William Blake's "London"
Text commentary - 2 pages - Literature
William Blake's version of the city of London is a rather negative picture. In his poem "London", the speaker shows a much damaged population. Though the description is one of a plagued eighteenth-century London, the poem is meant to relate the condition of more than a single city in a single...
Analyze of the sonnet ?to sleep' by J. Keats
Text commentary - 3 pages - Literature
One may get the impression that this poem is about pain and agony and troubles encountered throughout life, yet at the same time one expects a sonnet to possess the qualities of romance, adoration, and themes of love. Although this poem may appear to only deal with dark images about the...
Comment by the end of Chapter 12 of "Jacob's Room" by Virginia Woolf ("The Clock Struck The Quarter" to "The church clock, however, strikes twelve.")
Text commentary - 2 pages - Literature
Time has always been an irresistible fascination in literature. The great authors who wrote about time, such as Yourcenar, Proust, Joyce or Woolf have all offered their unique perception of time. For some, it was a way to self-introspect, for others, a tool to describe the world in which they...
Poem "The Wanderer" by W. H. Auden
Text commentary - 3 pages - Literature
What could a layman think about such a poem? When one tries to understand a poem, it is in fact a whole work that must be understood; a whole thought that has to be reached. Whether we are studying a poem by W. H. Auden, E. Bishop, W. B. Yeats, or A. Sexton, it is impossible to understand it...
Mark Twain, "Huckleberry Finn" : Chapter 19
Text commentary - 6 pages - Literature
Published in 1884, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, describes the epic rambling of two boys, Huck and his Black friend Jim, a runaway slave, and narrates their attempts to reach the free states. But more than an adventure story, the book is an insight to the awakening of a boy, caught between...
"The Madonna of Excelsior" by Zakes Mda: The Garden Party
Text commentary - 5 pages - Literature
"The Garden Party" is the second chapter of Zakes Mda's fourth novel The Madonna of Excelsior which was published in 2001. The author was born in Hershel in 1948 and grew up in Lesotho where his family emigrated for political reasons. He left South Africa in 1963 for the United States where...
