The uninhibited literary space that the novel genre provided for eighteenth-century authors, opened a new door of speculation into into the mind and motives of women. The subject of female agency is a major preoccupation of the genre, revealing not only the motives of female desire, but more significantly, the sources from which these desires…
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Phonological Analysis of Robert Frost’s “Nothing Gold Can Stay”
Nature’s first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf’s a flower;But only so an hour.The leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay. “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost Robert Frost’s “Nothing Gold Can Stay” opens with a phonological emphasis on the fricatives [f]…
The Body, Material Consumption, and Desire in Johnathan Swift’s “The Lady’s Dressing Room” and John Wilmot’s “The Imperfect Enjoyment”
“In this age of consumption, men and women began to locate themselves within the materials of their society” The Body in Swift and Defoe, Carol Houlihan Flynn, p, 71 The eighteenth-century English social situation of desire-driven consumption manifested, throughout the era, in poetic forms and functions of the human body. Both materially and sexually, the…
Old-English-Styled Poem: The Squabble
By the Window I Watched the Awakening sun.It Greeted me with a Glistening GlowAnd sent its Light through Leafy greenAs Patches on the Puddled ground.Then Scuttling by a Squirrel I saw,He Nibbled on the Nuts I’d laid.Outward-Looking he Watched to guardHimself and the Nuts he Nibbled upon.But unaware behind him cameA Kitty-Cat Creeping slow.Her back…
An Eastward Journey toward Hope: Religion and Prophetic Voice in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
In the presence of disaster, people often turn toward religion as a means to ordering of the chaos and confusion that results from unpredictable and despairing life events. It is often the religious leader, the prophetic voice expressing divine sovereignty in the midst of disaster that calms the hearts of mankind with a hope, however…
Film Review: “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”
The 1975 film, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” directed by Milos Forman, is an award-winning masterpiece based on the novel by Ken Kesey of the same title. It follows the lives of obscurely-diagnosed patients in a mental hospital, posing an overarching question of “what really defines mental instability?” The incoming patient, R. P. McMurphy…
Starlight
The starlight might never endWhen instead of frettingWe aim to rest and recall thatEven the smallest sparrow’s fallMeans Providence is watching. March 10, 2021
Smile
I want to hear you laughing,See the Duchenne creasesIn the corners of your eyes,Catch the glimmer they produceEvery time you smile.Wonder of wonders,How marvelous would it be—To witness all that gloryKnowing it’s directed at me. 4 May 2020
Beauty
Beauty appears when you look for it,Not when you sit in the darkBemoaning your state andWaiting for somethingTo give out and change.Darkness hides beauty.Beauty heals pain.Open your eyes—look, search, find—Appreciate. October 3, 2019
An Image of the Modern World through the Poetry of Eliot and Yeats
The poetry of T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats is harmonious in its attempt to capture the chaotic state of their modern world. The poets do not appear to present two separate senses of the era, but to write in conversation with one another, co-creating a picture of their time that can be seen through the…