Literature Essay Samples Page 36

I got word last evening that my friend and longtime TGR contributor David Burton had passed away. Recently, David had been battling a myriad of health issues, not the least of which was a failing heart. Though he put up a brave fight, it was too much for him to overcome. David had open-heart surgery…

            This is a review and analysis of two works each from the Reformation and the Restoration Periods. The works of Martin Luther in his German Translation of the Bible, and William Tyndale’s “The Obedience of a Christian Man are samplings from the Reformation period while John Dryden’s poem ‘Song to a Fair Young Lady,…

Carol Shields has ever been a alluring author. She ’ vitamin Ds have you think her concerns were small personal businesss of the bosom, the minor via medias adult females make with love, the ways in which her characters might keep on to contentment, or happen hope and satisfaction in the mundane. But at the…

Also, in another story by Marie De France, a man is wounded and dies at the cost of a woman he loved. In Dent’s Inferno 5, a couple is seen in the second circle of hell who was murdered for loving one another. In both the Inferno 5 and Marie De France’s Lass, it is…

David Foster Wallace’s 2005 commencement speech at Kenyon College, “This is Water” had a unique approach to the way we live life. He asserts the audience that we, the people, are the centers of our own universe and have the power to change the way we live our lives. He talks about changing our monotonous…

In John Donne’s “The Flea” and Andrew Marvell’s “To his Coy Mistress”, both of the narrators (men) address their virgin lovers.  Both poems are animated attempts by the male to seduce his virgin love before they marry.  Donne uses the flea in a symbolic way to represent the combining of the two lovers’ blood in…

Introduction Setting up a novel idea is just one way to produce a creative work, like poetry. But, another important way is to stimulate our imagination. Most people behave unimaginatively not because they lack imagination, but because they fear the reaction their ideas will receive. In time, they grow used to suppressing ideas that differ…

St. Vincent Millay ( 1892-1950 ) was born in Rockland, Maine. Her parents, Cora Lounella, a  nurse, and Henry Tolman Millay, a school teacher, divorced when she was approximately eight ;  ‘‘ Vincent ‘‘ stayed with her female parent. In 1917 she graduated from Vassar, published Renaissance  and Other Poems ( the rubric piece had…

Novelist, poet, short story writer, critic, teacher, and feminist Margaret Eleanor Atwood was born on November 18, 1939 in Ottawa, Ontario. She was the second child of Carl Edmond and Margaret Dorothy Killam Atwood. Atwood married writer Graeme Gibson and had a daughter named Jess. She practiced the Immanent Transcendentalist religion. As a child, she…

There are any influential people in literature in throughout history, some that have paved the way for others, and some still trying to make their mark in history. Literature is a very important part in my life, it takes me outside of the realm of normal day to day and brings me to the realm…