When questioned if the title "Latina writer" was accurate, Alvarez was unsure, remarking, "I think when I write, I write out of who I am and the questions I need to figure out. ... It is the separation from her native country, the Dominican Republic, which serves as a backdrop for the holistically autobiographical novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent. ... For the majority of her life, it has been the love of her native Spanish that has created a divide deep within her disillusioned self. ...

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

The word "England" or "English" occurs six times in this poem. That's a lot for a poem that is only 14 lines! In this poem England is like a mother to the soldier; she gave birth to him, nourished him, made him who he is. But England is also immortal. Even though, in death, the soldier must leave England, it's only for a little while. ...

• Word Count: 3268
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

The title is the first element showing how grass is a fundamental symbol in Whitman's poetry: 'leaves' refers both to leaves of plants and leaves of paper, thus, to each of his own poems, which sprout forming a whole, green and luxuriant. ... In fact, the title highlights his love for individuals: each leaf of grass possesses its own distinct beauty, and together the blades form a beautiful unified whole, a Whitman's theme explored in the sixth section of "Song of Myself", in which he again "works to downplay expectations about authorial mastery"(Larso...

• Word Count: 2619
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

• Word Count: 10566
• Approx Pages: 42