Analysis Burying the body of a relative with proper rites was a recurring theme in classical literature (such as in Sophocles' play Antigone), so it was not surprising that Ovid would make it part of the story of Seys and Alcyone. ... Nevertheless, in a common literary reversal, the narrator endeavors to tell the reader anyway. ...
What is literary study? ... On the other hand, literary study is knowledge about literature itself. ... But these efforts only make literature and literary study come to a very complicated relation. ... But this effort replaced the pure literary criteria. ... Traditional literary works fulfill this nature. ...
Stavans describes the work, "The entire volume is a gathering of memories, a literary attempt to make sense of the past (Stavans "Daughters" 9)." ... Since Alvarez brought the metaphor of language forth so boldly with her novel, it is necessary and appropriate to carefully analysis how her words portray her true self. ... "A second leitmotif also colors the plot - her indomitable need to describe, in literary terms, her feelings and immediate milieu (Stavans "Daughters 8)." ... The irony almost reaching humorous, that it is the unmistakable definition of literary racism. ...
A "howl" is a prolonged instinctive animal cry and Ginsberg's poem forcefully depicts the sense of a "sudden, angry eruption of instincts long thwarted, of the release of excluded human and literary energies"(Breslin, 227). "Howl" violated all the artistic canons of the period and provoked a literary, social, and even legal scandal. ... Then they present an analysis of the three poems which compose Howl. ...
Walt Whitman(1819-1892), broke the literary tradition of his time with regards to content, form and style of his vigorous verse. ... The following analysis investigate, separately, a passage from Whitman's "Song of Myself" and Emily Dickinson's poem 334 -see Appendix- focusing on thematic contents and on the formal aspects which lead to their interpretation. ... This can be deduced particularly through the analysis of two stylistic elements: the demonstrative pronoun "this", at the end of the second line, and the synesthesia in lines 4 and 5. ... On this level of ...
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," and an ignorant, unsettled "pretender" to a higher culture. ... These short romantic poems can be seen to be linked both structurally and thematically by a sequence of closely related problems and, as an effect, show Keats both at his most vulnerable and possessing the literary genius he has subsequently been accredited with. These works, although they have been subjected to m...
Through the analysis of some sections of this poem, it can be taken into account the relations to the romantic vision of nature and religion in Wordsworth's poem. ... Many nineteenth-century critics affirm that the romantic poetry tended towards egotism and excessive subjectivity, instead the Victorian project found literary and artistic means of bridging a series of what they considered to be binary oppositions such as: self and society, personal and political, subject and objective; it is what Tennyson did in his poem, that is to say finding public uses for very private experiences ...
Different authors use various figures of speech to present their characters in plays or poems. For actors, figures of speech usually help to determine the most prominent traits of characters. The first part one of this paper analyzes the character of Doctor Faustus who is the protagonist of Marlowe's play who was overwhelmed with the desire to possess power and the presentation of the character as a pure villain in the play. This will be compared with the character and the figure of Richard III in the eponymous play by William Shakespeare, while identifying the significance of his figure...
