Nowadays when I ask my students about the meaning of the term “irony,” smarty pants students quip me that the word “irony” is an adjectival form of the noun “iron!” Clever is the wit, of course; however, even in that joke, one can also see how “irony” could mean something “chewy” as it means a twisted double-meaning, ranging from a...
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John Donne’s poetry is characterized by complex imagery and irregularity. In his four pieces of poetry, Song, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, Meditation 17, and Death Be Not Proud, Donne effortlessly displays the traits of a metaphysical poet. He uses a variety of arguments in all of his work. He also incorporates many significant comparisons in his poems. Finally, Donne includes...
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The primary aim of this paper is to provide a comparison between Adrienne Rich’s Poem titled, “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning”, and that of John Donne with the same title. The two poets employ a sophisticated poetic language in their quest to express the feeling about the circumstances that the speakers of their poems find themselves in. The two authors tend...
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Literature, from its first written records, has examined the end of the world. Most mythologies of the world have stories explaining the origin of the world and speculating on its destruction. In his poem “Fire and Ice,” Robert Frost presents a view of the end of the world. Throughout the poem, the narrator seemingly ponders the world’s end and wonders...
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In Sherman Alexie’s short story “What You Pawn I Will Redeem,” the twenty-four hour journey that Jackson embarks on in reclaiming his grandmother’s regalia proves to do him way more good than he could have ever thought possible when beginning. Alexie uses the characterization of the main character, Jackson Jackson, in order to reveal the transformation he experiences throughout his...
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Wealth is not equally distributed and hard work can one day earn the kids great things In the two stories, Jackson and Sylvia both have something that symbolizes something that very important to them. Since they have trouble with money, they cannot afford the item that has great importance to them. No matter how hard they work to earn the...
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The speaker of Milton's 'Lycidas' has been the subject of much debate--debate concerning his identity, his principal topic, and his attitude toward that topic. Thus far, the critical conversation has been uninformed by current linguistic theory, which has the potential to further complicate a poem that many think requires no further complication. Why do it, then? On the one hand,...
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John Milton’s first encounter with death sent him reeling and kept him off balance for a long time. He found an escape in poetry, pouring out his confusion and frustration and sorrow in the now-famous poem Lycidas. The young Milton was struck with a realization of his own mortality, and spent a lot of time in the poem pondering on...
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The themes first introduced are predominantly modern consisting of promiscuity and infidelity. The theme of feminism is first introduced towards the end of the piece when it becomes evident to the reader how much power Salome has over her male counterpart Duffy’s reference to the tale of John the Baptist shows her modernising of the tale as it is subverted...
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Each poem often has form factors help deliver the messages that the author has in mind. These factors help shape the story and if presented well, they contribute effectively to understanding, towards the reader. This essay seeks to analyze and explain the literary elements found in ‘Ballad of Birmingham’ written by Dudley Randall in 1965. Dudley Randall was an African-American...
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Chaucer himself says as much towards the beginning and end of the poem that he tells us that he is looking at each of the pilgrims in terms of rank, clothing, physical and moral state and the person's actual reason for being on thepilgrimage ('estaat', 'array' and 'cause'). “A Knight there was, and that a worthy man”. (…) “And wente...
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Dudley Randall and Langston Hughes both lived through racial inequality for African Americans during the Postmodernism era and portrayed it in their poems. Dudley Randall wrote ‘Ballad of Birmingham’ and Langston Hughes wrote ‘A Dream Deferred’. They both use imagery to depict the main message of their poems. Dudley Randall experienced a lot while growing up. His life was filled...
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For decades poems have been a wonderful piece of format in writing that partakes the nature of both speech and song that is nearly always rhythmical and are usually metaphorical to help express the idea of commons themes. To begin with both poems like ‘Ballad Of Birmingham’ by Dudley Randall, and ‘The Lamb’ William Blake discuss the image of innocence....
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The mysterious story of King Arthur is one of the fantastic topics of British writing. Anyway is there any validness at the rear of the illustration and why has it come to be so compelling all as the centuries progressed? The King Arthur that we ken nowadays is a lot of various legends, indited through elite creators, at particular examples....
