Essays on Literary Genres

Annie Dillard: Exploring the Meaning of Sight Annie Dillard is an American author and a poet. In his story, “Seeing,” she chronicles complex ideas concerning nature and sight. The author delves into the meaning of sight and draws an understating of the world and life. Seeing is the second chapter in...

The Destruction of the Perfect World The poem provides an intriguing topic of how the human beings have destroyed the world that was originally perfect. People were given this world when everything was in order such that they could all things freely. Everybody was living happily in such a world where...

The Wastelands by T.S. Eliot and Seafarer by Ezra Pound are two texts that articulate the themes and characteristics of modernism and postmodernism. The text wastelands by Eliot is more of a modernism oriented text that displays such a science-leaning society while Pounds Seafarer reveals the themes and characteristics of...

Gatto (1997) contends that education in school is not a perfect education. He outlines the challenges he experienced with his learners that led him to this conclusion. First, he notes that school is a psychopathic institution with no conscience. According to him, schools only teach how to obey rules rather...

The book chapter is essentially about the writer, Jane Tompkins, giving pointers on the potential dilemmas that a writer is bound to be faced with when they are writing a book or an article. From the very outset when a writer sits to write, the story flows, with little or...

My consideration for reciting any poem is based on a rhythm that results in the musical beat of the written composition. Richard Cory is a verse that has exemplified the use of rhythm and the creation of musical beat by this developed in the composition endears me to recite the...

The book “Silence and the Roar” was written by a Syrian author known as Nihad Sirees in 2008. The initial version of the book was written in Arabic, but it was later translated into English by Max Weiss in 2013. Silence and the roar is a novel that gives an...

Ronald Barthes and the Death of the Author Ronald Barthes, who is the writer of the 'Death of the Author' nullifies his statement by claiming no publisher should declare that they are the authors of the entire books because their ideas did not generate from them but through other things such...

Different people have diverse opinions about an issue. The diversity of such opinions leads to two sects of the divide, the critics, and the proponents. The critics’ opinions often characterize three different types of criticism that is, descriptive, interpretive, and evaluative. Descriptive Criticism Descriptive criticism is a type of reproach that provides factual...

A feminist voice in ‘Because I could not stop for Death’ by Emily Dickinson Although Dickinson’s state in the poem seemed fixated on death, what if there was something deeper beneath the surface in her work? What if there was a feminist voice throughout the literature? This paper deals with the...

Below figure 1; insert the drawing by Henry Moore, Pink, And Green Sleepers, 1941. Below figure 2; insert the drawing by Henri Matisse, ‘Little Aurore’, 1923 The drawings won’t upload the normal way which is why I am asking you to insert them. Places for figures 1 2 are just...

There are divergent opinions concerning the success of Kate Chopin’s novel, “The Awakening,” in communicating its dominant theme of women empowerment and their subsequent ability to manage an independent life. While some readers regard Chopin’s novel a success, critics consider it a critical flop because it displays women as unable...