Sonnets
Essays

English literature (Chaucer & Shakespeare)

Many consider Shakespeare's "Hamlet" to be the most problematic play ever written (Croxford pp). Leslie Croxford writes in his article, "The Uses of Interpretation in Hamlet" for a 2004 issue of Alif: Journal of…

¶ … poetry is one that is made up of countless flairs and structures allowing for a genre of work that is both broad and stylistically complex. However, there is one element of poetry that opens up the door for…

Longfellow's "A Psalm of Life," "The Rainy Day," and "The Children's Hour."

Sonnet 165 by Shakespeare focuses on a young lover, whose emotions are deeply connected with whatever his sweetheart says to him. Thus, the entire poem relates the effects of the words "I hate" on the young speaker.

This paper examines the nature of love and art in the time of the Renaissance from the perspective of Nicholas Hilliard, Hans Holbein, Philip Sidney and William Shakespeare. It analyzes the two different mediums of painting and poetry and shows how they were considered to have similar natures and even to a degree modes of expression.

¶ … anthropology: its holism or its comparative perspective?

The poetry of Claude McKay defined and portrayed the experience of African-Americans during the years surrounding World War I, the Great Depression, and the first steps toward what would become the Harlem Renaissance.

¶ … incongruous to try to compare the artists William Shakespeare and Bob Marley. These two men, separated by centuries and embodying two very different forms of art, both make up part of the history of popular culture.

Narratology and Proust: An Essay on the Narrative Form