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…1. William Bradford (1590-1657) was one of the leaders of colonial America. Bradford arrived at Cape Cod on November 11, 1620, on the flagship Mayflower. He was one of the authors of The Mayflower Compact. His greatest contribution to early writing…

…William Blake <Tab/>He lived in London all his life, except for a year he spent in Sussex. <Tab/>While in Sussex he suffered from writer's block. It was only in London, he wrote, that he could "carry…

…Analyse William Butler Yeats's "Leda and the swan", paying particular attention to the poem's argument, but also focusing on the way meaning is conveyed and modified by rhyme scheme, meter, rhyme and stanzaic form. In the course of your discussion…

…"I have a poet's weakness for symbols." So states Tom Wingfield, narrator and major character in Tennessee William's timeless play "The Glass Menagerie". Through the eyes of Tom, the viewer gets a glance into the life of his family in the pre-war…

…William Butler Yeats was a very prolific poet who wrote many poems in his lifetime about many different things. I think it is interesting to read the poems he wrote about love, or rather, the loss of it where he expressed a variety of emotions on his…

…In William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" Faulkner creates a character in Emily Grierson that is very dynamic. She is a strong woman with a great sense of tradition but at the same time she suffers from a very skewed perception of the world. While her…

…As I Lay Dying William Faulkner was one of the greatest Southern writers of the twentieth century and all his novels are written about the South, especially As I Lay Dying. "In all of As I Lay Dying, Faulkner turned to extreme uses of the first-person…

…T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "The Journey of the Magi" reveal some of the major concerns of their early 20th century Modernist context. Through continuous use of imagery, ambiguity, repetition, allusions and purposeful…

…The Relevance of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies People are manipulated by society. This is the underlying theme in William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies. Throughout the story, Golding uses symbolism to show how people are manipulated…

…In the timeless masterpiece "As You Like It," William Shakespeare covers a wide range of serious topics, while still keeping a light-hearted, comedic tone about the majority of the play. One topic that is obviously touched upon in the play is the major…