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Analyzing Poetry Yeats Vs. Lord Byron

When analyzing poems, one wonders if the age of the poet has any effect on the vision the poet chooses to portray to the writer. In Yeats' poem Sailing to Byzantium he was sixty-one years old; when Lord Byron wrote the Switzerland portion of his poetic travelogue Child Harolds Pilgrimage. This paper will analyze the approach of either author according to the differences in their ages (not the differences in the time period in which the poems were written). Suffice it to say that the paper will give a strong...

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Satirical techniques in Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down

The phrase Yellow Back refers to the culture of different fiction novels that created the myth of the Old West at the end of the nineteenth century. Although some people describe old west as just a state of mind, "one had to describe in one word the books that transformed not only series publishing but all publishing in the last half of the nineteenth century, it would be ‘yellow-back'". (Harry Rusche). Radio is the culture that followed that era and after so many years, it became the TV culture; then...

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Wyatt Earp, The Life Behind The Legend

Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was born in 19 March 1848 and died in 13 January 1929. He is most remembered in public perception as a remarkable participant of the famous the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. In association with this perception the image pf this man is projected as a Wild West law enforcer. Alongside he was also a saloon keeper and a noted gambler of his time. However, there is more to this person than these perceptions and that is what the author Casey Tefertiller presents us in this...

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Wuthering Heights Character Comparative Analysis

Wuthering Heights was the only novel written by Emily Bronte. When this book was first sent to publishers, Bronte used a male pen name of Ellis Bell as the author, fearing that the novel would not be accepted as the writing of a female writer. Emily Bronte died not long after the publication of her novel.Undergraduates Often Tell Us:How much do I have to pay someone to write my assignment in time?Specialists propose: Choose The Qualified Help In Writing PapersThe Novel expresses social matters such as gender and social class...

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Wuthering Heights: Romantic or Victorian?

Do we read Emily Bronte's famous novel Wuthering Heights as reflective of a Romantic text or reflective of Victorian literature? I would argue that it can be read with elements of both - where the two worlds collide. It is a novel that falls between Romanticism and Victorianism in an attempt to bring the two successive literary periods together. Romanticism, according to levity.com, incorporates the themes of "nature, the lure of the exotic, the supernatural, and decline of the tradition." We see all of these elements in Wuthering heights.People Very...

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The Rape of the Lock

The most important problem that 18th century faced was the posing and pretension in elite circles of society. This problem led this social class to another problem i.e. indulgence useless activities and its concerns about trifling matters. Both these problems have been addressed masterfully by Alexander Pope in The Rape of the Lock, Henry Fielding in Joseph Andrew and Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels through various thematic expressions. Pope satirizes the 'beau-monde' and ridicules the excessive snobbery. Belinda's (the protaginist of the poem) society is representative English upper class of...

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Writing with a Lens

The message of the short story titled "A Clean, Well-lighted place" by Ernest Hemingway is that with age comes a better understanding of the troubles of others. The story centers on the opposing reactions of two waiters of different age groups towards a troubled old man who seek a nightly refuge in a clean and well-lighted cafe. The old man visits the clean and well-lighted cafe every night to drink. The cafe had been his source of nightly refuge from his troubles possibly because it is comforting and peaceful so...

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Book Review: “The Wrong Stuff”

"In The Wrong Stuff" authors Marcus Stern, Jerry Kammer, Dean Calbreath and George Condon, Jr. detail the air combat which took place over North Vietnam on May 10. 1972.Duke Cunningham was a U. S. Navy First Lieutenant and F-4 pilot stationed off the coast of North Vietnam on the aircraft carrier Constellation. On May 10, 1972 he and his radio operator were part of a thirty-two plane flight group with the mission of flying "cover" for B-52 bombers attacking a rail depot between Hanoi and Haiphong.At the time Cunningham had...

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Writing Fiction

For some people, people who do not necessarily claims themselves to be writers, writing can be quite difficult; particularly, when they are asked to conjure up a five to six page story in a short matter of days. Unlike the gifted few, who see the keyboard, as the tool in constructing their story, others struggle, wrestling between ideas, characters, settings, plot, motif, and climax. Then there are those, who simply choose to look to their everyday lives for inspiration (after all, one writes best when they write what they know),...

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OZYMANDIAS- A SYMBOL OF MAN’S HUBRIS

Percy Bysshe Shelley in his Ozymandias illustrates the vanity of human greatness and the failure of all attempts to immortalize human grandeur. Ozymandias was a great Egyptian king, a life-like statue of whom was made to immortalize him. But now the statue lies broken and disfigured, and all around it is a barren desert. Though he was hailed as a great king long back, it is ironical that his works which he boasted of once was now shattered into dust. His works have all disappeared including the whole civilization that...

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Сriticism of literature

On page seven of the book A Little Literature, by Sylvan Barnet, William Burton, and William E. Cain, it states “when you write about a work, you will want to do much more than say, I really like this story," or “This poem bored me." It is true that such an approach is too simple, lacking in depth, and will not really benefit anybody very much. There is, instead, a proper way to go about critiquing literature that involves the use of established methods. The result of using these methods...

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“The Man He Killed” by Thomas Hardy

"The Man He Killed" by Thomas Hardy is a narration after a shootout between 2 soldiers at a time of war. The speaker is the victor of the duel. His use of the past tense shows that the event has already taken place. He is contemplating on what had happened. There is no sign of remorse in his words although there is a sense of pity when he said, "Had he and I but met" (1). Using these word in the very first line gives significance of the speaker's sincerity...

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Aspect of Freakonomics that had the most impact on you

The book made me realized several aspects of life that are not seemingly obvious but actually make sense after careful analysis. It has provided interesting insights that stirs interest and stimulates thinking and reasoning.Among the issues presented in the book, what really caught my attention were the statistics and the laws relating to guns in the United States.In his book, Levitt (2005) said that there are just so much guns that "if you give one to every adult, you will run out of adults before you ran out of guns"....

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The Man with the Scar

The Man with the Scar is clearly a frame story, with a well embedded flashback. The story begins with a focus on the main "Scar". It is around this scar that the entire story revolves. The writer uses great skill to build up anticipation in the reader. The settings of the bar and the gallows help in creating an environment of suspense. The writer uses guided imagery to make the reader believe that the scar is the result of a formidable wound. The skill with which the image of the...

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Role of Women in the Society

Women must have the most complicated cluster in the society. The past few decades have defined the meaning of womanhood which gave the society an idea on the essence of women in domesticity alone. This meaning, however, has put women in the pedestal and while it placed them in the marginalized sector of the society. If men 's function is to provide for the family, women on the other hand, still have no permanent role. This is the reason, most probably, why the society still has the same connotation about...

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