Essays on Literary Genres

"Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card is a 1985 military science fiction novel. The novel depicts two conflicts between humankind and an insectoid alien race known as the Formics. The book depicts how the human race must work to save itself, despite being under attack from the Formics. This novel...

In the novel, Sons and Lovers, Paul Morel suffers from the psychological disorder called Oedipus complex. Although the disorder has many different causes, a traumatic event in the child's early life may have influenced the development of this disorder. It was presumed that this condition was a result of the...

Jasper Jones: A Critically Acclaimed Novel Jasper Jones is a 2009 novel by Australian writer Craig Silvey. It has won several awards including the International Dublin Literary Award, and was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize. In addition, the American Library Association ranked the novel among its 'Best Fiction for Young Adults'...

If you want to read some of the best poetry written by Pablo Neruda, look no further than The Poetry of Pablo Neruda. This English-language collection is the most comprehensive collection of Neruda's work in any language. Neruda, who died in 1994, has been hailed as the greatest poet of...

A valediction forbidding mourns The speaker's love for the person who is leaving him or her is expressed in this poem. It addresses the concept of love and separation and uses metaphors to illustrate the ideas. "The soul departs the body," Donne writes. The metaphor sets the tone of the poem....

"Dulce et decorum est" is a poem by Wilfred Owen, written during World War I and published posthumously in 1920. The phrase comes from Horace's Ode 3.2, which means "sweet and fitting" and ends with the words, "pro patria morum."Wilfred Owen The poem 'Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori' by...

"All Summer in a Day" is a short story by Ray Bradbury. It was first published in the March 1954 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. The story deals with a young girl named Margot who is unable to describe the sun. Despite her best efforts, she...

Robert Lynd: Irish Writer, Poet, and Editor Robert Lynd was an Irish writer, poet, and editor. He wrote urbane literary essays and poetry, and he was an Irish nationalist and socialist. He was best known for his work on Irish nationalism, and is widely considered one of Ireland's greatest writers. But...

Thank You Ma'am Analysis In this Thank You Ma'am analysis, I'll talk about the Setting, Characters, and Themes of this powerful piece by Langston Hughes. After reading the poem, you should have a better idea of why the story is so compelling. If you haven't read it yet, it's well worth...

Bram Stoker and "Dracula" Bram Stoker, an Irish novelist, wrote the gothic horror novel "Dracula" in 1897. This book was the first leading piece of vampire fiction, and it set the standard for all vampire-centric novels. The novel is written in epistolary style, which means that it is told from the...

The Temptation and Probing in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight The poem's main subject is temptation and probing. This article's criticism will begin with a synopsis of the story. Visitation and Challenge During the New Year, a strange figure pays an unwelcome visit to King Arthur's courtyard. The Green Knight figure dares...

In the novel The Outsider, the main character Meursault "opened himself to the gentle ignorance of the world," he uses his unusually optimistic time to discover his surroundings; he has no respect for women and judges them based on their looks. When we look at the friendship between Marie Cardona...