Medieval literature

Numerous people believe poetry and prose exist merely as methods of writing; however, there is more to these forms of literature than meets the eye. While authors throughout time have used either poetry, prose, or a combination of the two in their work, both serve as literary tools that writers implement to express, persuade, inform, and inspire (among other reasons to write). Although these styles of writing involve different metrical structures, they both use the art of language to appeal to…

Introduction – 45 to 60 seconds Audio Nancy is writing a poem about the joy of giving back to her community. She has recently volunteered at a local food shelter. The experience feeding the homeless was a life changing time for Nancy, so she wants to capture that moment by writing a poem. Poems are different than prose, which is our everyday writing. Poetry often uses fancy language to express a point while prose straightforward. Before Nancy began writing her poem, she drafted a few metaphors…

The poem that is being analyzed is “Poetry” by Marianne Moore. This poem is a powerful piece of literary text which explorers the speaker’s dislike for poetry and acknowledges poetry as a place for the genuine. The title “Poetry” is significant for many reasons but most importantly it represents the speaker’s view of poetry and is the first line that begins the poem. Its significance is show when Moore states “I, too, dislike it” which means she is referring to the previous line and title,…

moments in African American literature. It encouraged and motivated African Americans to form their very own publishing companies and magazines as well as numerous institutions of the arts. The movement was also believed to have inspired the formation of African American Studies classes at universities and colleges throughout the United States (Rojas 2147). The Black Arts Movement was also thought to have been initiated by Malcolm X’s assassination (Salaam). In literature, some of the…

Alice Sebold is a very well-known author around the world. She has written fictional stories along with a personal experience. Writing of her own experience impacted her to write some of her other novels. Lucky was written of her experience and later she wrote a similar fictional novel called The Lovely Bones. Going through such a horrible experience has forever impacted the way she writes. Alice Sebold was born in Madison, Wisconsin on September 6, 1963. She is the second child. While she was…

A simple reflex, when I saw Dadaist poetry for the first time, was “This is going to be so easy.” There was that voice, which most often haunts those visiting museums for modern art, whispering into my mind’s ear: “Psh, You could’ve done that, where’s the art in that.” Now, I technically know that that is not true, as we have been taught time and again in various institutions that art is a many-splendoured thing, but occasionally that derisive voice still pops into my brain. When Damian Hirst…

Abstract: Most of the novels written after the publication of Midnight’s Children deals with the aspect which focuses on national history cutting across personal narratives. Most of the writers are deracinated from their roots: familial, cultural, national, religious and linguistics and therefore use polyphonic form to explore their past. It comes as no surprise to find that Amitav Ghosh is a writer concerned with India’s place in larger international cultural networks, whose fiction seems…

The Victorian era of England was a monumental time of change in all aspects of life, from scientific revolutions from minds such as Charles Darwin to the tremendous strides in technology that began the industrial revolution. Matthew Arnold, a famous poet of the Victorian era, laments these changes of society and their effects on the religious community in his renowned poem, Dover Beach, through his use of eloquent imagery to create a magnificent scene of the sublime ocean and powerful metaphors…

1 Abstract: This paper seeks to explore the function of interdisciplinarity between Poetry and Mythology in the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’ “The Phases of Anat” and how myth is employed to serve cultural and resistance purposes by means of creating and ascertaining identity through proposing and documenting a new version of the subaltern history that have been marginalized for decades in view of the capabilities of their powerful occupiers at all levels. to serve supporting his…

Storytelling is ubiquitous across human cultures. There is evidence of longstanding oral tradition through which narratives have been passed down for thousands of years. With the invention of written language came the story’s divergence into two main types, which evolved into the familiar literary and oral formats of modern day. There is no doubt that these two styles share a common ancestor, so to speak, and that they both serve the same basic purpose of transmitting information in a logical…