Horse Essays

Reading the three different novels “Old Mortality”, “Noon Wine” and “Pale Horse, Pale Rider” you will learn that despite the different plots in the novels there is a common thread. The protagonists in all three novels has been challenged or locked in some way by the society but finally breaks …

It is said that one should forget the past and live in the present. However, Edwin Muir’s ‘Horses’ is a poem of past memories only. The interesting part is that it deals with many conflicts and issues which are prevalent even today. It is thus a bridge between the past …

Heinz Kohut, days before his death, boldly stated at a Self Psychology conference in Berkeley, California, “The worst suffering I see in adult patients are in those very subtle, and difficult to uncover, absence of the mother, because her personality is absent. It is this emptiness that leads to the …

The lyrics to “Wild Horses” are deceptively simple.  The refrain sets up a simple metaphor – wild horses could not drag the narrator away from his love and their situation.  However, at the end of the song, the narrator says “Wild horses, we’ll ride them someday”, acknowledging that the phrase …

Albrecht Dürer was the first German artist to become an international authority during the Renaissance: science-oriented, well-traveled and widely admired for his visual and technical literacy, he appropriated the high ideas of Italian Renaissance into pioneering techniques and brought the modern Humanistic style and ideas to his own country. Graphic …

We as humans are competitive beings. Whether it is outwardly expressed, or not, the desire to be smarter, better looking, stronger, more successful, higher in status than the next person naturally lies within us. In D. H. Lawrence’s “The Rocking-Horse Winner”, Hester, a wife and mother of three children, turns …

The Allusion of Love World War I revolutionized the way that Americans view life and death, after Europe was bombarded visits from the Grim Reaper. After the war ended in 1918, America entered a period of live now, worry later, referred to as the roaring twenties. The 1920’s inspired many …

A Horse and Two Goats is one of the gems from R.K. Narayan`s kitty. The author has contributed immensely to the development of literature by the dint of his irony and humour. `A Horse and Two Goats` reflects the conversation between Muni and a red-faced American depicting the differences in …

Introduction Horse manures or feces are abundant and are found mostly in farms, especially in provinces, like Zambales. People knew them as ordinary wastes or excreta released by horses. However, they could be used in many ways. One way of using them was as fertilizers for growing plants. But, people …

The Modern Age of British Literature was in some ways a rebellion against the Victorian ideals of extravagance, a perspective brought on by the harsh reality of World War I. The scarcity of resources combined with stark images of the war influenced writers to condemn the aristocracy for their excessive …