Echoing many of the themes of the first section of the book, including poetic identity and the troubled nature of the poetic I, part 2s Poetics for a Postliterary America goes on to paint a wider picture, dwelling less on close readings of individual poems and more on asking questions ...
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In her personal stories and reflections, we witness the themes that interested her throughout her life, including idyllic landscapes, hidden interpersonal dynamics, family economics, failures, domesticity, and surrealistic and dreamlike visions, giving a full landscape in vignettes of the postwar era. ...
In The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins expresses two themes. The first one is that we can’t let the government use their power to treat, and use people like they want, they are oppressing them. “At one o’clock, we head of the square. Attendance is mandatory unless you are on deaths...
I will be returning to this book over and over again to delve deeper into the themes for I have only scratched its surface. To write with such maturity and finesse at such a young age is nothing short of genius. Whatever be the fate of Victor’s mortal creation, Mary Shelley’s ...
If you like to write poetry and stories, teachers expect you to be an A-student in grammar and literature classes, however, dissecting a paragraph and studying a story for themes and symbolism aren’t the same as playing with words or quietly sitting with a poem to see how it speaks to...
Themes in The Weary Blues The Pain and Beauty of Black Art The poem “The Weary Blues” is about the beauty and pain of black art. The poem is about a black, blue singer who is singing in the bar in the neighborhood of Harlem late into the night. The music of the black man accoun...
of New York-CUNY. A graduate of Yale and Vanderbilt Universities, and a Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, her research interests focus on the cultural production of Black peoples throughout the Americas: the United States and Latin America, including Brazil, and the Caribbean. She is the edi...
intuition, and idealism. It placed faith in interior experience and imagination. Individual freedom and worth were paramount, and poetry was seen as the highest expression of the mind. The Dark Romantics, or American Gothic writers, combined these values with dark supernatural themes and settings...
Related Themes: Explanation and Analysis—Animal Instinct: In Letter 12, James wonders about the unavoidable violence that Americans face in the tumult leading up to the Revolutionary War. Struggling to explain the difficulty of his situation, he uses a metaphor to compare the behavior ...