Today's Date:
January 12, 2025
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Poem Analysis of “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath : The Poetic Weight of Histor
The first two stanzas of the poem “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath are deceptively simple and sound more like a strange nursery rhyme than an angry depiction of the speaker’s father. An analysis of the straight rhyme scheme in “Daddy” by →
Romanticism & “Frost at Midnight” by Coleridge and “Ode: Intimations of Immortality” by Wordsworth
One important aspect and recurring theme throughout romantic poetry is the connection between the natural world and children. In Coleridge’s “Frost at Midnight” and Wordsworth’s “Ode: Intimations of Immortality” childhood is a sacred time during which the natural and human realms become intertwined. →
The Yellow Wallpaper : Gilman’s Techniques for Portraying Oppression of Women
In The Yellow Wallpaper, the author uses a number of literary devices to express the political theme of feminism and the oppression of women. To achieve her goal of expressing feminist sentiment in The Yellow Wallpaper, Gilman creates a narrator who is at →
Analysis of Themes in the Poems of W.B. Yeats : “Sailing to Byzantium,” “Among Schoolchildren,” and “The Circus Animal’s Desertion”
Although there are several allusions to it made by several scholars within the vast library of biographical works regarding William Butler Yeats, the poet’s intense fear and disdain of aging and death can be discerned with even the most cursory →
Feminist Analysis of the Prologue for the Wife of Bath (Canterbury Tales)
In her Prologue as part of “The Canterbury Tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath offers readers a complex portrait of a medieval woman. On the one hand, The Wife of Bath is shameless about her sexual exploits and →
An Analysis of Common Themes in Victorian Poetry
Many of the themes and meanings of Victorian poetry reflect a conflicted sense of self. At once manypoems by Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning portray a longing for the ideals of theRomantic period in literature but they are stunted it seems →
Appearances Versus Reality in Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Many of the problems and confusions in Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” are the result of gender bending episodes, many of which involve disguise and deceit of one form or another. In the most prominent examples of disguise and appearance versus reality →
“Turn of the Screw” by Henry James as a Psychological Thriller?
At its core, and for several reasons that will be explained in more detail in this analysis of the narrator and nature of the story “Turn of the Screw” by Henry James, it is clear that this story is psychological thriller →
Analysis of the Play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell
Susan Glaspell’s play, Trifles, was written in 1916, and reflects the author’s preoccupation with culture-bound notions of gender and sex roles. As the title of the play by Susan Glaspell, “Trifles” (click here for a full plot summary) suggests, the concerns of →
Poem Analysis of “Traveling Through the Dark” by William Stafford
The poem by William Stafford, “Traveling Through the Dark” presents readers with an uncomfortable and rather grim instance of the intersection of the natural world and that of man. Technology, in this case cars and the man-made road, are seen →
