Literature Essays

Macromolecules are huge highly organized molecules. These molecules carry out the activities of the cell. There are four major categories in which these molecules can be placed into. These groups include carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids. Carbohydrates are organic molecules that are usually used to store chemical energy and …

Question: – Compare and contrast the methods of seduction in La Belle Dame Sans Merci and The Seduction – Compare and contrast the consequences for each victim of seduction. The poem The Seduction is about a young girl who goes to a party. There she meets a boy who she …

It is an inevitable fact that the consumers of literature – laymen and literary critics alike – tend to group together texts and authors into separate categories, and attach to each category a number of supposedly ‘common’ characteristics and idiosyncracies which all its members apparently share. Philip Larkin and Ted …

In this essay I shall compare these two poets by studying one poem by each of them and analysing the different literary devices used. Both ‘Blackberry picking’ and ‘Blackberrying’ contain strong and powerful uses of imagery. Blackberrying is the first poem, which I shall be studying. It begins, again, rather …

‘To His Coy Mistress’, is a love poem written by Andrew Marvell, and the other poem, which it will be compared with, is a poem called ‘Valentine’, which is written by a poet named Coral Ann Duffy. Subject of the poem ‘Valentine’ seems to be a channel for the poet …

The First World War was a landmark event in the twentieth century. In terms of social attitude, it marked a transition from a stable orderly world to a more modern age, and with that “modern” age there came a brutal, cynical view of society’s government and a lack of trust …

“Requiem for the Croppies” is a poem that confronts the brutal reality of Ireland’s past. The poem focuses on the battle of Vinegar Hill, fought in 1798 between the British army and the Irish rebels In the past there have been many Irish rebellions: 1641. 1782. 1798. 1848. 1916. Heaney …

‘Blackberries’ by Leslie Norris and ‘Blackberry Picking’ by Seamus Heaney are two different texts but each writer portrays similar messages. ‘Blackberries’ is a short story set in Wales whereas ‘Blackberry Picking’ is a poem set in Ireland. As the titles suggest, both texts portray the themes of blackberries, each text …

“The Thought Fox” and “Digging” are both poems which explore their respective authors’ attitudes towards writing poetry. They both employ extended metaphors to this end, but their views differ greatly. Digging is by Seamus Heaney, and portrays poetry writing as a mundane yet skilful activity. At the beginning of the …

Memories, for both Heaney and Sheers, stimulate the writing of their poetry and act as a foundation for many of their poems. Both Heaney and Sheers’ poetry contains a deep love of, and feeling for the landscape. Sheers said himself; “You can’t separate landscape from people. They’re completely imbricated.” For …