Edgar Degas

T.S. Eliot is known to be the most influential writer of the twentieth century due to his wide-ranging contributions to poetry, criticism, prose, and drama (Explanation of: “The Waste Land”). In this case, his work becomes stronger as his allusions contribute to help convey the meaning of each poem. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock seems to start out as a love poem when he tells someone, “Let us go then, you and I” (Sound and Sense, 284). Farther on though, it starts to stray to Prufrock…

In this essay, let's see how Edgar Alan Poe wrote his famous poem, The Raven. In The Philosophy of Composition, he shows the techniques and the plan he used in the writing of the poem cited above. First of all, he says that before the beginning of the writing, the writer must already have in mind the denouement, which is, according to Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, the exciting last part of a story or play. In addition, he says that just with the denouement constantly in view…

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak “received many awards for .., including the Michael L. Printz Honor and the Kathleen Mitchell Award(Australia).”(“Markus”). Which are awarded for excellence in young adult literature. The Book Thief most definitely deserves these awards as its ability to combine fact and fiction is truly remarkable. Markus Zusak takes his own imagination, and his life experiences and turns them into an outstanding novel. Zusak takes the facts and events of World War II, his…

therefore, it helps them to empathize with the protagonist. Consequently, the use of first person narration helps the readers to participate in the story in order to pull them into the story. The use of first person narration in "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe pulls the readers into the story in order to allow them to empathize with the protagonist's actions and…

“Neutral Tones” is a poem of failed love written by Thomas Hardy during the year of 1867. It expresses the bitter end of a relationship and the deep rooted feeling of regret. The poem is believed to be written about a woman by the name of Eliza Nicholls, who Hardy met during his first visit to London in 1863 (Bloom 37). “Neutral Tones” includes Hardy’s predictable references to God, gloom, and distaste for a relationship. In the poem, the speaker reminisces about standing next to a pond on a…

Chinua Achebe’s short story “Marriage Is a Private Affair” was written in 1952 and it talks about the conflict between Nnaemeka and his father, Okeke, because of Nnaemeka’s choice to marry Nene, a woman who did not come from their tribe and is pursuing a career in teaching (which Okeke believes that it violates the teachings of the Bible). The conflict between Okeke and Nnaemeka lasted for eight years, and the couple had to endure the oppositions of Okeke and the Ibo tribe (the tribe where…

The world has changed much in one hundred years: women are standing up for themselves, children are changing the world, but still the works of three authors, Mark Twain, O. Henry, and John Steinbeck, have stood the test of time and stand strong as classic books of the twenty-first century. These authors’ unique styles are the reason they are hailed as amazing writers of classic literature. Mark Twain's style is very distinct because of the stylistic elements he uses. One of the main elements he…

Individualism in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe was a journalist, a pamphleteer, a merchant but he was most famously known for being a novelist. His most famous book, being Robinson Crusoe, is set on a deserted island where a stranded man has to survive for 28 years. This oeuvre belongs to the English early novels and created a new form of storytelling. A storytelling in which Defoe wants his readers to believe that they are reading factual history rather than a piece of imagination…

Friedrich Nietzsche once spoke about poets as being “shameless with their experiences: they exploit them” (109). This quote most definitely describes one of the most descriptive British poets in the world, John Keats. Autumn is the season of steady decline and sadness, a time of the year when beauty dies and despair takes over. The pride and glory of the people plummets like autumn leaves. However, John Keats believes autumn to be the season of beauty, awe, and tranquility and he backs it up…

Ernest Hemingway’s “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” is a short story packed with many symbols and hidden meaning. Generally, it is about a man’s disease, his painful regret, and his inevitable demise. However, there is much more to the story than simply that. More substance can be found buried underneath the surface of the story. There is significant symbolic meaning scattered throughout it that adds to it and enriches it. Shoveling deep into the story is crucial in order to dig out much of its…