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Medieval Modicums? Speak
2007-09-23 02:20:00
Medieval Modi cums’ Speak Ooh Err, she said, agog, before the tear streaked ads of errant woes! I’ve lost me Holy Grail, the grimace of the angstified thingy replied even without needing to speak Jump on your ‘orse why dontcha? Go on a quest or summic, she cried (waving ‘er arms about like) I’m gonna stay ‘ere before the dawn of morn aglowing in me finest ...
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Poetic Criticism
2007-09-23 01:46:00
I don’t think you have succeeded with this. A bit nineteenth century and cliched at that.“cutting tools of angst” are you cutting tools of angst or are the tools of angst (sounds like a Philip Jose Farmer novel title) cutting? “fiery thrust” - Frankensteinien. “dazzle the reader of this quickstep” at least we’re in the twentieth century ...
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The McCanns should take a Lie Detector Test?
2007-09-19 15:11:00
I just posted a couple of comments on some UK newspaper websites suggesting this but they’ve been censored. I read the idea on another blog. I must admit that I had not thought of this before. The problem for me with this whole case is that I only know what I read or see. It ...
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Tim O?Brien?s The Things They Carried & Tina Chen
2007-08-29 14:30:00
This essay will critically analyse the assertion Tina Chen makes, in her 1988 article entitled Unraveling the Deeper Meaning: Exile and the Embodied Poetics of Displacement in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carrie d, that:  ?O?Briens vexed preoccupation with the disjunctures that make history    unreliable and memory the condition for narrative is engendered by the impossibility of ...

Black Boy by Richard Wright Chapter One Analysis
2007-08-29 14:24:00
This essay will critically analyse chapter one of Richard Wright?s Black Boy. It will be argued that Black Boy owes much to Naturalism and develops Wright?s interest in isolation and individualism, issues that were explored in The Man Who Lived Underground (Wright, 1942).  Richard Lehan explains Naturalism as deriving ?mainly from a biological model? (Lehan ...
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Mark Twain: Realism and Huckleberry Finn
2007-08-29 14:17:00
Is Mark Twain a Realist, nothing more and nothing less? As well as considering the meaning of Realism in a literary context this essay will critically examine the issues raised by the question with an analysis of Chapter XXXI, in which Jim is ?stolen? and Huck decides that he will help Jim though he believes ...
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Astrophel & Stella VI: A Sonnet Explicated
2007-08-29 14:15:00
Titles are important when considering any text but are of particular importance when considering poetry. Stella is from the Latin word for star and Astrophel is derived from two Greek words: astro which means star and phil which means lover. Astrophel and Stella VI is part of a sequence of sonnets. A typical sonnet sequence ...

