AP English Literature
Sunday, May 4, 2014
Blackberry Eating Explication
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In the poem Blackberry Eating, Kinnell uses certain sounds to capture the sense of eating blackberries. The poem begins and ends with late S...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
The Aim Was Song Explication
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Robert Frost wrote the poem in iambic tetrameter. There are four stanzas, each with four lines. The first and third lines rhyme in a stanza ...
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Monday, March 17, 2014
Rite of Passage Explication
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In the poem, Olds describes the rite of passage of her son as she imagines him becoming a man. The little boys compete with each other, so t...
Sunday, March 16, 2014
The Selfish Giant
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Wilde personifies nature, which is an important theme. He mentions pink and pearl again to describe the blossoms on the trees, which decorat...
The Birthday of the Infanta
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Wilde criticizes the lives of the wealthy, who do not help the poor. He juxtaposes the happiness in a wealthy fantasy to the of harshness in...
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Since there's no help Explication
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In this poem, Drayton describes the different emotions experienced by the narrator when he ends a relationship. At first, he seems to handle...
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Hunt Hawkins
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In his article, Hunt Hawkins opposes Chinua Achebe's views that Joseph Conrad is racist. One of the strengths of his argument is he uses...
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