Literary allusion

” delineates a spider’s meal atop a medicinal flower. In “Design,” Frost questions the nature and existence of God, whether or not the world is harshly meaningless or coldly calculated, through his use of literary allusions, personal point of view, and contrasting imagery. Literary allusions aid Frost in constructing his inquiry against religion, citing the works of Epicurus and Shakespeare. The “Riddle of Epicurus” is especially prominent, “What but design of darkness to appall?--” (Frost, 13)

Eliot’s poetry is known for its allusive nature. His poems are so full of allusions and references that he is often considered as a difficult poet. Allusions in Eliot’s poetry have always been intentional. But the fact that the allusions, references and notes in his poems have made his poems difficult to comprehend for his readers, has always disheartened him. One may argue that neither the knowledge of Eliot’s allusions and references make the reading of his poetry more enriched nor does their

learn how to look past the surface of a literary work to find a deeper or hidden meaning. Writers use devices, such as symbolism, imagery, foreshadowing, irony and allusion to reveal these meanings. If these are overlooked, important aspects of the story can be lost. One literary device that Foster emphasizes in his book is allusion. Every story has elements of another story, and Foster devotes Chapters Four through Seven explaining the meaning of allusion in works by Shakespeare, the Bible, and

solidifies his dynamic and forceful writing in his novel with his uses of various literary elements like imagery, diction, allusions, motifs, and even the simplicity of his poetic writing voice. Although, in chapter 36 Alan Paton’s use of biblical allusions and connotative diction serve to help the reader better understand and to highlight the change that is to come to the racial unjust country. Biblical allusions are all throughout the “Cry, The Beloved Country”, everywhere from names to direct

Human Nature For hundreds of years people have written countless books about war. Some have chosen to write simply about the events that took place during the war, in the form a historical account, while others have chosen to write about their own, or other people's experiences. However, many of them have portrayed war as being glorious and associated it with valor and honor, suggesting that all participants of war were heroes. In a way these kinds of writings were

Biblical Allusions to The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California, on February 27, 1902. He studied marine biology at Stanford University and then traveled east on a freighter through the Panama Canal. Steinbeck went to New York to work as a newspaper reporter but soon returned to California and held a variety of jobs while he wrote. Steinbeck published Tortilla Flat in 1935, Of Mice and Men in 1937, and The Red Pony in 1937, which established his reputation as a forceful

Prynne in The Scarlet Letter. He focuses on the topic of Hester’s sin rather than its consequences, believing her to be the antagonist of the story. Lawrence uses several techniques such as literary allusions, repetition, and a sarcastic tone to denounce Hester Prynne’s sin. Lawrence utilizes literary allusions in his essay to emphasize his pessimistic views on Hester by comparing her to other figures in literature. For instance, he compares Hester to “another Magdalen,” a reference to a figure in

Literary texts use various elements and methods to convey particular messages, positioning readers to take on the views of the author. The poem “The Hollow Men” by T.S Eliot addresses the failures of human courage and faith and his modernist style like most poets after him is an extremely expressive one, one with much of his poetry reflecting his own attitudes and beliefs about the importance of religious faith. Eliot’s manipulation of various literary conventions invites the readers to adopt his

especially when taking its moral implications into consideration. To implement a biblical allusion in one’s text requires the understanding that, no matter what one intends to do with the material, it will remain morally-charged nonetheless. The material can be contorted or figured into a new message altogether, but some moral proposition will certainly remain. In the case of Lockwood’s dream, Brontë’s allusion to Peter and his interest in forgiveness are contorted to address what happens when the

stove of my own accord. And of course, it all went down from there. My inward desire to be stubborn and selfish was expressed though disobeying my parents- In the end, I got burned. Similarly, in Sir William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, biblical allusions are used to give additional meaning and depth to the book and to show the ways in which humans transfer their inner evil into outward behavior. Evil doesn’t