Laurence Sterne

Art and emotion, often times, go hand-in-hand with one another due to the generalistic idea that emotions are what fuels the artist drive to produce such wondrous masterpieces. Poetry, is one such art that allows its creator to call upon a variety of emotions. Whether those emotions are a sense of delight, anger, contempt, sorrow, etc, all are forms of emotion and are easily seen throughout the many poems written by Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Paul Lurance Dunbar. When these poets fuse…

idea that civilization often imposes labels, and roles onto us- and often, without thinking twice about it, we adhere to those roles. This book then allows us to explore how we react to society’s impositions. Text Name: “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1896) What it's about: I found this poem to be hardest to explain concisely what it is about. Essentially, the poem is about how African Americans used a “mask” to hide their true feelings at a time of severe explicit inequality.…

Essay #3 Laurence Sterne’s epic classic Tristram Shandy, is a complex work full of hidden themes and messages. Although Tristram is the protagonist, there are a variety of many different characters that play large roles. One of these understated characters is the Parson Yorick who utters one of the most famous lines in literature, “A cock and a bull, said Yorick—and one of the best of its kind, I ever heard.” (Volume 9, chapter 33) This famous sentence epitomizes the spirit of the novel by…

The Divine and the Sentiment Extending the Boundaries of Language The spiritual light is not actually a light. It is, as Jonathan Edwards describes, a form of knowledge that is directly received from God instead of natural means (Puckett 76). Unfortunately, that is the closest definition that Edwards can arrive upon—and the closest his readers can comprehend—because one must first experience this spiritual light before he can actualize its definition. As Edwards claims, “there is a difference…

Unbeknownst to the casual reader, what authors choose to include or exclude in their writing, as well as their choice of words, can have monumental influence on the interpretation of their story. This interpretation, however, is subject to the readers own experiences, bias and ignorances. Like an astronaut arriving to a novel planet, each text brings readers to distant pre-constructed lands setting them free to explore not only their obvious landmarks, but their never-ending minutia. In rare…

Arthur Miller in his legendary play “The Crucible” during 1962 of the Puritan Town in Salem, Massachusetts. Puritan consisted of two major forces of people, the leaders (pilgrims) and the undercover (witches). A eighteenth - century British Novelist Laurence Stern formed a statement that applied to this situation which said “Nobody, but he who has felt it, can conceive what a plaguing thing it is to have a man's mind torn asunder by two ideas of equal strength, both pulling in a contrary…

Laurence Sterne once said, “Respect for ourselves guides our morals, but respect for others guides our manners.” We all want to be respected. We all want to show others respect. We all want to know how to earn respect. Throughout this essay I will teach you the three steps to earn respect. There are many examples of respect and how to earn it in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I will be explaining each step in depth with examples from the novel. Hopefully by the end of this essay…

It creates calm environment in the workplace, personal space, and shows how you feel for one another. Respect also builds character and structure in a person. “Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.”- Laurence Sterne. One of the most important forms of respect is self-respect. When one respects themselves, it increases self-confidence, but when you lose that respect you become weak and powerless. You also lose respect for others around you, giving a…

In the Crucible, one character whose mind is pulled in two conflicting directions is John Proctor. Laurence Sterne wrote, "No body, but he who has felt it, can conceive what a plaguing thing it is to have a man's mind torn asunder by two projects of equal strength, both obstinately pulling in a contrary direction at the same time." No one felt this more in the Crucible than John did. John has two options throughout the play; lie and live, causing him to lose his good name, or be truthful and die…

in three note books called volume one threw three. But they are now known for Juvenilia it preserver 90,000 words she wrote. According to scholar richard jenkyns, “boisterous” and “anarchic”, he compares them to the work of 18th century novelist laurence…