Literature

Important Themes Words and Things One of the main ideas that comes forward in Through the Looking-Glass is the gulf between words and the thing they are alleges to mean. Alice’s conversation with Humpty Dumpty on the meaning of the poem the Jabberwocky is a central moment. Although the poem is made up of nonsense words, Humpty Dumpty explains them with...

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Simply put, a poems pattern is, ‘the accurate arrangement and development of material (in both visual and aural form) components of words in specific repetitive or serial forms are a means to create a poems structure.’  Through a mingling of elements from sound and visual, a poem is given its structure. Traditionally, poetry has only concerned itself with the sounds...

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“Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don’t know. I got a telegram from the home: “Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.” That doesn’t mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday.” These are the opening lines of the novel. Spoken, or perhaps thought, by Meursault, these lines indicate the tremendous indifference he shows toward everything. That he cannot properly remember when...

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CONTENTS Quotations and Analysis “At this point one may note that men must be either pampered or annihilated. They avenge light offenses; they cannot avenge severe ones; hence, the harm one does to a man must be such as to obviate any fear of revenge.” This quote is from Chapter 3 and it demonstrates the emphasis on vengeance over benevolence. This...

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"Bear in There" is a humorous poem by the Oscar-nominated, Grammy-winning poet Shel Silverstein. Here, a child is rather distraught to find a bear in their Frigidaire. The bear has taken over all the food and if anyone tries to intervene the situation, the bear threatens them with a fearful roar. Bear in There BY SHEL SILVERSTEIN There's a Polar...

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A question we have all, at one point or another of our life, tried to answer, “Who Am I?” is also the title of a poem of Carl Sandburg, who attempts to decipher this famous rhetoric dilemma with the assistance of a poetic structure, albeit simple and not over the top. Who Am I? BY CARL SANDBURG My head knocks...

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"Fast Rode the Knight" appeared in War is Kind & Other Lines in 1905. The author, Stephen Crane teaches us a lesson in this poem. He shows us that our important decisions and greed can affect our lives if we opt for the wrong decision because of our obsession with something. Fast Rode the Knight BY STEPHEN CRANE Fast rode...

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CONTENTS Heorot The mead hall of Hrothgar is much more than a place to live, eat, and sleep. The expanse and safety of the mead-hall represent the power and wisdom of the king. That the Danes are able to find a place of solace and comfort under the roof of Hrothgar’s mead-hall is a symbol of the successful leadership of...

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CONTENTS Quotations and Analysis “And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. ’Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different...

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A rough mountain landscape: fog, wind and snow. Sound, oriental music. And in the middle of it a train of armed men, grim, bearded, wild. Are the Kalashnikovs carrying them over their shoulders? No, they are swords. We are in Scotland in 1057, not in today's Afghanistan, and the Warlord, who is approaching the battle here, is not called Ahmed,...

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