William S. Burroughs

1952 was one of the first election years to make use of the television as a medium of advertisement. Through ads, most famously, Eisenhower Answers America, secured Ike Eisenhower the presidency. Because of this, political advertising would never be the same. In the 1952 election between Ike Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson reoccurring points and issues include: threats of communism, corruption among politicians and federal employees, the economy, and the Korean War. Eisenhower’s political ads…

When analyzing poetry, it is important to consider the form, content, and historical moment the poem was written during, in order to develop a working interpretation of the specific poem. In particular, the poem, The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock, is very open to interpretation as it delves into themes such as loneliness, inadequacy, and the inevitable consequences of time. Prufrock is a very dark, depressing character and throughout the poem, the audience is taken deeper into his thoughts and…

Translating a contemporary love poem by Fawaz Allaboun turned out to be a challenging task. Allaboun is a Saudi poet and a Professor of Classical Arabic. He earned his PhD degree in Arabic language and literature at Al-Imam University. He published a collection of poems in a book called “Allabouniat.” Another collection of poems is forthcoming. The first problem that I encountered was in the different words that express the various degrees and state of romantic love in Arabic and the…

Abraham Lincoln kept the country together at any cost even when it seemed to be irreparably splitting apart. As Lincoln was being sworn in, the South seceded, and Lincoln gave his inaugural speech to inform them of his views and dreams of a still united country. His Gettysburg Address came in a desperate time for the nation, as the civil war was in full swing, and it seemed that neither side would give up. Finally, his second inaugural speech came as the North was winning, and Lincoln saw an end…

A rhetorical device is a technique a write uses to establish an underlying meaning. In Marc Antony’s remembrance speech at Caesar’s funeral, rhetorical devices were used to convince the audience that Brutus was deceitful. Additionally, in President Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address”, it is evident that the usage of these devices helped to persuade American citizens to unite and remember those who died for our country during the Battle of Gettysburg. Lastly, rhetorical devices are present in Hillary…

Vinh Lee AP English July 19 2016 In Virginia Woolf’s excerpt from “Moments of Being,” she describes her adolescent years from her childhood when she would spend her summers in Cornwall, England. She uses many different kinds of language to convey and improve her memories as a child. In the excerpt she uses imagery and tone to help convey her memories with her family. Virginia Woolf uses specific events at the lake to explain her time with her father and how he gave her advice on being…

Throughout the poem, we see Ulysses’ character building through a first-person introspective of the King’s experience, who reflects on his life. This allows us to understand what he’s thinking and what he would like to do in the future. Despite he’s a powerful king, he is feeling emotionally empty throughout the poem; he feels as people in his kingdom don’t know him. Tennyson shows Ulysses as not just exploring the world but also exploring himself, his emotions, his feelings, and his thoughts.…

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is a narrative poem by T.S Elliot. It portrays the puzzling and obscure phrenic conceptions of the protagonist, Prufrock, as he guides the reader to what appears to be a peregrination. Throughout the poem’s irregular timeline, an alienated Prufrock repeatedly insists that there is something important he needs to tell the reader, but he continually states that he has time. The poem’s title insinuates that Prufrock is addressing someone he admires, or loves,…

such as Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams. Out of the modernist movement came the imagist movement which was helmed by Ezra Pound. The imagist movement was created to directly describe the image the poem was portraying as clear and concise as possible without adding major symbolism throughout the piece (294). These poems were more concerned with the “direct treatment of the ‘thing’” than the meaning if the thing itself (294).…

19th-century British Literature & Art Gao Jin Liu Yanchun (2013012734) February 29th, 2016 Soul in Two “The Chimney Sweeper”: From Fake Unity to Isolated Selfhood William Blake is renowned for his original mythmaking. He constructs the prophetic vision of the primal “Universal Man” falling from the divine unity that fuses inclusively man, nature and god together into the “Division” and “Selfhood” of detached individuals (Norton, 78). After the fall the world undergoes three lower phases:…