George Gordon, Lord Byron, is one of the most famous English poets of all time. He was one of the younger poets in the Romantic movement of the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Century. He was most well-known for his poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. He is also known for creating...

William Wordsworth wrote many poems about nature as pleasant metaphor. Perhaps the best known is “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”. In this poem, the writer as he wanders finds a field full of daffodils beside a sparkling lake. There is tremendous movement in the vision he evokes, as the...

William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is a play that provides ample opportunity for allusions and analogy. "Evidence for this popularity is mainly deduced from allusions to the drama in contemporary works, most notably in the writing of Ben Jonson" (Zander 12). The use of these literary devices begin with what has been...

One of the themes that Faulkner addressed in his short story ‘Barn Burning’ is the problem of competing devotions ‘conscience vs family’ that a person might face. Sartoris Snopes from Fulkner’s ‘Barn Burning’ is the victim of the physical and emotional aggression of his father, who is engaged in the...