British Authors • Joseph Addison: o 1672-1719, English essayist, poet, and statesman. ... • William Beckford: o 1760-1844, English author. ... • James Boswell: o 1740-95, Scottish author, b. ... His great work, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., appeared in 1791. ... • Jonathan Swift: o 1667-1745, English author, b. ...
"The Author to Her Book" The poem "The author to Her Book" by Anne Bradstreet is about a writer's relationship to his/her pieces. ... This could be carried even further when considering that I- the author of this commentary- am writing about an author writing about an author. ... In other words, This could be seen as a great feminist act considering the author of the poem is a female experiencing the restrictions put upon her in the context of the 17th Century male domineered world. ... Another aspect, which adds great ambivalence to the relationship between the author and her book,...
California Cooper are The two female authors I chose to discuss. ... Her stories are about simple truths told and expressed with great energy that makes readers very interested. ... Women in society today as a result of reading literature from these two female authors broadens there imagination making readers picture the settings of the stories. Also these two magnificent authors give female readers some type of unseen knowledge and it can help women make new found decisions toward life itself. ...
The Great American Poets During the nineteenth century, many new authors blossomed in America. ... America gave birth to several great poets during the nineteenth century including William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. ... When William Lloyd Garrison caught a glimpse at a poem, written in the newspaper in which he published, he became determined to find that anonymous author. ... He was one of the founders of the Atlantic Monthly, and also the author of the widely read series titled The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. ......
They were all great poets from Romanticism. ... Up to this point in the poem, it seems as if the author is trying to convey the message that change is bad and brings about sadness and gloom. ... Another great poem that speaks of sadness is John Keats" "Ode to a Grecian Urn." ... These three authors bring truth to this thought. ... The authors may have passed on, but their works will live on and be appreciated by many generations that follow. ...
"Veinte Poemas brought the author notoriety with its explicit celebration of sexuality- (Clemens). This work is the one that most people say that led him to become a great poet; this is one of his most important works.. ... After the book Crespulario, "Twenty poems of love and a song of despair-, is the second great work by Pablo Neruda, even though he was very young, his work is known all over the world. ... But you can really see on his book "Twenty Poems and a Song of Despair- that he is a great writer which in the opinion of many writers is what led him to become the 20th century South A...
By this I take it as the author showing great respect for his father and what he does. ... The author describes his grandfather as being a very skilled farmer, whom he shows great respect for too. ... He pays great detail to the way his grandfathers" actions were when he brought him milk. ... He claims it as a squat pen because it doesn't add to the size and greatness of his fathers" tools, the spade. ... But the author has grown up and now he is a poet. ...
There is a metaphor in line nine when the author compares Richard to being "richer than a king." ... The authors tone is light and ironic. He goes throughout the whole poem making the audience feel like money is great, then at the end he drops it on them saying that Richard killed himself. Obviously money isn't so great if this man still killed himself. ... I think this is a great poem to let any greedy or selfish person read, or any gold-diggers. ...
When someone is admired and praised as a great figure, there is a natural desire to know more about this individual. ... It may well be that the true author of these works is William Shakespeare, and there is substantial evidence to verify this opinion. ... One basic piece of evidence supporting Shakespeare as the author of these masterpieces is the fact that his name was on all of the sonnets and poems. Additionally, the editors of Shakespeare's works were the two editors featured in his will, tying further connection to William Shakespeare as the author. It is known that William was als...
The author of All Quiet on the Western Front ,Erich Maria Remarque, and the poet of "Dulce Et Decorum Est", Wilfred Owen, have similar opinions on war. ... Both authors wrote about the ugliness of war and how its not all you do is fight but you are out there for other things. ... This novel gives great description on how young people go to war and witness it and in the poem it shows how one person witness" it. War is not only what you hear but it has great meaning to the soldiers that fight in it. The author and poet do a great job of showing there feelings of war. ...
In "Voyage," the author portrays the complete opposite. ... Not only that, but the author fails to regard the senses, which in essence is the key to all good poetry. ... The commas were not overused and the author used a rhythm to keep a beat within the poem itself. ... The author also used the senses a great deal. In the first stanza, the author uses the sense of sight and smell when he speaks of the pines and summer air. ...
This encounter lead him to visualize a great distinct physical image of her so he began to speak of this phenomenal attractiveness. ... In 1798 his great-uncle the fifth Baron Byron, died childless, and just after his tenth birthday Byron inherited his title. ... The author speaks of her fragile being. This shows that being frail can show enchantment and great lure. ... The author seeks his own innocence through her beauty; this is the author's definition of ideal woman. ...
The author tells his own version of this tale in this dramatic poem. ... In stanzas six through eight, the author describes the creation of "a sinister mate" for the Titanic. ... There is though a great contrast between the Titanic and it's mate as Hardy uses an apostrophe to describe the Iceberg as "sinister" and the Titanic as "so gaily great." The author also uses irony when he calls the ship "smart" because the crew of the ship was not very smart they did not take notice to the warnings of the iceberg. ... In this poem, the author writes about how the convergence of the Titanic an...
