Today's average reader does not usually stop to ponder the gender of an author and what impact a male or female hand may have on a body of literature. However, if analyzed closely, any given text may expose a distinct structural element associated with the author's gender. ... In her composition "Ada"", Gertrude Stein uses a specific structure to symbolize a virgin thought or stream of consciousness. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

"She Walks in Beauty," The Analysis She Walks in Beauty is a poem in which the author speaks of the physical beauty of a woman; a female who the author encountered. ... This occurred at an event attended by the author where he meet his cousin which is the woman the author speaks about in the poem. ... "They married in January 1815; their daughter Augusta Ada was born at the end of the year, but a few weeks latter Annabella left Byron to live with her parents, amid rumors of insanity, incest, and sodomy"(The Penguin Group, 3). ... The author speaks of her fragile being. ... The author seeks his...

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Although Amy Lowell was not as well known as many other authors who wrote during the same period as her, she influenced their ideas, conforming them to imagiste writing. Authors such as: Charles Dickens, William Blake and Jane Austin were all well-known during the years Lowell wrote, and began to write in an Imagist style following in Lowell's path. ... From the time her parents died, she had lived in their home with the women she loved, Ada Russell. ... After reading poetry by the same author, in the same style, only with different words tends to make me bored. ... An author l...

• Word Count: 2108
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: High School