Writers Essays

The subject of both poems is the untimely death of young people in tragic accidents rather than sickness. Strangely both boys are killed by machinery, the boy in “Out, Out-‘ by a mechanical saw and the boy in “Mid-Term Break” by a car. Both poems describe the reactions of the …

Poe starts off by stating that the narrator was ‘sick – sick unto death’. The repetition of the word sick here emphasis how bad he feels, also ‘sick unto death’ suggests that he already feels like he is dead. Death is emphasised more with ‘the dread sentence of death’. This …

I remember very little of Anchiano when I was born in 1452, but my memories of Vinci are clearer, such as my father, Piero and my mother, Catarina and the small church there. However, when I was 14 years old, my family and I moved to Florence, where I received …

The ‘Medallion’ is about a dead snake that appears, by the description, at first, to be alive. ‘The bronze snake lay in the sun’, this portrays the picture of a beautiful creature basking in the sun. ‘Inert as a shoelace’ tells us that the snake is lifeless as well as …

Set in America during the great depression, The Grapes of Wrath opens up with the bleak backdrop of the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma, where the anguished and undernourished land is a parallel to the famine and poverty which the tenants are suffering from. Steinbeck immediately draws the reader into a …

The work of the confessional poet Sylvia Plath relates closely to issues that are the concerns of audiences today, forty years after her death. The relevance of her poems lies in the fact that, despite her cultural context of America and Europe in the 1950s and 60s, she writes about …

Zora Neale Hurston bypassed the conventional African-American writer of her era by not advocating race consciousness in her short story “Sweat.” By ignoring political expectations in her writing, Hurston introduces the reader to African-American Folklore. First published in 1926, Hurston shuns her contemporaries and white, male dominated publishing companies to …

Is there anything easier than to conclude a record of published sources you need to write a decent academic paper? But be aware of tricky moments. First of all, what is an annotated bibliography definition? A good annotated bibliography provides an arranged list of publications necessary for conducting diverse studies. …

A reflective journal writing practice is employed to take notes and to remember significant things in an original manner. It’s your personal records which are supposed to be used to enhance your learning experience. This is a private space where you can write down your assumptions, observations, interesting ideas, concepts, …

Wellness and Yoga are seeping deep into Western culture in recent years as is shown in the rising numbers of people booking spiritual, wellness and yoga retreat all over the world. Leaving it all behind For some, the realization that they can enjoy a break away from the confines of …