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Poetry Explication of “The Road Not Taken” In “The Road Not Taken,” by Robert Frost, he depicts a person that comes to a decision that they had made in their past. They have a couple of choices, hence the two roads that were depicted in the poem. But the speaker is going deeper; he is…

First of all, it is of paramount importance to mention that both Wilson’s and Hughes’ works were revolutionary at their time. They address such important issues as poverty, discrimination, racist and dehumanizing attitude toward African-Americans. Hughes’ most known piece, “Harlem”, is perhaps the most accurate portrayal of the socioeconomic issues faced by African-Americans in the…

In the essay “The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society,” Jonathan Kozol objectively and vividly describes the wretched tragedies and helplessness of the poor, illiterate people. He uses specific and realistic details of illiterates’ suffering and in so doing causes his readers to become sympathetic and genuinely concerned about the issue. In “A Modest Proposal”,…

Edward James Hughes, a renowned British poet, was awarded the title of Poet Laureate in 1984. He gained prominence as a prolific and skilled poet during the late fifties and early sixties. Born in 1930 in Yorkshire, Hughes came from a family of carpenters. He attended Grammar School before studying English at Cambridge, later switching…

Through the course of ‘The Handmaids Tale’, Margaret Atwood uses an unconventional and ostensibly unordered form of plot construction to present Offred’s tale and certain major themes effectively to the reader. The construction of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is strongly linked to the prime theme of time running through the novel, as well as other more…

All modes of inquiry correlate with each other due to their tendency to coalesce in their emphasis on issues that tackle autonomy, justice, and politics. The differences of literary theories, for example, only spring from their construal of the relationship between the exercise of power and the text. Structuralism views the relation in terms of…

Wordsworth’s poems initiated the Romantic era by emphasizing feeling, instinct, and pleasure above the formality and mannerism of the preceding neo-classical style. The themes that run through Wordsworth’s poetry and the language and imagery he uses to embody those themes remain consistent throughout most of his works. One of the loveliest and most famous in…

Robert Frost, considered one of the most renowned poets of the 20th century, published his poem “Mending Wall” in 1914 as part of his second collection of poetry. The poem, written in blank verse, spans several stanzas. My personal reading process encompassed a week and a half, with multiple readings and reflections. Initially, I interpreted…

The poem “The Good Morrow” by John Donne intrigued me. I was particularly fascinated by the reference to the “Seven sleepers’ den” (Line 4) imagery, which compares the couple lying in bed. In this comparison, the poet alludes to a popular legend from the second century about seven young Christians from Ephesus who sought sanctuary…

John Donne is renowned for his metaphysical poetry, and his poem ‘The Good Morrow’ is no exception. It is a prime example of one of Donne’s metaphysical poems as it contains many of the characteristics that commonly appear in his other poems of this sort of verse, such as realistic setting, and a theme that…