Anthony and Cleopatra is a Tragedy? Scene I Analysis
2007-08-29 14:12:00
This essay will analyse the way in which Act I scene I contributes to the effectiveness of Antony and Cleopatra as a Tragedy . In the play we see from the opening scene that the great soldier Antony has been caught between two godheads: on the one hand his duty, that is, his manly responsibilities as ...
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Comedy in Twelfth Night
2007-08-29 14:09:00
Shakespearean comedy is concerned with desire and its satisfaction; characters yearn for something, this leads to frustration but eventually satisfaction achieved and a happy conclusion. Twelfth Night , and Shakespeare?s other comedies, are concerned with love, desire, and overcoming barriers to the fulfilment of these desires and end in physical and emotional union, usually marriage. Shakespeare?s ...
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Shakespeares?s The Tempest and John Donne?s Holy Sonnet XIV
2007-08-29 14:07:00
This essay will consider whether the poetry and drama of the early modern period is more concerned with transgression or with order. In reaching a conclusion Shakespeares?s The Tempest and John Donne ?s Holy Sonnet XIV will be considered, taking into account genre, theme, form and conventions of the period. The Tempest is probably Shakespeare’s last ...
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The Scarlet Letter and Guilt
2007-08-29 14:02:00
This essay will consider how the theme of guilt is represented in The Scarlet Letter , by discussing how it is portrayed and symbolised within the text. To do so it will be useful to have a working definition of guilt. The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines guilt as being ?culpability? and a guilt complex as ?a ...
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Bartleby the Scrivener ?I prefer not to? A consideration
2007-08-29 13:59:00
This essay will explore the significance of Bartleby?s words ?I would prefer not to? when seeking to understand the text, Bartleby the Scrivener. The lawyer narrates the story from his own perspective and employs Bartleby. In order to understand why Bartleby was actually declaring his preference not to conform it is necessary to examine how he ...
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Waterland by Graham Swift: Analysis of Chapter Fourteen
2007-08-29 13:56:00
This essay will critically analyse chapter fourteen of Waterland by Graham Swift and establish that it is in the style of a self-conscious lesson in history directed at the reader. In its form it will be shown to be metafiction linking history telling and story telling (Hutcheon 1989). That as a chapter it is a ...
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Play it as it Lays by Joan Didion - Essay
2007-08-29 13:53:00
This essay will critically analyse, compare and contrast the representation and interrogation of American culture in an era of post-modernity, considering, in so doing, the writers? styles, techniques and choice of theme. Maria represents modern America: self indulgent, shallow, self-harming but regretting a loss that she engineered herself. The abortion symbolises the loss of traditional values, ...
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Early Poems
2007-08-29 13:26:00
These are some early poems that I have now decided not to develop. They are however all copyright. Enjoy. Emotional Cripple Fugitive is Grey Scale Guardian Angel I don’t like the Settee take it back I remember the gasworks’ Iron Lung is Noisy The Mole Catcher Knifed Los Angeles in September Magic Medicine Nightmare sticks Sentimental Reminiscence Septuagenarian Suicide Pact Silverdale The Mole Catcher the ...
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City of Glass Paul Auster & Midnight Cowboy James Leo Herlihy
2007-08-29 13:16:00
?[T]he tremendous claustrophobia of the city is designed to hide what the city really does, which is to divorce us from a sense of reality and to divorce us from each other.?(James Baldwin) Both Paul Auster?s City of Glass and James Leo Herlihy?s Midnight Cowboy consider the impact that New York City can have upon its ...

Her at No. 29
2007-08-27 19:03:00
Green Sequoia, slow down – take the joy of her, Slow down and breathe the coy her, feelings tapping on the broken window, in half-life light. Get down, feathers and a shilling, wrap them in a white shade of hessian — rough touch smoothes a flinching wince, like a stone frog catching flies. It’s in the blood, 1989: On the wire floating above a ...

The Fossil Gatherer a poem by Ivor Griffiths
2007-08-27 16:01:00
Fossil Gatherer Propping up rusty railings by the shore - listening - between eyelashes I saw flapping, it sounded like applause. A skeletal osprey limped along cracked hot granite, eyeing a red crab drowning in sunshine. The crab was crunched — then wriggled. Oscillating sine waves tickled the air, a spider drowned in a bucket next to my foot ...
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The Jungle
2007-08-27 15:58:00
This essay will critically examine the ways in which the urban environment in The Jungle represents the collapse of traditional values and its effect on the individual. In so doing it will be demonstrated that the novel contains a political message that advocates a socialist solution to the social problems highlighted and exposed by the text, in the first ...
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Denise Levertov The Dead Butterfly
2007-08-27 15:51:00
?Levertov?s poetry is a poetry of the eye in that it is concerned with seeing into experience and discovering the order and significance that her poet?s faith tells her is really there behind the surface chaos? (James F. Mersmann). Discuss. This essay will critically consider the assertion made by Mersmann in the context of an analysis of the meanings, form ...
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Jack Kerouac On The Road, Ginsberg?s Howl & The American Dream
2007-08-27 15:43:00
This essay critically analyses the representation of the American Dream in the Beat writing of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg in On the Road and ?Howl?. The Collins English Dictionary defines the American Dream as ?the notion that the American social, economic and political system makes success possible for every individual? (Collins, 1985, ?american dream?) The online ...
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