Venus Williams

works “Musee des Beaux Arts,” “Landscape With the Fall of Icarus,” and “To A Friend Whose Work has Come to Triumph,” the authors use the myth of Icarus and Daedalus as this backdrop. Auden, Williams, and Sexton use the myth of Icarus as comparisons in their poems, but for different reasons. The authors, Auden, Williams, and Sexton, allude to this myth in their poems to either show Icarus’ story in its insignificance or in its triumph. In W.H. Auden’s “Musee des Beaux Arts,” he uses the myth of…

big important people in everything. For example, these people exist in sports, businesses, and even poetry. The American poet, William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), was one of the four major American poets or in other words, one of the big guys. Williams always loved literature; however, he went to medical school in hopes of becoming a physician. Despite his schooling, Williams still enjoyed writing. With his love of writing and physician degree, he really had a huge effect with the style, this…

City, after Carlisle Indian school, where she then became an assistant at the New York Public Library. At the time there were lots of known poets roaming the streets of Broadway, and so Marianne Moore got a chance to meet a few of them, like William Carlos Williams, and Wallace Stevens. She became friends and mentors to a lot of them. She served as acting editor of the Dial from 1925 to 1929. Along with the work of such other members of the Imagist movement as…

Shakespeare or not William Shakespeare was undoubtedly described as a genius playwright, however many question if he was the actual author or if there are other possibilities. It’s a known possibility that the name “Shakespeare” might have been a penname or a group of writers that got grouped under one name. There are scholars and credible people who believe there is strong evidence that Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, was the author of these plays and poems. Despite two hundred…

William Shakespeare was born April 1564 and his life did not seem like it would be destined for success in any way. He came from a poor family and he himself only had a grammar school education. He began his stardom Per (Shakespeare in America stated) “In a 1592 pamphlet by Robert Greene, Shakespeare reappears as an “upstart crow” flapping his poetic wings in London. Evidently, it did not take him long to land on the stage. Between 1590 and 1592, Shakespeare's Henry VI series, Richard III, and…

The Duchess of Malfi Vs A Midsummer Night’s Dream The female characters in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream and John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi mirror each other. The Duchess and Hermia show courage and determination when standing up to their oppressors. Cariola and Helena, when confronted with authority, submit to it. Regardless of the strength of the women, however, genre determines their fate -- those in the comedy live happily ever after, whereas, those in the tragedy do…

became queen of England in 1558. It was a time of great history and relative political stability, followed and preceded by eras of upheaval. For the time being, arts held a great importance; theaters thrived and playwrights were active including William Shakespeare. Theater was central to Elizabethan social life leading to great buildings and the development of companies of actors, both professional and amateur. It did receive criticism. Puritan leaders of the Church of England considered…

became an important member of this company. Records show that Shakespeare had works published and sold as popular literature. He was able to attract the attention of Henry Wriothsley, Earl of Southampton, whom he dedicated his first and second poems- “Venus and Adonis: and “The Rape of Lucrece”. By 1597, 15 out of 37 plays written by Shakespeare were published. He purchased the second largest house on Stratford, known as the “New House”, for his family. It was believed that he spent most time in…

A Stroke of Genius: The Man, the Myth, and the Legend of William Shakespeare With a stroke of his pen he is able to affect people with his words. He can either make them laugh cry or jump out of their seats. His words can haunt them even after they are said, the darkness looms in the air and it haunts them in their dreams. As they think about the blood, the gore, the screams that still haunt their dreams. That’s the power of his plays and other works as well; do you know who I’m talking…

William Shakespeare is one of the most significant figures in English literature. To an extreme, he is one of the most significant figures in the English language itself. Shakespeare wrote thirty-seven plays in his lifetime. That does not include The Two Noble Kinsmen, which he collaborated on with John Fletcher, and two lost plays nobody will ever see again. His work was revolutionary for the time. It added significant depth to story telling. Shakespeare also pushed the boundaries of what was…