I have always found the myth of the doppelganger very interesting. The idea that somewhere out there I might have an identical twin is kind of intriguing. However, it poses all kinds of questions like whether or not we’d share the same traits, think the same way, have the same talents, etc. The term doppelganger ...
When one looks at the history of the world as a whole, it is amazing that in the short years during Queen Victoria’s reign in England, we have come further then all the years the earth has been in existence. Throughout her reign of 64 years, from 1837, when she came to the throne, till ...
If you’re a poet and want to go down in the annals of history, it might perhaps interest you to dash off a bird sonnet or two. Students may be studying them in school centuries hence. One of the more famous bird poems is a Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) composition entitled To A Skylark. “Hail ...
Italy is famous for its wonderful food and wine, its luxurious sports cars (Lamborghini, Maserati, DeTomaso, Ferrari), its innovative artists (Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Marinetti), its sophisticated fashion (Armani, Prada, Gucci), its poetry and music, and let’s not forget the beautiful cities of Florence, Venice, Pisa, Rome, and Milan. Italy has exerted a tremendous influence ...
In his poem “Darkness” Lord Byron gives an apocalyptic view of the world, as he pictured it was in 1816. Through the relation of his first person speaker, using sublime imagery, which gives hints to the author’s emotional state of mind at the time, “Darkness” seems to have been written as a satirical account of ...
Thomas Love Peacock’s The Four Ages of Poetry stands as a near-perfect archetype for perhaps the finest type of negative critical evaluation, one that defiantly provokes the creators of the work it is criticizing while elegantly pointing out the problems in the work itself and at the same time issuing a heartfelt call for wholesale ...
Emotional isolation in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is the most significant and prevailing theme throughout the entire novel. This theme of loneliness originates from Shelley’s personal life and problems with her husband and father, which carry over into the novel and make it more realistic. During the time Shelley was writing Frankenstein, she was experiencing the ...
In “Prometheus Unbound” Percy Bysshe Shelley expresses his enthusiasm for revolutionary change through the plot device and resulting thematic element of generational upheaval taking place through the poem’s specific action of Jupiter’s own progeny being the force which brings about his downfall. Demogorgon may stand for the nebulous spirit of children of tyranny who lay ...
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