Essays on Literary Genres

Moulin Rouge is a French play which tells the story of a young author who falls in love with a movie star featured in the Moulin Rouge. The young poets defy his father's order and join the colorfully diverse clique inhabiting the dark, fantasy world in France. In the dingy...

The speaker offers valuable advice to her son using carefully chosen words in which she admits that life has not been easy for her yet despite the numerous stumbling blocks along her path, she keeps moving on, always hoping for a better tomorrow. From the poet’s autobiography, it is possible...

Silvia Plath s Effective Use of Imagery Silvia Plath effectively uses imagery in The baby gives out a bald cry. (Plath, S. 1966). The cry, as the poet states, takes its place among the elements. The predictability of the cry is seen to be cold and non-living. It...

The Steamboat The phrase “s-t-e-a-m boat coming!” refers to the turn of events that take place when the steamboat approaches. People become more furious to see the boat. The cloud changes due to the smoke emitted from the ship. A pile of skids is another phrase used in the text. It...

The Mind of the South: A Critical Analysis The mind of the South offers investigations of the Southern class system and assessments of the Southern legacies of racism, romance, and religion. The book offers millions of readers with information on how the Southern region of America for decades to come. The...

The idea in question is the biography of Maya Angelou who is a renowned memoirist, singer, civil rights activist, and poet. She is an inspiration to the literature world because of the contributions she made as a writer and as an activist.  Research and Record Terms Reception and Legacy- Reception refers to the...

Using the ‘Marxist ways of reading’ section of the Critical Anthology, explore the view that ‘Betjeman is the Licensed Fool of the wealthy; he points out the foibles but in no way, advocates a change to the system’             It is clear that Betjeman is advocating for a change to the...

Throughout life, individuals have the inevitable role of making choices that influence their actions. The Swimmer’s Moment, is an open form of poetry which had been written by Margaret Avison and published in 2003. The persona in the poem asserts that there is a “whirlpool” that every person must face...

Billy Collins: An Introduction Billy Collins is an influential, famous poet based in the United States. His work is known to be humorous, witty, and can encourage people to love poetry. Collins published the poem "Introduction to Poetry" in 1988 in a book called "The Apple that Astonished Paris". In his...

What is your aim? What theme / concept are you exploring? What big question are you trying to answer? In this text my aim is to explore and compare how language is used in the house of silk to present the theme of murder and mystery. I am going...

The Evils of Society The evils of the society have been growing each day. The literary works of Akutagawa were precise to address these evils. They determined how and why this evil is persistently being progressively toxic to the society and how difficult it is to determine the truth. Rashomon (Akutagawa 212) This...

“Behind Grandma’s House” is a mind-boggling poem about a rowdy and playful 10year old boy who is full of himself. ‘At ten I wanted fame.’ This young man feels as though he has got the whole world in his palm. We see him kicking over trash cans, hurling light bulbs,...