Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Freak: The Character Introduction Many people fight to be accepted in our world since of incapacities. Freak the Mighty, by Rodman Phil brick, is anaffected and inspirational novel about how two lads, who are “different”, develop friends and unite towards a shared cause. Kevin, an eighth grader who lives with his mother Gwen, is one of the two characters in this extraordinary novel. Kevin is anactual knowledgeable young boy who doesn't let his incapacity limit his abilities. Description In…

William Wordsworth’s poem: ’Composed on the Westminster Bridge’ is a sonnet that describes London in the morning as the city is still asleep. The poem’s title: “composed on the Westminster Bridge” tells the reader that the Author is standing on the Westminster Bridge, in London and is describing the sights of the City that he can see from the Bridge. Wordsworth is fascinated by the city’s beauty. He says that the earth has nothing equal to show than this beautiful scene and that the one who…

The poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" was first published in 1923 in America by the acclaimed author Robert Frost, whom at the time was thought to have a hostile view towards nature (Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism). Imagery in literature refers to use of descriptive terms in the hopes of making the reader experience the scenery of the text in their mind. Symbols are utilized mainly works such as narratives to represent something greater than what is actually mentioned. Personification is the…

T.S. Eliot was a creative modernist poet in the early 1900s. One of his most popular writings, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, tells a story with deep imagery, symbolism, and personification. His style of writing lends the reader to reflect a sometimes obscure mental image. Upon analyzation, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” explores the world of a seemingly lost and confused well educated man. Looking to build the courage of talking to a woman, Prufrock skulks away from such…

Poetry is often written with some hidden meaning within the poems themselves, this meaning often coming in multiple layers of depth, in order to suggest or prompt an ideology, value, or action to an audience. Such cases often being seen in English Romantic Period poems and novels; these works of literature often having themes about the power and beauty of nature and how humans are just a small part of a bigger picture created by god. Though some authors take it to a step beyond such themes; an…

ENG 301 20th Century English Literatures Student name: Dechen Choden Student number: 101497 Symbolism in Yeats’ “The Second Coming” Final Draft Symbolism in Yeats’ “The Second Coming” Yeats is accounted for his brilliancy in writing poems that have symbolism either in the form of sounds, colours or forms because of their preordained energies or because of long association, that evoke indefinable and yet precise emotions. One of the most captivating things about W.B. Yeats' poetry in…

Beowulf characterizes Old English poetry as it is composed in alliterative verse, which relies upon alliteration within its organization of a poetic line. Old English alliteration verse employs accentual meter, and a caesura (strong pause separating two half- lines. Beowulf epitomizes Old English poetry as it lacks a consistent rhyme pattern. Historically speaking, Beowulf was not purely a fictitious creation. Although it was primarily fantasy, many of the characters within the novel once…

Shakespeare, through his characters in King Lear, offers an ambiguous study on the theme of nature. Various definitions can be applied on the term “nature,” but the three most prominent are the structure of society, the cosmic order , or faith, and the innate impulses all humans inhabit. Lear begins his monologue by announcing that, “O, reason not the need: our basest beggars / Are in the poorest thing superfluous…” (Shakespeare 2.4 264-265) Lear was recently denied housing by Goneril and…

Poems are often catalysed by personal experiences, expressing a poet’s concerns about life and encouraging audiences to embrace their unique perspective. T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Wilfred Owen’s poem Dulce et Decorum Est, are examples of modernist poetry, through which both poets aim to reflect the sense of disillusionment and impotence they experienced as the horrors of World War 1 mounted. Owen firmly rejects the idea of heroism in war that was created by Romanticist…

Ponyboy’s Changed Perspective in The Outsiders The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton is an inspirational book about teenagers, choices, and change. There are many characters that are important to the narrator Ponyboy, some more than others. Some members of their "Greaser" gang are tough, or happy-go-lucky, while others are shy or serious. One very important character, who changes drastically over the course of the novel, is Dally Winston. In the first half of the book, Ponyboy views Dally as extremely…