Maya Angelou
2025-03-30
Featured Image Attribution: Clinton Library, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Poems “Still I Rise”Continue Reading
Chinua Achebe
2025-03-30
Chinua Achebe, a Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic, is regarded as a central figure of modern African literature and one of the most important voices in what is now known as postcolonial literature. His first novel and magnum opus, Things Fall Apart, occupies a pivotal place in African literature and remainsContinue Reading
Anna Akhmatova
2025-03-30
Anna Akhmatova, born Anna Andreyevna Gorenko on June 23, 1889, in Bolshoy Fontan near Odessa, Ukraine, was one of the most prominent and influential Russian poets of the 20th century. Her life and work were marked by profound personal and political turmoil, making her a symbol of resilience and artisticContinue Reading
“Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou: An Analysis
2025-03-23
“Still I Rise” is the title poem in Maya Angelou’s third collection of poetry, And Still I Rise (1978). One of Angelou’s most acclaimed works, the poem can be broadly regarded as an exemplary assertion of the dignity and resilience of marginalized people in the face of oppression, more specifically, a critique of anti-blackContinue Reading
Wife of Bath’s Relationship with her Fifth Husband (Jankyn)
2025-03-23
Of her fifth husband,Jankyn, the Wife of Bath has the most to say. She loved him, even though he treated her horribly and beat her. He was coy and flattering in bed, and always won her back. Women, the Wife says, always desire what is forbidden them, and run awayContinue Reading
Wife of Bath’s relationship with her first three husbands
2025-03-23
The Wife of Bath’s relationship with her first three husbands in her Prologue serves the Wife’s purpose of describing the “wo that is in mariage” because of how badly she mistreats them. It also provides the Wife to air her views on the role and power of women in maritalContinue Reading
Wife of Bath: Character Analysis
2025-03-23
Based on the tradition of the medieval genre of allegorical “confession” where a personified vice such as Gluttony or Lust “confesses” his or her sins to the audience in a life story, the character of the Wife of Bath is exactly what the medieval Church saw as a “wicked woman.”Continue Reading
Why study literature?
2025-03-23
Studying literature offers a wide range of intellectual, emotional, and cultural benefits. While individual motivations for studying literature may vary, here is discussed why study of literature is singularly important. Why study literature? For many among us, literature is mainly a medium of entertainment, rather old fashioned today, being fastContinue Reading
Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Prologue – Annotatations
2025-03-21
A. 1 “Experience, though noon auctoritee “Experience, though no written authority2 Were in this world, is right ynogh for me Were in this world, is good enough for me3 Continue Reading
Chaucer’s presentation of religious characters in the “General Prologue” to The Canterbury Tales.
2025-03-21
In the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer follows the tradition of medieval estate satire to portray the characters. Following the tradition, Chaucer both relies on and exploits the medieval social and hierarchal stereotypes. In order to achieve the purpose of estates satire, Chaucer offers an ideal example of each estate andContinue Reading