It outlines art as the rescue to problems and great way for further friendship. ... The author creates this breath-taking picture, to show the true hidden meanings behind this phenomenal poem. ... Syntax PEEL A fragment from "How to Read a Book" by Virginia Woolf, talks about the great pleasure of reading poetry. ... The author may also be trying to exhibit her inner self. ... " (Page 1), the author pays attention to not discriminate and include both genders in this text. ...
This poem illuminates the hardships and mental anguish suffered by black people - more specifically, the author, his father, and great-grandfather - at the hands of whites. Martin Espada first describes being called "niggerlips" in high school by his peers, then goes on to describe how his great-grandfather was kept a secret by the family due to their shame of his "blackness." Finally, the author describes his fathers struggle for acceptance not only from his peers, but also within himself. ... The authors" hardships are the focus of the first stanza, while the second stanza serves as a so...
In Edmund Spenser's poem, titled Sonnet 75, the author depicts a story of true love, a love that cannot be forgotten no matter how many times the tide rolls over it. ... As the poem continues, however, the author shows this man trying to eternize his love. ... In lines 4, 13, and 14 the author states something of the heavens and life, which make basic and easy to identify ties to religion. ... Finally, in line 14 the author says, "and later life renew." ... As you can see, Spenser uses a great deal of literary devices to make his point, clear and somewhat tangled. ...
Both authors talk about their travels across the world and the coming across different lands and peoples. ... It is unsure, to the reader, just how long they stayed in this paradise, but he goes into great detail about the luxurious area. ... After this great description, we are introduced to those known as the Lotos-Eaters. ... It seems as though Lord Alfred and his crew became somewhat attached to this land, calling it their home, and feel a great deal of sadness when leaving. ... The hidden meanings woven into the works of that of a Romantic author can deter one from allowing their ...
As a result of Emily Dickinson's loneliness, she was able to focus on her poetry better than other authors that time modern authors who had no effect on her writing. ... She wrote many great poems but none of them were ever published, "Though she wrote hundreds of poems, Dickinson never published a book of poetry" . ...
Jack London, the books" author, uses descriptive language and poetic elements to enhance your outlook on the book. Descriptive adjectives, metaphors, and other poetic themes are also rolled up into one great package named "Call of the Wild." ... The author also uses a broad vocabulary, much of it from the late 1800's to the early 1900's. ... Jack London has done a great job with this book, and I appreciate that very much. ...
So whilst reading I take in all the key words and then think about what the author is telling us. ... Now at the end the author says "Resembling us. ... I think that the author talks about change in a rather funny and non serious way. ... The comment from the author about change, or a lack thereof, is basically that love is a great thing and nothing will ever change that and that the author will continue portraying that even after she dies. In the first poem the author uses a simple ABCB rhyming pattern. ...
Many authors have written poems stating their own definitions of poetry to expand on that of the dictionary. ... Although the poem is short in length, it has a great meaning behind it. If you look at the history behind this poem it becomes evident that this had a great impact on history itself. ... In the play the character Walter has many dreams for greatness in his life, but these dreams seem to be causing him a great heartache due to the fact that he has little opportunity to make them reality. ... One way that authors exhibit this is through the use of imagery. ...
Aristotle, a formalist critic, claims that the author gives the work its true meaning, and that meaning is never-changing. ... All forms of poetry are imitation, and differentiate only by how the author presents them to the audience. ... When writing a story or drama, Aristotle strongly feels the author's first priority is to create a general outline. After completing the outline, the author merely needs to fill in the details. The general outline forms the plot, thus tiny details are not a requirement for greatness. ...
A Story such as "The Fall of the House of Usher," is a great example of his imagination. ... Their history of deceit and sin ultimately becomes too great for the house to hold, causing the house to finally fall. ... His influence was felt world wide, and many major American and European writers owe a great debt to him. ... Although the literary merits of Poe's writings were greatly disputed during his lifetime, they are now considered to be timeless tales of forgotten lore, and are regarded as literary tools for some of the greatest authors in modern history. ... The author and poet l...
The first thing we did when we began learning about Romanticism is we read 4 Poems, all in which the authors showed the same value of Romanticism. ... In the poem the author compares his lonely life to that of a bird of on its journey of life. The next is a poem where the author compares a flower in the woods to a human, and says how beautiful they both are, and how they need no excuse for being. ... Although they are not the nicest of the characters, they do have good insight and thoughts to help motivate the main character that moves from Arizona to become a great surfer. ... Overall I have ...
In the beginning of the poem, the author prays and invokes the muse to prove him and to tell him about the subject and to tell him about a hero called Belinda. The author does not invoke God, but his friend John Caryll. ... The author describes the card game as the epic battle and Belinda as a great hero; cards are an army and he gives them heroic names. ...
