Literature

Scansion in poetry simply means to separate the poem (or a poetic form) into feet by segmenting the different syllables based on length. Scansion is also frequently referred to as ‘scanning’. Scansion describes a poems rhythm through things how lines or verses are broken up into feet, indicating the existence of syllable patterns (stressed or unstressed), counts and meter. Here...

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Themes and Symbols Prince: When Tess falls asleep and loses control of the wagon, the Durbeyfield horse, Prince, is killed. This results in her to seek aid from the d’Urbervilles and sets the tone of the novel. The death of the horse is a powerful motivator for the plot, and its name is a staunch symbol of Tess’s family’s claim...

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CONTENTS Author’s Biography Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet, was in born June of 1840. As the son of a local stonemason, he found himself without the family funds to pursue a formal education and left school at the age of sixteen. It was then that he endeavored to apprentice under a local architect; a talent that would see him...

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Quotations  and Analysis “As with all retold tales that are in people's hearts, there are only good and bad things and black and white things and good and evil things and no in-between anywhere. If this story is a parable, perhaps everyone takes his own meaning from it and reads his own life into it.” Prologue One of the most...

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Rather than being envisioned, Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” is actually a recount of a day the poet and his sister encountered a line of daffodils while walking beside a nearby lake. William Wordsworth reflects on the happiness he felt as he watched the flowers; a memory so potent that it still had the ability to bring a...

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Quotations and Analysis “So then the seventh planet was the Earth. The Earth is not just an ordinary planet! One can count, there 111 kings (not forgetting, to be sure, the Negro kings among them), 7000 geographers, 900,000 businessmen, 7,500,000 tipplers, 311,000,000 conceited men-- thatis to say, about 2,000,000,000 grown-ups.” This sets the tone for Saint-Exupery’s satire of society. As...

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Summary of Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov The foreword of the novel Lolita, written by Russian-American literary great, Vladimir Nabokov, follows a fictional character, John Ray, Jr., Ph.D, as he prefaces the peculiar tale that is set to come. According to Ray, he came to have in his possession a manuscript, entitled the Confession of a White Widowed Male, or Lolita....

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Full Title: The Things They Carried Written by: Tim O’Brien Type of Literary Work: A collection of short stories Genre: War stories, memory stories Date of first publication: 1990 Narrator: Tim O’Brien Tone: The Things They Carried is an meditative depiction of the methods and reasons for storytelling. The narrator is often unreliable, speaking of the necessity of crossing the...

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Christina Rossetti’s ‘The Poor Ghost’ revolves around a man and his deceased lover who has apparently come back from the dead. The plot explores his apprehension and fear regarding her supernatural status while at the same time, his joy at being able to communicate with the loved one he lost again. The Poor Ghost BY CHRISTINA ROSSETTI "Oh whence do...

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Key Facts The book was adapted for film in 2001. Directed by Ron Howard and starring Russell Crowe as John Nash, the movie won four Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. The film deviates in several key ways from the book. For instance, Ron Howard downplayed the fact that Nash stopped taking medication for schizophrenia and recovered without help...

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