These observations of Shakespeare's also put to shame the over the top ramblings of other authors odes of love to their women, the hidden meaning (purpose?) ... These similes give us an idea of what he is trying to put across, that his mistress has no where near the same beauty that nature possesses and also show us he is trying to mock the style of his contemporaries? ... Shakespeare's usage of figures of speech and detailed storytelling to put across the themes of his writing was one of the things that set him apart from his contemporaries. ...

• Word Count: 445
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The Speaker is certainly a contemporary of Helen as he/she states in line 17 that he/she wished to see her dead. ... First, it is obvious that he/she is not Helen's contemporary. This is evident since he is familiar with both the Greek and the Roman world and he looks back on the "Nicean barks of yore" (line 3) signifying that he is not a contemporary of Helen. ... Helen is described as white, which is sometimes perceived as a color for purity, but the reader soon finds that this white is a life-less pasty white, a white that is eventually compared to the whiteness of dead skin which th...

• Word Count: 1220
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

José Martí was a Cuban poet, essayist and journalist, who became the symbol of Cuba's fight to get independence from Spain. He said "No man has any special right because he belongs to any specific race; just by saying the word man, we have already said all the rights." He was born in Havana...

• Word Count: 601
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

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. ... Aristotle's contemporaries believe tragic performances overshadow tragic content, and thus tragedy is unrefined. ...

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He is that rare phenomenon, the author in whose work the image of an age can be shown. ... This poem is a great achievement for its author, where Dryden uses a satirical and argumentative verse to debate on public affaires in the form of verse satire. ... There is in another paragraph a reasoning, Dryden is introducing arguments to make readers realize that the role of a king is a very difficult job:-Kings are the public pillars of the State, born to sustain and prop the nation's weight- .It reveals a very conservative ideology on the part of the author. ... It seems the author wants to...

• Word Count: 1107
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Hence, in light of what has been stated above, one can confidently state that Al-Magaleh is one of the best Arab poets who have made extensive use of myth in the contemporary Arabic poetry. ... The beginning of his use of myth coincides with his co-author Abdo Othman's use of myth in the poetic collection Marib Speaks (1971). ... Just as Othman uses the mythical character "Spartocks" who, changes into a contemporary national hero to liberate modern Southern Yemen from the British occupation, Al-Magaleh recalls similar heroes to achieve an identical aim in the North of Yemen like Saif Dhi-...

• Word Count: 1102
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In fact, many critics believe that Anne Dudley Bradstreet's feminine sensibility has always attracted scholars searching for details of early American life absent from the writings of her male contemporaries. ... The Poem "The Author to Her Book- shows the struggles of the first American writer. ...

• Word Count: 886
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In fact, many critics believe that Anne Dudley Bradstreet's feminine sensibility has always attracted scholars searching for details of early American life absent from the writings of her male contemporaries. ... The Poem "The Author to Her Book- shows the struggles of the first American writer. ...

• Word Count: 887
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Even though Whitman's work does not lend itself to the conventional form of poetry in the way his contemporaries such as Longfellow and Whittier do, it holds a deliberate structure, despite its sprawling style of free association. ... The underlying style and structure of Whitman's Leaves Of Grass is that like the leaves of grass the writing should take its own path, should form itself rather than the author forming it. ...

• Word Count: 1169
• Approx Pages: 5