A piece of literature will be acknowledged with acceptation into a literary canon. ... This is not meant to devalue what effect taste has to do with literature and understanding literary movements. ... Quality from my perspective has to to with how the literary piece catches my attention. George Orwell's 1984 is a dystopian fiction revealing a society illustrative of certain well-known social terms such as the following: government, society, political party, totalitarianism, deviance, punishment, mob, social control, power, language, propaganda, status symbols beliefs, crime. and self-con...

• Word Count: 638
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The essay explores the shift in literary work during the restoration period. ... In this poem he demonstrates aspects of the restoration period literary work. ... In the poem, he describes ordinary human beings in heroic terms. ... Clearly, the restoration period had great contribution in the development and presentation of literary work. ... During this period literary work was used to fight vices and instill morals....

• Word Count: 1100
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Literature also makes up a unique reading styles because of the different literary terms and rhetorical devices that it possesses such as simile, metaphor, imagery and many more. ... A metaphor is derived from a simile in that it equates different things without using connecting terms such as like or as. ... Allusion is a reference in one literary work to a character or theme found in another literary work. ... Meter is the organization of speech rhythms (verbal stresses) into regular patterns, in terms of both the arrangement of stresses and their frequency of repetition per line of verse...

• Word Count: 1599
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The novel as a more realistic literary genre, is sometimes distinguished in academic literary criticism from the romance; but this distinction is not maintained by all literary critics. 3. ... A literary work meant to be performed in a theatre. If viewed from this functional angle, the definition of drama as a literary kind is non-controversial. But problems may arise when one tries to define it in terms of the intrinsic qualities which a work must have in order for it to be classified as dramatic 4. ...

• Word Count: 627
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• Grade Level: High School

According to the "Dictionary of Literary Terms- poetry is: - metrical writing; - writing, that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through its meanings, sound and rhythm. ... "The moment you feel, you're Nobody-But-Yourself". (1970) According to Harmer poetry are the words that together leave us a little wiser after we have read them. (1996) Kamieñska reminds that poetry is also a question of experience to which an author appeals, and finally a matte...

• Word Count: 799
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

According to the "Dictionary of Literary Terms- poetry is: - metrical writing; - writing, that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through its meanings, sound and rhythm. ... "The moment you feel, you're Nobody-But-Yourself". (1970) According to Harmer poetry are the words that together leave us a little wiser after we have read them. (1996) Kamieñska reminds that poetry is also a question of experience to which an author appeals, and finally a matte...

• Word Count: 752
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

His experimentation within language and forms brought a rapid change in literary tastes. ... In this paper, this poem will be examined from two literary theories. Literary theories are some ideas which try to define what literature is and how it needs to be studied. ... Marxist Criticism Marxism is a way of seeing the world around us through the economic terms. ... The simplest goals of Marxist literary criticism can include an assessment of the political 'tendency' of a literary work, determining whether its social content or its literary form are 'progressive'. ...

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This mixture of literary elements, and terms and absolute description, gives the poem a really clear image of today's work environment, with yesterday's experiences, to provide an excellent read, and discussion even....

• Word Count: 396
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Sonnet 130-Analysis and Summary The poem begins in describing a woman, his mistress to be exact. And he seems to have a disdainful outlook of the woman's beauty. On the other hand he may just be making fun of the infinite number of love poems being produced in the Shakespearian era. Many of w...

• Word Count: 496
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

I chose to analyze sonnet's 33 and 34 because there are an exceptional amount of examples of literary terms that we have discussed throughout the semester. ... First, sonnets 33 and 34 possess a tremendous amount of literary forms. ...

• Word Count: 627
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• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 5585
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The elements and principles of the poetic work are built up with literary tools that Blake uses to convey what he feels as the important message in which the reader must obtain. ... The principles are applied to poetry in the same way and become a series of poetic terms that are rhyme, tone, and line treatment. ... By capitalizing both Man and God the result is an extremely taboo literary piece for its time period that places God in the same perspective or level as humanity. ... One must use a trained eye for the literary tools when analyzing this poem. ...

• Word Count: 1424
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In its various forms it has maintained it value and popularity throughout literary history. ... The search to define these terms is evident in "Ode on a Grecian Urn". ... That is just one fascinating aspect of this poem and one example of how the quest genre has maintained its value and popularity throughout literary history. ... The "quest" genre has many enduring qualities which, in their varying forms, have, and will in future, maintained their value and popularity throughout literary history. ...

