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Although Franz Kafka’s ‘Metamorphosis’ and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s ‘Chronicle of a Death Foretold’ are set in dissimilar social environments, they have a number of common themes, one of which is sacrifice. Both Gregor Samsa and Santiago Nasar are depicted as ‘sacrifices’, whose deaths ostensibly purify their communities from the sins of dishonor and alienation. The…

Words of Wisdom “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair”. Mother to Son, written by Langston Hughes is a poem of a mother trying to give her child a heads up on life, and how hard it may get at times. Life has been difficult for her and she wants to make sure that…

The poem’s title, Barbie Doll, initially suggests that it will focus on a child’s toy, perhaps a cherished possession of a young girl. However, upon reading the poem, it becomes clear that the title actually addresses the concept of perfection and how society perceives it. I am particularly intrigued by the author’s reflections on the…

Robert E. Howard’s hatred of the slave trade was unequivocal. His poems in this subject area are so vivid they could almost be used as part of the history of the slaves taken from Africa. It is one of the few subject areas in which REH shows no conflicting point of view in his poetry….

Compare the ways in which Blake and Larkin present the theme of corruption in their poems. William Blake and Phillip Larkin are very different poets; they have different techniques to convey their ideas but both skilfully are able to establish a connection with the audience through these different means. The two poets, despite being separated…

Madness is the main idea which is developed in the dramatic monologue, “Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Brawning. In the poem, the narrator’s lover leaves a high class party and walks through the forest in the middle of a wild and windy night to be with him. He realises that she will never abandon her aristocratic…

John Donne describes love as a binding force, and one which completes both the persona’s and his lover’s lives. The Romantic poets, such as Keats’ and Wordsworth’s style of verse is much more descriptive of the physical reality with which they deal, whereas Donne ignores the reality and writes about what is beyond reality; the…

He was born in 1912 in British Guiana. Justice Breathiest is well-known as a novelist, writer, teacher, and diplomatist. During World War II, he joined the Royal Air Force as a pilot – he would later describe this experience as one where he had felt no discrimination based on his skin color or ethnicity. After…

Explore the concepts of success and failure in A Grammarian’s Funeral and one other poem by Robert Browning. In A Grammarian’s Funeral we get an ambiguous idea of whether the Grammarian’s life has been a success or a failure. Though there is much evidence that the poet believes he has served his life well, there…

Imagery is a powerful tool that can make or break any literary piece. With careful employment, it can translate the exact experience the author wants to the reader. This paper is a brief discussion of the usage of imagery by three authors of varying writing styles in conveying the nature of the rather dysfunctional parent-child…