Literature Essay Samples Page 38

“My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke. is an challenging verse form about a memory of a male child and his male parent waltzing around the house. The ambiguity in this verse form can take to two really different readings. It can be seen as a kid terrorized by an opprobrious male parent or a kid…

The initial pages of “Nectar in a Sieve” feature Rukmani, the narrator, who is an elderly woman reflecting on her past. Despite her current state of peace, Rukmani acknowledges that her life hasn’t always been this way. She briefly mentions significant individuals in her life, including her deceased husband, son, daughter, Puli, and Kenny. Then,…

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…

In the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Coleridge, language is used to convey images from Coleridges imagination. This is done with the use of vocabulary, imagery, structure, use of contrasts, rhythm and sound devices such as alliteration and assonance. By conveying his imagination by using language, the vocabulary used by coleridge is of great importance….

  Malapropism is a historical phenomenon, a linguistic by-product of the new exchange in words. Wilson observed it as well, relating the following anecdote: [A poor man] standyng in muche nede of money, and desirous to have some helpe at a jentlemanns hand, made his complaint in this wise. I praie you sir be so…

Sticks and Stones By Peter Kuper 1) Sticks and Stones is a wordless novel that uses the themes of betrayal and power-abuse that is parable to modern politics. The story occurs in a prehistoric time with settings in barren lands. Its tales revolve around a stone giant who was born from a volcano and demands…

Cervo, Nathan A. “Yeats’ ‘Among School Children.” Explicator Fall (2001): p 30-31. This piece discusses arguably one of the more interesting works of Yeats entitled “among School Children”.  The discussion revolves around how W.B Yeats deconstructs the value of the things that are taught by kindly nuns to the children under their supposed care.  It…

A Spiritual Journey was a truly inspiring story about a true legend. From the very beginning, Jane Goodall was a woman who had a dream and with the support of her mother and Louis Leakey she was able to live out all of the fantasies she had envisioned from an early age. Unlike most famous…

Three essays, three different writers discussing the same subject, three points of view which one is the correct view? Thomas Jefferson’s, “Notes on the State of Virginia”, he reencounters many of the policies he had initiated while working in the Virginia Assembly. He not only talks politics he also talks about race and inferiority between…

In both Penelope Livery’s “At the Pit-Rivers” and James Jockey’s “Arab’ the boy narrators have skewed views about love. Throughout his particular story however, each narrator realizes that his ideas on love were mistaken and begins to modify his muddled thinking. In “At the Pit-Rivers” the sixteen year-old narrator was certain that he knew all…