Newest Literature Essays

Isabella Whitney was born around 1543 and expired around 1573. She flourished in her career of writing around 1567-1573. Gaspara Stampa, on the other hand, was born in 1523 and breathed her last in 1554. Both have made remarkable contributions to...

Examining the foods and traditions associated with Judaism, accounts of life during the Holocaust are not unexpected in Elizabeth Ehrlich’s Miriam’s Kitchen; however, their appearances in a chapter titled “Cake” is surprising. The cheerful...

For author Rigoberto González, the journey into the literary community has been a long one. Growing up in a large family of immigrant farmworkers, reading set González apart from the people around him; when his family, much of whom could not read...

INTRODUCTION

“Alice in Wonderland” and “Alice Through The Looking Glass” continue to be some of themost engaging novels for children and adults alike. Filled with multiple meanings, layers ofunderstanding, and contexts that were not child-like,...

The academy award-winning film Schindler's List directed by Steven Spielberg and the novel Night written by Nobel Peace prize winner Elie Wiesel both explore the ideas of abuse of power, courage in the face of adversity and survival during the...

The post-modern pastoral was born out of ecofeminism, which is a combination of ecological and feminist theories. Gretchen Legler defines the post-modern pastoral in her essay, “Ecofeminist Literary Criticism.” She writes, “[The post-modern...

What role does transcendentalism have in the world of art and artistic expression? Fixated on the reality and the truth, Fra Lippo Lippi is found in a compromising position “at an alley’s end” with “sportive ladies.” Not only does this expose the...

Yeats’s “The Second Coming” continues the age-old tradition of man’s vague plea for annihilation and subsequent rebirth. Whether in religious doctrine, political theory, or artistic movement, there seems to exist a very human desire for second...

With reference to John Keats, Sidney Colvin comments that “the spirit which animates him is essentially the spirit of delight: delight in the beauty of nature and the vividness of sensation.” Indeed, Keats’ treatment of nature- truthful to the...

Pablo Neruda’s unique style of poetry has been undoubtedly shaped by the events from his life, whether that be from his early adolescence engulfed in the nature of Chile to his political activism as an adult. Although these influences may not be...

The Oxford English Diction defines ekphrasis as “a literary device in which a painting, sculpture, or other work of visual art is described in detail” (1). While this definition suggests ekphrastic writing to concern man-made works of art...

Ready Player One, written by Ernest Cline in 2011, is set in a massively multiplayer online simulation game called the Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation (OASIS), created by James Halliday in partnership with Ogden Morrow...

Colette’s “The Pure and the Impure” is a novel that aims to be a kind of expose of French high society, along with the absurdity of societal expectations as well. Colette has a very poignant understanding of the human psyche and her views on sex...

For many years, audiences have seen art forms extend beyond their original categorisations into other artistic spheres – Pieter Bruegel’s painting inspiring William Carlos Williams’ Hunter in the Snow or Leonard Cohen’s music influenced by the...

In her poetry, Adrienne Rich employs a rather sophisticated approach and continually redefines the representation and depiction of loss. Rich, rather than upholding the traditional elegy, she unswervingly intrudes upon its traditional definition...

“Aspern Papers” lies at the boundary between the Romantic period and an emerging Modernist perspective in the fin de siècle of the 19th century. Written in 1888, James’ “Aspern Papers” holds at the crux of its content a significant message...

Emily St. John Mandel explores two different interpretations of humanity in the post-apocalyptic novel ‘Station Eleven.’ The author examines how humanity is capable of both goodness and evil in the face of catastrophe. Survivors often wonder why...

At the start of the fourth act of Shakespeare’s Henry V, there is a famous soliloquy in which King Henry ponders and laments his role as king. In the soliloquy, he complains of his big responsibility of having the weight of all his people on his...

In Seamus Heaney’s poem, “Blackberry-Picking”, an interpretation of the poem could lead one to believe that the poem is elegy to the children who will grow up and be made rotten by the world over time. The message is captured in Heaney’s feelings...

In Seamus Heaney’s poem, The Forge, an interpretation of the poem could lead one to believe that the poem is a commentary on the uncertainty of what lies ahead in the relationship between a person and religion. The mystery of what lies ahead is...

Claude McKay’s poem “Outcast” explores the fight within oneself to belong, the longing of the persona to be linked to his people, his roots. The poet employs the uncomplicated and unsophisticated sonnet fabrication as he explores the persona’s...

The Last Samurai was released in cinemas in the USA on 7 December 2003, and was directed by Edward Zwick, who cast Tom Cruise to play the protagonist. Cruise’s character – Nathan Algren - is an American Civil War veteran, who is sent to Japan in...

Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market deals with issues of sex and rape, in spite of the fact that as a Victorian-era poem, it cannot talk explicitly about any of those things. Instead, Rossetti creates an extended metaphor of monstrous goblins...

John Keats’ poems “Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art” and “When I have fears that I may cease to be” both revolve around the topics of death and the fragility of life. He writes of his desire to stay in his present state, afraid of...