Gwendolyn Brooks “The Sonnet-Ballad”: War’s Poignant Impact On the Rear
The poem “The Sonnet-Ballad” by Gwendolyn Brooks is a modern sonnet that incorporates some ballad elements. It presents the tragedy…
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Here you can find poems, essays and other texts created by Omri Shabath.
William Wordsworth’s Transformed Vision of Peele Castle In “Elegiac Stanzas”
The poem “Elegiac Stanzas” by William Wordsworth is, as its name implies, a melancholic poem. The speaker of the poem,…
The Thematic Similarities of Anne Bradstreet and Mary Cassatt
Throughout most of its history, Western society has been structured as a patriarchal system that is almost exclusively dominated by…
Traumatic and Anti-Patriotic Sentiments In Charles Sorley’s War Poetry
Charles Hamilton Sorley was only twenty years old when he died in 1915 during the First World War, and shortly…
The Different Portrayals of Arcita in the Works of Chaucer and Boccaccio
In his various works, it is very common for Geoffrey Chaucer to adopt and adapt the stories and characters of…
Unreliable Narrators In Pale Fire and Operation Shylock
The narrator is the immediate conveyor of the entire textual information in the novel, upon which the readers fully depend…
Helen of Troy’s Portrayal by Female Poets Clashes with Feminism
Women poets have struggled throughout history with the predominant male discourse, which labeled and stigmatized women from a patriarchal perspective.…
Colonialism, Patriarchy and Capitalism in “The Potted Princess”
Throughout the ages, fairy tales have been written and recited for their recreational and educational value, whilst many of which…
Antisocial Antiheroes in Wuthering Heights and Moby Dick
Several prominent novels from the 19th century revolved around a protagonist not associated with the positive traits of the traditional…
Notable Permutations in Victorian Society as Expressed in Dracula
The 19th century in Victorian society brought along with it numerous acute changes and permutations in many areas of life,…
Dysfunctional Relationships in Nabokov’s Novels (Invitation to a Beheading, Lolita, Pnin)
Vladimir Nabokov is one of the most renowned Russian writers in history, whose novels regularly appear in distinguished lists of…
Prince Harry’s Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Shakespeare’s Henry IV
In the intricate world of Shakespeare’s play, I King Henry IV, almost every character exhibits unique attributes of its own, which…
To Laugh or Not to Laugh, That Is the Greek Question
The philosophers of Ancient Greece are, in many ways, the pillars upon which a lot of Western and intellectual fields…
The Connection between the Media and Paranoia as Manifested in Literature
The growing development and constant modernization of the media throughout the ages have been discernibly significant as the inescapable exposure…
The Patriarchal Colonization of Women in The Handmaid’s Tale
Many works of dystopian fiction deal with oppressed populations based on ethnicity, religion, gender, nationality and more; one such text…