S. N. Goenka

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…

would need to find another job to help pay for everything their huge family would need. After a few months of searching, he came across an advertisement for a job at a dairy farm owned by Milton S. Hershey were…

Mike and Donald were walking in the park with their wives. A heated argument ensued which evolved into a fist fight. Donald punched Mike in the eye and caused Mike to lose sight in his eye. During the fight between the two, Donald’s wife, Melania pulled off her high heel shoe and began striking Mike over the head causing severe injury. Is a defendant who punches another person in the eye liable for battery? Is a defendant who hits another person on the head with a shoe resulting in injuries…

Title: The Lonely Soul Poet: Raphael Ernest Grail Armattoe Literature: Ghanian Literature Theme: The poem revolves around loneliness and being alone Point of View: The poet used the first person point of view Plot Summary: At first the speaker talked about the woman he met, a woman just by herself, fooling herself just to conceal the pain she feels inside. The speaker also talked about a man who is also with sorrow, and just like the woman, living with pain and loneliness brought by having no…

‘The Wasteland’ has been psycho-analytically studied to understand the poet’s psyche, the metaphor of images, symbols, etc. for new untouched and unexplored findings in the genre of practical criticism. The poem has been deciphered on the basis of three psychoanalytic models (a) Lacan’s ‘Language and Unconscious’ (b) C.G. Jung’s ‘Collective Unconscious’ and (c) Northrop Frye’s ‘Archetypal Criticism’. Lacan’s ‘Language and Unconscious’, attempts to read ‘The Wasteland’ in the likeness of…

Our World Today (An analysis of Hollow Men…) “Consisting in the theme, implicit throughout the latter, of debasement through the rejection of good, of despair through consequent guilt” (Smith). The poem Hollow Men was written by T. S. Eliot. In this poem, there are many life lessons that can be extracted and applied to our lives. Through this poem, it is easy to realize what can be learned as we experience this life. Because of this, it is easier to rely on the poem to create a new way to live…

Boredom is the feeling of lack of arousal in the world, it is the lack of feeling to engage in a topic. Some examples include David Foster Wallace’s This is Water speech, The Pale King, Soren Kierkegaard's Either/Or-Crop Rotation, and finally Terrence Mallick’s Knight of Cups. They all express boredom in different ways, explain it with different analogies and think of it differently. They see the world in the light of boredom. In Wallace’s speech This is Water he explains that people determine…

5. How is the outer rain symbolic of Paul’s inner experience? (164) I believe the rain is symbolic of Paul’s dreams always being crushed, or unattainable. We know, “Paul had often hung about the hotel, watching the people go in and out, longing to enter and leave schoolmasters and dull care behind him forever” (Cather 164). We know Paul does not fit in at school, he tells lavish stories about events and friendships that are not real, and acts out towards his teachers. Paul feels trapped within…

Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power A Paper For College U.S History Marshall Holte November 28, 2017 Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power, is a biography of the sixteenth president of the United States of America which was written by professor Richard Carwardine. Richard Carwardine is the president of the Corpus Christi College in Oxford. Often times Richard Carwardine is questioned about his knowledge on American politics and religion during the time of the Civil War,…