1. Literary Genre: Dystopian Fiction
The paper presents an analysis of Maya Angelou through researching her cultural context and how it helps readers to understand her work, influences among writers, her writing style applied to I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, her theories about literature and writing, and critical reception of the writers work. ... Through her cultural context, influence from other writers, writing style, and her theories about literature and writing, Angelou managed to write poems that inspired and still inspire people despite the critical reception towards her work....
The vampire is used as a familiar metaphor to analogise the sucking of blood by a fictitious character to the draining of energy, personality and identity of women and in particular female poets by their critical husbands and a society constructed to 'let no light squeak through', continuing to metaphorically enslave women to the power of masculine subjugation. ... In this case, he uses familiar images to provide a significant analysis of Plath's tendency in conflation of her oppressive father and her later husband. ...
To My Books is structured into three quatrains and a rhyming couplet and is written in iambic pentameter. Norton uses the sonnet's structure, rhyme, punctuation and use of diction to create a vehicle for her appreciation of books. The rhyming pattern is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. The three quatrains are used to express Norton's appreciation for the books, she then summarises these feelings using the rhyming couplet. This simple rhyming pattern encourages the reader to recite the sonnet slowly creating a "tranquil" tone. ...
"Keats's Odes of May 1819 articulate a Profoundly Divided Self." Discuss. The poetry of John Keats articulates an astonishing literary liturgy, which has influenced much of the study of nineteenth century literature; though during his short lifetime he was deemed to be a "lower class cockney," a...