Question 1: Narration is to relate or tell something about an event or about someone. It is usually used for telling a story. It may have some story ingredients, such as setting, characters, conflict, and plot. In the narration “salvation” by Langston Hughes we can interpret that the setting where the narration takes place is inside a church. Also, we will find that he gave primary and secondary characters, such as himself as the main character, his aunt Reed as a secondary character, and other secondary
people many times throughout their lives is: “How will we be remembered when we die and what will be our legacy?” This essay will investigate Thomas Hardy’s poem “Afterwards” to explore how Hardy uncovered death and dying as part of a natural course of events and as celebratory and intriguing in nature rather than melancholy and depressing. In that context, the main theme of this essay concerns the reflection on ones own mortality and the contemplation of what kind of legacy one leaves behind. These
as a consultant in bringing together Native tribal representatives and feminist themes, particularly allying them to her native ancestry. Her work, whether fiction or non-fiction, expresses an indigenous understanding of the world. She has written essays and poems on a variety of subjects, fictional and nonfictional, biographical and from research. Hogan has also written historical novels. Her work studies the historical wrongs done to Native Americans and the American environment since the European
oak trees. The scent of slightly burnt wood and manure tickled my nose, and fat white clouds leisurely traveled along the horizon. The air was warm, but not enough to walk about without a thick sweater. It was the kind of weather that invited people to come out of their apartments and admire the beauty of the city during the winter before trees begin to shed their first leaves. I was seated on a creaky, old wooden bench in Tompkins Square Park, the pink and black leash of my dog’s collar tucked beneath
mainly descriptive then, which came to be called New Criticism. The term was put into circulation by Joel E. Spingarn, and all its major practitioners have been either English or American. Spingarn is an authoritative historian of Renaissance criticism. He explained the theories of Croce in a booklet called The New Criticism in 1911, and later, in 1941, the poet John Crowe Ransom, the founder of Kenyon Review, wrote a book, reviewing the criticism of I.A. Richards, T.S. Eliot and Yvor Winters, rather