P. T. Barnum

Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and W.E.B. Du Bois’s views about African-American freedom are different. Frederick Douglass was born into slavery. Many years after constant abuse Douglass fought back to the “slaver-breaker” Mr. Convey. After losing a physical confrontation with Douglass, Mr. Convey never lash at him again. Douglass attempted to escape slavery twice before he succeeded. In Frederick Douglass’s autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave…

and whites, such as in the local hardware store which Washington mentions as being “owned and operated jointly by a colored and white man” (Washington 109), supplies still did not make their way into schools for blacks. To illustrate, one day Booker T. Washington visited an abandoned log cabin that had been converted into a school house. There he found five students of various ages, leaning over each other’s shoulder, attempting to study from a single book (Washington 116). Even though whites no…

T.S. Eliot is considered “one of the twentieth century’s major poets”. He was born in the United States, but settled in England in his later years of life. Eliot was heavily influenced by religion and modernism – a new and upcoming type of poetry during the 1910’s. T.S. Eliot’s use of allusions, symbols, theme, and unique compositions of his poems create a signature melancholy, yet aesthetical style. In almost every T.S. Eliot poem, there is a use of allusions, or references to a well-known…

Humans have performed dangerous stunts since the beginning of time. These daredevils, deemed as either utterly insane or as possessing death wishes, are usually viewed by society as mere lunatics: people who do not value their lives. On the surface they are laughed at, but underneath the public condescension and jeering they are viewed with a kind of horrified admiration. Why is this? It is because these individuals are doing what they love without holding back and with no reservations. They are…

Because World War I decimated not only a continent but also a generation, T.S. Eliot observes the consequences of such horrors on the men of his generation. He implies in “The Hollow Men” that the survivors, the ones who come home, are the ones who lose salvation and become trapped in a living purgatory due to a loss of faith. Initially, Eliot establishes the “hollow men” as weakened men without sustenance. Their lives are void of any significance, and they are “Leaning together / Headpiece[s]…

The Outlaw Josey Wales, produced by Robert Daley and starring Clint Eastwood, portrays the life of Josey Wales as he runs from the notorious Union Captain Terrell and his horde of ruthless Redlegs and bounty hunters. Josey Wales’ exodus from Missouri is caused by his refusal to surrender to the Union. In the film, The Outlaw Josey Wales, shadows are used to illustrate the state of Josey Wales’ soul. The film begins in Missouri on the Wales family farm as Josey and his son plow the field. The…

In “ The Raven,” Edgar Allan uses form to demonstrate that often when people have a limited understanding of their surroundings, it leads them to fear of the unknown, resulting in their stubborn refusal to accept and embrace inevitable change. Consequently the poet’s use of repetition in ‘Raven’ accentuates the speaker’s concept of fear to move on to a new unfamiliar beginning. As this is demonstrated in stanza 1, on “a January morning”(5), which implies the beginning of a difficult new change…

The world has changed geographically, historically, and in scientific ways, but one thing that has remain constant throughout the ages of human existence is love and the struggles that come with it. Such struggles have caused men to do the impossible like cross oceans, travel the world, dance, sing, write, and, perhaps the most daring thing of them all, propose marriage. As seen in the poem by T.S Elliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, love and its complications have plagued humankind…

Thomas Stearns Eliot (T.S. Eliot) wrote the The Hollow Men which revolves around the idea of how war affects and devastates society. The overall tone of this poem is grim and foreboding. The theme of The Hollow Men expressed through imagery, similes, allusions, and metaphors is that war ruins men and society. Historically The Hollow Men was written in response to World War I and its effects on society. Thomas Stearns Eliot was a Harvard graduate and an extremely prolific writer for his time. The…

Jonathan Bailey or often “Raven” on the internet, explores the ideas of gothic elements in his poems, although “Outcast” differs amongst them, as it views upon nature and scientific views. Within this poem, Bailey uses sublime in order to construct the idea of feeling alone and ostracised in the universe. Alongside that he also incorporates the atmosphere and message by repeatedly insinuating society’s foolishness and mentioning souls repetitively throughout the poem. “Raven’s” concept of being…