Essays on Literary Genres

In this assignment, I will be analyzing the use of rhetoric in both Christopher Newfield and the Edu-Factory Collective s The Corporate university and the Financial Crisis: What is Going on (Newfield piece) , and Lazzarato s Governing Debt . Both pieces convey the same idea that student...

Language used in poetry or the works of literature affects the audience differently thus interpretation can also vary. Interpretation of words used can lead to varying ideas about the feelings of the writer even when he/she has not indicated in the work (Mayo 131). This essay compares and contrasts use...

Betty Keller's Short story Tea Party Betty Keller's Short story Tea Party is an interesting story about two aged sisters Alma and Hester who recall about their experience as they wait for the paper boy. Betty has effectively employed all the literary skills to make the story interesting and to pass...

The Death of Honesty by William Damon published by the Hover Institute in 2012 addresses issues related to dishonest that threatens democracy. Damon agrees that in some situations honesty has lost its importance especially in the society and is likely to cause downfall citing some examples in the...

Eileen Myles writes the poem Mad Pepper from a feminist point of view. The poem gives a symbolic meaning to the word pepper, which the poet equates to masculinity based on its hot nature. Mad pepper is about masculinity, which the poet feels desolated from. She uses the word itself...

Rabindranath Tagore s Contribution to Indian Society Rabindranath Tagore made a significant contribution to the Indian society through various aspects including politics, literature, and music. In 1913, Tagore was awarded a Nobel Prize for literature. He had a multitalented personality which made him be recognized in the world. He was a...

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-street by Herman Melville is an intriguingly comic story that ridicules the nature of work and its function in assigning meaning to human lives. The humor in the story also brings about questions on the degree to which people have a moral obligation to...

The Story of "There Will Come Short Rains" by Ray Bradbury The short story, “There Will Come Short Rains” by Ray Bradbury is an apical story. The story as written by Ray describes the fear of what is to come as Ray puts it in his flash-forward of how the world...

Heaney Seamus is one of the greatest poets of his time for he focused on key cultural issues that the people of Northern Ireland experienced. During his era, society depended more on nature as a source of livelihood and strength and this reflects in the themes present in the poem....

The myth of Daedalus and his son Icarus tells the story of father and son trying to escape possible punishment. Daedalus is a genius and engineers two wings with which they can fly away. Unfortunately, Icarus flies close to the sun despite his father's warning and his wings are ripped...

The Rhetoric of Humor The book of The Rhetoric of Humor by Kirk Boyle describes the questions which revolve around the central concept of comedic writing and the sense of humor among people. Additionally, the author states the relevant places to make when people laugh as well as the situations when...

In his book, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas Foster brings out the importance of deep reading as a way of exploring and understanding the main themes brought out within a particular piece of writing. In his chapter “Nice to Eat with You: Acts of Communion,” for example,...