William Carlos Williams’ Poem The Red Wheelbarrow so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens The Red Wheelbarrow Summary In his poem, The Red Wheelbarrow, American poet William Carlos Williams describes a wheelbarrow which seems to be worn out. The poem has four stanzas, each with two lines …
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The Recurring Dream is a short supernatural story from England. A supernatural story has features that are not common in the real world. For example, ghosts, vampires, etc. which science does not approve of, are available in supernatural stories. The Recurring Dream is a short supernatural story that has a ghost as a supernatural figure. So, let’s read …
German sociologist George Simmel published one of the masterpieces on city life and mental effects, The Metropolis and Mental Life, in the year 1903. In the beginning, Simmel asks how the social environment shapes the internal psychology of individuals residing in it. For him, society is not a reality that exists external to the individual; it rather exists through …
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The Lost Doll is a short supernatural story from Columbia, a South American country. Though the title of the story is The Lost Doll, it is not just about a doll but more about two daughters of a couple. It is a story about the death of a girl and the birth of another who are so …
American poet Wallace Stevens’ Anecdote of the Jar is a poem that tells the story of a jar that is placed in the wilderness. In literary writings, an anecdote refers to an unelaborated story that narrates a single incident. The given poem has three stanzas, each consisting of four lines. Without further ado, let’s begin dissecting …
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Emily Dickinson was born Emily Elizabeth Dickinson on 10 December 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, the USA, and died on 15 May 1886. Shortly after graduating from Amherst Academy, Dickinson chose to live a recluse life during which she pursued a career in poetry. Though she wrote over 1700 poems, she saw the publication of only seven and the rest were published posthumously. …
Born on 11 September 1985 and died on 2 March 1930, David Herbert Lawrence (D H Lawrence) was both an English writer and a poet. He is one of the representative writers of the twentieth century and he immortalized himself before he passed away at the age of 44 and a half years. Lawrence was born in Eastwood, United …
Following is a summary of Walter Benjamin’s essay “Paris the Capital of the 19th century.” Each section of his essay is dealt with separately and succinctly. Fourier or the Arcades According to Walter Benjamin, most of the Parisian arcades came into being fifteen years after 1822. With this started the trend of keeping large stocks of merchandise …
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John Milton was an English poet whose popularity in literature heightened only after he went blind at the beginning of the second half of his life. Milton was born on 9 December 1608 in Bread Stree, London, and died on 8 November 1674 in Bunhill Row, London. He is popular for lyrical poems like “L’allegro” and “II Penseroso,” “Ode …
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Theodore Roethke was a twentieth-century American poet who was born on 25 May 1908 in Michigan, USA and passed away on 1 August 1963, aged 55. He was the winner of Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, National Book Award for Poetry, Bollingen Prize, etc. Roethke is often considered a precursor of confessional poets and, undoubtedly, one of the most accomplished poets …
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