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Poet Elizabeth Bishop was every bit simple as she was complex. The lucid and unsophisticated images she created with her apparently simple manner were anything but; in fact, the complexness that resides within her characteristically simple prose, which demonstrate a pureness and preciseness like no other, are known merely to those who can see beyond…

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book The Great Gatsby, the main character, Jay Gatsby, puts in a lot of effort to achieve the American Dream. The novel serves as Fitzgerald’s way of commenting on and criticizing the American Dream. According to Bewley (113), Fitzgerald both defines and portrays the allure and splendor of this Dream. Through…

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…

Student analysis of The Glass Menagerie For the scene you have been given, explore the following elements and proud CE notes that can be presented in class and be shared via the blob. Quick summary Of what happens in the scene and the subject Of conversation a. Jim keeps Laura company while the power is…

Graduating from high school- I chose graduating from high school, because graduation signifies that I had accomplished something and moving on to the next step. As a child I attended other people graduations, but I did not really get the meaning to why it was so important. Some people do not graduate due to health…

In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the chief character, Macbeth, is a brave and loyal topic to the King of Scotland, but as the drama progresses, his character begins to alter drastically. Evil and unnatural powers, every bit good as his ain desire to go male monarch, take over his better half and finally take to his…

Odyssey: The Journey of a HeroThe Heros Journey is never an easy one. This particular journey, as detailed in Homers The Odyssey, is one of struggle, loss, heartache, pain, growth and triumph. It is comprised of many steps that Odysseus has to overcome and battle through in order to achieve his final goal of reaching…

Centered on Hester Prying, a young woman sent to the colonies by her husband, Roger Chlorinating, she is first introduced standing upon the scaffold, bearing to society ere guilt of adultery through the scarlet A on her chest and her daughter, Pearl, in her arms. Here Hester refuses to confess Arthur Damselfly’s identity as her…

The House on Mango Street is a piece written by Sandra Cisneros, an American of Mexican Heritage. It was published in 1984 and details a year in the life of a young girl, Esperanza Cordero, who moves to Mango Street, a Mexican enclave of Chicago, at the age of twelve. The story deals with relationships,…

In the novel, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, what appears to be Hester Prynne’s calamity becomes the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale’s agony and depression, despite the missive “A” boldly present on her thorax. Reverend Dimmesdale’s matter with Hester Prynne continuously troubles his scruples; seeing that no other individual feels as guilty, the curate is the…