John Taylor Gatto

authors, many of which have become well known and world renowned for their creativity and contribution to the world’s libraries. One such author is Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a English poet and author who helped to create the romantic movement, additionally demonstrating the elements that made up the literary movement in his works. Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on October 21, 1775 in England. From a young age he was an avid reader, where “he immersed himself to the point of morbid…

The Art of Symbolism “Nature speaks in symbols and signs.” - John Greenleaf Whittier. Symbolism is a very strong and emotional way of writing. It uses symbols to represent ideas or qualities. Such as, the ocean representing freedom and desires or the red flowers in a backyard that symbolize courage and respect. In Inside Out And Back Again by Thanhha Lai, Hà the main character struggles with her family through a time of depression in their country. There is a collection of symbols that Hà and…

In (love song, with two goldfish), Grace Chua presents both the build up to and the breakup of the relationship between to goldfish. However, through direct parallels with human behaviour, Chua represents the flaws on the human condition through an extended metaphor, personifying goldfish. Chua particularly represents the mindlessness of humans, our ingenious emotions and the way we feel despair. Whilst Chua is using fish, she draws direct parallels to human emotions and behaviours, through her…

Education is a large concept discussed within Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus. However, education within the novel is not discussed in a contemporary sense, insead using it to convey the concepts of irregular education, scientific discovery, and the importance of learning about one self. Throughout Frankenstein education is discussed in a variety of sense mainly in the forms of differing self learning and the use of self-learning to propel yourself forward.…

As a whole, the new literary movement known as naturalism, darker form of realism, developed in the 19th century. Naturalism writers try to describe life in control our life such as the environment or nature by describing real settings and using ordinary people as characters. The most common theme that the authors explore was the conflict between human and nature. The character will face odd conditions or chances. Moreover, unlike realism, other movements that occurred at the same time,…

The transience and beauty of nature are reflected in the line “Summer’s honey breath,” illustrating that nature is what keeps “Summer” alive. However, the “wrackful siege of battering days” is what kills this beauty. Time moving forward and the progression of “battering days,” demolishes “summer’s honey breath.” There is a particular imagery used throughout the quatrain, and it is the imagery of battle and war with the author’s use of the phrases “battering days,” “wrackful siege,” “gates of…

I decided to focus my posting on Ralph Waldo Emerson. I will explore Ralph Waldo Emerson’s life and the theoretical underpinnings of his work. Emerson was the most remarkable essayist in the nineteenth-century. Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His father was an Unitarian minister. Emerson graduated from the prestigious Harvard. He went back to Harvard for their Divinity School, and learned the liberal Christianity of Unitarianism. An interesting fact about Emerson is in 1829, he became…

“The Importance of History in Literature” Two English poets, John Donne and Margaret Cavendish, wrote during the periods known as the Renaissance and the Restoration respectively. “The Sun Rising” by Donne details a scene in which the speaker berates the sun for rising and disturbing him and his lover. “A World in an Earring” by Cavendish discusses the idea that on the inside of an earring there is a smaller version of our world. In the Donne poem, the speaker utilizes personification such…

Industrialization is defined as the improvement of an economy from primarily man-structured labor toward that of a mechanized and efficient system. Throughout history, technology has shaped society as people know it to be; however, contrary to popular belief, the ways in which technology affects the groundwork of society is extremely limited. The film Powaqqatsi directed by Godfrey Reggio and the painting “Alley By The Lake” by Leonid Afremov both illustrate that, while technology does influence…

Gary Snyder was one of the American Beat Writers in the 1950s and the1960s. He is a poet and environmentalactivist.His poetry filled with “wilderness thoughts” and “eco-voices”. Snyder broadly points out preservation and sustainability of flora and fauna. His very first book Riprap (1959)demonstrated the physical surrounding and experience with nature. Snyder used simple language that has been easily understood. Glyn Maxwell said that Snyder’s hallmark of poetry is simplicity, distance and…