Literature Essay Samples Page 7

The two texts are multi modal online newspaper articles on the murder of Reeva Steenkamp by Oscar Pistorius. Text 1 “Pistorius as mysterious as the shooting tragedy” is from the Daily Republic and is written on 25th February 2013 by Gerald Imray who is working with The Associated Press. Text 2 “Oscar Pistorius case: The…

Anne Sexton. A contemporary American poet, Anne Sexton, holds an indispensable position among renowned poets. She used her personal despondency to inspire her poetic works and was best recognized for the inexorably autobiographical traits of her poetry. She suffered from severe mental ailments throughout her life, with an obsession with suicide, and received therapeutic treatment…

“The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck is a symbol-rich story that initially appears as a harmless narrative revolving around a woman and her garden, but upon closer inspection, reveals itself as a portrayal of a woman’s ambitions and frustrations in life. Steinbeck effectively employs various examples to depict the thoughts and ideas of the protagonist, Elisa,…

Both L. P. Hartley and Sylvia Plath employ the first person narrative to elicit a feeling of tragedy for the main characters. Nevertheless, in Leo’s case, Hartley utilizes the first person narrative to enable the reader to comprehend the unfortunate occurrence in the life of twelve-year-old Leo. Some argue that Leo’s first person narration is…

Storyboard BEGINNING Darren Burke enters his first marathon with his friend Chris. They have been training for a year. CONFLICT Darren has been training harder than Chris and wants to win the marathon. He wonders if he should leave him behind in order to win. MIDDLE Darren and Chris keep pace with the leaders, but…

Introduction The Seder ritual that celebrates the Jewish holiday of Passover is about the telling of a story. It is a story about transformation and symbols, the telling of which is intended to be transformative and symbolic. Although the maggid, the ‘telling’, is only one of the 14 components of the Seder (literally: order), it…

The poem “Kitchenette Building,” by Gwendolyn Brooks, is a rather depressing outlook on those in poverty. The poem reveals how truly horrid the circumstances of the poor are. In the first stanza she says, “’Dream’ makes a giddy sound, not strong like ‘rent,’ ‘feeding a wife,’ ‘satisfying a man. ’” By this she means that,…

In an 2004 article for Gourmet Magazine titled “Consider the Lobster,” David Foster Wallace uses his visit to the Maine Lobster Festival as a vehicle fefor questioning the ethics of eating lobster. He provides the reader with factual reasons and definitions to make thought of absentmindedly harming animals (particularly lobsters) for the sake of satisfying…

Zeugma and Pun Zeugma is the use of a word in the same grammatical but different semantic relations to two neighboring words in the context, the semantic relations being, on the one hand, literal, and, on the other, transferred. “Dora, plunging at once into privileged intimacy and into the middle of the room”. (B. Shaw)…

For Larkin, hopes, dreams and ideals are ‘relentlessly diminished by the realities of life.’ (Peter King). How far do you agree with this statement in relation to Mr Bleaney? In ‘Mr Bleaney’ Larkin explores thematically the nature of failure, finality and misery. The poem tells the story of two characters, bound together by their connection…