Jill Bolte Taylor

The most prominent motif in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is the motif of light and dark. In this famous tragedy, beauty is often associated with light. Before Romeo meets Juliet his world is described as dark, gloomy and depressed, after he meets her, however, it is evident that Juliet brings him light. Essentially, Juliet is the healer of Romeo’s depression. The motif of light and dark in the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is shown to change over the course of five acts. The beginning of…

Decades after the first publication of Mary Shelly’s revolutionary novel, Frankenstein, it still influences modern novelists and has even infiltrated our pop culture. Many authors have pulled upon her iconic book and have incorporated this memorable story into their own. These authors created literary connections between their work and Shelly’s to enhance their writing and Mary Shelly is no stranger to this common practice of intertextuality. Throughout her own science-fiction novel, she pulls…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote much during the Romantic period in literature, and he used naturalistic elements in his writing. Coleridge uses a naturalistic style of writing in many of his poems, especially in “Kubla Khan” and in “The Eolian Harp”. Coleridge seems to often escape reality with his beautiful, naturalistic descriptions of a lands far away, and often times describes a man who longs for those far away lands and the treasures within them. Coleridge, in regard to his use of naturalism…

My Essay is Scary Enough Throughout the Romantic Period, the popularity of spine-chilling literature containing ghastly creatures such as dead bodies, zombies, and the supernatural, as well as death in general, had exponentially increased as a topic used among poets of this time period. Moreover, literary works that have earned a widespread reputation such as Samuel T. Coleridge 's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and Mary Shelley 's "Frankenstein" were created and cultivated during the…

In many stories and poems, there is always another story that is similar to or relates to that poem or story, but there are also many stories it completely differs from. Whether both stories or poems are from the same author or not they have similarities and differences. Kubla Khan and Rime of the Ancient Mariner are two poems that compare and contrast in the most touching way. Kubla Khan is the poem of Xanadu it is a poem that talks about the Kubla Khan and visions he has while listening to…

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner The Rime of the Ancient Mariner has many symbols in the story, the most prominent being the Christian symbolism, especially with what the mariner does to the albatross and how it affects the seafarers and their journey. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is different from many of Coleridge 's works, especially with the archaic language, length, and the strange moral in the story. The story begins with a simple, unnamed man who is going to a wedding before the…

body of God”, or “Human existence itself. His paintings and poetry have been characterized as part of both the Romantic Movement and “Pre-Romantic” movement. William Wordsworth: William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1978 joint publication Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworth magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude a semiautobiographical poem of his early years which the poet…

Piercing as the music described in it, the poem “A Musical Instrument” investigates the concepts of human nature and growth through the use of imagery, symbolism, and various literary devices. At the heart of the poem, Browning explores the need for humans to use their beastly nature to create a force greater than themselves in order to achieve growth. The impact of the actions of a seemingly indifferent, careless god on an unassuming reed creates a dichotomy throughout the poem, one that is…

CPE Bach’s Fantasia in F Sharp Minor and the 18th Century Sublime This is going to be an essay about how CPE Bach’s Fantasia in F Sharp Minor could relate to some of the 18th century ideas of the sublime. In the eighteenth century, there were a lot of differing ideas as to what, exactly, the sublime entailed. I shall mostly be concerning myself with those of Edmund Burke, as written in “A Philosophical Inquiry Into The Origin Of Our Ideas Of The Sublime And Beautiful”, though many of the other…

During a session in the House of Commons during the 1930s, Winston Churchill remarked to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin that “history will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” The idea of history being written by the victors has existed for centuries, with original phrase attributed variously to figures ranging from Niccolò Machiavelli to Walter Benjamin to Napoleon Bonaparte. Historical revisionism—history rewritten—is a theme that is discussed in John Gardner’s Grendel in the form of the…