Literature

The story, "A Clean, Well-Lightened Place," by Ernest Hemingway had its first publication in 1933 and is based on a characteristic terse style. It is a story that involves two waiters who are in a deep conversation.

The main character in William Faulkner's A Rose for Emily, Miss Emily Grierson, was the daughter of a proud, privileged white family. She shared their big decorated house with her father and servants.

Shirley Jackson is an American literature writer who is typically known for her short stories. She was born on the 14th of December 1916 in California.

Leaves of grass, a poetry collection by Walt Whitman is written to explore the life, change and transition of Whitman. Its original book contains twelve poems but the final one is a compilation of more than four hundred poems.

Whitman's essays have been a significant contribution towards world realism and transcendentalism. With the ability to include both views in his essays, he was the most influential essayist in American culture.

Zora Neale Hurston utilizes diverse symbol in her novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God" to express multidimensional socio-cultural phenomena affecting the American society.

Zora Neale Hurston's novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, centers its narrative on the character of Janie Crawford who is the narrator, heroin and the tour guide throughout the novel.

The novel "Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston is centered on two characters that are, Delia Jones and her husband, Sykes Jones. Delia is depicted as a hardworking woman that is entrapped in an unhappy and worse still abusive marriage.

The symbolism of the black box in the lottery by Shirley Jackson is very evident throughout the reading and interpretation of the book and it will be discussed in this free essay.

The poem "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" is an elegy on the death of Abrahan Lincoln. Walt Whitman wrote the poem shortly after the assassination expressing grief.

The poem "Daddy" written by Sylvia Plath is one of the most interesting and controversial poems in American literature. The author makes use of metaphors and other literary elements.

Scholars do say that the confidence and power in the voice you use to describe yourself tells much about your self-esteem. "Song of Myself," a poem by Walt Whitman is a living example of how the author described herself.

The poems Lady Lazarus and Daddy by Sylvia Plath are a reflection of the poet's personal experiences in life and what she seemingly goes through daily.

The mythological criticism approach emphasizes on the recurrent universal patterns underlying a literary work of art, combining the insights from psychology, anthropology, and history.

One of the most popular poems of Sylvia Plath is the one with the title Mirror, as it mainly focuses on the perspective that one has with regards to reality and vanity.

The first section of Walt Whiteman poem's "Song of Myself" presents a modern man celebrating and singing this song of democracy. The "I" symbolises the modern man, litera...

Robert Hayden's poem "Those Winter Sundays" and Sylvia Plath's poem "Daddy" are both based on memories of the authors' relationship with their fathers.

To understand "Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper" one must take a step back and focus on "The Yellow Wallpaper". The story has gone down in history as one of the best feminist stories ever written.

Malcolm X and Martin Luther King are two great leaders that were concerned with civil rights during the 1960s, and they maintained proper opposed political philosophies that involved human rights.