Introduction to “God’s Grandeur” by Gerard Manley Hopkins: Line by Line Analysis and Figure of Speech
“God’s Grandeur” is one of the most celebrated sonnets by the Victorian poet and Jesuit…
Literatureman Introduction to Matthew Arnold’s “To Marguerite”: Line by Line Analysis and Figure of Speech
“To Marguerite: Continued” (often referred to simply as “To Marguerite”) by Matthew Arnold was published…
Introduction to Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman: Background, Character, Theme and Important Quotations
1. Setting: The Spatial and Psychological Landscape The play takes place in the late 1940s,…
Introduction to Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Background, Character, Theme and Important Quotations
Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) is a masterpiece of modern American drama…
Introduction to Ben Jonson’s Volpone: Background, Character, Theme and Important Quotations
Ben Jonson’s Volpone; Or, The Fox (1606) is a dark, mercilessly funny masterpiece of Jacobean…
Introduction to Robert Frost’s “Neither Out Far nor In Deep”: Line by Line Analysis and Figure of Speech
First published in The Yale Review in 1934 and later included in his 1936 collection…
Introduction to George Bernard Shaw’s Candida: Background, Character, Theme and Important Quotations
George Bernard Shaw’s Candida (1894) is one of his most celebrated “Plays Pleasant.” It is…
Introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”: Line by Line Analysis and Figure of Speech
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” is one of the most celebrated, debated, and enigmatic poems…
Introduction to “A Far Cry from Africa” by Derek Walcott: Line by Line Analysis and Figure of Speech
I. Introduction Published in 1962 in his breakthrough collection In a Green Night, “A Far…
Introduction to “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes: Line by Line Analysis and Figure of Speech
I. Introduction Published in 1921 in The Crisis magazine when Langston Hughes was just nineteen…