Definition Have you noticed the powers and costumes of most of the popular superheroes, like Spider-Man, Wolverine, Black Panther, Ant-man, Catwoman etc., exhibit different animal qualities? For example, Spider-man can crawl like a spider, and Black Panther embodies a panther’s power and grace. If you are not familiar with any of them, you must have…
Major Writers during the age of revival John Lydgate John Lydgate was a prolific poet and monk known for his extensive body of work, which included a variety of poetic forms such as ballads, lyrics, and allegorical tales. His contributions were significant in helping to establish English as a literary language, moving away from Latin…
In the previous post on personification, we learned that attributing human characteristics to inanimate and abstract things is called personification. But what about attributing human personality to animals in fictional work? You might have seen animals acting like humans in popular movies like Zootopia, Sing, etc., or books like Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Jungle…
Have you ever wondered how the lens of New Historicism can transform your understanding of “O Captain! My Captain!”? If so, you are in the right place. I am going to analyze Walt Whitman’s poem in easy language, using the principle of New Historicism. Besides the analysis, I will also discuss its summary, theme, poetic…
Anne Bradstreet was the first American woman poet. “The Prologue” is one of her poems in her first volume of poetry The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America (1650). In this blog post, I will cover the following points: The Prologue Summary The poem “The Prologue” by Anne Bradstreet explores the speaker’s feelings of…