Essays on Literature

Preamble The article's title is "Preamble," and it was written by H. Emerson Blake. In May of 2015, the paper was published. The author believes that placing too much control and rules on children does not benefit them, but rather causes all of the problems that arise in the end. Story of...

In life, exclusive people possess different skills that they used to gain their goals. Among the skills, that people utilize to move toward their life goals is literacy. Once one has the ability to use arithmetic, read, and write, he or she is considered as a literate person. However, it takes...

I Am Legend by Francis Lawrence I Am Legend by Francis Lawrence is a novel about the last man in Manhattan. Perhaps on the whole world. It is based on Richard Matheson s novel of the same name. Robert Neville is the name of the lead character. In both the novel...

In Smith’s “Supernatural Ambiguity and Possibility,” the central theme oscillates on the occurrence of romanticism, and the dreamlike atmosphere sets the stage for the strange and the uncanny critique centered on the debate whether it is genuine or a tale of cosmic fear. The author averts to the notion that...

In the poem, Billy Collins addresses “them.” The term is used by the speaker to refer to the “readers” of the poem including poets and students. It pursuits at educating readers on how to interpret a poem rather than distort or manipulate its meaning. As such, Collins desire readers to...

Discovering the Roots of Coffee and Other Caffeine-Containing Plants Folklore is trying to understand the roots of coffee. Different nations have their versions of their discovery myths that attribute different legends to the discovery. Early humans found that when barks, leaves, or seeds of such plants were chewed, their moods improved...

The poem Beat! Beat! Drums! by Walt Whitman The poem Beat! Beat! Drums! by Walt Whitman consists of three stanzas, each of which has seven verses. The poet composed the poem in free verse, taking the reader through a variety of stylistic devices such as language, repetition,...

Introduction Ignorance is a novel written in 1999 by Milan Kundera in French and released in 2000. However, in 2002, Linda Asher translated the first edition into English, a translation distributed by HarperCollins Publishers in New York around the same time (Kundera and Linda 24). The novel discusses the differences in...

Historically, many readers point to writers as the source of the significance of most literary works. In addition, all representations and analyzes are considered to be based on the perspective of the scholar. However, readers are said to have formed close links with writers of different works; this relationship relates...

The bronze sculpture Perseus with the head of Medusa additionally called Cellini’s Perseus is a masterpiece of Italian Mannerism that is one of the most common statues in the Piazza della Signoria. The making of the sculpture used to be motivated by the want to replicate the Greek classical style...

From the outside, The Misfit in Flannery O'Connor's tale "A Decent Man Is Hard to Find" appears to be blameless, honorable, pale, and innocent. He has good manners, which he seems to have learned from his parents. Despite his nonviolent appearance, he proceeded to murder his grandmother in cold blood....

Sophocles' Oedipus Rex is a tragedy based on Athenian thought, and it is one of three Theban plays that have survived and depict Oedipus' fate. Oedipus is the King of Thebes, unaware that his throne is the fulfillment of a prophecy that occurred without his knowledge. He married Jocasta, the...