Seduction of the Innocent

Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) is the first selected woman poet in this study. Writing in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth, Mew’s poetry straddles the fin de siècle and early modernist periods. Thus Victorian and feminist approaches are used in examining her poetry. Mew's poetic voice is an integral link in women's writing from the end of the nineteenth century into the first two decades of the twentieth century in that it enables contemporary…

you may be to see this wife of yours”. Clearly foreshadows the prodigious amount of control Calypso has over Odysseus subverting the typical patriarchal society where “men had the dominant role in public life”. Calypso kidnaps and “her powers of seduction were enough to keep Odysseus on her island and away from his home for seven years. Giving us the picture that relationships between male mortals and Goddesses usually involved females as the superiors and tempting to married mortals. Modern…

“Stand still, and I will read to thee, A lecture, love, in love’s philosophy.” - John Donne, Lecture upon the Shadow For the exceptionally intricate John Donne (1572-1631), love played a crucial role in his life, and ultimately became the basis of his poetry in all different aspects and forms. In essence, life had become love for him: the love for women, his wife and God. Either physical, emotional or religious, Donne’s poetry includes the omnipresence of romance, passion and worship…

One of the most blatant symbols in Euripides’ Medea is the poisoned diadem which Medea’s children deliver to Creon’s daughter in an act of rancorous spite. The malevolence of Medea’s words nearly seeps from the pages when she declares to the chorus exactly how she plans to enact her vengeance. MEDEA. I will send the children with gifts […] and if she takes them and wears them upon her skin she and all who touch the girl will die in agony. Such poison I will lay upon the gifts. (page 26) Notice…

The power of love Love as an eternal topic has been discussing and praising by the people no matter from old times or modern society. In fact that, there is nobody in this world truly understand what love really is, because love is an emotion that human can create by their hearts, their feelings, and nobody would actually see it because it is formless and invisible; it is so mysterious and unsearchable. Like what Samuel said in his poem “Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing.…

rich like Jordan Belfort and his pack; “sheep” would not hurt others in exchange for their own gain, but are seen as weak by the “wolves” and are preyed upon by them, like the victims of Stratton Oakmont; and “sheepdogs” are sworn to protect the innocent from their predators, like the FBI agent Patrick Denham (Kyle Chandler) in the film. These three groups of people have their own respective reasoning for their actions, and it all depends…

Day 3. I was helping him clean up.thinking about the last 3 days.. sad attempts of seduction. i did alot to change. i wore another skirt and tight shirt with a pushup bra that matched the thong so well, i made this im uniform for the last 3 days.And so I fell into a routine of mostly being enamored and distracted. Today, like most days he walked in and greeted me.. His knowing smile elicited a familiar feeling between my legs that floated up through my stomach. I wanted him. only to have little…

to men, naive, and powerless against the forces of evil. Childhood fairytales reinforce the idea that a woman’s duties are to take care of the home and children, and follow the rule of the husband. Women are portrayed as naive, fragile, and very innocent. Often times when that distinct line between innocence and adulthood is crossed, also known in fairytales as, “good and evil”, bad things happen. This conditions children to believe that women are not as strong as men, and should refrain from…

Introduction Sir Walter Scott is considered to be the prime architect of historical novels in English literature on accountof his prodigious skill of romanticizing the dry historical events and presenting them in invigorating and exhilarating manner. In his well-known novel, The Heart of Midlothian, Scott has made sweeping changes in the original story and the bearings of historical personages but the final outcome of the novel is impressive and absorbing.Such deviations are the prerogative of a…

Resistance and Contemporariness in Kaine Agary’s Yellow Yellow Introduction African literature has come of age through several sections, from the scripts of prehistoric Egypt through the oral form of transmission, which celebrated human and supernatural achievement rendered in songs by court bards, griots, troubadours, public dances, and masks. Walter.J Ong points out that ‘such as the traditional oral stories, proverbs, prayers, formulaic expressions…alternatively, other oral productions of,…