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The Symbolism of ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ Explained

WebBy Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ is an 1892 short story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. A powerful study of mental illness and …

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A Summary and Analysis of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s …

WebSummary. To summarise the story, then: the narrator and her husband John, a doctor, have come to stay at a large country house. As the story develops, we realise …

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Key Quotes from ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ Explained

WebBy Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ is an 1892 short story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. A powerful study of mental illness and …

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10 of the Best Walt Whitman Poems Everyone Should Read

Web4. ‘ When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d ’. One of several poems Walt Whitman wrote about Abraham Lincoln, and probably the best, ‘When Lilacs Last in the …

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The Best Poems about the Environment and Climate Change

WebBy Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Climate change has obviously become a central issue in politics, the media, and education over the last few years, but poets have …

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A Summary and Analysis of William Faulkner’s ‘A Rose for …

WebBy Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘A Rose for Emily’ is a short story by William Faulkner, originally published in Forum in 1930 before being collected in Faulkner’s …

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10 of the Best Poems about the Heart – Interesting …

Web9. E. E. Cummings, ‘ i carry your heart with me ’. This poem might almost be seen as a companion-piece to Sidney’s ‘My true love hath my heart’, or perhaps a …

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10 of the Best Poems about Strength – Interesting Literature

WebBy Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Strength can take many forms: physical toughness and sheer muscle, strength of character and qualities such as perseverance, …

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A Summary and Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Fall of …

Web‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ is an 1839 short story by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49), a pioneer of the short story and a writer who arguably unleashed the full psychological …

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Five of the Best Poems about Sports – Interesting Literature

WebHere are five classic poems about sports of various kinds. 1. Francis Thompson, ‘ At Lord’s ’. It is little I repair to the matches of the Southron folk, Though my …

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A Summary and Analysis of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway

WebBy Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) One of the most celebrated and important modernist novels in English, Mrs Dalloway (1925) is perhaps Virginia Woolf’s best …

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A Summary and Analysis of Robert Frost’s ‘Fire and Ice’

WebA year earlier, W. B. Yeats had written ‘The Second Coming’, with its famous declaration, ‘Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold’, and its assertion that a ‘second …

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‘Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned’: Meaning and Origin

WebPhrase meaning. The meaning of the phrase is at once easily understood and all-too-easily mis understood. In common usage, ‘Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned’ means that …

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10 of the Best Poems about Food – Interesting Literature

WebPoets have often sung the praises of their favourite fruits, or meals, or sweet and tasty treats. Below we’ve chosen ten of the very best poems about food, dinner, fruit, …

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October 10 in Literature: The New York Times Book Review Is Born

WebThe most significant events in the history of books on the 10th of October. 1896: The New York Times publishes its first ‘Books’ section.This will later evolve into …

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‘Song of Myself’: A Poem by Walt Whitman

Web‘Song of Myself’ is perhaps the definitive achievement of the great nineteenth-century American poet Walt Whitman (1819-92), so we felt that it was a good choice for …

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10 of the Best Sylvia Plath Poems Everyone Should Read

Web1. ‘ Lady Lazarus ’. Lazarus is the man in the New Testament who is raised from the dead by Jesus. Plath gives the name a twist in this poem, one of Plath’s finest …

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10 Classic Spring Poems Everyone Should Read

WebThe second poem from Housman’s bestselling 1896 volume A Shropshire Lad (a self-published debut that went on to become a sensation), ‘Loveliest of trees’ has …

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10 of the Most Inspirational and Motivational Poems

WebBelow, we introduce ten of the most inspirational and motivational poems ever written. These are poems which spur us to achieve great things, or tell us we can make …

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10 of the Best Maya Angelou Poems Everyone Should Read

WebBy Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Maya Angelou (1928-2014) was not just a poet, of course: she was an influential civil rights campaigner in the United States, and …

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