Harold Bloom

The Tragedy Paper Review The Tragedy Paper by Elizabeth LaBan tells riveting narratives alternating between two contrasting perspectives, Duncan’s experiences and Tim’s recollection. LaBan illustrates a relatable road to self-discovery through the eyes of Tim, a misfit. I was completely captivated by the story, LaBan meshed the two plotlines perfectly to make me want to continue reading. Throughout the book, Laban brings the reader along with Duncan Meade during his senior year at The Irving…

Throughout both Will Eno’s, Middletown, and Thornton Wilder’s, Our Town, many parallels are formed due to Harold Bloom’s idea of strongly misreading text. Bloom argues that authors distort and alter prewritten texts to make a creative space for their own. Eno strongly misreads the Stage Manager in order to develop interesting yet intriguing characters of his own. First, Eno strongly misreads the Stage Manager’s desire to cover up the faults in Grover’s Corners in order to create the Cop in…

Tim O’Brien always seemed to base his stories off his own experiences in one way or another. More specifically for this essay, we will be talking about “How to Tell a True War Story” in his book “The Things They Carried”. What I am getting at here is that his work never seems to be what we originally think it is. In his story “How to Tell a True War Story”, the point of the story is not about war, it is not a war story. It is a love story; it is a ghost story. It is a story about everything and…

Washington Irving once wrote, “Little mind tamed and subdued misfortune great mind rise above them.” In other words, people who are small minded and do not think for themselves with suffer in life; however, those who are open minded and intelligent will go far. It is easy to see that Washington Irving fell into the category of open-minded and intelligent. Irving’s brilliant mind shone in all areas in his life. In order to fully understand Irving’s works, one must understand his life. Washington…

A new art movement is the need of a specific era, though it is well to remember that it is the subsequent result of hundredsof years of slow growth. It often produces new methodologies that will eventually form the aesthetic, psychological approach of that time period .In history, a new literary movement arrives contradicting the existing movement with a new set of narrative techniques, plot, style of writing, style of living, etc. which wouldform the writers and their work in the…

No Holds Barred Poetry Who's to say what true poetry should be? Many people in the history of this underappreciated branch of literature seem to believe that poetry requires a traditional touch. However, famous poet Billy Collins disagrees wholeheartedly. Whereas most poets stick to the traditional status quo, Collins thinks outside the box and produces very interesting works. The difference between Collins and phonies who simply perform absurd acts for attention is his end goal. Collins’ goal…

being placed on the highest pedestals are never arbitrarily deemed as such. In fact, in order to be regarded in such high esteem, one must present a level of ability to bring to light and analyze paramount issues of a particular time period. Critic Harold Bloom claimed that no aspect beyond aesthetics, or influence should be considered when determining whether a work or text is great or worthy of being in the literary cannon. This essay will specifically delve into Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall…

Throughout the early British Literary stories, such as Sir Gawain, Beowulf, Lanval, and the Wife of Bath, there are signs of great heroes who have incredible, almost inhuman attributes. They easily ascend beyond what we consider the human limits, physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and morally. Although we put these people on high pedestals as the pinnacle of human evolution for their time and the perfect example as who others should aspire to be, these heroes are still humans who…

Lakeisha Williams LITR322 Natascha Gast March 29, 2015 Research Paper Week 8 The Black Experience Through Themes of Nature in Jean Toomer’s Poetry I have had the opportunity to read such great works from fantastically relevant immortal poets such as, Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Frost, just to name a few. But there is one, Harlem Renaissance poet Jean Toomer that intrigued me, not only because he was a talented poet but also because he was an African American poet. Now, being…

Sylvia Plath has caused me to take a different path in not only my understanding of poetry, but the appreciation of it as well. This is the story of Sylvia Plath; a gruesome yet great story. There are many great things about Plath’s contemporary work. From her life to her death she was an inspiration to us all. Sylvia Plath’s Poetry reflects on her battles of despair with her personal struggles as an artist and as a woman in the modern century. Focusing on Plath’s major events of her life, it…