Robert Grant

Jejuri poems are all about Arun Kolatkar visiting the temple town in the state of Maharashtra where 'every other stone is a god or his cousin'. The poems are delicately written yet sharply observed - a temple door, a yellow butterfly and Maruti himself find equal care given to them all in turn. Jejuri poems oscillate between faith and scepticism. In his plat and colloquial tone, Kolatkar ironically treats the parallel scenario reinforcing it with concrete imagery. Kolatkar's use of concrete…

We live in a world where people are constantly facingInto the Woods by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine is not just a light-hearted entertaining musical, but also a work of literature with a deeper understanding in both the story and characters. One of my favorite songs from the musical is “No One is Alone,” which is sung by Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, the Baker, and Jack during a difficult time. Everyone has had an instance in their life where they feel alone and as if they are having…

How does John Steinbeck present the theme of power? Of Mice And Men is a novella written by John Steinbeck. John Steinbeck was an author born in the Salinas, California. The area in which he lived in played a big role in the setting of Of Mice And men as he grew up in a fertile agricultural valley, not far from the Pacific Coast, which served as setting for a lot of his best written work. Of Mice And Men is based on two migrant workers in California, George Milton and Lennie Small. The two…

People should have the choice of whether to live or die. In Of Mice And Men, by John Steinbeck, the two main characters Lennie and George are hanging out by a pond making plans for the rest of their life. Then they go to a farm in Soledad. They acquire the job they wanted and became friends with a few of the people there. The farm’s most respected authority figure gives Lennie a puppy which he kills just a few days later along with the boss's son’s wife. Lennie runs away to the river by which…

Peter Spiro, a poet, makes some very interesting connections between realities of people's lives and the paths that those realities cause them to live in his poem "Cause and effect." I strongly believe the reason behind the making of this Spiro poem is he is trying to get across the idea that realities like having meager income and going to sub par schools can be major contributing factors to why people go to jail and end up wasting their lives. I believe the messages of this poem are every bit…

In my opinion, Frost’s statement about his poetry does accurately reflect his poems as they all contain both a literal and a metaphorical meaning. This can clearly be seen in al of Frost’s poems that I have studied which include, “The Tuft of Flowers”, “Mending Wall”, “The Road Not Taken”, “Out, Out- “, “Spring Pools” and “Aquatinted with the Night”. In all six of these poems a message is conveyed both directly and indirectly. Frost uses everyday, ordinary people, living normal lives as the…

In 1633, John Donne published a metaphysical poem titled The Flea. This poem consists of an erotic theme where a flea is used as a metaphor in order to demonstrate the affair between the speaker and their lover. In the same year, The Altar was published by George Herbert. This poem illustrates the religious notion of how one must sacrifice themselves to God through the use of an altar. In the following, The Flea and The Altar will be compared and contrasted in terms of the physical shape of the…

Presentation 'The street not taken " ballad was composed by Robert ice. He was one of america's heading twentieth century Poets and a four time champ of the Pulitzer prize. His temperances are exceptional. His ballads are human, conversational, hilarious, and sentimental. In 1894, he had his first ballad "My Butterfly : a requiem", distributed in The Independent, a week by week scholarly diary situated in New york city. He composed this ballad 'The street not taken' when he was perched on a…

Charlotte Bronte has given every destination a new unique name, which compliment the culture and regulations of the nineteenth century. Although none of the places she’s given names to are true, it’s one the mediums to make the plot interesting and relatable ( Gateshead, Lowood, Thornfeild, Moorhouse, Ferndean). Charlotte Bronte seems to have experienced living in these Northern England places herself because she is able to describe the sky, vegetation and ambience perfectly “iron sky of winter,…

Sir Isaac Newton was an English mathematician and physicist who lived from 1643 to 1727. Newton grew up with his grandmother, whereas his father passed away shortly before he was born and his mother remarried a man he did not approve of. Newton attended Trinity College in Cambridge and worked as a servant at the university until he was awarded a scholarship because he could not afford the tuition fees. In 1666, the university was temporarily closed due to an extremely contagious, mortal disease…