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relatives. It was the 1930s and change was in the air socially, politically, and internationally. Where they lived in Brooklyn Sko...

is mocking our hopes, and at the same time the teasing promise of Spring is false. With the coming of this Spring we can also envi...

the tale of Icarus. We do know that Auden visited the sixteenth century painting by Peter Breughel when it was displayed in the M...

he means a state of equality, in which no one person possesses authority over another, and all people are free to live as they ple...

and a truly brazen attitude - were in vogue, as was drinking. Although Prohibition was in force to try to prevent people from imbi...

of a belief concerning that type of individual, something discussed often in Jones book "Social Psychology of Prejudice." A black ...

character of Laura is very illustrative of this, and she is somewhat reminiscent of such women as Ophelia, from Shakespeares Hamle...

employs descriptive words to create in the reader an appreciation for the reality of nature. This is not to imply that these poets...

smooth stone/ That overlays the pile; and, from a bag/ All white with flour, the dole of village dames,/ He drew his scraps and fr...

et al, 1996, p. 1251). Robert Burns Robert Burns was the eldest of seven children, the son of a hard-working farmer (Anonymous, ...

express themselves in ways that the majority could not. The poets role in part appears to be to get one to think outside of the bo...

Ned Williams It becomes quite obvious in looking at the story of Ned Williams that he was searching for nothing of value in his ...

this particular poem the first four lines seem to offer us a great deal of foundation for understanding the symbolic nature of you...

explores the seamy side of city life. In fact, the novels central theme is the horrible treatment endured by the poor and those wh...

Levy believes that Laura is solely focused on her vulnerability, which is symbolized by the fragility of the glass (Levy). He writ...

hopefully connect with the real world enough so that he is not mired in the dysfunctional and fantasy world that his mother and li...

the intricacies of the situation to take a higher-level view and make higher-level decisions. Relevance of Culture and Diversity i...

narrative voice relates how his mother died when he was quite young and his father sold him before he could cry "weep." In the Nor...

visit is an old school friend of the son and daughter. In the play there is a similar sense of expectation involving this man as T...

historiography of Penn scholarship to-date. However, it would have been enlightening and perhaps made his text more appealing to h...

her thumb. The character description of Tom tells us that is "A poet with a job in a warehouse. His nature is not remorseless, but...

his life with his sister and his wife and their children, and wrote his poetry. There is, however, focus in much critical assessme...

Lye, Derrida and others, then The Glass Menagerie is a perfect play to apply this technique to, because it is full of silences, me...

these women are not too controlling in relationship to every move their children make. This does not mean that one or the other wi...

Gregory talks about how his mother got angry when he threw out a free coat and Williams speaks of how his parents loved the kids, ...

time and youth as one that is part of nature, something he has observed as well. In his work titled Intimations of...

and it is something that may be thought peculiar to his Paterson experience, but it is something that many people around the world...

be an enduringly popular play. Not as sensational as A Streetcar Named Desire, it offers just as bleak a portrait of a family stru...

This essay refers to narratives by Raoul Dahl and William Carlos Williams that relate pediatric examination experience in the earl...

This essay offers summary and analysis of four poems which begin by offering a comparison of two companion poems from Songs of Inn...