Literature is a faithful reproduction of life executed in an artistic pattern. It ha the power to set our imaginations soaring through a myriad lives and worlds. It can add something to what we already know about ourselves and the rest of humanity. It is written material such as poetry, novels,...
In his 4th Century B.C. work Poetics, Greek philosopher Aristotle effectively creates the world's first critical book concerning the laws of literature. ... In his discussions of imitation, Aristotle continues the examination of literature's effect on the audience begun by Plato. ... Essentially, both writers believe that imitation is the only constant in literature. ... He explains that a critic must " treat of Poetry in itself and of its various kinds, noting the essential ...
She was a very bright child who was reading passages from the Bible, Greek and Latin classics, astronomy, geography, history, and British literature only sixteen months after her arrival. ... Because some were skeptical of Phillis really being the author, due to her age and their racism, her publisher added a note at the beginning of the manuscript. ...
Critical analysis on American literature I analyzed a selected poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson titled "Bacchus" written in 1847. ... He attached to this poem a note, which read, "The man who is his own master knocks in vain at the doors of poetry". ...
He transposes the Bible into an idiom that is partly derived from folklore and partly based on a Scottish literature, with a subtle attack on the idea of Calvinism. ... Burns cleverly moves the poem through two transition stanzas (lamenting the loss of the privileged tax-free still of the upper-class and cursing the excise) to end on a note descriptive of his own ideal. ...
The biography of Phyllis Wheatley says, "Responding to early indications of intellectual precociousness in Phyllis, the Wheatley family encouraged her to study the Bible and to read English and Latin literature, history, and geography." ... For instance, line 25 of To Maecenas, " soon the same beauties should my mind adorn, and the same ardors in my soul should burn: then should my song in bolder notes arise, and all my numbers pleasingly surprise- As these lines indicate, Phyllis had a passion to write well as a poet and surprise her white peers. ...
Service's poem "The Spell of the Yukon" is an excellent piece of literature. ... (lines 69-72) Service riddles this final passage, with parallelism, alliteration and mid-line rhyme to end the poem on a memorable note. ... I have only scratched the surface of this great piece of literature....
As Perry Miller explains, in an era that subordinated women to men and men to God "women who stepped beyond their domestic defines through literature "by reading or writing "were considered dangerous to themselves and to society Puritans expressed considerable scorn for women who wrote or published- (360-61). ... Wendy Martin and Ann Stanford each note the subtlety with which Bradstreet has to write and practice feminism to avoid Puritan censure. ...
Throughout the literature Whitman informs the people of how untrue this really is. ... Whitman notes how he engages each individual differently and yet still gives each patient the time needed to cope, uncertain if they are dead or alive. ...
As Perry Miller explains, in an era that subordinated women to men and men to God "women who stepped beyond their domestic defines through literature "by reading or writing "were considered dangerous to themselves and to society Puritans expressed considerable scorn for women who wrote or published- (360-61). ... Wendy Martin and Ann Stanford each note the subtlety with which Bradstreet has to write and practice feminism to avoid Puritan censure. ...
Lawrence was seen as eccentric as a young man due to his lack of work and love for literature. ... In the final stanza, which is just simply two sentences, Lawrence concludes with the bitterest tone of voice of the whole poem, "I am sick of lovable people, Somehow they are a lie" (lines 15-16) Lawrence has deliberately ended on a bitter note so that the audience can fully comprehend what he is writing about. ...
He attended Harvard from 1911 to 1915, studying literature and writing daily. ... In his late verse--XAIPE: Seventy-One Poems (1950), 95 Poems (1958), and the posthumously published 73 Poems (1963)--Cummings effects a softer, more elegiac note, recalling his early affinity for New England Transcendentalism and English Romanticism. ...
Both readings are not particularly masculine-in Shakespeare's contemporary literature, blushes are often associated with young maidens and their rosy cheeks, while fashion and clothing are womanly pursuits. ... Indeed, the meter sets the melancholic tone of the poem, ending each line on an unaccented syllable and, quite literally, a "down note". ...
