April is National Poetry Month. In honor of National Poetry Month, I’d like to present a critical analysis of Robert Frost’s Mending Wall. I know that many people say that Frost’s poems are either trite or too over analyzed, but I personally love many of Frost’s poems. The first Robert Frost poem I ever read ...
Burt Lancaster is an actor who is up there among the best to ever hit Hollywood. One of Lancaster’s most popular roles was his turn as the title character in The Birdman of Alcatraz. For his portrayal of Robert Stroud, Burt Lancaster earned another Oscar nomination for Best Actor. The Birdman of Alcatraz was a ...
Thornton Wilder’s Our Town explores the lives of the people living in a stereotypical American town of the early 1900s. Although the play does effectively portray three different aspects of a person’s life, the lack of adequate character development and thus the broad generalizations implied by the play unfairly label everyone of conforming to the ...
At the beginning of T. S. Eliot’ s poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, there stands an epigraph from Dante’s Inferno, Canto 27. This epigraph unifies the text and brings, through its imagery and context, a deeper understanding of Eliot’s poem. Prufrock represents both of the characters in this section of the Inferno, ...
Course: 11th/12th grade Language Arts Lesson: Introduction to Creative Non-Fiction *Note, students must be familiar with regular nonfiction before this will truly resonate with them* Anticipatory Set: Have students read “Life is Precious, Or It’s Not” by Barbara Kingsolver. This is an essay that can be found in Kingsolver’s book of essays entitled Small Wonder. ...
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