Robert B. Sherman

known to be comprised of these similar literary elements as well. This appears to be the case in Robert Frost’s famous poem, “Mending Wall” and Neil Simon’s well known drama, The Odd Couple. While these two writings are categorized in different groups, they share the comparable theme of limitations. It is a person’s civilized responsibility to, at all times, know their boundaries in life. Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, California. He became interested in reading…

Poems happen to be words that mean more than they look. May they express a message, describe someone’s point of view of his/her life or anything, poems are able to do so much with so little. Such is how famous poet of the 19th century Robert Browning managed to do with his writings. Through his writings of My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover, we will look upon the way that he believes men would become alongside women. Replaced for stronger than interesting To start it off, let’s discuss…

Slavery was a major institution that was thriving within the South during the 1840’s. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is about a young boy named Huck, living in the 1840 's during this period of time slavery was considered a moral act and served as a wealthy addition to everyday lives. Therefore, Twain makes slavery a focal point throughout his novel. During the novel, Huck encounters a runaway slave named Jim who then becomes a very crucial asset to the plotline. As the story progresses…

How Thomas Gray’s life affected his work Thomas Gray was one of the most influential poets during the 18th century and produced many widely known poems and works of literature throughout his life. Many events within his life contributed to his style and topics while writing his poetry. The works of Thomas Gray were influenced by the death of his close friend, Richard West, his time spent on The Grand Tour with Walpole, and the time he spent at Eton College as a professor and a scholar. Thomas…

Robert Browning’s poems, most notably, “Porphyria’s Lover and “My Last Duchess,” are two works that share a common theme. This theme began to arise in the living years of Browning, but has become more prominent in todays world. Both poems exhibit men who are seemingly normal in the beginning but at the end we find are very disturbing. Both men were in a loving relationship with a woman who they presumably killed. Much discussion has come about from these two poems, not because of the blatant…

our support in adulthood. If you think about it people that have a family tend to hangout with other people their age with a family and single men and women hangout with other friends that are single. Finding a intimate relationship is difficult. Robert Sternberg proposed that there are two types of love, intimacy and commitment. Sternberg, made his theory into a triangle that is composed of three elements. Passion, intimacy, and commitment are the three elements in his theory. He recognizes…

“There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue” ― Elizabeth I Tudor (goodreads.com). However, Queen Elizabeth I never held her tongue when she could have a say in matters. In many ways, Queen Elizabeth was one of the very first women in the 1500s to dominate her own era. Queen Elizabeth l controlled part of the government and provided suitable leadership for her army when the Spanish Armada tried to challenge England. With her…

Samuel Coleridge used figurative language and unorthodox verse structure to describe the tragic, lesson-filled past of a sailor and portray literary elements of Romanticism and its ideals. By using a non-traditional approach to verse structure, it shows Coleridge's choice to not compromise the meaning and thought process of each stanza by following a set pattern. This demonstrates the versatility and story-like dynamic of the poem making it all the more captivating to the reader. Through his use…

In the poem Marrysong, Dennis Scott presents an unconventional relationship between the speaker and his wife, a woman so complicated and fluctuating that he has to persevere hard in order to “learn” her constantly changing moods, something that he inevitably cannot do. However, in Sonnet 18, William Shakespeare successfully presents a conventional love between the speaker and his partner, who’s beauty and love from the speaker is endless and timeless. In Marrysong, Scott compares the speaker’s…

Brontë has an interesting look on hope. In her poem called “life” she explains some days you might have rough cloudy days, causing you to trudge but hope will pick you up and your despair will vanish. On the other hand, Emily Dickinson has a slightly different look comparing hope to an undefeatable bird. The theme they have in common is hope, though it is described In different ways it has similar qualities. In Charlotte Bronte’s poem, “Life” she explains life will not be perfect, you will wake…