picture of the what is happening and giving a central ADD MORE ..... In the poem “ The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe the character goes through this emotional ride of missing and not knowing if his deceased lover was in a heaven. The raven is a symbol of his depression haunting…

following conversations advance the main theme of the story. “My Mom say she ain’t have four cents”. B. Wordsworth said, “it’s the poet’s tragedy” (Naipaul 58). Through this conversation readers can understand that the society does not value things like poetry and do not care about poets. The conversation presents a vivid scene of the lives and emotions of main characters. As the story proceeds, the little boys asked “ ‘But you will be the richest man in the world when you write the greatest…

Maria Ponn Sindhuja. P II MA English Literature PG & Research Department of English Holy Cross College Trichy Use of Mythical Elements in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine Bharati Mukherjee was born in Calcutta and moved to Canada and then to U.S.A. She has written numerous articles. She has two non-fiction books, seven novels, and two short story collections to her credit. Mukherjee lives in America, she not only has practiced the American culture but has imbibed it. She is a diasporic writer, but…

In this short story Faulkner uses symbolism which has a deeper meaning, some vague and some symbolism bold. For one example of symbolism in “A Rose for Emily” is the title itself, the rose is a symbol of love. Emily’s father was at one time the most respected man in town, Emily grew up with prestige, he left Emily practically penniless. The Grierson family home, passed down from Emily’s father to his daughter, was once a southern grand lively home. The house, the rose and Emily herself are all…

The theme of Sacrifices between the families is portrayed in the texts. Written text ‘My Sister’s Keeper’ by Jodi Picoult and short story ‘The Gift of the Magi’ by O’ Henry. Media text ‘Mamma Mia’ directed by Phyllida Lloyd and Script ‘Billy Elliot’ by Stephen Daldry. These texts introduce a range of sacrifice that can occur in family relationship; married couple, mother and child, father and child and between siblings. All of these texts are connected sacrificing their most valuable. The Gift…

Life leaves people battered with the obstacles one faces, but such experiences leave us all the wiser for it. In Elizabeth Bishop's “The Fish,” she utilizes the fish to represent how people struggle and get scarred throughout their life, but these barriers give us wisdom and courage to pick ourselves up and face what's ahead. The title of the poem is representative of the crucial nature of its central symbol, the fish while using free verse throughout one large stanza to do so; Bishop has the…

“One does not use poetry for its major purposes, as a means to organize oneself and the world, until one’s world somehow gets out of hand.” This was Richard Wilbur’s response when someone asked him about fighting in World War II and how it changed him. Richard Wilbur is a famous modern day poet who won two Pulitzer Prizes for two of his collections of poems. He was the second poet laureate of the United States. Richard Wilbur fought as a combat soldier in World War II which changed his outlook…

The relationship between human beings and animals is always a complex one. In the poems “Travelling through the Dark” by William Stafford and “Woodchucks” by Maxine Kumin, the two writers establish scenes in which the speakers face the death of animals but capture their speakers’ opinions on animal lives from different perspectives. While the gloomy and serious tone in Stafford’s work stands a stark contrast with the light-hearted one in the “Woodchucks” as the speakers’ inner feelings differ,…

Realism is a literary movement in the nineteenth century and is used in literary works to depict real life of this world that we are living in. When an author uses realism in his writing, all aspects of the works are taken into account; the characters, the setting as well as the themes should portraying the reality of this life. The protagonist in the realist works usually is from common people and is dealing with the same thing as the people at that particular era are dealing with, for instance…