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The nineteenth century romantic movement promoted nature as an element of inspiration and ideological freedom. From William Wordsworth to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, to Lord Byron, to John Keats, the romantics envisioned a new form of poetic expression that deviated from older standards. Wordsworth and Coleridge, in particular, shared a desire to explore poetic expression that elevated both nature and the...
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Is the American Dream nothing but its once former glory? Many people perceive the idea of America in a number of ways. Those with a more prerogative background believe that American society is perfect as it is and everyone receives fair opportunities. It’s the foundation of US society, in which it conveys the promise of freedom and opportunity including success...
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Question: What kind of techniques or events does the author use to show the parental love of the man to the boy? Love contains powerful and affirmative mental states, from the most majestic romance, the intimate interpersonal affection and to the most unsophisticated felicity, like parental love. In The Road, the man and the boy are trekking to the southern...
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The road is a novel written by Cormac McCarthy which was published on September 26th, 2006. The book was also adapted to a movie in 2009. Cormac McCarty is an American novelist who were born on July 20th, 1933 in Providence, Rhode Island, US. Cormac McCarthy won the 2007 pulitzer price and the James Tait Black memorial prize for fiction...
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The Road is a novel and was written in 2006 by American writer Cormac McCarthy. The book is about a father and his son trying to survive an unspecified cataclysm that has destroyed almost everything on planet Earth. The father is doing what he can to keep his son alive, because he could be the only child left. Cormac McCarthy...
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Cormac McCarthy started a trend in American literature following violence and desolation. One of McCarthy’s well known works is The Road written in 2006. His work with dismembering humans depicts an epic but brutal sense of reality. In the The Road McCarthy shifts his focus to post-apocalyptic America and its effects on human psyche. Similar yet very different to The...
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In the book “The Road” the author uses different themes to describe the journey of both the father and son. But one theme that keeps reoccurring is hope. It may be neither about losing or gaining hope. Throughout the dark events that happen in which it seems like an end of a road, but in those hard times moments hope...
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Cormac McCarthy’s The Road highlights the journey of a father and son traveling by foot through a burned America. The father is equipped with a single pistol and a shopping cart for what little belongings they can bring along as they move from place to place. They head South and then West throughout the story as they make their way...
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It is not often that an author will incorporate both evidence supporting God as well as evidence against God in one novel. This brings a sense of uncertainty about God’s presence, an important unanswered question in the world. Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road is one such novel that is plainly ambiguous about the existence of God. Critics have analysed important...
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All literary stories have a theme. The theme is the main idea or message that the author wants the audience to take away from the story. My favorite stories read in this class were The Odyssey, Sundiata, and The Epic of Gilgamesh. I enjoyed these three epics, because I could relate to the main character’s experiences. All three of these...
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Can anyone remain entirely chivalrous? The medieval institution of knighthood had only one answer for this; to live and die by a code of chivalry that included courage, honour, loyalty and consideration of others was indispensable. The influences of noble love and Christianity expanded the code of chivalry to include complete devotion to the church followed by impeccable etiquette and...
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'Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration; it is inherent in the very texture of human life” (Nair 1). Symbolism has become an essential component of most literary works and in The Road, McCarthy uses symbols very frequently and subtly. The novel The Road was written by Cormac McCarthy. The main characters in this novel are the man,...
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Through the close exploration of both john donnes holy sonnets and Margaret Edson’s post-modernist text wit, we are able to collect that context plays a vital role in the construction and understanding of a text. Both texts portray the flaws and faults of humanity and the necessity of individual redemption. Edson has managed to take the strong religious ideas of...
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The Road demonstrates diverse perspective in renewal be making readers question not only spiritual beliefs but the existence of god. Throughout The Road there is a conflict of spiritual belief that is demonstrated by the main characters own uncertainty. McCarthy’s novel could be seen as an agnostic novel with multiple characters believing in god and others completely rejecting the idea...
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“Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.” A utopia is not a state but rather a state of mind. Composers of utopian and dystopian literature offer an inherent political and social critique of their contexts...
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The textual conversation between John Donne’s 17th-century metaphysical poetry and Margaret Edson's late 20th-century metatheatrical play W;t is distinctly established through the shared exploration of the awareness of death as a universal human condition. Despite a paradigmatic shift from a theological to a postmodern society and the various and language features and textual forms, such disparity in context and form...
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