Essays on Literary Genres

The Giver: A Dystopian Novel for Young Adults The Giver is a 1993 dystopian novel for young adults, written by American author Lois Lowry. Although the story begins with a utopian society, it quickly becomes clear that it's actually dystopian as the plot progresses. Jonas, a twelve-year-old boy, is the protagonist...

Walt Whitman's "Song of Me": A Celebration of Beauty and Harmony in Society Walt Whitman's poem "Song of Me" is a celebrated poem in American history because of the insightful meaning it conveys. Whitman employs a variety of poetic devices to convey his message in such a manner that the rest...

Poetry has evolved from the Romantic era to the present. Poems, like authors, have adapted to the revolution. Poems by Blake, Coleridge, and Wordsworth vary somewhat, if not entirely, from those of Lord Byron and Shelley. To that end, this paper would try to describe a poem by Lord Byron...

The Divide between Assimilated American Children and Indian Migrants Jhumpa Lahiri's first book, The Namesake, focuses on the divide between assimilated American children and Indian migrants. The author examines the Ganguli tribe, starting with Ashoke's near encounter with death as he survives a train accident in his native India (Lahiri 50). This...

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald is a well-known American author who specializes in short stories and novels. Francis's works have been described as evocative of the Jazz Era, a word he coined himself. Francis is regarded as one of the twentieth century's best authors. Francis was a member of the 'Lost...

The poem's title expresses the melancholy mood of a son who is grieving the death of his father despite the fact that it has not yet occurred. The first few lines represent a vocabulary that is similar to a conversational style. As the reader listens to Hudgins characterize his father...

Dante, the poet, and author of the Inferno, was a Renaissance-era artist who was interested in the historical time between 1300 and 1600. He was fascinated and dedicated to the church, which is why he conducts the Inferno, a description of hell and its sufferings. Dante is trapped in a...

The short plot The Story of An Hour employs verbal ambiguity, in which the characters words have contradictory underlying interpretations. A good example is when we are told, It is an honor to be Mila s mate. (Kate Chopin) Mila, on the other hand, much of the...

Margaret Atwood, a Canadian resident, wrote the novel. This was written and published in 1995. This story is set in New England after an authoritarian and Christian theocracy that overthrew the United States government (Atwood, pg. 6). The book follows the journey of the handmaid Offred, stressing Fred's possessive character...

Ernest Hemingway will still be remembered as a revered heroic writer whose writings have influenced American literature. He was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1899. Hemingway was an American novelist, short story composer, and poet whose works won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway started his...

One of the most common writing styles is a tragedy It blends tales of human suffering with a sense of viewer satisfaction. The Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller is a dramatic play about the life of a failed salesman, Willy Loman, and his rash judgment of his family's success...

The motif of vengeance runs throughout the poem Beowulf. The poet expresses the theme through numerous characters by intertwining current and past incidents. Notably, he interrupts the main plot with contextual digressions that relate to what is happening in the main story both explicitly and implicitly. Any of the characters...