Category: Literature Review

The novel, set in Barcelona in the period following the Spanish Civil War, concerns a young boy, Daniel Sempere. Just after the war, Daniel’s father takes him to the secret Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a huge library of old, forgotten titles lovingly preserved by a select few initiates. According to tradition, everyone initiated to this…

In Doris Lessing’s short story, “Through the Tunnel”, growing up is a difficult and sometimes painful process. Jerry shows he wants to be independent through the symbolism of the way he moves on from the safe beach, enters the wild rocky bay with uncertainty, and finally goes through the tunnel. At the beginning, Jerry shows…

The downfall of Othello is a story by William ShakespeareIt would be clearer if the author specified that “The Downfall of Othello” is the name of the play, rather than just a description of what happens in the play. Close Comments which is a romantic tragedy involving some themes such as jealousy, revenge, greed, reality…

Homosexual love seems to be an impossible theme in the novels, City of Night by John Rechy and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz. Both protagonists from these novels have different attitudes towards being gay, one is involved in homosexual acts but holds onto his heterosexual masculinity, making…

In today’s society, there are several people who believe that literature is simply not important or underestimate its abilities to stand the test of time and gives us great knowledge. The world including me personally came all the way to think that writing is insignificant; however, after reading Northrop Frye’s essay,A Motive For Metaphor my…

Victorian writers used literature to express explicit emotions through their writings that would have otherwise been suppressed in public. The two different aspects of emotional restrain and emotional release are explored in each writers respective poems, The Blessed Damozel by Dante Rosetti and Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning. Each writer explores an emotional attachment that…

When we look at Wallace Stevens poetry , it is very easy to identify Stevens being a Modernist. Stevens’ works match with Modernist thought much more than Frost’s. He is completely Modernist. When we take a look on his poem ” Emperor of Ice Cream” we see that he tells us how a modern funeral…

Table of contents Introduction “Love is not all” poem analysis Conclusion References Introduction Poetry uses forms and conventions to suggest different interpretation to words, or to evoke intense responses. Poem is a piece of writing that partakes the nature of speech that is rhythmical usually metaphorical, and often exhibits such formal elements as meter, rhyme,…

The book The Giver is about an supposedly , however as the book continues it seems to be more of a dystopia with a totalitarian government. Everyday life is the same and almost never changes because the consequence is so severe, which could be public humiliation to releasing. In our Society you can do almost…

This is both a review of Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s Search For Meaning” and a response to some of its ideas. First, the book is definitely worth reading. For those unfamiliar with Viktor Frankl, he was an Eastern European Jewish psychiatrist who was placed in a concentration camp during World War II. He suffered all the…