Introduction The Heaven of Animals from James Dickey’s 1962 anthology titled Drowning with Others is among the author’s most popular poems. Dickey masterly contrasts life and afterlife in the most vivid manner. The poem not only justifies the the natural order of violence and obviously sympathizes with the predatory species....

Percy Bysshe Shelley is one of the best known English poets. He was one of the Second Generation of Romantic poets and a contemporary of Lord Byron and John Keats. He was also the husband of Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. Shelley was known for his radical ideas, including...

In the play Trifles, by Susan Glaspell, just as in the majority of mystery dramas and narratives, the understanding of and analysis of character is essential to the development of the narrative and the successful exploration of key themes. This paper will discuss the character of Mrs. Hale who, as...

Looking at the life story of Phillis Wheatley, it is really unlikely that she should ever have become a published poet. Not only was she the first black author to be a published poet, but she is a black female author who was published during a time when black people...

It is possible to read Marge Piercy's poem “A Work of Artifice” as a meditation on how women are subjugated in a patriarchal society, in so far as the symbol of the bonsai tree corresponds to the status of the female within the context of male hegemony. Namely, Piercy's imagery...