The Black Cat

“The Black Cat” is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) which was published in 1843.More than any of Poe's stories, "The Black Cat" illustrates best the capacity of the human mind to observe its own deterioration and the ability of the mind to comment upon its own destruction without being able to objectively...

Beowulf Allegory, Heroic Poem

Allegory: Allegory is a form of extended metaphor in which objects and persons within a narrative are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative. It is a type of writing that has hidden meanings, usually political or moral ones. According to J.D. Cuddon the term allegory is “any writing in verse or prose that has a double meaning”. Beowulf was...

A Bachelor’s Complaint of the Behavior of Married People

“A Bachelor’s Complaint of the Behavior of Married People” was first published in 1823 in Charles Lamb’s (1775-1834) essay collection “Essays of Elia”. This essay has a mock serious or Pseudo serious tone and it is written in an argumentative style. Charles Lamb’s essay “A Bachelor’s Complaint of the Behavior of Married People” is just what...

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers

Twentieth century poet, critic, scholar and feminist, Adrienne Rich wrote ‘Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers’ as a part of her first book of poetry ‘A Change of World’ (1951). Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers is a fine example of feminist poetry, which holds a banner of protest against the patriarchal society. The poem portrays a central character, Aunt Jennifer,...

ARABY

  Araby is a short story by modernist writer James Joyce (1882 to 1941) which was published in 1914. As with many stories by Joyce and other modernist writers, 'Araby' employs a close first-person narrator describing the world as it appeals to his senses, and leaves the reader with only a suggested, rather than outright,...

A River

“A River” is written by Attipate Krishnaswami Ramanujan who is known as one of the greatest modern poet of India. The tone of the poem is based on sarcasm and irony. The structure of the poem has been in paragraphs and single lines. There are four longer verse paragraphs and a shorter one in the...

First blog post

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