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While poetry has been a literary facet throughout history, its poetics or the subject matter and style of expression, have gone through considerable shifts. These alterations in the poetics of poetry have been critiqued fairly extensively by two of the … Continue reading →

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“Do it. Bridge the gulf well and truly from edge to edge, and the dunces will find out. There is but one verdict needful, and that is mine. If I do it I shall know it.” (Emerson 99) Here, Emerson … Continue reading →

    Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material force, that thoughts rule the world. -Emerson In his essay The American Scholar, Emerson discusses the idea of the thinking man. The scholar as he sees … Continue reading →

  Although many poets use an extensive amount of figurative language in their works, and in fact it has become a staple of the art, some authors choose instead to use simple, crude language, using the poem as a whole … Continue reading →

  Jungian Criticism is based off of the belief of Psychologist Carl Jung that there exists a “universal unconscious”. This idea posits that every individual has access to “A shared set of images, called archetypes, common to all people. The … Continue reading →

English is the study of prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and rhetoric, as well as the writing of these types of texts. When attempting to determine what English truly is, it is important to remember that “English” appears in very many … Continue reading →

I did not always enjoy writing as a child however, I was constantly reading. My love for writing certainly spawned from the respect and admiration which I began to develop for the authors of my favorite novels. At first I … Continue reading →

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way’ -Charles Bukowski