Literature Essay Samples Page 47

Summary Analysis of the poem, “Trees” by Alfred Joyce Kilmer LIFE of Alfred Joyce Kilmer American poet (1886-1918) Born: New Brunswick, New Jersey Educated at: Rutgers College and Columbia University Milestones: From 1909 to 1917 he was on the staff of the New Standard Dictionary, as well as various periodicals. He was killed in France…

Written in 1926 following a visit to a convent school Waterford, Ireland, “Among School Children” by William Butler Yeats, is a multilayered poem–a meditation by an aging man on life, love, and creativity. Didactic in certain areas, this poem possesses an overarching transcendence as Yeats considers universal themes such as human frailty, the inevitability of…

Having a cup of tea is one of the most popular leisure consumption in the modern world. In the human life span, drinking tea is not only a healthy and instructive way but also the symbol of fashion. According to Sueoka (2006), based on epidemiological studies, drinking tea is one of the most effective cancer…

Richard Davie once claimed that whilst he “recognised in Larkin’s [poetry] the seasons of present-day England, [he also] recognised.. . the seasons of an English soul”. 1 In fact Philip Larkin’s very interest in human nature, together with his dislike of “.. . self-indulgent romanticism… “2, contributed to the character and final draft of ‘Mr…

One Sunday I entrained for Baliwag, a town in Bulacan which can well afford to hold two fiestas a year without a qualm. I took the train partly because I am prejudiced in favor of the government-owned railroad, partly because I am allowed comparative comfort in a coach, and finally because trains sometimes leave and…

Introduction Many academicians perceive “hybridity” as a concept interrelated in the era of post-colonialism. Accordingly, scholars of the 19th century are influenced by the ideas justifying colonialism; interrelating multicultural concepts as a result of interrelationship between the colonist and the colonized in a colony. On the other hand, literary theory on hybridity exposes the effects…

Is Nick Carraway a reliable narrator for the story of Jay Gatsby? I don’t believe he is. First of all, he has a common tendency of contradicting himself, an everyday thing for most people, however when telling a story, the mere fact that he contradicts himself suggests that he is not always telling the whole…

Introduce your poem with an introductory paragraph. Write the title of the poem and its author. Give a brief summary of the poem’s contents. A brief summary on Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven,” for example, would state that the speaker of the poem is longing for his lost love and becomes beguiled by a raven…

Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin are two major figures in history. Edwards was a very religious Puritan minister, and Benjamin Franklin was the opposite; a diplomat, inventor, negotiator, merchant along with many other qualities. Each man had goals in their life. Though the reasons for the goals may be different, they both were very serious…

W. Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 in Paris, he is a famous English writer, who also received medical degree, but never practiced it. For a long time of his career of writer, he had no success, only in 1907, his “Lady Frederic”, a comedy of manners, was produced in London, and after it he…