November 2, 1995 Engl 332 Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Or so they say. However, in “Sonnet 130,” written by William Shakespeare, the speaker describes a much different situation. Where a woman’s outer beauty is seen as…
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The Early Literary Tradition : An Exploration
December 20, 1995 E 332 Despite its name and the implications of a middle or stagnant period, art and literature flourished during the old english period (Norton 1). Much of the history during this period is rooted in the Anglo-saxon…
God is Colder than Innocence Lost
February 11, 1996 Engl 332 William Blake’s poem, “The Garden of Love” tells of a young man’s past, a time when he used to play in a garden untamed by man’s hand. This poem, from Blake’s Songs of Innocence and…
Equality is a Cloud
March 9, 1996 Engl 332 What draws the reader’s attention to Blake’s “The Little Black Boy” is the way in which Blake uses the cloud. There are two different ways in which Blake uses the cloud imagery. On the surface…
Nature’s Muse
April 20, 1996 E 332 The industrial revolution changed the world. Not only did it procure new methods of producing items and advancing the quality of life, it created a fundamental change in the way that the world– Nature– was…
The Rest is History : British Poetic Tradition, Restoration Poetry to Now
May 6, 1996 Engl 332 During the Restoration/ Eighteenth Century most poets, being concerned with the development of the novel and what it had done to the poetic form chose to write melancholic poems that were concerned with the “morbid…
Confucius Say : Three Bird in Hand, Better than Two
August 27, 1956 Engl 331 Carefully constructed, The Wedding Banquet tells a tale of love revolving around sexes, cultures and even time. There are two paralleling love stories within the screenplay. The first one is between Wai Tung and his…
Beauty is Beneath Nothing’s Surface
April 13, 1996 Engl 311 Set in post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, Cynthia Kadohata’s novel In the Heart of the Valley of Love uses symbolism in a way that forces the reader to see beneath the surface of the prose. When the…
The Masked Truth
September 24, 1996 Engl 305 Kenneth Branagh’s film version of Much Ado About Nothing and Shakespeare’s play Much Ado About Nothing incorporate the illusion of masks to illustrate the juxtaposition of the characters’ inner and outer feelings towards one another.…
We Believe, Therefore They Exist
November 17, 1996 Engl 305 In order to prove his existence, Renee Descartes said “I think, therefore I am.” This same logic can be applied to rationalizing the existence of the faeries in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The reality within…