Literature

Major Themes Honor and Chivalry The Knights of the Round Table must renew their oath of Chivalry every year in order to assure the king of their honor. This includes mercy, fighting for good, and protecting ladies. Each knight in his own way is an example of these virtues. However, they all seem to succumb to temptation in one way...

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“Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” Interestingly, Achebe uses a quotation form Yeats’s poem “The Second Coming” to open the novel. This sets the tone for what will unfold. That the center cannot hold is foreshadowing of the destruction...

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American contemporary poet Charles Bukowski is known for being brutally honest with his use of words. In "And the Moon and the Stars and the World" he uses his signature graphic language to give us an insight into the private lives of the bored American housewifes and their drunken husbands. And The Moon And The Stars And The World BY...

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CONTENTS Quotes and Analysis Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy. Many cities of men he saw and learned their minds, many pains he suffered, heartsick on the open sea, fighting to save his life and bring his comrades...

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CONTENTS Quotations and Analysis “Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton. Do not think I am very much impressed by that as a boxing title, but it meant a lot to Cohn. He cared nothing for boxing, in fact he disliked it, but he learned it painfully and thoroughly to counteract the feeling of inferiority and shyness he...

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"The Road Not Taken" is one of Robert Frost’s most popular and memorable works published in 1916. The poem puts forward the point that no matter what choice one may make, even a good choice, one will still look back and wonder what would have happened with a different decision. Frost has illustrated this with beautiful imagery of paths, a...

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"I Cannot Live With You" was published in 1890. Dickinson tries to communicate with her lover through this poem, and she reaches the conclusion that they should be apart because she sees him as this great being who is capable of anything and is to move onto Heaven once it’s the right time. I Cannot Live With You BY EMILY...

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Goethe's time (1749-1832) and his contemporaries Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in the middle of the 18th century. He was born in 1749 at the time of enlightenment. Well-known contemporaries of his generation are Adolph Knigge (1752-1796) and Caroline Herschel (1750-1848). Born at the end of the 1740s, he lived a childhood in the 1750s and his youth in...

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"Epithalamion," is a marriage ode written by the English Renaissance poet Edmund Spenser. This poem was published originally with his sonnet sequence Amoretti in 1595. It us dedicated to Spenser's marriage to Elizabeth Boyle, his second wife, in 1594 and is generally deemed as one of Spenser's most well-liked minor poems. The tone of the poem is very hopeful, thankful,...

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Quotations and Analysis “124 was spiteful. Full of a baby’s venom.” 124 serves as a central image in the novel and all three part begin with an observation of this type. This begins Part One. The problem of haunting will pervade the novel, both literally and figuratively. Beloved is a character who can be read as both a haunting force...

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