Homoeroticism

languages he uses supports, but also sometimes contradicts his philosophy. Whitman avoids rhyme schemes and other frequently used poetic devices but he does use meter in innovative ways, often to mimic natural speech. Eroticism, particularly homoeroticism, shows significantly in Whitman’s poetry. He also has great respect for the reproductive powers of the body, which reflects his generation of poetry. After the Civil War, his poetry got darker and more isolated, but his style remains…

Religion and integral cultural restrictions have come to oppose homoeroticism since the dawn of mankind, particularly Abrahamic religions such as Judaism, Christianity and Islam. According to a recent study done by the Pew Research Center's Social & Demographic Trends, 60% of LGBT adults, aged 18 to 29, are unaffiliated…

In this article, it tells the tale of Gilgamesh and how his life transpired over the course of years. “The fullest surviving text is the Assyrian one from the library of King Ashurbanipal at Nineveh, and therefore no older than the seventh century BC, at least a millennium later than composition” (1). Gilgamesh was lost in the beginning his life was spinning out of control and the people looked to the God’s for help. Cotterell writes, “The Akkadian epic portrays Gilgamesh as a tyrant,…

Power and privilege: How and why is a social group represented in a particular way? Oscar Wilde’s Salome, published in French in 1893 and translated to English the following year, is a biblical one-act play that revolves around the central themes of gender roles, institutionalized misogyny, as well as the ‘the gaze’ and its effect. Being a somewhat controversial play, it was denied the right to be staged in Britain until 1931 (Price & Tydeman, 1) as it was illegal to depict biblical figures in…

Shally and Katz express struggles common to men such as good vs. evil, power vs. submissiveness, and work vs. ownership. Gender, like race and class, is a part of professional wrestling. Professional wrestling leaves little surprise that boys to act act masculine. As Katz says, “we get a very traditional and very conservative version of masculinity represented as an ideal of physical strength, the ability to control and scare other people, to intimidate, and especially to not back away from…

Montresor also has second thoughts about finishing the wall as his goals start to become reality, and even calls to Fortunato as he realizes his sexuality is leaving him. These small details reveal that the narrator does not innately hate his homoeroticism, nor does he truly want to rid himself of…

Cupid is emblematic of the constancy of the sonneteer’s love as induced by the female object. As the sonnets progress, he becomes the object of her attention and her criticism, before she finally moves away from both Venus (Wroth, Crown Sonnet 9) wherein she rejects him for her “sunne”, and Cupid (Sonnet 103) (who seems to become a sort of surrogate for her love interest, as well as the representative of her own desire) to a higher form of love that transcends both passion and longing . Shift…

Take for example, the letter she conducts to Abelard, requesting and at the same time criticizing the Benedictine rule. According to scholar Karma Lochrie, this letter has undergone a general minimization by scholars in the past, because it was the first letter which broke away from the previously mentioned first depiction of Heloise, in which “…she seems to abandon her earlier protestations of desire for Abelard and requests, instead, a history of female monasteries and a rule appropriate for…

Being Queer- The Abominable Crime? Attraction, love, lust, attachment, emotions, relationships, sex, marriages- How are all these words so relatable to us, the Indian society, only when we think of a heterosexual couple. Why is it so hard for us to understand that these exact words apply to every human being irrespective of his sexual preferences. Why is it that we feel like we have the right to judge, criticise and reprimand what someone else does in his/her life. The norms and mindset of our…

“Why would anyone want to make avant-garde/experimental films in a time of virulent anti-intellectualism, widespread political repression and persecution, misguided social and cultural priorities, an increasingly ugly and vulgar popular culture, and, perhaps most questionable of all, an intense apathy to all things beautiful and sublime” (Varela 3)? In the early 1960’s, a group of artists and filmmakers primarily set in New York City began create films that would later define the decade as a…