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Camille Bruce Mr. Evans English 12, Period 3 3 January 2018 Poem Summary The poem “The Hollow Men” by T.S. Eliot talks about the struggles of the men/women in a special world. These people are called hollow men and ultimately represent many of the people in the real world. Eliot is trying to show the similarities of the hollow men to the people in the real world by saying they are lacking certain things such as happiness, love, and hope. The first section of the poem talks about the…

Abstract Saadat Hasan Manto is one of the greatest short story writers in Urdu literature who has produced twenty two collections of short stories dealing with different subjects such as partition, human life, social taboos, communal violence, so on and so forth. His stories revolving round the subject of partition of the subcontinent after independence in 1947 are more famous and more known than his other stories. Toba Tek Singh is one such story, a masterpiece, which is interwoven with the…

This essay will be a critical assessment of The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser. It is a direct response to the text itself and will examine the concerns, idioms as well as styles of early modern writing. The poem is the first epic poem in English, written around sixty years before Paradise Lost. Evidently, the epic is a focus on the theological virtues of Christian faith, yet Spenser could not resist including classical mythology and legends in the books. Moreover, the poem is said to be a…

What is the function of the trope of the fall in literature? In W.H. Auden’s poem “Musee des Beaux Arts”, the trope, abiding by convention, illustrates a metaphoric fall. In his poem, Auden refers to both mythology and the bible to convey the suffering of man and humankind, exemplified through the tale of Icarus. Though Auden succinctly addresses the suffering of humankind, Auden most notably highlights the fallen nature of bystanders to said suffering. In his poem, Auden uses both rhetoric and…

Politics and Poetry Ever since the creation of a written language, and the idea of creative writing, poets and authors alike have been using their art to express a message about the politics of their time. There are many writers who have political undertones to their art, two poets who excel in their political statements are: Li Bo and Allen Ginsberg. From the collection of Li Bo’s poems, the poem that stands out as being related to politics is his poem “South of the Walls We Fought” in this…

Besides captivating readers through the retelling of past events, Tennyson used his poetry to consider social issues of the Victorian era. However, unlike his rival Elizabeth Barrett Browning, he never outright proclaimed his stance. Alternatively, Tennyson’s poems rely on an active participation from the reader to provide them with meaning. Instead of telling the reader what to believe, Tennyson’s mission was to encourage discussion about Victorian social issues. Similarly, in his poem, The…

America has been a country constantly driven by change and evolution ever since the writing of the Declaration of Independence. This of course may be a good or bad thing, depending on who you ask. Nonetheless, this constant change has mostly been the virtue of America’s success as a nation. These changes are brought by the ebbing culture of our country, and the America that Walt Whitman claims to write for does not resonate with the America that we live in today. Allen Ginsberg calls out Walt on…

Stories from across vast time-periods, wildly different cultures, and distant geographical location share many common themes, plot structure, and especially character tropes. In the 20th century, legendary psychologist Carl Jung theorized that these similarities come from a collective human unconsciousness; so as a result, most characters in stories follow certain patterns, which allow us to place them into common archetypes (Edinger 1968). Knowing this I developed an interest in identifying…

Hilda Doolittle is known all over the world as H.D. H.D is the name she was published under. She was an American poet and novelist, wrote about many things. Hilda Doolittle was very interested in the ways of Greek mythology and was an inspiration imagist. Doolittle was born into the Moravian community in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She was born September 10, 1886. Her father, Charles Doolittle, was professor of astronomy at Lehigh University. Doolittle’s mother, Helen (Wolle), had a very strong…

Emery and Adaline are two close friends. Their always together, if emery is somewhere expect adaline to be there as well. Although they are close friends, emery and adaline differ in many different ways. Their biggest difference is their personality, like in science opposites attract. They also have other differences, another being clothing choice, one likes fitted clothing and the other likes loose clothing. As well as differing in personality and clothing choice, they also differ in taste in…