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A Bird Came Down the Walk by Emily Dickenson - Critical Analysis

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A Bird Came Down the Walk composed by reputed American poetess, Emily Dickinson brings a very common or ordinary incident with acute observation of detail and allows the reader to see a great significance in this seemingly trivial incident which adorns the reality of nature. Thus, this poem is based on the theme of unnecessary interference of nature by man. Here the poet has taken a bird as the protagonist (the center focus of this incident) or as the agent of nature to make this common scene very natural and realistic. Furthermore, the bird in this poem is symbolical as it represents the rest of nature. In this incident, the readers can clearly see the bird’s natural self-possession and it being at harmony with its own nature by enjoying the treasures of nature at its own free will. Thus the poetess visualizes   a very common act of a bird, coming down the path, catches a worm and pecks at it with its beak and splits it, eats it witch much appetite, then it fetches water from it...
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Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star (1633) – John Donne

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Go, and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past years are, Or who cleft the devil’s foot, Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy’s stinging And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. If thou be’st born to strange sights, Things invisible to see, Ride ten thousand days and nights, Till age snow white hair on thee, Thou, when thou return’st, wilt tell me All strange wonders that befell thee, And swear Nowhere Lives a woman true, and fair. If thou find’st one, let me know, Such a pilgrimage were sweet; Yet do not, I would not go, Though at next door we might meet, Though she were true, when you met her, And last, till you write your letter, Yet she Will be False, ere I come, to two, or three.   Main Characteristics of Metaphysical Poetry 1. Metaphysical conceits – far fetched and ingenious extended comparisons which are original and logical 2. Metaphysical wit – made of heterogeneous ideas that are yoked together b...
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PARENTS SHOULD ALLOW CHILDREN TO GROW WITHOUT THEIR INTERVENTION - ESSAY QUESTION

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As the popular saying goes , “Teenagers are the most misunderstood people on earth. They are treated like children and expected to act like adults.” the age in  between immaturity and maturity can be quite an influential time for children as well as their parents. Parents think it is a crucial time for them to impose their authority as parents on their children and guide them more strictly whilst teenagers think it is vital for them in this particular era of their lives to attain independence on their journey to adulthood.   This is the chapter of their lives is where children go through a lot, psychologically and emotionally. Emotions can be inconsistent as teens learn to deal with school, their friends, and adult expectations. Teenager’s self-esteem is mostly affected by success in school, sports, and friendship s. Teens tend to compare themselves with others, and they might form false ideas about their body image. The influence of TV, magazines, and the Internet can add to...
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Jojo Rabbit (2019)

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 ‘Jojo Rabbit’ directed by Taika Waititi is a World War II based satire mocking the horrors that took place at the time. The fact that this film was decidedly a comedy, states that it was willing to mock Hitler, the Nazis and everything they stood for is unambiguously inadequate. Based on the story, ‘Caging Skies’ by Christine Leunens, young Jojo Beltzer is ten year old (Roman Griffin Davis) who dreams of fighting in war and becoming Hitler’s personal assistant. This particular fantasy of his runs through his blood as he frequently talks to ‘Hitler’ (Taika Waititi), a figment of his imagination, particularly absurd in many ways, for example he had mentioned that he has bulletproof legs and while Jojo is forced to eat barely edible disposed leftovers he finds in his neighborhood’s bins, Hitler devours on a unicorn head. This satirical take on the inhuman nature of Hitler definitely took us all by surprise. Waititi took a leap of faith in himself when it came to developing this cha...
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Canto 3: The Rape of the Lock - Alexander Pope - Context

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Then flash’d the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th’ affrighted skies. Not louder shrieks to pitying Heaven are cast, When husbands or when lap-dogs breathe their last; Or when rich China vessels, fall’n from high, In glitt’ring dust and painted fragments lie!               Excerpted from the Canto 3 of the Rape of the Lock by the acclaimed satirist, Alexander Pope explicates a burlesque of the vanities and idleness of the 18 th Century elite society portrayed in this epic, parodying the great classical epics. The allegory recalls a scandalous incident that occurred in the upper class society between two estranged families who had formerly been friends: Lord Petre had cut off a lock of Arabella Fermor’s hair. A common acquaintance; John Caryll proposed Pope to write a humorous poem to make a jest of the incident and laugh them together again. The masterpiece gives us a depiction of a fashionable idle socie...
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Othello by William Shakespeare - Context (Act 2, Scene III)

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  “Why, how now, ho! From whence ariseth this? Are we turned Turks and to ourselves do that Which heaven hath forbid the Ottomites? For Christian shame, put by this barbarous brawl. He that stirs next to carve for his own rage Holds his soul to light: he dies upon his motion. Silence that dreadful bell: it frights the isle” This extract is excerpted from Act 2, third scene of Othello by William Shakespeare is possibly the most famous literary exploration set in the 16 th century; during the conflict between Turks and Venetians, it see the sights of the warping powers of jealousy and suspicion. Othello is concerned with the themes of jealousy and possessiveness, gullibility and blind passion, and the dangers that can arise from a failure to see beyond the surface appearances. Contrasting Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, which deal with the affairs of state and which echo with the universal human concerns Othello the protagonist of the play is the first and most important...
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War is Kind by Stephen Crane - Essay Question

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  ‘In the poem “War is Kind”, Stephen Crane generates satire by meaning the opposite of what he says’. Do you agree? Discuss with reference to the poem.          War is Kind is an ironical, paradoxical poem under the themes of fabricated grandeur of war and horror of war. It’s composed by the modern American poet, Stephen Crane; generating the tragedy and horrors of war which the naive humans are compelled to face. It’s a classic example that generates satire by paradoxical statements. The poem encloses three plights in war; a young maiden who’s lover dies at war, a babe whose father dies at war and a mother who loses her only son due to war. Crane attempts to console them, but can’t help but to be sarcastic and paradoxical, regarding the issue; seemingly conveying that death was certain to all who’d enter the battlefield. The battlefield is paralleled to a slaughterhouse, where none could step out alive. Men with huge pride; romanticize...
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