Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Robert Frost was a professor, a American poet and a four time Pulitzer prize winner who is responsible for many popular works including “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, After Apple-Picking”, and “The Road Not Taken”. Frost is known for publishing many books made up of collections of poems and one of his most well-known works “The Road Not Taken”, is one of Frost’s most familiar poems. In the poem, Robert Frost looks at the choices one has in life, how one decides which choices are better, and what are…

Expressing Communication Through Literary Devices in “Araby,” “Why I Live at the P.O,” and “Hills Like White Elephants Authors use literary devices in order to convey a certain attitude, feeling, or meaning to the story. Literary devices, when used effectively, create layers and intricacies to stories that not only make the stories more interesting, but also give the stories much more depth that can be studied. James Joyce’s “Araby,” Eudora Welty’s “Why I Live at the P.O.,” and Ernest…

The top novels to read this fall Fall is the perfect time to start thinking about new books that you want to read. Publishers release their heavy hitters in the fall as a lead up to Christmas sales, and this year there are some excellent choices to choose from. Be sure to pick up these top novels this season, and of course gift them to your friends! Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng Celeste Ng is the author of Everything I Never Told You, and fans of her work have been eagerly awaiting…

A living person is identified as someone that is a living creature, that includes having a range of emotions that distinguish character traits. A book that showcases this successfully is “The Old Man and the Sea” a novel written by Ernest Hemingway that was published on September 1, 1952. It tells the story of a fisherman named Santiago that has had no luck in catching fish in 84 days. There is also a boy named Manolin, and together they help each other in many ways until one day Manolin leaves…

Ernest M. Hemingway An extraordinary author was once quoted saying, “There is nothing to writing, all you have to do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” This author is none other than Ernest Miller Hemingway. Ernest Hemingway was an American writer that began his career at the age of seventeen. He was in World War I, and after he came back, he became a reporter for both American and Canadian newspapers. His writing was mostly during the post-war Depression Era. Hemingway was born July 21,…

Marsha Norman Marsha Norman’s work shows a raw clarity that exhibits pain in all its various forms, a true to life depiction of the life that goes on around us. Through my research into her work, I have discovered that she is a playwright I truly love, I just hadn’t known it yet. Her talents span different styles of theatre and she creates a resounding truth in her works that reach out and grab the audience by the heart. It is through her skillfully constructed text and heart wrenching…

Impact of Society in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman examines outside influences on the individual. These influences include society as a whole, the family as a societal unit and beliefs which the individual thinks he should espouse. In order to understand Willy Loman and the struggles with which he is dealing, the society in which he exists must first be understood. He is relying upon a slightly different set of values and motivations than…

University of Alabama School of Law.” (“Harper Lee” 1). This, along with her sister, Alice, (who became a lawyer) helped to educate her in regards to the knowledge of law, and essentially aided her in writing her award-winning novels (Harper Lee won a Pulitzer Prize for To Kill a Mockingbird). Her roots and her family background inspired many facets of her writings. For example, Lee’s father…” served in the Alabama State Legislature from 1927 until 1939, and was the model for Atticus Finch.”…

Prejudism is Real “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background or his religion. People learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite,” said Nelson Mandela, civil rights activist. This quote explains the prejudism going on in To Kill a Mockingbird because there’s judging going on with everyone and the young kids in the story don’t see why it happens because…

in Lawton, Oklahoma in 1934. Momaday parents are Al Momaday and Natachee Scott. Navarre did not have any siblings He was an only child and grew up on the reservation where his writings began to shape and form. Momaday became interested in writing poetry and literature at an early age because his parent’s background was in artist and the teaching profession. They worked for a small school on the reservation. According to the text, “Momaday’s mother instilled in him the value of a bicultural…