British Literature

This poem also uses many symbolic images. Many of the parts of the car which he describes utilize poetic devices and contribute to the poem's theme. The "spark and arc" is an interesting use of

As evident by the title of this poem, imagery is a strong technique used in this poem as the author describes with great detail his journey through a sawmill town. This technique is used most in the following phrases: “...down a tilting road, into a distant valley.” And “The sawmill towns, bare hamlets built of boards with perhaps a store”. This has the effect of creating an image in the reader’s mind and making the poem even more real.

Many people analyze a poem and desperately try to find the meaning of it. In “Introduction to Poetry,” Billy Collins uses personification, metaphors, and diction to demonstrate that poetry often loses some of its joy when it is over-analyzed for its meaning.

First the explanation of the poem would be the starting ground into really analyzing what this is about. Do Not Go Gentle

World War One began on July 28, 1914 and ended with the signing of the armistice on November 11, 1918. The war cost a total of one hundred eighty-six billion dollars. The total casualties of the war were thirty-seven million, with another eleven million civilian casualties. The British Empire alone lost over three million people in the war. (English) World War One effected the whole world- the heartache and bloodshed changed politics, economics, and public opinion. This war changed people's lives, but it also changes their way of thinking and their way of writing. After World War One British literature was changed from simple stories to a more realistic and meaningful approach to life.

British Literature is filled with diverse and talented writers who through each period has brought something new to the table. Over the course of the term we have covered the Romantic period, the Victorian Age and the Modern period. Each period has had a hand in developing literature through to the modern age and each writer has influenced the next generation. To best examine each period of literature the paper will be split amongst the three major periods the course has covered. Each period had it’s own style, stories and ways of telling each story as such the paper will explore the writers of each time and their effect on the later generations. Literature in general has grown from the impact the past generations have had on the current writers. Thus British literature in particular has developed over each period a great deal and has ultimately lead us into the modern twenty-first century literature that we read today.

The time period that my group and I worked on was the modern time period. This time period was 1914-1950. There was a lot of major events that influenced this time period. Some of those were The Great Depression which occurred in 1929-1939, World War I and World War II. The Enlightenment was another huge event that happened during this time. All of these events occurred during this time and influenced the writing during the modern period. A lot of important people wrote many important pieces of literature. During this time, there was many different values and beliefs. The modern time period wasn’t just a type of literature, it was a movement. It was really a great incline of the youth culture. The type of writing that is has is mostly

In line four, there is an introduction to the second person. The second party is whom the persona is lamenting to. The second party is represented by the word, “you”, and the persona is complaining to him that he never stopped or even had a second thought before doing what he did. By reading the poem to this point, the reader is not able to identify what is it that the second party did that caused pain to the persona. This line identifies the second party as hurting person. The second person leaving is not considerate as he is not giving a though the fact that he is causing emotional heartache to the persona. This is identified by the

Another apparent device in the poem is it’s use of cacophony. This is noticeable as this literary device is used almost throughout the whole poem as shown, “The wind was a torrent of darkness upon the gusty trees” and “The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas” This literary device again gives emphasis on those words to bring the environment to life. Alliteration and consonance is also to be shown within the poem as seen with “ghostly galleon” and “road was a ribbon” and “moonlight looping the purple moor” and “The wind was a torrent of darkness upon the gusty trees” and this gives a subtle connection with those key words. Lastly, repetition is shown towards the end “ And the highwayman came riding-- Riding--

The author set a personalized point of view. As the reader interprets the poem can see very clearly that it is first person point of

The title of Ted Hughes’ poem doesn’t speak a lot about its content, nor does its first stanza. In those first three lines nothing

Literature is the art of expression of the imaginative and emotional sensitivity of human beings. It employs language as a medium of expression. Novel is considered to be a powerful literary expression to explore the experiences and the ideas within the context of time in which the author lives. Indian English literature which plays a significant role in the post colonel era became the global literature. Indian English literature was started in India during British rule. Indian English writers paid their attention towards fiction in post-colonial era. It occupies a wide spread of its branches in Global literature with various Indian themes. Indian fiction is an expression of its cultures, their traditions, individuals and their morals and ways of life. Women writers of Indian English Literature are good in analyzing complex issues like relationships, which means Man-woman relationship and their

Literature is a composed form of written work having specific quality in form, structure, conveying of emotions, widespread and abiding interest. Sometimes, it is mention as a product of imagination, uniqueness, thoughts, emotions and feelings etc.

Jackson Jackson is an intelligent, articulate homeless man of Native American ancestry. He acutely feels the injustices of colonization, even describing his physical appearance as tainted, because he looks like a 'before Columbus' Indian versus his more magisterial-looking friend. He still has a profound connection to his heritage, as manifested in his desire to win back his grandmother's regalia. He also had a fondness for drinking. Jackson's sense of 'disappearing' relates to the fact that so many Indians in Seattle are homeless, displaced, drunk, and depressed. He feels he has no distinguishing characteristics. People seem to look right through him, and even though he has a moral right to regain his grandmother's regalia, the pawn shop owner refuses to give it back to him, because he knows the law is on his side and will not trust Jackson. Jackson becomes fixated on the notion that he can win back the regalia, and feels he needs to do so like a hero on a quest, rather than filing a complaint through the law.

Once, in a discourse on the dichotomy between ‘Commonwealth literature’ and ‘English literature,’ the British writer of the Indian diaspora, Salman Rushdie, sardonically observed that the division kept the two apart “like squabbling children, or sexually incompatible pandas, or, perhaps, like unstable, fissile materials whose union might cause explosions” (Rushdie, 1). Such divisions, based on preconceived notions with no significant empirical merit, are not contemporarily uncommon, and have, reflecting its popularity, been coined ‘stereotypes.’ Though scientists would be appalled, observations of a few repetitive actions or themes, in no way representing the whole percentage of such instances, or even a majority, preclude the next perceived truth. Stereotypes have been so pervasive, so insidious, as to define whole cultures (and to allude to that great skeptic, to define is also to limit). One such culture facing repercussions due to stereotypes is that of the Muslims. The notion that democracy cannot function within an Islamic country has been so often repeated and cited, and too little discredited, that even aboriginal Muslim populations express cynicism when asked about democratic polity. This skepticism has been fostered by religious fanatics and fundamentalist, and encouraged though Western redundancies. However, similar to Rushdie voicing dissent at the subjugation by the aforementioned labels, there exist firebrands contradicting the stereotypes which have recently