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  • The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats

    May 14, 2021

    The Lake Isle of Innisfree By William Butler Yeats   Written in 1888, The Lake Isle of Innisfree is one of William Butler Yeats’ most celebrated poems. The poem consists of 12 lines, separated into…
  • Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken

    May 13, 2021

    The Road Not Taken Robert Frost   Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, California. He became one of the most celebrated figures in American literature, earning four Pulitzer Prizes. He…
  • Robert Frost, Dust of Snow

    May 12, 2021

    Dust of Snow by Robert Frost   Introduction Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, California. He became one of the most celebrated figures in American literature, earning four Pulitzer Prizes.…
  • Geoffrey Chaucer, Style

    May 12, 2021

     Geoffrey Chaucer, Style   The style of an author is his distinctive manner of writing or expressing thought in language. In commenting on Chaucer's style, it would be well to remember that he was writing…
  • Geoffrey Chaucer, Art of Characterization

    May 12, 2021

    Chaucer's Art of Characterization in the Prologue of the Canterbury Tales   Chaucer is the first great painter of character because he is the first great observer of it among English writers. In fact, next…
  • Plot and Characterization

    May 12, 2021

     Plot and Characterization THE MYSTERY OF THE CREATIVE PROCESSES. The processes of creation are confessedly as mysterious to those who possess such creative power as they are to other people. Thackeray spoke of this power…
  • Romantic Age in English Literature

    May 11, 2021

     Characteristics of the Romantic Age   Experimentation with Poetic Form When we read the Romantics now, they seem old-fashioned. They say things like,  "Beauty is truth, truth beauty, That is all ye know on earth,…
  • Renaissance

    May 11, 2021

    Renaissance   Renaissance was a period of transition in European history from the dark middle ages to one of enlightenment and modernity. The names Renaissance and Humanism are often applied to the same movement. The…
  • Conversational Analysis

    May 10, 2021

    CONVERSATION ANALYSIS   What is Conversation? A conversation is an exchange of ideas, thoughts, and information between two or more than two people. As its name implies, CA began with a focus on casual conversation…
  • Thematic Progression Theme and Rheme

    May 10, 2021

     Thematic progression   Thematic progression refers to the way Themes continually pick up information that is already in the text and repeat it in some way so that the reader is always aware of: o …