• Word Count: 1253
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• Grade Level: High School

It is indisputable that as readers of any type of literary work, we will take our own individual meaning of a text which is likely to differ significantly from another's interpretation. ... The unconventional subject matter of the sonnet reflects Paterson's statement in terms of the argument that the "eye of the beholder" is referring to the poet's individual perception of sonnet writing, as whilst the melancholic tone of this poem implies an inaccurate representation of what a love poem is to the reader. ... In comparison to Shakespeare, Elizabeth Barrett Browning adopts the Pe...

• Word Count: 1540
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A typical dictionary might define poetry as literary composition written in verse with meaning. ... It is the basis of every branch of literary and artistic expression. ... Hughes poem may be distinguished from prose literature in terms of form by its smaller size, by its frequent use of simile, rhyme, and its dependence on the line as a formal unit. ... Poetry is a literary composition written in verse with meaning. ...

• Word Count: 1645
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Textual forms and features clearly illustrate his intellectual and emotional journey of coming to terms with change. ... When composed, in 1920, Yeats had come to terms with the rejection of Maude Gonne, and has now married Gerogia Lees. ... Hence, a tension is conveyed through the use of literary devices between Yeats, resistant of change, and the vibrant, immortalized swans, which are free from the restrictions of this change. ... Through comparison of the two texts, our understanding of Yeat's emotion and cerebral journey of coming to terms with change is heightened, as we notice a s...

• Word Count: 1286
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965), was an early twentieth century poet, dramatist, publisher, playwright and literary and social critic", one of the twentieth century's major poets." and a leader of the modernist movement in literature T.S. ... This city had a monumental and life-altering impact on Eliot for multiple reasons, the most significant of which was his introduction to the influential literary figure  Ezra Pound. ... If one categorized Eliot's careers, he would probably be regarded as editor, dramatist, literary critic, and philosophical poet. ... His undergraduate ...

• Word Count: 4134
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• Grade Level: High School

In the literary works of Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" and Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress," time is expressed as an excuse to seize the day. ... Finally, toward the end of poem Marvell expresses time in terms of here and now. ...

• Word Count: 630
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Poem description and background information The poem "A World Where News Travelled Slowly" is a rather modern Poem written by Lavinia Greenlaw in 1997. The Poem consists of three verses which each describe a different way in which News travelled from one person to another. They are ordered in mov...

• Word Count: 822
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• Grade Level: High School

In the literary works of Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" and Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress," time is expressed as an excuse to seize the day. ... Finally, toward the end of poem Marvell expresses time in terms of here and now. ...

• Word Count: 630
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Hardy tends to use many of the literary techniques, but mostly those of kennings and aprorias in his poetry (poems). ... Hardy uses the literary techniques of aporia, kennings, hendiadys, personification, and alliteration in "After a Journey-. ... Another literary term that Hardy uses is hendiadys, which is the use of two words connected by a conjunction, instead of subordinating one to the other, to express a single complex idea. ... Some of the literary techniques Hardy uses in "The Haunter- are: aporia, alliteration, enjambment, kenning, imagery, and antistrophe. ...

• Word Count: 2972
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Cummings uses such literary devices as symbolism, imagery, allusion, and syntax to show that the speaker of the poem has just experienced a rebirth.The speaker is thanking God for allowing him to see life in a new light and to be reborn again for a fresh start.By using these various literary devices, Cummings is able to show the extreme gratefulness the speaker in the poem feels because he has found a new outlook on life. ...

• Word Count: 2203
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Stavans describes the work, "The entire volume is a gathering of memories, a literary attempt to make sense of the past (Stavans "Daughters" 9)." ... "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. ...

• Word Count: 2799
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"Her compact, forceful language, characteried formally by long disruptive dashes, heavy iambic meters, and angular, imprecise rhymes, is one fo the singular literary achievements of of the nineteenth century. ... They both want their work to accepted and published on their terms. ... She writes what she wants and on her own terms. ...

• Word Count: 1665
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Essentially the female in this poem is evaluated in terms of the physical world. ... It is also romantic in the way that he talks of the beauty of a woman in terms of the beauty of the night, a clear and starry night. ...

• Word Count: 1724
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School