Part One
In the coming of age story, Icarus, Don McKay emphasizes the lack of remorse Icarus feels for his actions. McKay does this by opening the poem with “isn’t sorry” and then finishes the poem with, “But Icarus is thinking tremolo and backflip, is thinking next time with a half-twist and a tuck and isn’t sorry”. Icarus isn’t sorry as he lacks ( Read more... )

Both Rita Dove, in Persephone Falling, and Eavan Boland, in The Pomegranate, have used the myth of Persophone to illustrate the relationship between mothers and daughters. Dove uses a cautionary admonishing tone of warning. Boland’s illustrates a mother’s contemplations as she watches her daughter fall into inescapable painful struggles that will ( Read more... )

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Aspects of Sylvia Plath’s life are subtly captured in her poem, Daddy. In the poem she writes of the two significant men in her life-her father and her husband. The details vary as they are a combination of truth and symbolism. For example, elements of her own life are captured when she writes, “I was ten when they buried you. At twenty I tried to ( Read more... )

Extended metaphors are applied in Packing for the Future: Instructions by Lorna Crozier, Miracle by Harry Thurston and The Writer by Richard Wilbur to draw attention to life’s journey as one grows up. Each of these stories is similar in that they include parental contemplation of the journey from childhood into adulthood. They all emphasize the ( Read more... )

Part One
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our fallen king, Oedipus, the man who freed us from the sphinx, yet he himself was woefully bound to the misfortune of his tragic fate. Our noble prince of men endlessly tried to protect his people from the ills of the oracles, yet the dark cloud of death infiltrated through his ( Read more... )

First of all I am a social work student but find myself wishing I could just take lit classes forever. Given that I am analytical I could spend hours and hours deconstructing the layers of meaning found within literature; and I would enjoy every minute of it. Learning the T.E.A-Topic, example, analysis structure has been the most useful aspect so ( Read more... )

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The narrator views the feminine world of her mother’s as “endless, dreary and peculiarly depressing” and preferred to be in the service of her father, outside where the masculine work had “ritualistic importance”. She felt that outside, in the male sphere, was were the “real work” was performed compared to the work of her mother which was mundane ( Read more... )

Philip Larkin’s poem, “This Be the Verse,” confirms its place as “great literature” as it is a well written piece that is universal, and withstands the test of time ( Read more... )