Essays on Literary Genres

Concha Mendez: A Spanish Poet Who Captivates With Intimacy and Realism Concha Mendez, a well-known Spanish poet, wrote the poem "Me gusta andar de noche" among others. The poem is only two verses long, yet it draws the reader's attention with its direct, intimate, and real style, which is uncommon in...

Doubt: A Parable Doubt, a tale by Patrick Stanley, opens with the question "what do individuals do when they are unsure? So inquires Father Lynn, a beloved priest at St. Nicholas Church in the Bronx" (Shanley 13). The play begins with the priest speaking to his audience about the value of...

Every author aims for authenticity in their work, and Williams Tempest unquestionably achieves this goal in her article The Clan of One-Breasted Women. The report thoroughly informs the reader on how the Utah nuclear testing induced cancer in humans, which was a negative aspect that had a huge impact on...

Henry Wadsworth and the Civil War Henry Wadsworth wrote the poem after the warship arrived in Hampton Roads with the intention of changing the course of the naval battle. According to the author, the civil war was a watershed moment in US naval technology. The Confederate troops had no ships at...

Linda Pastan, a poet, is one of the brilliant poets whose works have been praised for their outstanding achievements. In fact, several of her writing techniques have been absorbed into the works of contemporary writers. Linda's lucidity of language, consistency of achievement, and the freshness of her metaphors in her...

Lu Hsun's novel, My Old Home Lu Hsun's novel, My Old Home, was published in the early 1990s. Throughout this time, the Chinese engaged in serious and heated debates about their culture, philosophy, history, and other relevant topics. The argument was an early instigation into the fundamental issue confronting the Chinese...

I regard Sappho's Hymn to Aphrodite as a poem that contains emotions of loneliness, love, and hope when Sappho begged Aphrodite to return and relieve her suffering, as, contrary to certain interpretations of feminism and lesbianism, even to the point of Pope Gregory VII ordering her works to be burned...

Hard Time, a novel by Charles Dickens, is set in the North of England in the 1840s. The book was written during a period when Britain was undergoing tremendous changes as a result of the then-existing Industrial Revolution movement, which was affecting many sections of the country. It meant that...

A hero is a real person who is always willing to put his or her life on the line for the protection of others. The author of "The Epic of Gilgamesh" introduces two heroic heroes who lived in Uruk, Sumer, in the Middle East, between 2700 and 2500 B.C.E. (Dalley)....

Claude McKay: A Harlem Renaissance Poet Claude McKay, a Harlem Renaissance poet, was a strong believer in equality and utilized his poetry to address issues of discrimination and inequality in American culture. McKay's writings, including "If We Must Die," "Harlem Shadows," and "America," all depict the hardship of African people in...

Do we know who we are if we don't have our distinct and various cultures? Every person has a culture in which they believe that gives them a sense of belonging and identity. People from many cultures connect on various occasions in the industrialized world. Although some people use culture...

John Milton, an English poet, delivered a poem about the biblical tale of man's fall. Paradise Lost is a narrative poem about Adam and Eve's creation and how they lost their place in the Garden of Eden, also known as Paradise. The sin resulted from Satan's rebellion against God, which...