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Pass/Fail is a poem written by Linda Pastan that is about the nightmare of test taking. There is always anxiety that accompanies a big exam, and sometimes it will affect our sleeping habits, self-confidence, plague our thoughts and haunt our dreams. Pastan explores this unpleasant experience in her short poem and uses several techniques to…

Demonstrate how alienation is a key theme in both Migrant Hostel and Feliks Skrzynecki. Textual evidence must be used in your response. Belonging is an extremely complex and intangible concept based upon one’s perception of themselves and the world around them. Through reading and breaking down these two poems, Migrant Hostel and Feliks Skrzynecki by…

The inclusion of “This is my missive to the world” emphasizes the growing of the talker. During the Price’s stay in Kilanga. the household witnessed 100s of deceases. These were tragic happenings in their eyes but to the indigens. they were merely nature’s message. At the beginning of the fresh Adah would hold received the…

Lord Alfred Tennyson, born on August 6, 1809 in Somersby, Lincolnshire, England, was a celebrated writer during the Victorian Era and a beloved poet. He was the fourth child among twelve children and displayed his talent for writing from an early age. By twelve years old, he had already written a poem comprising of 6,000…

Death; termination of vital existence; passing away of the physical state. Dying comes along with a pool of emotions that writers have many times tried to explain. Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman were two pioneer poets from the Romantic Era, that introduced new, freer styles of writing to modern poetry at the time. Both Whitman…

Langston Hughes was a potential Black American poet [1902-1967] who was an exponent of Harlem Renaissance in New York in the ‘20s. The motto of Harlem Renaissance was winning a status of equality for the Afro-Americans. As Hughes resided in a ghetto in Harlem it became an opportunity for him in spearheading the movement. In…

The priest-poet Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), born in the county of Essex, in England, wrote the poem The Wreck of the Deutschland in 1875, which is the year when the ship called “Deutschland” departed from Bremen to the United States of America (stanza 12) and was wrecked in the Thames Estuary (stanza 21 – line…

The society depicted in the poem “Beowulf” depended on two basic characteristics of its people. Loyalty and generosity are the two characteristics that bound this culture together. Throughout the poem, the people must depend on the loyalty and generosity of Beowulf and his warriors to defend them from evil. Society as described in Beowulf, was…

Sex and politics have proved to be two very popular themes that havesurvived throughout centuries of literature, poetry, drama, and mostrecently, cinema. As one of the touchiest subjects to expose to thepublic, the sex theme has proven time and time again to be not only acontroversial tool for artists and authors, but also a topic…

Although love may occasionally show itself as a muse of Romantic poetry it has very little to do with Romanticism. Romanticism is considered to be an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world.(Brooklyn College) The early Romantic period begins…