Thornton, West Yorkshire

Charlotte Mew was born in London in 1869 (Poetry). The eldest daughter among family that consisted of seven children, however illness would take the lives of three of her brothers and later another brother and sister would be committed to mental hospitals leaving only Mew and her sister Anne (Poetry). Mew is primarily known for her poetry although she did publish several short stories. Her poem and collection of poem both titled “The Farmers Bride” would solidify Mew’s literary reputation earning praise from Siegfried Sassoon, Ezra Pound, Thomas Hardy, and Virginia Woolf who called Mew “the greatest living poetess” (Poetry). In 1927 Mew’s sister Anne would pass away after a battle with cancer and the despair from the loss would eventually lead to Mew’s suicide in 1928 (Poetry). Mew’s life was a constant struggle her dealings with death, mental illness, loneliness, and disillusionment would be reflected in her works (Poetry). Mew was not strictly a WWI poet but did publish poems regarding the war, which would highlight the toll the war had on the country and the questions that would arise in the transition to Modernistic ideals. One of Mew’s poems regarding WWI is “May 1915.” The year of 1915 marked the first full year of The Great War during the month the May the British liner the Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat. The tone of “May 1915” is somber boarding on the hope of returning to life before the war but recognizing that the possibility to avoid change is…

and Acton Bell. Emily Jane Brontë was born July 30, 1818 as the fifth child of clergyman Patrick Brontë and his wife, Maria, in the village of Thornton, Yorkshire, England.…

In the poems “Medusa” by Duffy and “The Laboratory” by Browning both authors explore the theme of jealousy and its destructive nature on people and society as a whole. In Duffy’s poem “Medusa” she critiques society on its treatment towards women, demonstrating how those without beauty are only corrupted with jealousy and how this behavior has survived through the ages. While Duffy focuses on the impacts of jealousy on the individual Browning looks towards its impacts on society, and its power to…

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a novel by English author Anne Bronte, sister to Emily Bronte and Charlotte Bronte. The novel was distributed in 1848 and recounts the tale of focal characters Helen Huntington and Gilbert Markham. The story's perspective exchanges between that of Gilbert and Helen, told as a letter Gilbert is keeping in touch with his brother by marriage and passages from Helen's journal that she endows to Gilbert. In the novel, Helen Huntington touches base in the town where…

Wuthering Heights: Revenge Takes All Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte was published in 1847 in an isolated village in Yorkshire. The novel is also set in England 1847 on two farms Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights. The book possesses the same style as many other great novels such as “once concrete and yet general, local and yet universal” (Kettle 28). Bronte approaches her novels in a different way such as symbols and not in her ideas. Bronte does not color-code her words in this novel…

Emily Bronte was a genius of her time when it came to writing. She came to be known by her controversial novel Wuthering Heights and the quiet nature she had. Anyone just looking at her or spending time with her wouldn’t even realize she was such a talented writer. Wuthering Heights was a jewel and parallel to her life in many ways. By looking at Wuthering Heights, one can see that Emily Bronte included themes of revenge, love, loneliness, and death because she was trying to get away from a dull…

Emily Bronte was an amazing poet. She was even more famous for her novel Wuthering Heights, but she wrote other great poems too. She had a certain writing style that reflected on her past. She wrote many poems such as “Fall, Leaves, Fall,” “Love and Friendship,” and “Remembrance,” They all are great poems, but what caused her to write these? Emily Bronte has an interesting past and wrote great poems. Bronte was born on July 30, 1818, in Thornton, Yorkshire, England. She was the fifth daughter…

Who would have thought a woman with so many tragedies and disadvantages in her life could use it to her advantage and write such a beautiful novel, Wuthering Heights, that teaches so many lessons by following Heathcliff, one of the main characters? Emily Bronte was an extremely talented woman without even a formal college degree who didn’t let even the biggest challenges in life bring her down. She would be the one to set an example for women authors to come (“Brontes”). Emily Bronte was born…

Algona High School’s production of “Our Town” by playwright Thornton Wilder shows that life in itself is beautiful and interesting, but that humans take it for granted every day. This is shown by the activities of everyday people living in Grover’s Corner, New Hampshire. This play shows that even the most mundane tasks and daily activities are still valuable and significant in life, and that though you may not see the end coming, it will come, and that this life we have is transient. The first…

e. e. cumming’s poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town” and Thornton Wilder’s play “Our Town” share many similarities. Throughout both the poem and the play, each set their focus on time and how it passes without notice with the changing of seasons and weather until death. In an article about the poem the line “Used to tell time long before the invention of clocks and calendars, the seasons, heavenly bodies, and weather are ancient signifiers of time as it passes” (Poetry for Students) helps…