Contrary to popular belief, poems do not have to rhyme. In fact, there are a number of forms of poems that specifically do not rhyme, such as haiku and blank verse. Free verse may occasionally rhyme, but generally does not. There are several types of rhyme that can be used in poems. True rhyme is ...
A number of contradictions occur between the life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the characters he created in his many literary works. Despite training to be a medical doctor in Edinburgh, Scotland, Conan Doyle maintained a strong belief in spiritualism and life after death. Many of the characters created by Conan Doyle use science ...
From time to time Humans have a run in with spiders, usually to the spider’s misfortune. Spiders seem to give a lot of people the creeps or scare the heck out of them. Here in my home state of North Carolina we have two venomous types of spiders to worry about. The venomous spiders in ...
David Hume discusses morality in his work, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. While many, including Hume, mistake his approach for morality as ethics, Hume is really describing behavior, which is a psychological task. Immanuel Kant observes the mis-classification, and discusses Hume and the matter in his work, Critique of Pure Reason. Hume and Kant’s views ...
Julie and Julia by Julie Powell was recently made into a film starring Amy Adams and Meryl Streep. I read the book a year or so after it came out and wrote this review at that time. I may go to see the film, because I’m a big fan of both Ms. Adams and Ms. ...
Once again I find myself listening to another fantastic production from L.A. Theatre Works, and once again the performance and production as a whole are enthralling that I can let the rest of the world go away and enjoy a classic story. This time around I got the audiobook from the Audiobook Sync website and ...
When exploring the meaning of a text the inevitable result is that the reader will be incapable of separating the words written in the story or narrative from those that they may have read elsewhere regarding the life of the author of said story on a different occasion. In all cases an author’s work of ...
For centuries, John Milton’s depiction of Satan in Paradise Lost has fallen under two categories of critical analysis. One camp, which over the years included such literary and theologian critics as C.S. Lewis and Stanley Fish, has stated that Milton used Satan as a means to explain God’s mysteries to man. Another camp that had ...
”love makes life beautiful” always!… its depending upon how we showing, to whom we showing!…. Love is an emotion that nearly everyone has experienced at some time in their life. One would think that with such a familiar concept, researchers would agree on what constitutes love and how to measure it. That has not been ...
What I would like to discuss here is the meaning of poetry in the lives of women. Women often write poems about writing poems. (I have not found many poems of this sort by men.) Amy Lowell writes “…we’re a queer lot We women who write poetry... I wonder what makes us do it, Singles ...